External Hard Drive Is Broken - Recover Files from Broken External Hard Drive

What Is Wrong with My External Hard Drive? Is It Broken?

I bought a new Seagate external hard drive to backup my computer hard drive data. However, after I transferred all important data form my computer hard drive to the new external hard drive, the external hard drive don’t show up on My Computer anymore. What is wrong? Is it broken? Is there any way to recover my files? I hope anybody who can help me could give me more detailed information for Seagate external hard drive recovery when it is corrupted.

We are not sure whether the external hard drive and hard drive are broken or not. But I can only say data are unrecoverable if the external hard drive has been broken. If the drive can’t show up on My Computer just due to some unexpected reasons such as improperly operation, virus attack, etc all data can be recovered with external drive recovery software. And the external hard drive can be repaired after formatting or with professional tools.

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With external hard drive recovery software, you can easily restore lost data from any brand and model of external hard drive when it can’t show up on My Computer. It is available for 100% free and supports photo recovery, audio file recovery, video file recovery, office file recovery, and more other types of file recovery. The external hard drive recovery software can help recover lost data from not recognized or detected external drive with easy steps. Simply to say, it will help you recover data through the following steps: scanning the external hard drive ->> show files after scanning ->> recover and save found files. 

How to Restore Files from External Hard Drive with External Drive Recovery Software?

Below are more detailed steps on data recovery from external hard drive when it can’t be detected on My Computer.

Step1. Plug the external hard drive to your computer. Free download the external drive recovery software to install it on your computer. Run the software and choose one recovery module.
Step2. Enable the software to scan all the drives that the software can detect. Wait patiently while the scanning process.
Step3. After scanning, choose all partitions that have been found and preview the files. Select and save all the files you need. Please don’t save the selected files to the original external hard drive.

More Data Recovery Situations Supported with Recovery Freeware

Except data recovery from not recognized external hard drive, external drive recovery freeware has more other features. It can also solve common data loss problems due to deleting or reformatting memory card or not formatted error. What’s more, it supports to restore data from hard drive, memory card, pen drive, memory stick, flash drive, floppy disk, and more. External drive recovery software is clean and it doesn’t contain any virus or spyware.

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