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How to Recover Data from External Hard Drive? How to recover data from external hard drive? Do you have any ideas about this one million dollar question? Typing “external hard drive recovery” in google, you’ll find it’s really a hot topic in communities, forums and some companies regarding to data recovery service. Nowadays, external hard drive especially USB based EXT. hard drive is very popular due to its portability, capacity and low price to expand your computer's storage capacity, to back up your data , and to share data between computers. You can easily buy an external hard drive manufactured by famous firms like Seagate, Toshiba, Transcend, etc. online or in computer market. Regrettably, data stored in external hard drive can be lost, unreadable, corrupted, formatted or stuck in other terrible situations. Data loss threats may come from many aspects, such as accidental deletion/format, broken external hard drive, system crash, virus attack and so on. Lost stuff can be precious photos/videos recording impressive moments, or vital plans/projects/design/contracts relating to a big business. Such files do deserve million dollars for the party concerned. Don’t upset. You can turn to data recovery software or service for help. There remains a strong chance to retrieve lost files back from external hard drive, as long as you protect data from being overwritten.

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How to Recover Data from External Hard

Drive?

How to recover data from external hard drive? Do you have any ideas about this one million dollar question?

Typing “external hard drive recovery” in google, you’ll find it’s really a hot topic in communities, forums and some companies regarding to data recovery service. Nowadays, external hard drive especially USB based EXT. hard drive is very popular due to its portability, capacity and low price to expand your computer's storage capacity, to back up your data, and to share data between computers. You can easily buy an external hard drive manufactured by famous firms like Seagate, Toshiba, Transcend, etc. online or in computer market.

Regrettably, data stored in external hard drive can be lost, unreadable, corrupted, formatted or stuck in other terrible situations. Data loss threats may come from many aspects, such as accidental deletion/format, broken external hard drive, system crash, virus attack and so on. Lost stuff can be precious photos/videos recording impressive moments, or vital plans/projects/design/contracts relating to a big business. Such files do deserve million dollars for the party concerned. Don’t upset. You can turn to data recovery software or service for help. There remains a strong chance to retrieve lost files back from external hard drive, as long as you protect data from being overwritten.

How to Perform External Hard Drive Data Recovery with DIY

Data Recovery Software?

No matter you’re a Mac user or Windows user, you can find a data recovery tool that suits for you well. For Windows users, you can try Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery; for Mac users, you can keep Softtote Data Recovery for Mac Software in hands. As a Mac user, I’d like to share procedures of file recovery in this Mac data recovery which supports Mac OS X10.6 and above.

1. Free download and launch it. Three modes (File Recovery, Photo Recovery and Lost Partition Recovery) are available for you. Let’s take File Recovery for instance.

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2. Select your external hard drive to scan. In this step, you can filter file type and narrow the range by checking the box of “For deleted files”.

3. Scanning time depends on file size and disk read speed. And you can estimate time by indications (estimated time, elapsed time, read sectors) in scanning window.

4. Preview and recover files after scanning. All files are categorized by file type. And it enables you to preview files before recovery.

5. Select a path to save recovered files. Please note that restored files cannot be saved in the original drive where files are lost in case files are overwritten and damaged.

So, it’s easy to operate such kind of DIY data recovery software. External hard drive recovery isn’t as difficult as you think.