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Unformat Seagate External Disk
What would you do if you happen to format the external hard disk no matter which brand it is, such as Seagate? Have you ever thought of unformatting the external disk to get back the lost files and folders? Maybe you just feel anxious when format the external disk accidentally, because do not know the lost information could be retrieved by a certain way. Actually, all those files and folders could be restored after the external disk being formatted with data recovery software.
Case of Seagate external disk being formatted by mistake
My Seagate external disk was formatted last afternoon because of my own carelessness. I didn't care much at that time. But I want to unformat it now. There is a large amount of data important still saved on the formatted external disk but I can not view them. Things will be better if I have backup, but nothing is here now. I have no idea and experience to get back the lost files from the formatted external disk. Anyone could kindly help me? Any help would be appreciated. –Ponder from New York
How to restore lost files from formatted external disk with the help of data recovery software
All of us have the ability to get back the lost information from the formatted external disk as long as we know how to surf the internet. What we need to do is to ask the data recovery software fro help. It could assist us retrieve our losses just within a short time successfully. The following steps will show you how to perform the recovery:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the external hard disk to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.
Different data loss cases happen to external disk
It is not an infrequent case to lose files saved on the external disk. On the contrary, we can meet the data loss situations more than often due to many different reasons. There are a lot of events that could cause the damage to data on the external disk and let it lost finally. Only make it clear what they are, can we get how to protect information saved on it from being lost. Here are some common data losses situations as follows happen to external disk:
1. Accidental or intentional deletion. On the one hand, we can solve so many files and folders on the external disk because of its high capacity. On the other hand, we may do something wrong on such environment. For instance, we may delete some information by mistake. Maybe we just intend to delete some useless contents but click on the other important files instead. No matter what reason, accidentally or intentionally, the deleted documents could be restored by data recovery program.
2. Intentional or unintentional formatting. As we all know, any information saved on the external disk would be disappeared once the external disk be formatted. We some times format the external disk for some certain reasons, such as anti-virus. Or just format it by mistake. the truth is those lost files are not deleted permanently due to the formatting action, they have the opportunity to be retrieved by the data recovery tool.
3. Virus infection. We are told not to save harmful software such as malware, adware and other similar software on the external disk when buy it on the store. The reason is to avoid virus and worms attacking. Once the virus infects the external disk, all data on it would be lost or become inaccessible. The virus has a huge destructive power to files on the external disk and also on other storage devices.
4. Improper usage to external disk. Some incorrect operations will cause the data loss problem as the same way. For example, if we press the external disk strongly or separate the external disk into more than one parts, then we are certainly would lose the information from it. What's more, it is hard to get them back even though under the help of data recovery tool.
5. Other data loss situations happen to external disk. Such as system error, partition corruption and so forth.
Advantage of external disk
The most obvious advantage of external disk is that it brings about convenience to our life. We had to carry piles of paper documents which are heavy and easy to be lost in the last time if need to use them when go out. But we needn't behave so thanks to the appearance of external disk. It has a small size but high capacity, so we can carry it easily.
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