How to recover data from external hard drives with data recovery freeware?

External hard drive data recovery

The external drive is not the most important part of a computer, but it is the most important part for yourself, because it contains all your documents of days' hard work, your family pictures, your music or videos and much more. When the external hard drive stops working and losses all the data, everyone will be panic. If there is mechanical damage to your external hard drive, you'd better send it to an IT pro for external hard drive recovery. If the mechanical components in your external hard drive are still functioning, you can recover the lost data by yourself with the powerful freeware: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition overview

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a free and professional data recovery software. It solves all data loss problems - recover files emptied from Recycle Bin, or lost due to software crash, formatted or damaged hard drive, virus attack, lost partition and other unknown reasons under Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7. It recovers data from formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths. Moreover, the free data recovery software works well with dynamic disk, RAID and EXT2/EXT3 file system.

Recover data from external hard drive with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition

Before recovery, have a clear idea of your lost files location in your external hard drive. If you want to recover deleted files, "Deleted File Recovery" module is right for you. If you formatted the partition, or the file system shows as RAW, "Complete Recovery" module is the right choice. If you deleted the partition and want to recover files from it, "Partition Recovery" module is right for you.

Detailed steps:

Recover deleleted files

Recover data from formatted partition

Recover files from lost or deleted partition

Download it to recover lost files now.

Tips: If you want to wipe the data on a partition completely to protect your privacy, please refer to How to delete and wipe partition?

 

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