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Recover Data From External Hard Drive

Have you lost data from external hard drive? And so are you looking for effective methods to retrieve data from the external Hard Drive? If your answer is yes, then I will guide you properly to get back lost data from the internal as well as external hard drive in this post.

Here, I will try to discuss all about the External storage media’s data and how to recover deleted data from the external hard drive easily?

Let’s start the discussion.

The external hard drive is commonly a portable storage device that is attached to a computer either through a USB or wireless connection. This has generally high storage capacities and is used to back up computers or server as a network drive. External hard drive is also known as removable hard drive.

Reasons For Data Loss From External Hard Drive?

Though there are lots of reasons for being deletion data, but I will provide some common reasons that are mainly responsible for data loss from the external storage device. The possible reasons are mentioned below.

Ø  Reset factory- doing factory reset is one of the main reasons for data loss.

Ø  Accidentally or mistakenly deleted data

Ø  Malware or virus attacks- due to virus attacks the data can be lost.

Ø  Broken hard drive

Ø  Corrupted hard drive-such type drive is responsible to delete data from hard drive.

Ø  Unexpectedly  shutdown of your  system

Ø  Mechanical error due to inappropriate care of the external hard drive

Ø  Other Causes-other causes for deletion data from the hard drive include formatting, RAW drive, hard drive enclosure, interface or power supply.

Best Methods To Recover Data From External Hard Drive

There are lots of  external storage data recovery, but I am here going to discuss some of the best external hard drive data recovery that help you to restore lost data from external hard drive in an effective manner.

The external storage data recoveries are mentioned below:

Method  1 : Formatting  External Hard Drive To NTFS

Formatting the external hard drive is risky as it will delete all the data stored within hard drive. It is suggested you to recover data from the drive at first.

Now you can go ahead to format the hard drive to reuse it later.

To do it, follow the steps:

• At first connect your external hard drive to your PC.
• After, right-click on “This PC/My Computer” and hit on ‘‘Manage”.
• Enter Disk Management tool and right-click on hard drive that you want to format.
• Choose “Format Volume” to format entire disk.
• You can select the file system of your storage device to NTFS or FAT32.
• Finally click “OK”.

Method  2: Forcedly Show Up External Hard Drive  In Disk Management

When your external hard drive doesn’t show up in the computer, then you can try to follow the method that is given below.

• Simply connect your external hard drive to your Windows PC.
• Then go to Control Panel >Administration > Computer Administration.
•  Enter Storage > Disk Management.
• Right-click on your hard drive and hit on “Change Drive Letter and Path…”
• Assign a new drive letter name that doesn’t exist on your PC and indicate the Partition as “Active”.
• Finally click “OK”.

Now you have to restart PC and verify whether the external hard drive shows up in This PC/ My Computer. And you see it if you can enter the files stored within it.

Method   3: Try To Connect External Hard Drive To Another USB Port/Computer

In order to get back lost from an external hard drive, you can try the method that is the connecting external hard drive to another USB or computer.

1. At first, connect an external hard drive to another USB or to another computer. Your hard drive may be incompatible with a computer or card reader.

2. Then you have to re-assign the drive letter to your hard drive. To do so, follow the steps given below:

Click on “Start" -> "My Computer" or Windows button + X. Then, tab the "Disk Management," next right click on the disk and choose "Change Drive letter". After doing re-assigned letter and click "Finish".

At the time you try to open your external hard drive and check whether the issue is solved or not.

Method   4: Try Professional Third party Software

If you don’t get proper results after using above these methods, then think to use alternative method to restore data from external hard drive. One of the alternative methods may be using professional software like External Hard Drive Data Recovery Software that gets back inaccessible files such as videos, photos, messages and audios from external hard drive.

This external storage data recovery software is also available for both the Windows and Mac PC.

This can also recover  digital media files from all kinds of hard drives, memory cards, computer internal and USB flash drives and it has ability to take out from the drive that are formatted with FAT32, FAT16 NTFS5 file system

Conclusion:

After reading this post you will be able to recover data from external hard drive with ease.

As I have tried to provide you the external storage data recovery that help you to restore deleted data from external hard drive.

Hope this post is very helpful for you.