Retrieve Data from A Formatted External Hard Disk

How to retrieve files from the external hard drive, portable and USB drives after formatting? This question arises when you have formatted the drive accidentally or after receiving a format error message. In this article, we’ll discuss on how to recover files from a formatted external drive with the help of a free data recovery tool.

Scenarios Where you Format an External HDD

Accidentally formatted external/portable hard drive: When trying to format a different drive, you accidentally choose external HDD and lost data.

Format Error: When trying to access your files, you might encounter with an error message which says to format the drive to access the data. And you pressed ‘Format’ button and end up with files being deleted from the external drive.

Do’s and Don’ts to Get Back Data After Formatting an External Drive?

To get your files back from the formatted drive, do not write anything new to it. Which means:

• Do not save new files on the drive.
• Do not install free data recovery utility.
• Do not partition the drive again.
• Do not format again.

By following the above things, you are not making the situation worse, which means, you’ll have the high success recovery rate.

Now, do the following after data recovery;

• Save the recovered data to a different drive other than the affected drive

Free download Remo Hard Drive Recovery Tool to recover deleted files after formatting an external hard drive from both the above-mentioned cases. The program effectively and efficiently restores deleted files like text documents, PowerPoint files, Outlook data files, photos, videos, audio files and even files that turned RAW. You can use this software on internal hard drive data loss situation as well.