How to recover deleted files from external hard drive

External hard drives may not be the vital part of
your PC but it is possibly the major part of your
life. This is so because it may contain every
digital image captured, your music collections,
your favorite movies and all games and programs
of your choice. Removable hard drives are No. 1
choice of everyone also because it is portable
and capable to store large data and transfer the
same from one place to another. In case that
hard drive is accidently deleted or stopped
working, it is even worse than losing money.
There are certain mishaps that cause data loss
in these hard drives when you deleted entire
folder by mistake when you have to delete a file.
Even worse, that folder is not found in Recycle
Bin. In addition to that, files can be deleted from
external hard drives due to other reasons like –
Reasons for Data Loss from External Hard Drive
Sometimes important data is erased from your
external drive by you in place of unwanted file
when it is connected to your PC
Your external hard drive is infected by Trojan
horse, Worm and other viruses and these viruses
have removed certain folders or files.
Improper handling of external drive also causes
data loss. Using the same drive on Mac and
Windows or sudden removal of hard drive from
system while moving or copying files can also
delete certain files
Other possible reasons like sudden power cut,
improper handling, hardware malfunction and
application error are also responsible for loss of
data.
Steps for Data Recovery from External Media
1. Boot your system as you do always but by
connecting external hard drive.
2. Download and install a freeware hard drive
recovery tool on your system. Don’t move or
copy any file on external hard drive until you
recover your lose file, or it will overwrite your
important data.
3. Launch the program. If files are accidently
deleted on the external drive, click on the option
‘Deleted Files Recovery’. If your hard drive is
accidently formatted or data is corrupted due to
system crash, then click on ‘Lost Data Recovery’.
Click on ‘Locate lost volume’ if you can’t access
your hard drive or can’t locate the drive letter at
all.
4. Select physical or logical hard drive that you
think it must have lost data. Physical hard drive
is a complete hard disk and logical drive is a
virtual drive or partition. Some logical drives are
categorized into different partitions.
5. Scan for the data by clicking on green check. It
will preview all the scanned files on main
interface from where you can select your data
and recover it on your system. According to the
health of external drive, data can be reinstalled.
6. Send all the defective hard drives to hard disk
repair shop. If any kind of mechanical issue is
detected in hard drive, all you have to send the
same to a repair expert to repair that hard drive.