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"Hi, I have a damaged external hard drive which can’t be read on my computer. I am looking for a solution to recover my data from the damaged external hard drive. Is there any suggestion?" – Bob

Recovering lost data from damaged or crashed external hard drive is not an impossible job. First of all, you can send damaged/crashed external hard drive to local computer repair store. But, it is expensive and it will expose your private data to the maintenance man. So, it is not the solution we will recommend in this article. We would like to recommend you to use DIY data recovery software to recover lost data from damaged or crashed external hard drive by yourself.

Do Your Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery program for both Windows and Mac. It can help you securely and completely recover lost data from damaged or crashed external hard drive.

  • Export existing data from damaged or crashed external hard drive to your computer.
  • Recover deleted, formatted or lost data from damaged or crashed external hard drive.
  • Recover all types of lost files including photos, videos, audio, documents, archives, database from damaged or crashed external hard drive.
  • Recover data from damaged or crashed external hard drive on PC.
  • Recover data from damaged or crashed external hard drive on Mac.
  • Completely DIY data recovery software to recover lost data from damaged or crashed external hard drive.

Guide: recover data from damaged or crashed external hard drive

Step 1: Download and install Do Your Data Recovery.

Download and install this external hard drive data recovery software on your computer, then run it immediately.

Step 2: Select file types you want to recover.

What types of files you want to recover or just want to recover all types of files? Just make your choice and them move to the next step.

reformatted external hard drive data recovery on Mac

Step 3: Scan the external hard drive to find lost data.

Connect the external hard drive with the computer. Then select it and click on Scan button to scan the damaged or crashed hard drive to find your files.

reformatted external hard drive data recovery on Mac

Step 4: Preview and recover lost files.

After scanning, you can preview and recover the files as you want.

reformatted external hard drive data recovery on Mac

Do Your Data Recovery offers both quick recovery and advanced recovery. If you can’t recover all files after quick scan, just click Advanced Recovery to deeply scan the damaged/crashed external hard drive again. The deep scan will find much more files on the damaged or crashed external hard drive. It also can help you export existing data from the inaccessible external hard drive to your computer.

This is safe, quick and cheap way to recover data from damaged/crashed external hard drive on PC or Mac. Don’t hesitate, just download and try Do Your Data Recovery. It is the reliable tool to recover all data from the damaged or crashed external hard drive.

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Written & Updated by Anderson

Anderson is a big fan of computer technology. He joined DoYourData in 2018 and has been writing 200+ articles about disk clone, data recovery, computer technology, data erasure, Mac system optimization, etc. He loves music, movie, and reading. In his spare time, he’s studying music and playing tennis.

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