Retrieve Files from WD Passport after Format

Western Digital passport is a famous external storage drive which is used across the globe. Many people use WD passport for taking backup of their valuable files on a large scale. This storage drive is safe and secure for storing crucial data, but sometimes it has been seen that people end up losing their important files due to its accidental or intentional formatting. However, if you have lost you crucial data related to business or personal use, then no need to worry, you can take help of Recover WD application in recovering files from formatted Western Digital Passport drive.

Few cases where you need to format your WD Passport Drive are mentioned below:

Improper Use: Since WD Passport is a portable hard drive which is used on different system in order to copy data to and from it and when you connect your WD Passport improperly then chances of its corruption is quite high. Once your WD Passport hard drive data gets inaccessible in this corruption, then you might be thinking that how to solve this issue. To get rid of this problem if you format your WD Passport then you will lose all its data. But, thankfully by making use of Recover WD app you can easily manage for recovering files from formatted Western Digital Passport drive in a short span of time. 

Malicious Program: If dangerous virus or malware program gets onto your WD Passport, then chances of being corruption becomes high. Now to resolve this problem you need to format your WD Passport. But, the moment you will format your WD passport all its data will be lost leaving you in a great problem. It is obvious that after such kind of incident many questions will keep coming into your mind like “Recovering files from formatted Western Digital Passport drive is possible or not” or “Is there any tool which can assist you on how to restore files from formatted WD Passport”.

Unintentional Formatting: Sometimes it has been noted that user wanted to format a drive containing junk files but by mistake they end up formatting their WD Passport associated with computer thereby leading to loss of all your valuable files stored on WD Passport. After accidental formatting, if you want to restore files from formatted WD Passport external hard drive, then you can do by making use of our wonderful Recover WD utility in a matter of seconds. Moreover, if you want to know how to recover data from portable WD hard drive, then visit here:

It does not matter how your WD Passport has been formatted, you can easily restore files from formatted WD Passport using our most comprehensive Recover WD software. The one thing that you need to take care is that do not store any new data on your formatted WD Passport. If you carry on storing new data on it then chances of overwriting of data becomes high and after data overwriting you cannot restore files from formatted WD Passport. Hence, you should avoid reformatting your WD passport once it is formatted accidentally.

Some of the most exciting and unique features of Recover WD toolkit:

  • Recover WD is special and unique software that is developed by highly qualified software people and widely accepted by many customers for its excellence performance.
  • This tool is well-versed in recovering data from WD My Passport 1TB external hard disk. For further details on recovery you are free to visit: https://www.recoverwd.com/my-passport-1tb-external-hard-disk-data.html
  • You can make use of this tool for recovering files from formatted Western Digital Passport drive on both Windows and Mac based machine.
  • It is intelligent enough to successfully perform Western Digital Caviar Blue recovery that too within few simple steps.
  • In addition to retrieve files from WD Passport after format, you can also make use of this tool to recover files form crashed hard drive. To know more about crashed hard drive data recovery, visit here: https://www.recoverwd.com/how-to-get-data-off-a-crashed-hard-drive.html
  • It supports data recovery from different types of external hard drive of different brands which includes Toshiba, Seagate, Hitachi, HP, and many others.
  • It is equally effective in data recovery from corrupted WD external hard drive that too in just a few simple clicks of mouse.
  • Once this tool finishes data recovery you can easily preview the recovered WD Passport data and evaluate the performance of this utility.

Steps to retrieve files from formatted WD Passport drive:

Download and install trial version of this software on your computer and then launch it. After this select “Recover Drives” option as shown in figure 1.

Recovering Files from Formatted Western Digital Passport Drive - Home Screen

Figure1: Home Screen

Here from second screen you have to select “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery” option to retrieve files from WD Passport after format as shown in figure 2.

 

Recovering Files from Formatted Western Digital Passport Drive - Choose Formatted / Reformatted Recovery

Figure 2: Choose Formatted / Reformatted Recovery

After this you have to select the logical drive which represents your WD Passport and click on “Next” button. After this  the tool will start recovering files from formatted Western Digital Passport drive as shown in figure 3.

Recovering Files from Formatted Western Digital Passport Drive - Choose WD Passport

Figure3: Choose WD Passport

Once the recovery process is done, you can easily preview the recovered files and then judge the performance of this tool as shown in figure 4.

 

Recovering Files from Formatted Western Digital Passport Drive - Preview Recovered Files

Figure4: Preview Recovered Files

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