Transcend external hard drives are durable and have tough built. It is made with sleek design and is shock-resistant. It doesn’t need any drivers since it has plug and play operation. You can store huge data and be carefree of your data saved in it, as it keeps your data secure. It comes with one touch Auto-Backup button. It comprises of these features and much more in it. Because of these user friendly and high end technology, it doesn’t mean that you can use it as you wish. There are times when you lose data from Transcend external hard disk.
Consider a situation, “I had to delete some data from Transcend portable hard drive as there was not enough space to save my crucial data on it. I thought of deleting old backup files on external drive. I deleted them but after deleting, I realized that there was an important backup file which is not stored on my computer. What can I do now? Is there any way, so that I can restore it back? I will be grateful if anyone can suggest a solution.”
You may come across these kinds of situation in day-to-day life. Here are some common scenarios that cause data loss on Transcend external hard disk:
- Selecting wrong partition on Transcend external hard drive by mistake, while formatting a partition on it
- Data transfer interruption due to software conflict or sudden power outage results in data loss from Transcend external hard drive
- While scanning for any threats on portable hard drive, the anti-virus software may delete those infected files stored in it
- File system corruption of Transcend external hard drive due to virus/malware infection, improper removal from USB port of computer, etc. lead to data loss
Do not panic in any of the above circumstances, you can retrieve data from external hard drive easily using professional recovery software. Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is one such utility that helps in restoring data from Transcend external hard disk on Windows operating system.
External Hard Drive Recovery Software
HDD recovery is the best tool to restore data from Transcend external hard disk. Different file types like MS Office documents, pictures, movies, music files, etc. can be retrieved by using this application efficiently. This program has capability to retrieve files not only from Transcend external hard drive, it can also restore data from other brands of external hard drive like, Kingston, Toshiba, HP, Samsung, Maxtor, Iomega, etc. Along with external hard drive, the software is compatible to retrieve data from SATA, PATA, SCSI, IDE, etc. hard drive interfaces, pen drive, USB drive and more. This result oriented program is the most suggested method for recovering data from ExFAT drive, which also supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and ReFS file systems. You can run the tool on Windows computers of all versions.
Procedure to retrieve data from Transcend external hard disk:
- Download hard drive recovery software and install it on Windows computer
- Plug in Transcend external drive to the system from which data has to be retrieved and run installed software
- Select “Partition Recovery” or “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery” from main screen depending on data loss scenario
- Then select drive of Transcend external hard drive and click on “Next” option
- Select file types that you want to restore and click “Next” button else press “Skip” option to scan for all file types
- Software starts scanning Transcend external hard drive and displays the result in short time period
- View recovered files and folders in “Data View” or “File Type View”
- Preview them using “Preview” option
- Use “Save” option to save recovered files to a particular location on computer drive
First things first:
- Be careful while deleting data from external hard drive as you cannot get them in recycle bin to restore
- If you delete or lose files from external hard drive, stop using it immediately and try to avoid adding data to it
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