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How to Recover Files from an External Hard Drive: 5 Simple Steps

Need to recover deleted files from your external hard drive? Check out 5 simple steps and a bunch of useful tips to increase data recovery chances.
Disk Drill Hard Drive Recovery Software: https://bit.ly/33KY7j8

It's quite upsetting when an external HDD gets damaged, corrupted, or inaccessible. But, as long as your external hard disk is not physically damaged or broken, you can use disk recovery software to recover data from the hard drive first. Data loss occurs for a variety of reasons that demand a reliable recovery tool. Situations when Disk Drill software can help:
- You deleted files on an hard drive by mistake;
- Formatted external hard drive;
- When faced with a disk that suddenly shows up as a RAW file system;
- “You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it" error message;
- Hard disk not showing files;
- partition inaccessible or lost;
- your external disk is crashed, damaged or corrupted;
- Viruses and malware.

Supported external hard disk brands: LaCie, Seagate, SanDisk, Kingstone, Western Digital, Toshiba, Buffalo, Samsung, Maxone, KESU, Silicon Power, Adata, G-Tech, etc.

Steps to recover deleted files from an external hard drive:
Step 1. Download & Install Disk Drill for Windows or Mac.
Step 2. Connect an external hard drive to your PC.
Step 3. Click Search for lost data button to scan your external disk.
Step 4. Preview found files and select which files you want to recover.
Step 5. Then click Recover to save found files. A save location must be different to the original location.

Follow these tips to successfully restore your files from an external HDD:

Tip #1 Why recovering lost data from an external hard drive is possible? Here's the thing. Until your files are not overwritten by new data, you can undelete them. The key is not to overwrite the files you want to recover. Stop using the drive immediately to give yourself the best chance of recovering your deleted data.

Tip #2 Do not recover the files back to the original drive. You can overwrite files before they can be recovered.

Text tutorials

3 ways to recover deleted files from an external drive:
https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/recover-files-external-hard-drive.html

How to recover files from a crashed hard disk: https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/crashed-hard-drive-recovery.html

Recover deleted files from a hdd on Mac:
https://www.cleverfiles.com/hard-drive-recovery.html

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