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22 March 2022  John Weaver  Senior Program Developer
 

Summary
Introduce how to recover lost data from external hard disk effectively and successfully no matter the disk is crashed, formatted or mistakenly delete files inside.



External hard disk has become an universal issue in our work, daily life and study. Due to its convenience and large memory space, we can enjoy the advantages that the external hard disk takes. But sometimes, we may also meet some troubles when using the external hard drives like data lost.
This article mainly introduces the method of recovering data from external hard disk which is crashed, formatted or even mistakenly deleted files inside.

Your data may lose under the following situations

  • Computer crashes
  • Virus attacks
  • Improperly connect or disconnect the external hard drive
  • Accidentally delete files or format the external hard drive
  • Unknown reasons
Although files are lost or you believe they are forever gone, files have never been really removed from the external hard disk no matter how they got lost. And under these conditions, a third party data recovery software – Renee Undeleter will be a best solution for you when you want to recover the lost files from the external hard drive.
Renee Undeleter - Powerful Data Recovery SoftwareRenee Undeleter data Recovery software

Easy to use Only simple steps to recover data from storage devices.

Multiple scan modes Fast partition scan, whole partition scan and whole disk scan for different recovery needs.

File types Support to recover pictures, videos, audios, documents, mails, etc.

Supported storage devices Recover data from recycle bin, SD card, external disk, etc.

Supported systems Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000 and Mac OS X10.6, 10.7, 10.8.

Easy to use Only simple steps to recover data from storage devices.

Multiple scan modes - 3 scan modes for different recovery needs.

Supported storage devices Recover data from recycle bin, SD card, external disk, etc.

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Steps of how to recover data from external hard disk

Step 1: Launch the software and select one of the recovery modes.
Three Scan modes
Step 2: Choose the external hard disk you want to recover data from.
select a drive to scan
Step 3: Preview the files and find out the files you need.
preview before recovery
Step 4: Select a destination to save the recoverable data.
Tips:
1. Before carrying out the hard disk data recovery, stop using the hard disk and put it in a safe place, in case any physical damage may occur.
2. When you are going to use the external hard disk data recovery software to recover files, it is better to save the recovered files to another disk in order to avoid data overwriting.
3.Unregistered version can just recover 20MB data files for free [fuction limited], if you will never pay for the software, you may try to use the ‘TrialPay’ to get it for FREE.
4. Whatever the cause of your file loss, the best method of data recovery is a good preemptive data backup plan. If you use Windows, you now know step-by-step how to automatically back up your hard drive, so that this sort of thing will never happens again.