" I have a 500 GB WD Elements external hard drive. I have about 40 folders with many valuable files on it. This morning when I opened it I found that more than 10 folders were disappeared. I’m also sure that I haven’t deleted any of them. Would someone be able to tell me how I can recover files from a WD Elements external hard drive ? I will appreciate any help you'd be able to extend. Thanks."
Well, system error can be the main reason for your folder disappearing. However, you don’t have to be too worried about it. My suggestion for you is to stop using your WD Elements external hard drive and look for a utility to help you immediately. Because as long as your lost folders have not been overwritten by new data on your drive, you can possibly retrieve them with a WD Elements data recovery program.
Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is a Western Digital disk recovery tool that enables you to recover WD Elements data in an easy and risk free way. Files on your WD Elements external hard drive might be lost because of your accidental or intentional deletion, drive formatting, virus attack or system error, and this program is just what you need. It recovers all file forms from your WD Elements external hard drive, including images, videos, audio files, documents, txt files, etc.
You can download a trial version of the Wondershare Western Digital disk recovery to scan your WD Elements external hard drive and look for lost files on it now.
Now let’s process Western Digital(WD) Elements data recovery with Western Digital Disk Recovery for Windows. If you’re a Mac owner, you can get the Mac version to follow similar steps too.
When starting the Western Digital Disk recovery program on your computer, you need select the file types you want to recover back. Select the specific file type or select the "All File Type", and click "Next" to start recovering deleted, formatted or corrupted files from Western Digital(WD) Elements external hard drive.
Then you only need to select the partition of your Western Digital(WD) Elements external hard drive, which will be listed in the program window, and click the “Start” button to begin scanning files on it.
Note: Please make sure that your Western Digital(WD) Elements external hard drive is well-connected with your computer.
If files are lost because of your hard drive formatting, please choose “Deep Scan” option after the quick scan completed and you can't find your files.
After scanning, the found contents on your WD Elements external hard drive will be displayed in the window. You can check whether your lost files can be recovered or not from file names.
Then you just need to mark the files you want to recover from WD Elements external hard drive and hit the “Recover” button to save them to your computer.
Note: To avoid recovered files from being overwritten, please do not save them back to your WD Elements external hard drive during the recovery process.
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