Recover formatted external hard drive

This is a guide about how to recover formatted external hard drive with unformat software EaseUS Data Recovery software. In this article you may find the following parts:

1. External hard drive formatted.

2. Guide to recover files from formatted external hard drive.

3. About EaseUS Data Recovery software.

External Hard Drive Formatted

People would be in a situation of dilemma when plugging in his external hard drive to the PC and receiving a message reading "The disk in drive * is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" If he formats it, all things in the external hard drive would disappear into ether. However, if he doesn't format it, the hard drive is inaccessible and everything in it can't be explored. It is understandable they would feel so worried and irritated when accidently formatting the external hard drive.

PC experts know that for the first time we start using a hard drive, it was already formatted, usually low level formatting. Any later formatting may be performed intentionally or unintentionally by your own. The bad thing happens when you formatted the wrong drive by accident, and there were lots of valued files, photos stored there. To recover files from a formatted drive, here we performed a guide with professional unformat tool - EaseUS Data Recovery software.

Guide to recover files from formatted external hard drive

Step 1: Download the free edition of EaseUS Data Recovery software

Step 2: Install and run the program. And you will see a screen with three modules of data recovery. Go to Complete Recovery.

Step 3: After choosing certain file types, be free to click "NEXT" to select the partition which was formatted to search.

Step 4: When scanning device finished, there would be a partition which is formatted, click "NEXT" which would list your lost files from the formatted hard drive.

Step 5: After clicking "NEXT", there will be a list of lost files and you can check whether it is your lost files.

EaseUS Data Recovery Software

EaseUS Data Recovery software is dedicated to various kinds of data recovery. It is easy to use, no jargon inside. Only a few clicks, you can get your data back from a formatted external drive. Besides unformat, it still can do undelete, recover drives reading RAW, recover files lost due to partition lost, virus infection, SHIFT+DELETE data loss etc.

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