How to Recover Deleted/Lost Files from Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

• Brief of Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
• Trouble of Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
• Recover Deleted/Lost Files from Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
• Tips for Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

Brief of Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

The increase in usage of USB3.0 in new age technology has allowed a huge amount of superfast bus-powered file storage devices. External SSDs and Flash drives can take assistance of the superfast feature of the interface. The hard drives are gradually growing in capacity also and a 1TB portable SSD from the house of Samsung released recently in the market. Though, the expense per GB is quite expensive for the economical technocrats and sometimes it’s unavoidable. From the viewpoint of the technical arena, bus-powered external hard drives which are 2.5" are unique. 2TB USB 3.0 drives are now quite easily available in the market but the latest version of 4TB, is recently launched which incorporates external power and dual drives features. Seagate released the Backup plus Portable 4TB USB 3.0 drive based on the ongoing tradition and using the conventional features on one of the first 4TB 2.5" drives in the market. Seagate Backup plus Portable 4TB USB 3.0 drive within it carries a Samsung/ Seagate Momentus ST4000LM016 drive. Facts about this hard drive are at present available on Seagate's official website. User reports suggest that this hard drive may not be appropriate for most notebooks as it has thicker dimensions.

Seagate Backup Plus portable hard drives provide huge file storage capacity, convenience and speed. These hard drives can be used in both home and offices; you can accumulate all types of files like pictures, cinemas, brochures, games, application installer files on these storage devices easily. These hard drives are extensively used for backup of important documents and can be restored when they are lost by chance. As the users backup their important documents within this Seagate Backup Plus portable hard drives,they often feel that the data stored on this hard drive is safe and secure and the chances of losing them are isolated. But in reality such assumptions are totally vague. Even these devices do malfunction at some point.

Trouble of Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

Many times customers lose their important data from their Seagate Backup Plus portable hard drive due to certain circumstances and require Seagate hard drive recovery.

• Files deleted accidentally: Human faults such as unintentionally erasing a folder or file from the hard disk drive.
• Formatting of the hard drives or certain disconnections: Formatting the Backup Plus portable HD or its detailed partition when connected to the system drive. Disconnecting the device before the full formatting is done.
• Virus Attack: Deadly viruses or malware damages the folder system of the Seagate backup Plus portable hard drive leading to data loss and corrupting the file storage systems used in the hard drive.
• Mishandling the Device: Abruptly ejecting the device or during file transfer or Using the same portable device on different operating system during the copying process. Sometime these actions do not affect the hard drive much, but regular practice of ejecting the hard drive can corrupt the device.
• Other Reasons: Power failure, Hardware defects, software error, file system conversion are some of the reasons for which data is lost from Seagate Backup Plus Portable hard drives.

Recover Deleted/Lost Files from Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

Wondershare Data Recovery for MAC software or Free data recovery software, famous software for doing Seagate external hard drive recovery or retrieving the data from portable hard disk drives. The Free data recovery software has unconventional built in algorithms to bring back the data from Seagate Backup Plus external hard drive even if the device is failed and corrupt. Other than portable hard disks, the capability of Seagate external hard drive recovery from the memory cards, hard drives, USB drives, FireWire Drives, and iPods.

This Seagate external hard drive recovery is compatible with the latest versions of the MAC OS. This application is well-matched with Mac OS X 10.6 or later versions, including El Capitan, Yosemite, and macOS Sierra. It performs Seagate external hard drive recovery of files from all Windows file system like FAT32, FAT16, NTFS5, NTFS, exFAT and is well-matched to run on operating system of Windows like Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.The minimum system requirement for using Seagate hard drive recovery is RAM memory of 256 MB or higher.

Procedure for doing the Seagate external hard drive recovery

Firstly, connect the Seagate Backup Plus portable hard drive to your computer.

1. Download the Free data recovery software(check the OS currently you are using in the machine and download the Seagate data recovery software version required for you) and install the hard drive data recovery software to your system following the steps.

2. Run the hard disk recovery software after it is fully installed in your computer and follow to the procedures visible on the hard disk recovery software of your screen.

3. Select the type of file you want to recover from external hard drive. Select "All File Type" option to perform "Partition Recovery".

4. Select the drive that signifies the Seagate portable hard drive and then click "Start" to scan lost files.

5. The hard disk recovery software application repeats the same scanning process and hard disk recovery software displays all the recoverable data in two modes of view.

6. After performing all the above steps on Seagate hard drive recovery, save the files which are rescued to your desired location. The saving location will not be the same location of Seagate portable hard drive.

Tips for Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive

• Do not detach your portable hard disk abruptly by force during transfer process or file copying.
• Defragment the internal hard drive frequently to enhance the operating performance of the system.
• Save your vital files in the read only mode.
• If the data is lost from the hard drive, then avoid using the same hard drive for storing files until you use the data recovery. Overwriting is not allowed in the hard drive.