Best way to recover files from Seagate HD

As the users of computer, many of us are aware that Seagate is a company associated with computer hard drives as well as storage solutions. Seagate is the number one manufacturer of hard drives across the world. This company is based in Scotts Valley of California. Seagate Hard drive is a secondary storage device used in variety of personal computer, laptops, desktops, servers and other consumer devices such as digital video recorders, digital camera, mobile phones etc. These hard drives are used to store large amount of data from the system. All your data will be written in the form of 0s and 1s, which will be stored in the form of magnetic pulses on hard drive. When data has to be read, magnetic pulses is converted into digitalized form in a reverse order. There are instances when your Seagate hard drive gets crashed and you are unable to access the data from it. Hard drive recovery from Seagate HD can be done using good hard drive recovery software.

Some of the common scenarios leading to the failure of the Seagate HD are discussed below:

• Accidental formatting of the hard drive: Suppose you have one dynamic drive named audio and another as documents. If you wish to format audio partition but by mistake you formatted document partition, it will certainly lead to data loss. Read about how to recover formatted drive data using recovery tool.


• Hard Drive crash: The Master Boot Record (MBR) helps in booting of Windows operating system and is an important component of FAT and NTFS file systems. These file system manage data which are stored in your hard drive. So any corruption to the Master Boot Record (MBR) leads to hard drive crash.


• Virus Attack: Hard drives can get infected by viruses such as Malware, Spyware, Trojans etc. These viruses can damage important system files as a result of which hard drive fails to boot thus leading to data loss.


• Re-formatting the hard drive: While conversion of file system from FAT to NTFS you need to re-partition the hard drive. If the process of conversion is interrupted in between due to power surge or other reasons, it can result in huge data loss.

Maintaining a proper backup is a good solution to save your important data and to avoid data loss from hard drive. In case if you have not kept any backup of your data and lost all your important files from any of the reasons mentioned above from hard drive, then you can easily recover lost files using Hard Drive Recovery software. Do not save any new data over affected hard drive, as saving or copying any new data on disk may overwrite the data, which results in permanent data loss beyond the recovery. But if you have overwriten your drive you can recover overwritten drive & to know more about this click here.

Hard Drive Recovery software is the most reliable, efficient and very easy to use software. This software can recover data from simple data loss situations to complex data loss situations. FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 are the different versions of FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, which are supported by this tool and it also supports NTFS (New Technology File System) file system. Know more about External hard drive recovery of different brands from this site (http://www.myharddriverecovery.net/how-to-recover-data-from-external-hard-drive.html). This utility helps to restore all types of file format which are deleted or lost from the hard drive and supports Windows 7 & also all different versions of Windows OS. Gather more info about file file recovery on Windows 7 by going through this site.

Mac version of the software is designed to perform Mac hard drive recovery by professional experts.

Steps to recover data from Seagate hard drive:

Step 1: Remove the affected hard drive from your system and connect it as a slave to the healthy system. Download and install the Hard Drive Recovery software to the system to which, the affected hard drive is connected. Run the program by double-clicking the shortcut icon on the desktop. The main screen is displayed as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 : Main Window

Step 2: Now select the option Recover Partition / Drives from the main screen displayed in Fig 1 and click Next. A new window is displayed. Select Partition Recovery option and proceed, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 : Select Physical drive

Step 3: The new screen displays all the attached physical hard drives as shown in Figure 3. Select the drive from which you want to retrieve deleted or lost files and click on Next to begin the scanning process.

Figure 3: Select Physical Drive

Step 4: Once the scanning process is completed you can view the recovered file using File Type view/Data view option as shown in Figure 4. To save scanned files go to tools and click on Save Recovery Session.

Figure 4 : Recovered Data