How to recover data from an external hard drive
External hard drives, as for any other media, archive data can be subject to incidents (virus, errors or failures), which cause temporary loss of data.
This is often not a problem because thanks to the specific software, we can take it all. Now, we will see how to proceed to recover data from an external hard drive in a few easy steps.
1.) The easiest way to retrieve our data from an external hard drive is to connect it to a desktop computer through its USB cable, then select all, and from the menu that appears, press the right mouse button, first choose ” Copy ” and subsequently, the destination folder ” Paste “. This is possible if it is operational and has only light viruses or slowdowns (that requires formatting), while, on the other hand, if it is readable via USB, we have to pull it out of its case, by removing the screws and unplugging cables connecting it to the controller. Having done this, we open the central unit (PC off), we identify the attacks right, connect the hardware and turn on the computer.
2.) In this way, the hard disk will open like a pen drive, so we’ll see the entire contents of each partition present (including the installation files of the operating system that we do not need) from which through ” Copy and Paste ” will recover the data. Sometimes, it may happen that even this option is available and we will have to resort to use a simple software ” EasyRecovery ” (downloadable demo version or buy it directly from the Internet) that will help us in our operations (this process takes a long time, according to damage to hardware).
3.) Once installed, start it and always with the disk attached inside the case, let’s select the ” Retrieve Data ” (on our left), then choose the recovery mode ” RawRecovery ” (works regardless of the error or disk problem). This will open the menu where we have to choose the partition that interests us (eg: D or E), then click on the ” Next ” button and wait for the scan files sought terms. We set the destination folder for the file (on another drive) and choose ” Next ” to start the recovery (which may take time depends on the amount present).
