I am a great fan of Ghazals (a genre of light music) and love to collect it. From great singers like Mehdi Hasan to Ghulam Ali to Jagjit Singh, my collection comprises of all of their works. Obviously, they are invaluable to me and I always make sure I have a backup of my entire collection on an external hard drive.
Last week while deleting some unwanted data from the same external hard drive, I accidentally deleted some of my precious Ghazal albums. I was devastated when I realized what I had done. Unfortunately, I did not have any other copy. I frantically started searching for a way to recover deleted files from the external hard drive?
Fortunately, there was a way to retrieve the lost data. Yes, it is possible to recover deleted files from the hard drive. You may not find them in the recycling bin and Windows may not be able to discover them anywhere but they do exist. You can recover deleted files from an external hard drive using a Data Recovery Software.
After reviewing and comparing different data recovery software, I found an efficient and easy to use “Stellar Windows Data Recovery” software which can recover deleted files both from internal and external hard drives. You need to take care to download and install the software on a different hard drive than the one you are trying to recover your data from. I followed the following steps to recover my music files-
- Immediately downloaded and installed the Stellar Windows Data Recovery software on my laptop.
- Connected the external hard drive to my laptop and fired the utility. The main interface asked me to “Select What to Recover”. It gave me various options such as emails, folders, office documents, music, videos etc. I selected ‘music’ and clicked “Next”.
- The next screen asked me to select the location I wanted to recover from. It listed various common locations such as desktop, my documents, and connected drives. I selected the external hard drive and clicked on “Scan” to start the process.
- After the scan was completed, the software listed the recoverable files on the left panel. I was delighted to see all the audio files I had deleted by mistake.
- I selected the files I wanted to recover and click “Save”. The tool asked me to provide a location to save the recovered files and voila! All of my deleted files were recovered.
Thank you Stellar for the wonderful software which helped me recover my deleted audio files. I found out that Stellar also heads the most preferred and top-rated data recovery service provider in India. They recover data from all types of data loss situations, not only from hard drives but any data storage device such as SD cards, USB drives, etc.
Stellar Data Recovery has a team of data recovery experts who can handle data loss resulting from any reasons such as:
- Accidentally deleted data
- Formatted data
- Virus or malware attack
- Bad sectors on the storage device
- Undetected hard drive or any other storage media
- Physically damaged devices
They have an ISO certified infrastructure, in-house R & D team, and more than 25 years of experience providing data recovery services in India. Their amazing customer service team is ready to help you at every step from device submission to recovery of the files with regular status updates, telephone support, and device tracking facilities. With 15 branches across India, you can definitely find one near you.
Although my experience of using the Stellar Windows Data Recovery software was great, you need to be careful and pay attention to the following tips while recovering deleted files.
Tips to recover deleted files from the external hard drive
- Don’t save any data or write any other data on the hard drive you want to recover from.
- To increase the chances of recovery, try recovering the data as soon as you notice the data loss.
- Don’t download or install the recovery software on the same hard drive where you want to recover files from because it may overwrite the same files you want to recover.
There are many data recovery software and service providers in the market but the professionalism, service quality and 100% data security guarantee Stellar Data Recovery provides is unmatched. Trusted by over 2+ million customers, I highly recommend the services of Stellar Data Recovery for all data recovery needs.
