Complete Guide to Western Digital Recovery: Restore Lost Files Effortlessly

What will you do if important files get deleted or lost from WD hard drive?

Needless to say, most of the users go anxious when files from their Western Digital hard drive get deleted. However, if it happens to you, no need to be worried, as you can easily rescue them back using some efficient software.

Western Digital hard drive is the most safe and secure storage media when it comes to store and convey data between different machines. However, in spite of being a safe and reliable storage media, sometimes files from Western Digital hard drive gets delete. Most often this kind of data loss happens when user deletes the file accidentally. To overcome such loss, you need to restore data from backup files. However, if you don't have a suitable backup and thinking of how to rescue deleted files then here is the best way out. Though there are numerous HDD recovery tools available, but when it comes to retrieving files from WD hard drive, Western Digital Recovery is the most sought and trusted software in the world.

NOTE: If you have lost or deleted files from Western Digital hard drive and really want to restore those files back, then immediately stop using the hard drive in order to avoid overwriting of the files. If the files deleted/lost on Western Digital hard drive are replaced with the new files, then it's highly impossible to regain them back. So, better stop using the Western Digital hard drive once you lose your valuable files from it to increase the chance of recovery.

Prior to knowing how to rescue files, let us go though some of the most common scenarios where users lose data from their Western Digital hard drive.

• Whenever you delete any unwanted or unused file, make sure that you have checked its contents before deleting it. However, if you delete any important file before checking contents then you will have to face critical data loss crisis.
• While transferring data from the Western Digital hard drive to the computer, make sure that the file transfer process has not been interrupted abruptly in between due to any unforeseen reasons. If it happens at any time then a severe loss of data is definite.
• Whenever you format the Western Digital hard drive, you have to take proper backup of all data present in it, if you have formatted without any backup then critical data loss is guaranteed.
• Virus infection is another main factor for losing files from Western Digital hard drive. These harmful viruses may rush to your hard drive when it is connected to infected computer or internet. And sometimes antivirus scanning also deletes files if they are severely infected.

To avoid data loss due to any of the unforeseen reasons, you have to maintain a proper backup of all your vital data. Moreover, use effective and updated antivirus and firewall on your computer to avoid infection of harmful virus and malware. Even after taking the preventive measures if you end up with losing files from the Western Digital hard drive, then you need to opt this efficient Western Digital HD data recovery tool to rescue files on Mac as well as Windows computers.

Key Features of Western Digital Recovery software

• Efficiently searches and restores all types of data including media files, movie files, music files, photos, documents, spreadsheets etc. from the Western Digital hard drive.
• Simply rescue data from various storage media like external hard disks, flash drives, USB drives, FireWire drives, iPods, memory cards etc.
• Instantly rescue Western Digital hard drive data i.e., it allows you to recover data Western Digital MyBook Essential, WD Passport, Ultra, Scorpio Blue, etc.
• Supports data rescue from SATA, IDE, SCSI and all other types of hard drives which are available in the market.
• Allows you to save the recovery session in order to avoid re-scanning of storage media and hence it saves your precious time.
• Scans the complete Western Digital hard drive and undelete WD HDD data in few minutes
• Simply rescue files from formatted, re-formatted, inaccessible or technically damaged Western Digital hard drives
• Provided with a free demo edition to estimate the effectiveness of Western Digital Recovery
• Helps to view all digital media files before restoring them using file preview option of this tool
• Finest tool in the world when it comes to recovering data from all types of Western Digital hard drives

Simple steps to recover data from Western Digital hard drive

Step 1: Download and install this software on your system and then launch the tool to open its main screen as shown in below figure. From the Main Screen select, Select the western digital hard drive from the home menu and click on the Scan button

Figure 1: Main Screen

Note: If you are unable to find your WD hard drive, click on the Can’t Find Drive? option.

Step 2: Once the scan starts you can click on the Dynamic Recovery View to recover files from WD external hard drive during the scanning process itself.

Figure 2: Scanning Screen

Step 3: After the scanning process, you can see your lost data under the Lost and Found folder or Lost Partition folder.

Figure 3: List of Rescued Files

Step 4: Moreover, you can use the Preview feature of this tool to preview the recovered files from your WD hard disk for free.

Figure 4: Preview Recovered Files

Step 5: If you are satisfied with the recovery results select the files you want to restore and click on the Recover button. Now select a location of your choice where you want to save your recovered files and save them by clicking on the Save button.

Figure 5: Save Recovered Files