How to Recover Data from External Hard Drive?

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Pocket size, great performance with high-speed data transfer rate, durability, and compatibility are a few desirable features that make an external hard drive. It is the most preferred storage device to save files and also perform various data operations. Although it has lots of benefits over traditional computer hard drives, the common problem that encounters with both of these storage drives is data loss. You may lose your valuable data from the external hard drive because of many reasons. Fortunately, there is an advanced My File Recovery application to handle such data loss disasters from an external storage drive.

Factors leading to data loss from external hard drive-

• In an attempt to delete unwanted files, you might mistakenly end up deleting vital files on the external hard disk. But this file recovery application helps you to restore data after deletion.
• You might also encounter format error after which you proceed to format the external hard disk. After formatting the entire data on HDD get erased
• On suspecting the external hard drive corruption or slow in performance, you may attempt to format the drive without saving a backup of the valuable data on the external hard drive
• Drive data turns corrupt or inaccessible if you employ improper ways to eject the external hard drive that is attached to the system
• You could fail to access data on the external hard drive after file system corruption, virus/spyware attack, partition table corruption, bad sectors, and other related issues.

While using the external hard drive to save precious files or to backup data, be careful of some common mistakes like- ejecting the hard drive when it is in operation, abrupt power failure, frequent usage of HD drive on different computers, etc. Most of the time, user experience data because of all such silly actions. Additionally, use an updated anti-virus application to scan the external hard drives for dreadful viruses.

Well, now if you have deleted or lost data from the external HDD due to any of the reasons then you should immediately stop using the external disk further and start fetching the HD files using the My File Recovery software.

My File Recovery software to recover data from external hard drive

To successfully extract external hard drive files, you can rely on the My File Recovery software. This program is equipped with an eminent scan engine that retrieves files/folders that are lost, deleted, formatted, corrupt, or inaccessible due to various factors. My File Recovery serves to be an ultimate tool to retrieve data from portable drives and also various other storage drives like- system drives, USB drives, SSD, memory cards, memory sticks, etc.

Outstanding features of My File Recovery software

• Designed with smart drive scanning algorithms that deep scans the disk sectors o to identify and retrieve data
• Highly compatible with all editions of Mac OS X and Windows computers
• It works in a read-only mode and will not modify any data on the external storage drive
• Recovers 300+ file-formats including videos, audios, pictures, PDF files, application setup, PPT files, etc.
• You can utilize this app to retrieve Android files.
• Reliable and user-friendly external hard drive data recovery tool for various hard drive brands like Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, Buffalo, and many others.
• Serves useful in regaining system hard drive data after Windows update.
• Efficient tool to recover files from unformatted drive in a few simple steps

Steps to recover data from external hard drive

Step 1: Launch the My File Recovery tool on your Windows system and connect the external HD drive to it.

Step 2: Pick the Recover Files option available on the home window.

Step 3: From the list of available drives, choose the affected external hard disk drive and press on the Scan icon.

Figure 1: Main Screen

Step 4: Allow the tool to completely scan the external HD drive.

Figure 2: Scanning for files

Step 5: You can find all the recovered data under Data View and File Type View layouts.

Figure 3: Recovery results

Step 6: Preview the restored disk data and choose the file items for saving.

Figure 4: Preview Window

Step 7: Mention a suitable drive location to save the files retrieved from the external hard disk and click on the Save button.

Figure 5: Save Recovered Files