DIY - Guide to Retrieve Deleted & Lost Data Files from WD External Hard Drive

Western Digital is the most popular external hard drive brands available in the market and is widely used all over the world. WD is the biggest supplier of digital storage in the world, Western Digital dedicates to make external hard drive with high quality and capacity for companies and ordinary people, and many people choose it. However, Western Digital external hard drives are also prone to data loss due to known and unknown reasons.

WD external hard drive users have never imagined that they may lose their vital files and folders. Like other data storage devices, data loss issues are unavoidable in WD external hard drive. After data loss issues, you may feel disappointed and frustrated because you cannot even think of it. Many known and unknown reasons are responsible for data loss from Western Digital external hard drive. Some of the major reasons are mentioned here, have a look on them and find out due to which reason your files gets lost or deleted from WD external hard drive.

Data loss situations which are raised in various forums are mentioned here:

  • Mistakenly deleted all the files from my WD external hard drive. Is there any way to restore those deleted files on WD external hard disk?
  • WD hard drive gets corrupted due to sudden ejection external drive. It became inaccessible! Now how can I restore the files on the WD external hard drive after drive corruption?
  • Accidentally formatted the WD external hard drive and forget to back up some very important files. Is it possible to restore deleted files due to formatting?

Apart from above mentioned reasons, other reasons are also there. Nevertheless, you do not have to worry at all; you can easily recover data from Western Digital external hard drive. Actual truth is that, you’re files and folders are not deleted or lost permanently, only the pointers that hold the address of the files are removed and that is why you’re not able to see them. So, without wasting much time just make use of the most advanced and trustworthy tool named as Recover WD in order to recover data from Western Digital external hard drive. These easy to use applications perform a deep scan of WD external hard drive and recover all the files in just few minutes. Using this tool you can even recover data from WD hard drive of your system. To read more refer this link: www.recoverwd.com/deleted-files-western-digital-hard-drive.html

External hard drive recovery software supports various brands of external hard drive such Seagate, Toshiba, SanDisk, Transcend, Iomega and many more. WD external hard drive data recovery program enables you to recover files which are deleted, lost from your Western Digital external hard drive. It works compatibly on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems and supports WD external hard drive recovery on Mac based machines. With its user-friendly and risk-free features, you can recover all lost files, including videos, photos, music, document files, etc. To evaluate the performance of WD external hard drive recovery software, download its trail version. You can preview all you’re files which are lost or deleted and if you’re satisfied with its performance then buy its licensed version to save the recovered files. It is very effective on all types of external disks of WD. If you are using WD MY Book Live Duo and want to recover data easily, visit: www.recoverwd.com/my-book-live-duo-data.html.

Procedure to recover data from Western Digital external hard drive -

Launch the software on your computer and on the home screen choose "Recover File" option to recover files from Western Digital external hard drive.

Recover Data from Western Digital External Hard Drive - Home Screen

Figure1: Home Screen

On the second screen of the software, you have to choose the recovery mode between "Recover Deleted Files" or "Recover Lost Files" based on their data loss scenario.

Recover Data from Western Digital External Hard Drive - Choose Recovery Option

Figure2: Choose Recovery Option

Then you have to select the WD external hard drive from which you want to recover files and folders. Once the drive is selected, a rigorous scan runs to search for the files.

Recover Data from Western Digital External Hard Drive - Choose Drive

Figure3: Choose Drive

At the end user has the option to preview the recovered files from WD external hard drive and then save the retrieved data in a new destination folder once they are satisfied with the recovery process.

Recover Data from Western Digital External Hard Drive - Save Recovered Files

Figure4: Save Recovered Files

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