External hard drives are very useful piece of equipment. Due to advantages like portability and operation on a plug and play basis it is the ideal choice for backing up and storing important date. People also use external hard drives to store their photos, videos and other personal data. The portability of external hard drives certainly brings much convenience in our daily lives. But there is one more thing that external hard drive is the most common storage media from which people lose their data.
Data on an external hard drive will be lost due to various causes such as simple accidental deletion, formatting, deletion of partitions, hard drive crash. All can lead to loss of data from the hard drive. Unlike regular PC hard drives, if you delete a file from an external hard drive, you cannot restore it from the Recycle bin. This can be only done by using specialized data recovery software.
If you lose your date, have no fear! It may not be gone forever. Retrieving date from external hard drive is easy. If you have lost your date from your external hard drive, you can restore your date successfully by following these simple steps:
1~ Stop using the external hard drive until you recover the deleted data from it. If you write new date onto the external hard drive, the new data may overwrite the old data and then you can’t recover old one.
2~ Do not download or install any software to the external hard drive from which you have lost data.
3~ Download external hard drive recovery software utility to the healthy drive to recover date.
4~ Connect the external hard drive to another computer as a slave.
5~ Plug in the external hard drive to another hard drive.
6~ Scan the drive and evaluate the recovery results obtained with the utility.
7~ Save the recovered data to a safe place or drive.
Hoping these tips will help protect your important data and also help to recover them if deleted.