How to Recover Data from Seagate External Hard Drive

Help! I Lost data from my Seagate External Hard Drive!

As the biggest supplier of digital storage in the world, Seagate devotes itself to making external hard drives that are high quality and high capacity for companies and ordinary people; many people choose this brand. However, the Seagate external hard drive owners also can't avoid a data loss disaster due to known and unknown reasons.

• Part 1: How to Recover Data from Seagate External Hard Drive

Part 1: How to Recover Data from Seagate External Hard Drive

The files you think have been lost due to deleting or formatting are actually still somewhere on your disk. Because the space the files occupy is only marked as "available to reuse" and the files become invisible. With a professional Seagate data recovery program, it's very easy to get them all back. When encountering this problem, what you should do first is stop saving new data onto your disk, or the lost data will be overwritten.

To learn how to recover data from Seagate external hard drive, we'd like to introduce you the Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows users, for Mac users, Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac. No matter if files are lost due to virus attack, formatting, corruption, deletion or some other reasons, if they are not physically damaged, this program can help to retrieve them all quickly and safely.

Download the right version of Seagate hard drive data recovery software for free, then install and run it on your computer. Here, let's take the Windows version in detailed steps below.

Step 1. When the external hard drive data recovery software is launched, choose the File Type you Wish to Recover from Seagate External Hard Drive

Step 2. Choose the Seagate External Hard Drive

Choose the "External removable devices" as the source disk for Seagate data recovery, and continue to "Start".

Note: If you can't find files after a quick scan, use "Deep Scan" which will help you find and get back more lost files.

Step 3. Preview and Recover Data from your Seagate External Hard Drive

When the scanning completes, all the recoverable files are listed in the scanning results by file type. You can preview them one by one and check those you want to recover.

Tips:

1. Before recovering data from your Seagate external hard drive, you can use the "Filter" to search by file name to find a specific file. This can save you a lot of time.
2. When saving recovered files, remember to save them on your computers hard drive or another external hard drive, but not the Seagate hard drive where you lost your data. Otherwise, you may overwrite the lost files.