An Instruction Guide to Recover Lost Data from External Hard Drive

External hard drives are important and very useful tools for data transfer. Although, many new methods of data transfer have evolved out but external hard drives are the universally favorite for all types of offline data transferring.  

Data Loss Issues with External Hard Drives 

However, data loss from external hard drives is a very common thing to happen. There can be various reasons that might propagate data loss in an external hard drive. Virus attack, accidental file deletion, critical file corruption, application failure, damage due to power failure are some of the few common reasons of data loss from drives.

Hence, it is very important that one should always maintain external hard drives backups, because if some important data (without backup) get lost, then the recovery will become an expensive affair. Data recovery services are extremely expensive as it charges anywhere from $500 to $2,500. 

Self tying the data restoration from external hard drive by opening and checking is a completely useless effort as such data recovery require special dust-free and static-free environment. 

The alternative and effective way of external hard drive lost-data restoration is to use external hard drive data recovery software. These are in fact the easiest and the best solution to try out. Whether, you have got your external hard drive accidently formatted or have become a victim of virus attack, external hard drive data recovery software is the first solution you must take up. There are many such software applications available. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is highly recommended software. 

Read below to learn how data lost from external hard drives can be recovered using EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

Steps to Restore Data from External Hard Drive

•          Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard
•          Then select the file types (graphics, documents, audio, video, etc ) you want to recover
•          Click "Next" button to move to the next step
•          Next, select the drive where you lost your data was stored (here the external hard drive)

 

•         Note: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can be used to recover lost data from external hard drive, internal hard drive, USB drive, hardware RAID , SD card, memory stick, etc 

•          Click "Scan" button 
•          The software will scan the selected drive to find your target files
•          In case you have lost your partition, then select "Lost Disk Drives." Then click "Scan" to continue the recovery process

•          After a quick scan, the software will list out the files it has recovered
•        You can preview all the listed recoverable files one by one
•          Select the ones you need to restore

•         Then, click "Recover" button to get those back
•       To avoid data overwriting, save all the recovered files on another disk

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a professional external hard drive data recovery software. Even professionals use this software to offer recovery services to their clients. The software is effective and capable of restoring data such as files, emails, photos, audio, video, document, etc from external hard drive, internal hard drive, USB drive, hardware RAID, SD card, memory stick, etc. It’s compatible with Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8.