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External Hard Disk Lost Data
As is well-know, an external disk is a portable storage device that can be attached to a computer through a USB or FireWire connection, or wirelessly. External hard disks typically have high storage capacities and are often used to back up computers or serve as a network drive. And, there are various different external hard disk drives including Samsung hard disk drive, Toshiba portable drive, and WD portable drive on the market. Therefore, more and more people choose a suitable external hard disk drive to store massive important data and files. However, data stored on external hard disk are not safe all the time. A survey from data recovery companies shows that the external hard drive takes the largest portion in the storage media from which people often lose their data. Therefore, recovering data from external hard disk drive becomes a topic of concern to everyone.
Overview of Recovering Lost Data from External Hard Disk
In general, there are many factors contributing to external hard disk’s data loss. For instance, we accidentally deleted some files/data or partitions; we mistakenly formatted external hard drive; our external hard disk drive was infected with a virus.
Data recovery companies and data recovery software can help to recover lost data. Nevertheless, if users turn to data recovery companies to restore lost data, they need to pay high recovery fees. In addition, companies cannot ensure data security. Therefore, turning to a piece of professional data recovery software is a wise choice for most common users. Here, we recommend using MiniTool Power Data Recovery since this all-in-one data recovery software can recover data without affecting the original data.
How to Recover Lost Data from External Hard Disk
Before recovering lost data, we need to download MiniTool Power Data Recovery from its official website and install it on computer. Next, we should connect the external hard drive to our computer. After that, launch this professional data recovery software to get its main interface.
In the main interface, we can see 5 different data recovery modules, and each of them focuses on different data loss scenario. To be specific, “Undelete Recovery” focuses on recovering deleted files and folders; “Lost Partition Recovery” can restore data from deleted/lost partition; “Damaged Partition Recovery” is designed to recover data from damaged, formatted and RAW partition; “Digital Media Recovery” recovers lost data from digital media device like flash drive, mp3 player, digital camera, memory stick, and memory card. Here, we take “Damaged Partition Recovery” for example.
In the above window, we need to select the external hard disk and choose “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it.
After scanning, we can see lost files in the above interface. At this time, please select all desired files and then click “Save” button to store them on a safe place. Note: in this window, we can preview some file information like filename, size, and dimensions before saving it. Thus, all work has been done.
After seeing the simple introduction, you might know how to safely and quickly recover lost data from external hard disk with MiniTool Power Data Recovery. In general, as long as lost files are not overwritten and file loss is not caused by physical damage, we can recover them with this software. Besides, this tool not only can help to recover data from external hard disk & hard disk drive, but also recovers data from SD card, memory card and USB drive. If you want to know more information about data recovery and get further understand of this professional data recovery software, hurry to download it.
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