Recover Data from Verbatim External Hard Drive

External hard drives are the main source for storing backup data from computers. There are many manufacturers of external hard drive and Verbatim Corporation is one among the popular manufacturers of storage media. Verbatim external hard drive provides automatic backup and restore functionality of data according to scheduled date/ time. For this, the drive is included with Nero’s backup software. Also, these portable drives include encryption software to enable data security saved on the drive.

In spite of many such useful features of the drive, users face data loss from Verbatim external hard disk under various circumstances. For instance, consider that you connected your Verbatim external hard drive to the system for accessing few files. Prior to it, you thought to scan the drive for presence of any malware. So, you right clicked on the drive and accidentally clicked on Format option instead of Scan option. This erased entire data present on the drive and thus you lost your crucial data. Not only this, there are few more situations that may result severe data loss from Verbatim portable drive as listed below:

• Viruses Infection: Data on Verbatim drive can get lost when it is severely infected by malicious spyware
• File System Corruption: When file system gets corrupt due to any reason, then data present on the drive will become inaccessible
• OS reinstallation: While performing OS reinstallation of your computer and if you have connected your Verbatim external drive to the same system, then chances of drive getting formatted is more
• Other reasons: Software / hardware conflicts causing hard drive crash, presence of bad sectors, partition table corruption, physical damage, etc. will lead to loss of priceless data from Verbatim removable HD

When users come across these scenarios, they cannot access data saved on the Verbatim external hard drive. But, real fact is that data is just made invisible to OS and not permanently lost / removed from the drive. If you have lost data, then stop using Verbatim external drive for any further activities as it might overwrite the data still present on it. And soon make use of best Verbatim external hard drive recovery tool to extract all inaccessible data.

Data retrieval from Verbatim external drive

One of the most widely utilized applications to restore external HDD data is Yodot Hard Drive Recovery This software safely brings back all types of files from Verbatim portable drive by using read-only recovery algorithms. You can employ this recovery product to rescue data from not only external hard drives, but also from system hard disks, pen drives, flash memory cards, FireWire drives, etc on Windows OS. The software can also retrieve data from all popular brands of hard drive as well as portable hard disks like Seagate, WD, Buffalo, Toshiba, Maxtor, Samsung, Transcend, etc. You can successfully make use of this tool on various Windows OS based computers and laptops to recover lost / deleted data from any storage media.

Procedural steps to restore Verbatim external drive data:

• Connect your Verbatim portable hard drive to a Windows system
• Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery and install it on the same system
• Follow the provided instructions and run the utility
• Next window provides two options i.e. “Partition Recovery” or “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery”
• Make your selection according to the data loss situation
• Further, select the drive that represents Verbatim hard drive connected externally to the system
• Next, select required file types that you wish to recover or by default all file types will be selected
• By clicking on next, the tool scans the drive selected and provides a list of recovered files
• Select required files, target the location on your Windows system drive and save the files

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