【Tutorial】2 Ways to Recover Deleted Files from External Hard Drive | The Official Method

How to recover lost data from your external hard drive? Check the 2 ways and recover your deleted file easily.

It's terrible when an external hard drive gets damaged or corrupted. But luckily, as long as your hdd is not physically damaged, you can use disk recovery tool to recover data from the hard drive first.
There are variety of reasons causes external hard disk data loss that demand reliable recovery methods. Just follow these steps below, you will get there.

📍Timestamp
00:00 Intro & preview
00:14 can I recover deleted files from external hard drive? Yes!
00:24 Method 1: Recover Files from External Hard Drive Using CMD
01:24 Method 2: Recover Files from External Hard Drive with Data recovery tool

📌Method 1: Recover Files from External Hard Drive Using CMD
1. Connect external hard drive to the PC
2. Press Win+R, type: chkdsk X: /f and enter
3. Type X: and enter(Again replace)
4. Type attrib -h -r /s /d *.*

📌Method 2: Recover Files from External Hard Drive with Data recovery tool - Most effective way
2. Connect an external hard drive to your PC.
2.Select your external hard drive, click on “Start”.
3.AnyRecover is conducting an all-round scan on your drive.
4.Scanning completed! Preview found files and select which files you want to recover.
5. Click Recover to save found files. A save location must be different to the original location.

❗To recover files successfully, here are tips you need know:
1. Stop using the drive immediately, which will give you the best chance of recovering your data.
2. Do NOT recover the files back to the original drive, and you can choose another path to restore.
3. Using CMD, it will help troubleshoot the disk, however it is NOT high success rate, so we recommand professional tool to recover external hard drive.

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Best Way to Recover Deleted Files from an External Hard Drive

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[kamaziahmohdkassim]

I almost cry like crazy when I accidently delete all the photos in my hard disk. Thank you so much for the video. It help me to get back all my memories.

[Alawaththa]

The second method; "AnyRecover"" lets you recover only upto 100mb of data unless you are willing to purchase the paid full version. Anyway thank you for the tips :)

[ValsMind]

I accidentally deleted my files while transferring other files to my external drive. While I may not be super savvy tech wise, I think you just saved my life. Now to figure out how t recover some pesky files on my desktop so I can upgrade my faulty laptop! lol THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU....the cmd prompts worked for me.

[vladgorky]

Thank you, man. These tricks are wonderfull. I've followed the first option and all my files reappeared before attrib -r -s .
God bless you.

[rawexsposure]

does it put all files back in place where they were before ?

[MJproductions]

Can this method work if I shift+deleted a folder on my external ssd? please reply asap 🙏

[mileshuxley]

cmd worked really well and all my missing files are back. So much better than spending money on all these websites i found before this video 😁

[darkwolfnite]

I followed the 2nd one it’s working so far

[DJMATRIXVIDEOBLENDZ]

Thank you so much the second one did it for me. Blessings to you! Very grateful.

[EflTeach]

finally, an honest video; I can't thank you enough

[joanofark]

On the first example of trying the CMD method, I got the message "Cannot open volume for direct access". Is there anything else I can try, with it showing that message, or should I just try the second example of recovery?

[noura.]

I have never commented on a Youtube but I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video! It worked!!!! 🎉😭😭

[shengmeijiang]

My issue was solved by method 1. Thank you!

[MrtnX]

I wasn't able to even read the drive, but method 1 helped me with that and then I was able to access some of the files at least.

[angiemaecasas]

thanks a lot...i recovered my important files because of this🙏🙏🙏

[janrezkaylarico]

This is very helpful ❤ Thank you so much!!!

[apm]

How didi you choose the multiple recovery option?

[acekhong]

you are great man! I got back my lost file in my removal harddisk after performing the first step ! Thanks so much, u saved my day!

[sushma.j]

Thank you so much this is really helped me and it worked also they were deleted month ago but those got recovered

[dzy]

It says chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. All opened handles to this volume would then be invalid would you like to force a dismount on this volume (y/n)