Is your external hard drive corrupt? Are you trying to restore data from it? If your answer is yes for those questions, then it is a perfect place to know how to restore data from corrupted external hard drive using a data recovery tool called Remo Recover. This tool is actually very simple to use and requires no technical skills. Watch the following video demonstration on recovering data from corrupt external hard disk drives. You will get a clear idea on what to do and what not to do after losing data from your damaged or corrupted hard drive.
How to Recover Data from Corrupted External Hard Drive?
Here is a step by step process of data recovery from corrupted external hard drive.
- Watch the above video and visit the YouTube page by clicking on the YouTube icon appearing on the bottom-right of the video frame.
- Scroll down to the description section, you will find a link to download Remo Recover tool. Download and install it on your computer by following that link.
- Connect your corrupted external hard drive to the computer where you have installed Remo Recover utility.
- As you execute the software, you will find some buttons on the main software screen. Choose ‘Recover Volumes / Drive’ option and the software will take you to the next screen. In that, choose ‘Volumes Recovery’.
- Now a list of disk drives will appear, choose your corrupted / damaged external drive and click on next as the tool proceeds to next step.
- Then, just click on ‘Skip’ button on this screen as this has the options to choose individual file extensions. Now the tool scans your corrupted external hard disk and you can see the progress of this.
- As it gets completed, you will get an access to preview your files prior to recovery. Choose the destination folder and you are all done, the utility begins to save the recovered items on your drive.
Key Features of Remo Recover Tool
- It has both 32 and 64-bit OS support and can be installed on all Windows OS including the latest version Windows 10.
- The software can recover music, images, video, archive files, documents, spreadsheets of over 300 file types.
- You can “Preview” the multimedia files prior to recovery on your hard disk.
- The tool has “Save Recovery Session” option which saves a huge amount of time by saving the session, thus user need not have to scan the drive once again for recovery of lost or deleted data.
- Very simple and easy to use an interface similar to Mac styled interface that lets anyone to use this tool to carry out recovery.
Reasons behind the Loss of Data from External Hard Drive
- Removing the external drive without safely ejecting them may cause corruptions and lead to inaccessible drives.
- A sudden power outage may also harm your external hard drive.
- As the external hard drive is portable, plugging and using it in multiple devices make your drive vulnerable to virus infections.
- Improper transfer of files from the external drive to any other drive and vice versa will make the file go missing or lost.
- Accidental or intentional deletion of files, clearing the Trash folder or deleting using Command-Delete combination are also the cause of data loss.