How to Recover Deleted Files from External Hard Drive

Amy Dennis

Dec 03, 2020 • Filed to: Answer Hard Drive Problems • Proven solutions

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How Do I Recover Files from External Hard Drive

After deleted or lost files from external hard drive, all files can be retrieved back and how to recover files from an external hard drive? On this page, we will introduce the best external hard drive recovery software, and show you how it can easily and effectively to restore your lost data and files.

What Are the Causes of Data Loss from External Hard Drive

Except accidentally deleted or lost files from external hard drive, many other reasons can cause your data lost from external hard disk, the disk could be a logical failure or physical failure. The most common causes of data loss:

• Data loss due to the hard disk gets virus/malware infection.
• The hard drive system files got deleted or lost, or the partition corruption.
• The power failure or surge causes disk damage.
• Accidentally format the external hard drive of the format errors.
• The physical damage resulting from mishandling or dropping.

How to Recover Files from an External Hard Drive without Formatting

When your data files got deleted from the external hard drive, you can recover all lost files back with Recoverit Data Recovery software without formatting. The external hard drive recovery program can effectively to recover deleted files from external hard drive, even the drive got corrupted or damaged, or the hard drive got accidentally formatted.

3 Steps to Recover Lost Data from External Hard Drive

Free download and install Recoverit Data Recovery on your computer, connect the external hard drive to the PC. Follow the next 3-step to get your data back:

Step 1. Launch Recoverit External Hard Drive Data Recovery software, then select the external device to get started.

Step 2. The recovery software will start scanning the device to searching your lost files. The scanning will last for a minute.

Step 3. After the scan, you can preview some recovered files, like photos, videos, music, Office document files. Select your files by clicking the "Recover" button to save them on a safe storage device.

Video Tutorial of Recoverit External Hard Disk Data Recovery