WD My Book Data Recovery Tutorial

I have used my 1TB WD My Book Essential external hard drive for backing up my music files and family photos. I have no backup of the drive and I just formatted it. Now all my music and photos are disappeared. I’m concerning with getting my files back. Any ideas? Please help me.

Relax! Data on your WD My Book external hard drive might be lost because of deletion, system error, drive formatting, virus infection and even improper operation. As long as your music and photos are not overwritten by new data on your WD My Book external hard drive, you can possibly get them back. They are just marked as inaccessible data on your drive. When data loss happens, you just need to look for a WD My Book data recovery program to help you immediately.

Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is my best recommendation for you. This third-party recovery program enables you to recover data from WD My Book external hard drive in an easy, safe and risk free way. Its powerful feature helps you recover almost all file types from your WD My Book external hard drive, such as music, photos, videos, documents, etc, no matter your file is deleted, formatted or corrupted.

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3 Steps Recover Data from WD My Book External Hard Drive

The following WD My Book data recovery guide is done with Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows. If you have a Mac, you can get Mac version to follow similar steps to recover your lost WD My Book external hard drive data too.

Note: Please make sure that your WD My Book external hard drive can be recognized by your computer.

Step 1. Select a file type you want to recover

To recover lost, deleted, formatted and formatted files from your WD My Book external hard drive, you can go to select "All File Types" to start.

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Step 2. Scan your WD My Book external hard drive

You just need to select the drive letter for your WD My Book external hard drive in the window and click "Start" button to begin scanning lost data on it.

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If files on your WD My Book external hard drive were lost because of formatting, you can go to deep scan if quick scan can't find your lost data..

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Step 3. Recover files from WD My Book external hard drive

In the end, detected data on your WD My Book external hard drive will be displayed in program window. You can view file names to check how many of your lost data can be recovered from your WD My Book external hard drive.

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Then you just need to mark files you need and click "Recover" to save them to your computer.

Note: Please do not save them back to your WD My Book external hard drive immediately after recovery process.

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