Unformat External Hard Drive – Recover Photos Music Videos and More from Formatted External Hard Drive

What Is Format?

You can format a memory card, external hard drive, hard drive, flash drive, memory stick, pen drive and almost all storage devices. When you perform a formatting on any of those devices, it will wipe off all files inside. Format can be high-level format and low-level format. Result will be different when you perform a high-level format and a low-level format.

Cases That You May Format an External Hard Drive

Case1: I have an external hard drive which has been connected to my computer so that I can store and transfer data. One day, I connected my flash drive to this computer and try to format it to empty all files on the flash drive. But I mistakenly formatted my external hard drive as the flash drive. The formatting process is stopped before it is completed. But the external hard drive is now shown as raw drive and it says needs to be formatted. I want to know if all data has been erased and can’t be recovered when I perform a quick format on my external hard drive.

Case2: I formatted my WD external hard drive by accident. What is worse, I keep writing some other data to the external hard drive after formatting. Can I find a way to unformat my external hard drive? I need 100% data recovery guarantee because all the files on the formatted external hard drive are very important.

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How to Unformat External Hard Drive?

It is very important not to add new data to the formatted external hard drive because new data will erase the original data completely. Besides, you can choose a reliable format recovery software to unformat the external hard drive and get back lost data. However, no software can make a 100% guarantee that you can restore all files since the chance of data recovery depends on many factors. Three are two things you can do to try to recover as much data as possible – perform a data recovery as soon as possible after formatting and don’t overwrite the formatted drive.

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