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Reformatted Samsung External Hard Drive by mistake

We can save a lot of files and folders on the external hard drive, such as Samsung. What if it is reformatted by accident? As we all know, all files and folders saved on the Samsung external hard drive would be erased due to the formatting action, not to mention the reformat operation. It is impossible for us to get lost files back by formatting the formatted portable hard disk drive again. How to solve the portable external USB is reformatted problem? We can try data recovery tool.

Case of reformatting the Samsung external hard drive

The Samsung which was bought one year ago was reformatted by me accidentally the other day. I am here to ask you guys for help to recover the lost data which saved on the portable hard disk drive at the previous time. Actually, I have tried some ways to get the lost information back through these days, but unfortunately there is no data has been restored successfully till now. is there any possible way for me to retrieve files from the reformatted portable hard drive? -Moonstone from New York

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

We can try data recovery tool to recover the lost information after reformatting the Samsung external hard drive by error. It is possible for us to retrieve what we need from the reformatted portable hard disk drive with the help of data recovery program. The following steps can help us more:

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 data recovery software and then mount it on the computer.
2Plug the reformatted external hard drive into the same computer as data recovery tool installed.
3Open the data restoration tool and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Wait to preview the contents after the scan and then pick up the files available and needed to recover.

Various data loss situations to Samsung external hard drive

There is a piece of good news that we may also perform data recovery in other case that files need to be restored. It is known to all of us that there are various data loss cases we may meet when use the Samsung external hard drive. How many data loss situations can be fixed by data recovery tool? Actually, besides portable hard disk drive is reformatted problem, there are some other data loss cases that we can perform data recovery operation. Here are some of them as follows:

1. The external hard drive gets into not formatted error. We may meet such situation that computer operation system prompt us that disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now when use the external hard drive. It shows that the portable hard disk drive is in not formatted trouble. We can use the external hard drive normally in that case, not to mention saves new data and access the original data. So we lose those previous files to some extent. But we can try to recover them with data recovery tool.

2. Files and folders saved on the external hard drive are deleted. We will lose those contents when they are deleted by mistake or by intention. It is one of the common data loss situations when we use the external hard drive to save data. Fortunately, we can get lost files back with the help of data recovery program if they have not been overwritten or get corrupted by other reasons.

3. The external hard drive is infected by virus. The results of virus infection to external hard drive are various. We may lose some or all files on the portable hard drive after the virus infection, or files on the external hard drive may become messy codes, or other possible situations. By the way, one of the reasons of external hard drive gets into not formatted trouble is virus infection.

4. Other data loss cases. For example, files stored on the external hard drive lost due to the incorrect usage to portable hard drive.

Common brands of external hard drive in the market

We do not need to worry if we use external hard drive from other brands other than Samsung, because we can also perform data recovery to external hard drive from other common brands of portable hard disk drive after reformatting them by mistake, such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA and so forth.

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