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Reformatted Generic External Hard Drive by mistake

What would you feel after reformatting the Generic external hard drive by error? Some of us may feel upset because there is still nothing we can view on the portable hard drive. Some of us may do not care whether the external hard drive is reformatted or not, because it seems nothing changed after the second formatting. Do you have any idea what should we do if we need to access files saved on the portable hard disk drive at the previous time? Actually, we can recover them from the reformatted external hard drive with data recovery tool.

Example that Generic external hard drive is reformatted

I got into such trouble that all files and folders saved on the Generic external hard drive originally were lost and the portable hard disk drive was reformatted later. I can not get out of that problem till now. What I need is to recover those lost contents and then access them normally. I am not sure whether I can achieve it because I have no idea how to restore my losses. Is there any one who has the similar or same experience and have recovered his losses finally? Help me, please. –Bony from LA

How to restore data from the reformatted Generic external hard drive with data recovery software

It is true that we may be able to recover what we need after reformatting the Generic external hard drive with data recovery tool. So we do not need to worry a lot and should try data restoration tool to restore lost information from the reformatted portable hard drive. The following steps can help us start:

Recover data from reformatted external hard disk

Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer after connecting the external hard disk. Then, you need to run the software and choose a recovery module.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Connect the reformatted external hard drive to the same computer as the data recovery tool launched.
3Open the data restoration program and then choose the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after scanning and we can pick up files .

Proper usage to Generic external hard drive

Most of us think it is convenient to use external hard drive in work or study, because we can save a lot of files and folders on the portable hard disk drive and what's more, it is easy to carry. But unfortunately, it is also true that most of us have experienced data loss problem when use the external hard drive. In which case can we lose files saved on the portable hard disk drive? More than often, the data loss situations come from the incorrect usage to external hard drive. Here is some proper usage to portable hard drive guidance below:

1. Plug the external hard drive into computer correctly. Maybe most of us hold that it is easy and simple to connect the portable hard disk drive to the computer, and we just need to plug it into the computer directly. But as a matter of fact, it is not that simple. We should not insert the external hard drive to the computer until the computer is fully started. In other words, we can not connect the portable hard disk to the computer when it is closed.

2. Remove the portable hard drive from the computer safely. Just like plug the external hard drive into the computer, we should plug it out of computer safely and properly, too. But on the contrary, we should not remove the external hard drive from computer after closing it, but plug the external hard drive out of it safely at first. Other thing we should keep in mind is to close all the related programs firstly.

3. Be careful when save files and folders on the external hard drive. There is risk to store information on the portable hard disk drive. Those files which tend to be saved on the external hard drive may contain virus and worms or other harmful matters and then they may damage the portable external usb. We should br careful to pick up them in case of virus infection.

4. Other aspects need our caution.

Storage devices that are supported by data recovery tool after being reformatted

We may also use other storage devices like SD card, MMC card, hard disk, CF card, memory stick, pen drive, XD picture card, and others besides external hard drive to save files we need. What we should know is that we can also use data recovery tool to try to recover lost data after reformatting them.

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