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Reformatted Golden Star External Hard Drive by mistake

Have you ever used Golden Star external hard drive? If you have used the external hard drive and have saved a lot of files important on it, what would you do when reformat the portable hard disk drive by mistake? As a matter of fact, we do not need to worry about lose those previous files forever, as we may be able to get them back from the reformatted external hard drive. What we can do is to ask data recovery software for help, because it may help us recover the lost information.

Example of Golden Star external hard drive being reformatted by error

The Golden Star external hard drive of my brother's was formatted again after being formatted seconds ago. He asked me that whether I can get the lost information back from the reformatted portable hard disk drive. I have no idea how to recover data after reformatting the external hard drive by error, actually. I want to help my brother restore his lost files and folders though I do not know what to do. Is there anyone can help me to retrieve lost data from the reformatted external hard drive? -Ann from LA

How to recover files from the reformatted Golden Star external hard drive with data recovery software

When reformat the Golden Star external hard drive by accident, we may be able to get files saved on it at the previous time back by data recovery software. It means that we may be able to restore lost files from the reformatted portable hard disk drive with data recovery software. By the way, here are the steps as follows to recover lost data:

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.

1 Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the reformatted external hard drive to the computer.
3Operate the data restoration program on computer and choose recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents displayed in the list after the scan and then pick up the files needed to recover.

Notices should be taken of when recovering needed data

There is a chance for us to recover lost files from the reformatted Golden Star external hard drive, indeed. But as a matter of fact, we may fail to restore what we need after reformatting the portable hard disk drive by accident. What's going on? It may because we do something wrong after reformatting the external hard disk drive. We may lose the opportunity to restore lost files from the reformatted external hard drive and then fail to recover the wanted information if perform some improper operations. Here are some notices should be taken of to retrieve more files below:

1. Do not save data recovery tool on the reformatted external hard drive. The reformatted portable hard disk drive is the aim disk to perform data recovery. We need to choose location to save the data recovery tool after download it. what we should pay attention to at that moment is not to select the object external hard drive as the location to install the data restoration program. We can choose one of the computer hard disks as the location.

2. Do not select the reformatted external hard drive as the location to store files to be restored. We will be asked to choose the location again after clicking on the recover button to save files to be restored. As the same, we should not select the reformatted aim external hard drive as the location but choose one of the computer hard disk drive to store them.

3. Do not save other new data on the reformatted external hard drive at once. It does not mean that we can not store any new information on the portable hard disk drive after reformatting it accidentally. It means that we should not save new files on the reformatted external hard drive until all needed files have been recovered successfully.

4. Other notices should be taken of in case of overwritten or other corruption.

File types can be restored by data recovery tool

Which types of files do you want to recover after reformatting the external hard drive by mistake? Are they pictures, videos or other file types? Actually, no matter which kind of files such as photos, video files, audio files, songs, movies, work documents and other file types, we may be able to get them back from the reformatted portable hard drive with data recovery tool.

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