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Retrieve Accidentally Formatted External Hard Disk
Do you format your external hard disk accidentally? Do you want to format it when the external hard disk suddenly became RAW file system? Does it still bother you? It is a big problem, you maybe think so. But, as far as I am concerned, it is such a small case that could not annoy me at all. Why? The answer is data recovery software. It is a tool to retrieve any types of file such as pictures, messages, songs, etc. If you happen to format your external hard disk or other devices on which data saved by mistake or other reasons, you should ask data recovery software for help. Here is one of the sorts external hard disk is formatted by accident problem examples:
Example of external hard disk is formatted by error
I lost all my material saved on my external hard disk by my negligence just now. I got news that my hard disk could upgrade so I wanted to have a try. But I clicked the format button somehow. I wish time could flow back so that I would not make such an idiot mistake. I can not lose any one file on it at all. Does all my data still saved on my external hard disk. By the way, I have already gone to the recycle bin to see whether my data be removed here, unfortunately, nothing there. What should I do to retrieve all my files except asking help to professional engineer, because I am in a small village out of the way? Please help me. –Lee from Rhode Island
Way to deal with data recovering from improper formatted external hard disk
There is a cure-all way to cope with the problem of retrieving data from formatted external hard disk by mistake. That is data recovery software. Here is a simple tutorial below:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the external hard disk and run the software. Choose a recovery module.
Tips
1. You could download one by searching in the website, and you can get many results and choose one to download. When launch it on computer, you should notice that do not install it on the questionable external hard drive.
2. Save the retrieved data on a disk of your computer not the external hard disk
Different brands of external hard disk
There are a lot of brands of external hard disk, such as WG, Seagate, HGST, SAMSUNG, Toshiba, Micron, OCZ, ADATA, and so on. By the way, if different brands of external hard disk are formatted by accident, data recovery software still could restore them at all.
Behaviors may hurt the external hard disk and its data
1. Remove the external hard drive out of computer suddenly.
2. Strike the external hard drive usually or put it in heat or in water.
3. Download some software take along worms and virus such as adware, spyware, malwares on the external hard disk or on your computer.
So, please avoid these behaviors above in order to use your external hard disk healthily.
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