How to Recover Files from Crashed External Hard Drive

My Seagate external hard drive has crashed. When I connected it with my computer, it is recognized as a USB device under hard disk. I cannot open it. It was told as an unknown device. I am using a Windows computer and I want my external hard drive data back. Is there any way to recover data from my crashed external hard drive? Many thanks.

This is really an annoying problem. Since your external hard drive can still be recognized by computer, you can recover crashed external hard drive data with a third-party data recovery program. Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare data recovery for mac is a choice for you. It enables you to recover data loss due to hard drive crash, system error and accidental deletion. All you need to do is to scan your crashed external hard drive with this program to check how many files you can recover.

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Part 2: How to Recover files from Crashed Hard Drive

Here we recover files from external hard drive with Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows. Mac users please get the Mac version and perform the recovery in similar steps.

Step 1. Select file type to recover files from crashed external hard drive

Select the type of files you want to recover from hard drive. Select the option "All File Type" to start.

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Step 2. Select your crashed external hard drive to Scan Data

The program will list all local partitions and external hard drives in your computer. You just need select your external hard drive and click "Start" to continue.

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Step 3. Check the recoverable files and recover them selectively

After the scanning completed. All found contents will be displayed in categories. Check file names to see whether they are what you have lost or not. For image files, you can even preview them.

Then you can select files you want to recover and click "Recover" to save them to your computer. lease do not save the files to your external hard drive where they were lost before.

Note: After recovering files, we highly suggest you fix your external hard drive for future use.

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About Crashed external hard drive data recovery:

If data in your crashed external hard drive is logically damaged, it is impossible to recover it. This is also why Wondershare Data Recovery offers a trial version. This trial version can help you to check how many files you can recover and check whether files found by it are what you want to retrieve or not.

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हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:

विभिन्न हार्ड ड्राइभ प्रकार देखि डाटा रिकभर +
  1. HDD रिकभरी
  2. SSD रिकभरी
  3. NTFS रिकभरी
  4. Unformat NTFS हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  5. SATA रिकभरी
  6. छापे रिकभरी
  7. आईडीई रिकभरी
  8. बोसो रिकभरी
  9. exFat रिकभरी
  10. कच्चा हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  11. भर्चुअल डिस्क रिकभरी
मर्मत तपाईँको हार्ड डिस्क +
  1. हार्ड डिस्क मरम्मत
  2. हार्ड डिस्क प्रतिविम्ब
  3. हार्ड ड्राइभ हटाउन
  4. हार्ड ड्राइभ मेटाउन
  5. हार्ड ड्राइभ समाधान
  6. खराब क्षेत्रहरु समाधान
  7. दुर्घटनाग्रस्त हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभर
  8. Unformat हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  9. हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन: विभाजन प्रयोग
  10. स्थानीय हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन: सेवा
  11. डिस्क मर्मत सफ्टवेयर
पुन: प्राप्त बाह्य हार्ड +
  1. बाह्य हार्ड रिकभरी
  2. Seagate बाह्य हार्ड रिकभरी
  3. WD बाह्य हार्ड ड्राइभमा फाइल पुन:
  4. Freecom बाह्य हार्ड रिकभरी
  5. भैंसी बाह्य हार्ड रिकभरी
  6. जी-प्रौद्योगिकी बाह्य हार्ड rrive रिकभरी
  7. Fantom बाह्य हार्ड डाटा रिकभरी
  8. दुर्घटनाग्रस्त बाह्य हार्ड फाइलहरू पुन: प्राप्त
हार्ड ड्राइभ / डिस्क देखि डाटा रिकभर +
  1. लिनक्स हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  2. ल्यापटप डाटा रिकभरी
  3. विभाजन रिकभरी
  4. Seagate विस्तार डाटा रिकभरी
  5. WD मेरो पासपोर्ट रिकभरी
  6. Lacie dard डिस्क डाटा रिकभरी
  7. WD तत्व डाटा रिकभरी
  8. डेल हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  9. Acomdata हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  10. Fujitsu हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  11. IOMEGA हार्ड डिस्क रिकभरी
  12. Toshiba डाटा रिकभरी परिवर्तन
  13. Micronet डाटा रिकभरी
विभिन्न उपकरणहरू डेटा पुन: प्राप्त +
  1. Rocster डाटा रिकभरी
  2. Buslink डाटा रिकभरी
  3. महत्वपूर्ण M4 डाटा रिकभरी
  4. कलवारी हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  5. Simpletech हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  6. किंग्स्टन SSD रिकभरी
  7. Apricorn Aegis डाटा रिकभरी
  8. HP हार्ड डिस्क डाटा रिकभरी
  9. Maxtor हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  10. हिटाची हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  11. Toshiba हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
  12. Panasonic हार्ड ड्राइभमा डाटा रिकभरी
तपाईँको हार्ड डिस्क सुरक्षित +
  1. क्लोन हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  2. हार्ड ड्राइभ प्रतिस्थापन
  3. विभाजन बाह्य हार्ड
  4. हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन: उपकरण
  5. शीर्ष हार्ड ड्राइभमा रिकभरी सफ्टवेयर
  6. सजिलो SSD पुन: प्रदर्शन
  7. हार्ड ड्राइभ पासवर्ड रिकभरी
  8. नयाँ हार्ड ड्राइभमा ओएस माइग्रेट
  9. हार्ड ड्राइभ निदान
  10. हार्ड डिस्क विभाजन
म्याक ओएस डेटा पुन: प्राप्त +
  1. रिकभरी HD
  2. म्याक हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  3. मरेको वा मिट म्याक हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  4. मैकबुक प्रो हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  5. iMac हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  6. म्याक बाह्य हार्ड ड्राइभ पुन:
  7. पुन: प्राप्त ढाँचामा म्याक हार्ड ड्राइभ
  8. म्याक डिस्क डाटा रिकभरी
हार्ड ड्राइभ समस्या +
  1. हार्ड ड्राइभ विफलता
  2. हार्ड ड्राइभ दुर्घटना
  3. क्षतिग्रस्त हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  4. ढाँचामा हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  5. खराब क्षेत्रहरु डेटा पुन: प्राप्त
  6. Uninitialized हार्ड ड्राइभमा
  7. हार्ड ड्राइभ won`t बुट
  8. बाह्य हार्ड पत्ता लागेन
  9. हार्ड ड्राइभ मृत
  10. अवैध हार्ड ड्राइभमा
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