How to Recover Lost Files from Hitachi Hard Drive

A Hitachi hard drive is a non-volatile storage device for digital data, and used by more and more computer users. While, it's quite reliable, data loss from a Hitachi hard drive is no joke. Lots of computer users including some experts always consider that they've lost data forever since the "delete" or "format" command was sent. Actually, they're wrong.

When you delete or format data on a Hitachi hard disk, the part of the Hitachi hard disk where lost data previously took over is marked as available for new data's input, and the old data becomes invisible. Hense, your old data isn't gone immediately, and there's still a good chance for you to retrieve them with recovery solution as long as they're not overwritten by new files.

• Part 1 How to Recover Lost Files from Hitachi Hard Drive

So, remember this important thing: Stop using Hitachi hard drive or at least the particular partition where you lost the files, if you still want to get it back. Overwritten will make your data destroyed permanently.

Part 1 How to Recover Lost Files from Hitachi Hard Drive

At the very beginning, find a hard drive recovery software to assist your to recover lost files from hitachi hard drive. It's crucial to choose a reliable and professional hard disk recovery program that really does what it says, or your lost data would be damaged by using it. If you don't have an option, here comes my humble recommendation: Wondershare Data Recovery or Wondershare data recovery for mac. Both of the Hitachi hard drive recovery software are 100% trust worthy and you can regain almost all data from hard drives including photos, videos, audio, documents, etc.

Download the free trial version of the wondershare hard disk recovery software below and take a free try!

Tips: DONOT install the hard disk recovery software to the same partition where you lost data for avoiding overwriting it.

Next, let's try the Windows version of this Hitachi hdd data recovery software together. If you're a Mac user, you can use the Mac version of this data recovery software to recover lost files from Hitachi hard drive in the quite same way as follow.

Step 1. Choose the file type you want to recover from Hitachi hard drive.

Step 2. Select the file location for recovery according to the description.

Step 3. Enable deep scan if you can't find any files after the quick scan. It helps to search more files and it will take more time.

Step 4. Preview and recover lost files from Hitachi Hard Drive.

In the scan result, all recoverable files are displayed and categorized well. You can preview and check to recover them all with one click. Files can be previewed now:  JPG, JP2, JPEG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, PDF, HTML/HTM, ZIP and RAR.

NOTE: When recovering lost files from hitachi hard drive, don't save them on the same partition where you lost them before. Choose another partition or disk to store them. If you want to recover files later after the scan, remember to save the scan result and you can directly recover them by importing it, instead of rescan.