How to Recover Files from an External Hard Drive

• How can you Recover files from External Hard Drive
• How to Avoid Data Loss when Using an external hard drive

External hard drives are important if you use your computer for everything, which everyone nowadays does. They are the perfect way to ensure that all of your data is well stored and you will not lose any of your files should your computer crash. External hard drives are easy to get, they are often available at all the major computer stores and they do have a few advantages. First of all, they have large capacities so you will never have to worry about storage space. They are easy to use, flexible and easy to carry.  But sometimes they can lose some of your data which can be quite stressful indeed.

There are several reasons why your external hard drive may lose your data. One of the most common is that some people accidentally delete all of their files. You could also have formatted external hard drives by mistake and ended up losing all of your data. Other times it is the hard drive itself that can malfunction and cause you to lose all your files. Whatever happened to erase all the data from external hard drive, you can get it all back if it wasn’t completely overwritten or corrupted hard drive.

Part 1 How can you Recover files from External Hard Drive

Recovering data from your busted external hard drive seems like an almost impossible task. If you have Wondershare Data Recovery or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac it is as easy as just one click. Wondershare Data Recovery is a program that will help you recover lost, formatted, deleted or corrupted files from your hard drive in very easy steps. What’s even more exciting is that it can help you recover all file types with this software including videos, music, documents and audio files.

Here’s how to recover files from external hard drive using Wondershare hard drive Data Recovery.

Step 1: To recover files from external hard drive, the first step is to download and install the program on your computer. You can download the Mac or Windows Version depending on your operating system. You are now ready to recover files.

Step 2: Launch Wondershare External Hard Drive Data Recovery, you need to select the file types you want to recover back.

Step 3: To do this ensure that your external hard drive and then select it and click on “Start” to scan it. If you want to recover data from a formatted external hard drive, you need scan again with "Deep Scan", it will search more files from External hard drive. While it will take more time.

Step 4: After scanning all the files that have been found will be displayed on the resultant window. You can decide the ones you want to recover and then mark them. Click on recover to start the external hard drive recovery process.

It is important to ensure that you don’t save those files in that external hard drive.

Part 2 How to Avoid Data Loss when Using an external hard drive

Prevention is always better than cure so if you could avoid losing your data in the first place, you wouldn’t have to go through the worry and frustration that comes afterwards.  One of the easiest ways to avoid external hard drive data loss is to purchase a good external hard drive. Make sure that the hard drive you buy is made by a legitimate manufacturer and that you buy it at a legitimate computer shop. Be careful about buying them online as you may not be sure about the quality until it is shipped to you.

Once you have bought your external hard drive, it is important to take good care of it. Avoid having too many partitions on it as they are likely to increase the loading time which can also reduce the life of the external hard drive. It is also important that you disconnect it from your computer after use. This will help you to reduce instances where you can accidentally format external hard drive. Lastly it is very important that when you want to move data from the external hard drive to copy it rather than cut. This way you will have a backup in case of loss.

External hard drives require care so you should store it properly. Avoid high temperatures, humidity and vibration.

There are different kinds of external hard drives. Which one do you use and have you ever experienced any problems with data loss when using it? With the information provided in this article, do you think you would be able to solve any data loss problems you would have in the future?

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