How to Recover Deleted Folders from External Hard Drive
People start to use external hard drive more and more often. Just look at my roommate: he puts all his favorite movies, interesting E-books, and even private records on his 80G external hard drive. Though I understand why he is so fascinated with the drive, I wonder what if he lost all the stuff. Would he go crazy? Even if he wouldn’t go crazy, losing valuable data is heartbreaking. You can just imagine what if you lost all your years’ favorite collections.
Data loss could happen
In fact, things like that could take place. When he wanted to delete one file, but accidentally deleted the whole folder; when he quickly pressed 'Shift + Del', but found that he didn’t do backup; or he didn’t do anything, but his naughty brother carelessly deleted 'All', and then he lost the data. How to do folder recovery?
Two ways to recover deleted folder
At this time, we are likely to think of data recovery. Nowadays, not a few people have known the fact that after you deleted the folders, the data itself isn’t deleted; just the area where the deleted folders were stored is now marked as free space for other new files to be written. But you should remember that do not put other new files or folders in the same place where the previous folders were stored, otherwise this free space will be overwritten by others, which makes it difficult to recover deleted folder.
Way1. Asking help from a professional data recovery agency. Data recovery agency does more things: checking hard drive, using data recovery software, doing backup, etc. The whole set of things are technical but also expensive, and most importantly, your private information may be exposed to others.
Way2. Using data recovery software by yourself. Data recovery software understands the internals of the system used to store files on a disk (the file system) and uses this knowledge to locate the disk space that was occupied by a deleted file.
Comparatively speaking, using a data recovery to recover deleted folder can be a better option. If you are still looking for one, Wondershare Data Recovery can be a nice selection. It is a professional recovery tool with high quality and security. With just 3 steps, no prior recovery skills needed, you can recover deleted folder efficiently with original folder name. if you are a Mac user, please choose the Data Recovery for Mac, which does the same.
Tips: DO NOT install Wondershare Data Recovery to the same partition where you lost data for avoiding overwriting original data.
Step1. Connect your external hard drive to the computer and lauch the data recovery. Select Lost File recovery for Windows users or Deleted File Recovery for Mac users.
Step2. Select the hard drive and begin to scan.
Step3. After the scan, preview and check the recoverable files and begin to recover.
The only thing you need to pay attention is: Don't save the recovered files to the space where you lost your files previously, just to be safe consideration.
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