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How to Recover Data from External Hard Drive?

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What is External Hard Drive? What is its use?

External Hard Drive is a kind of hard disk drive only which is external in nature. It is connected to a computer system with a USB cable for transferring data from one PC to another. Nowadays, people use external hard disk drive for storing and transferring data. It becomes the major storage device for saving and for protecting data.

Why can external hard drive be corrupted, damaged, crashed, or formatted?

The data of external hard drive could be lost due to the following reasons:

- Virus attacks
- Power failure
- Human errors
- System failure/crash
- Software/hardware malfunction

Is it possible to recover external hard drive data with a handy Hard Drive Data Recovery?

The external hard drive is not the most vital part of a computer, but it is probably the most important part to you. Why? The external hard drive contains all your data - such as paper, digital photos, music and video files, etc. When your external hard drive stops working or gets accidentally erased, it is worse than losing your wallet. No matter the files on external hard disk are deleted, formatted or lost, our Data Recovery Software will be your solution. This tool works well as the best External Hard Disk Data Recovery program.

Note: For Mac users, please download this Data Recovery for Mac for recovering deleted files on Mac.

How to Recover External Hard Drive Data with Hard Disk Data Recovery?

Free download, install and run the software. Insert your external hard drive to the computer.

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Step1. Choose the Wizard Mode recovery

After running the data recovery software, you will be guided to the Wizard Mode automatically. Click "Next" to answer 2 simple questions and the software will do the rest for you.

The first question: Select the file type you want to recover:

View file types and check the one which you want to recover, or check "All files" if you want to recover various data in different file types. You are allowed to recover graphic, audio, video, document and email file types.

The second question: Tell where you lost your files:

In the second question, you need to tell the software where you lost your files, such as from the Recycle Bin, Desktop and My Documents, partitions, or the external removable devices. If you don't remember the place, you can also give an order to search the whole computer, or search a specific folder if you know the exact place.

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Step2. Start searching your lost files

Just hit on "Start" button to find your lost data. By the way, you must have noticed that there is "Deep Scan" or "Raw File Recovery" options displayed. Generally speaking, the "Deep Scan" allows you to recover files due to formatting, while the "Raw File Recovery" allows you to recover files lost for a long time due to various reasons.

Step3. Preview and recover your lost files

In the scanning result, you will be displayed in file types such as archive, audio, database, document, email, graphic, video, etc. After previewing, select the files which you want to recover, and then click the "Recover" button to recover data from external hard drive.

Note: You'd better not save files to the same location where your files are lost.

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Sounds easy?

So why are you waiting? Go ahead to free download the hard drive data recovery software for recovering data from external hard drive!

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