Instructions for how to recover deleted files from external hard drive

Important user files such as excel sheets, work files, MS word document files, and study materials etc may get delete or loss due to some disastrous situations. When you delete a file on hard disk drive Windows automatically put up it into Recycle Bin. Suppose you have deleted the files on some other storage device that is connected to your computer then those deleted files bypasses the Recycle Bin. However, this could lead to loss of files on storage media. Similarly, the loss of files may also occur on external USB hard drive. Let us talk about how files on external USB hard drive may get delete or loss and how to recover deleted files from external hard drive.

User can store the files on various storage devices such as iPod, Secure Digital card, Extreme Digital card, Multimedia card, Memory stick, USB flash drive, external USB hard drive, and compact flash card etc. The files on storage medium may get delete or loss due to various situations such as accidentally deleted from USB external hard drive, deleted by viruses, deletion of files on a memory card, deletion of files when you press “Shift + Delete” keys, loss of files when the Cut command has been used, and deleted by certain third party applications etc. Let us briefly give explanation about few important case scenarios in which loss of files on an external USB hard drive may occur.

  • Accidental deletion of wrong files: Suppose you have connected the USB external hard drive sized 1TB through USB port, using USB data cable provided with it, to your computer. Consider you have connected the external USB hard drive to rearrange the files on it. While arranging the files in a proper order, if you have accidentally deleted few files on the external hard drive then those deleted files bypasses the Recycle Bin. However, this may lead to loss of files on the external USB hard drive.
  • Files deleted by antivirus scanning: Computer viruses are vital and hazardous stuff, which can create duplicates by themselves and spread automatically from one storage media to another. Consider you have connected the external hard drive to PC that contains viruses. Then viruses can spread from hard disk drive to external USB hard drive and they may corrupt the files stored on it. In such instance, if you have scanned the external USB hard drive with updated antivirus software then there may be chances to deletion of files.
  • Interruption to file transfer: Suppose you have connected the external USB hard drive to PC and transferring the files from it to hard disk drive using Cut and Paste command. If unexpectedly power outage occurs when the file transferring process is in progress then there may be chances to cause loss of files on the external USB hard drive.

In order to recover deleted files from external hard drive or other storage media you need to make use of good third party deleted file recovery software. Remo Recover (Windows) – Basic Edition software can effectively recover deleted or lost files from various storage medium like external USB hard drive, USB flash drive, flash memory card, and compact flash card etc. Download this software to recover deleted or lost files from external hard drive.