Data Recovery from Bad External Hard Drive

External hard drives are the best source of storage media for storing and sharing information. There are various types of external hard drives, which indeed come in very handy when the users has to take back up of important files and folders from their computers or laptops.

If you are going through this article, then you might be desperate to know how to get back important data that was lost from your external hard drive which turned bad. But, before you get too worried about lost data from bad external hard drive calm down!! There are many ways through which missing information can be restored from bad external hard drive.

Let us consider some scenarios responsible for bad external hard drive:

• Abrupt removal of external hard drive from Windows computer  during read or write process or while transferring files
• File system corruption on external hard drive due to virus/malware infections or improper handling
• Logically corruption of external hard drive due to partition table corruption, improper re-formatting or re-partitioning process

Now keeping bad external hard drive is of no use, as the data present in it cannot be accessed. So, the best thing to do is to format it to get rid of issues and reuse drive for storing new data. But formatting wipes entire data from portable hard disk that has turned bad. So in order to bring back erased data, you need to select the best external hard drive recovery software to effectively get back all the files and folders from bad external hard drive without causing any damage to its contents.

Software to recover data from bad external hard drive:

After losing data from your external hard drive the first you need to do is to stop using the drive and install Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool on Windows system. This software is designed with best and effective graphical user interface, which helps users to rescue data from bad external hard drive with ease. It will deeply scan external hard drive to identify and retrieve various types of files such as MS Office files, photos, videos, music files, RAW images, ZIP files, RAR files, PDF files and lot more. This tool works on Windows PCs or laptops working on Windows 8, 7, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.

Working of Yodot Hard Drive Recovery program:

• Download and install Yodot Hard Drive Recovery application by logging in as local system administrator
• After completion of installation process, connect your external hard drive to Windows computer where recovery product is installed
• Launch the program and follow instructions that are provided on main screen
• Partition Recovery and Formatted/Reformatted Recovery are the options shown on main screen; click on Partition Recovery and then go to next window where drives on Windows system are listed
• Select the hard drive and then begin the scanning process and follow the progress by viewing progress bar
• Recovered files are shown in Data View or File Type View. Select the required one and get to next screen
• Preview the media files and save them to particular destination location on Windows system

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