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Reformatted Toshiba Portable Hard Drive
We may format the Toshiba portable hard drive sometimes. Maybe we format the portable hard drive by accident, maybe we format it so as to get lost files back, or maybe we format it because of other reasons. No matter which kind of intention is, the same result is that there is still nothing on the portable hard drive just like it is formatted at the first time. How can we recover lost data from the reformatted portable hard drive? We need to ask data recovery tool for help then.
Case of reformatting the Toshiba portable hard drive
I formatted the Toshiba portable hard drive again in order to see which kind of change would be showed. But to my disappointment, it seems that there is nothing has changed and I can not recover my lost contents. What a pity. I have thought maybe I have the chance to get what I need from the formatted portable hard drive by reformatting it. Now I really have no other way to restore lost files from the reformatted portable hard drive. Is there any help? -Jessica from Washington
How to retrieve data from the reformatted Toshiba portable hard drive with data recovery software
Do you have any idea how to get lost files back from the Toshiba portable hard drive which is formatted again with the help of data recovery tool? Actually, it is easy to use the data recovery program and it can help us retrieve what we need from the reformatted portable hard drive quickly. Here are its steps as follows:
Recover data from reformatted Toshiba external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the Toshiba external hard disk to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Attention should be paid to while recovering lost files
It is true that we can get what we need back after formatting the Toshiba portable hard drive again, and what we need is data recovery tool. But you may feel uncertain that why you are failed to retrieve the lost information from the reformatted portable hard drive. Actually, such failure may happen when we restore lost files from the reformatted v with data recovery tool. The reason may be we perform some wrong operations on the portable hard drive after reformatting it. Here are some things which need our notice:
1. Do not format the external hard drive which has been formatted again. The reformat portable hard drive at least has been formatted twice, and what we should know that the portable hard drive and its data would get damaged when formatted one time. So the reformatted portable hard drive has been hurt more than one time and can not be damaged more if we need to recover files from it. We may lose the opportunity to recover what we want if keep formatting the portable hard drive.
2. Do not save new files on the reformatted portable hard drive. We should not store any new data on the portable hard drive which has formatted more than once until what we need have been restored completely and successfully. Sometimes we may have back up some files saved on the portable hard drive and intend to save them on it after reformatting it. But it is allowed to save any new information even though the same data as losses on the portable hard drive.
3. Do not install data recovery software and save files to be recovered on the portable hard drive. We will be asked to choose the location to save data recovery tool to launch it and location to store files to be retrieved when start to recover. Just as what we have said in steps above, we should not store them on the reformatted portable hard drive but pick up one of the computer hard disk drive as the location.
4. Other things to which need to be paid attention when recover lost data from the reformatted portable hard drive.
Popular brands of portable hard drive
Toshiba is a popular brand of portable hard drive in the market, but there are other famous brands in portable hard drive market. For example, they are WD (western digital), Seagate, Maxtor, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so on. We can buy a portable hard drive from them, too.
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