External USB portable hard drive is used for data storage. Most commonly people use the external hard drive for carrying the large amount of data in a single storage device. You can save, modify or delete the external hard drive data by connecting it to your PC through USB port. While using external hard drive you may delete or lose the files stored on it due to various situations. Suppose you have accidentally deleted few important files and thinking that how to recover deleted files from external drive. Here is the solution for this problem, you need to make use good third party file recovery software in order to recover deleted files from external hard drive.
External removable USB hard drive is provided with Plug and play drive functionality. External hard drive is available in different storage capacities ranges from 3.75 MB to more than 1 TB. It can be formatted with various file systems such as FAT 16, FAT 32, Ext FAT, NTFS or NTFS5 for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Deletion of file on the external USB hard disk may take place due to various situations such as accidental deletion of wrong files, deleted by viruses, deleted on Windows network shares, deleted when you press “Shift + Delete” keys, erased when ‘Cut and Paste’ command has been used, deleted by certain third party applications, deleted from the command line and deleted by antivirus software etc. Let us briefly explain few important case scenarios in which how deletion of files may take place.
- Loss of files when Cut command is used: You have stored lot of files such as word document files, office work, project files, and study materials on your 500 GB storage capacity external USB hard drive. Suppose you have connected the external USB hard drive to your laptop computer using USB data cable provided with it. Consider you are working with unfamiliar system which is owned by one of your friends. This connection is made to copy data from external USB hard drive into hard disk. While moving the files using Cut and Paste command if power outage occurs then the data transmission process is terminated and system shuts down. In this kind of a situation you may lose files on the external USB hard drive.
- Accidental deletion: Accidentally deleting the wrong files on the external hard drive when it is connected to computer using Shift + Delete key combination may lead to loss of files.
When you accidentally delete the files on the external hard drive, they are not removed permanently but the storage area is reallocated to a new data and file pointers are reset. So you can recover deleted files from external drive by using good third party file recovery software. Remo Recover (Windows) – Basic Edition software is an efficient tool to recover deleted or lost files from the external drive. In order to recover deleted or lost files you need to download and install the software to your PC. After installing the software connect the external hard drive to your computer and scan for deleted files. This software supports the file recovery from FAT 16, FAT 32, Ext FAT, NTFS and NTFS5 formatted drives.