File Recovery from Seagate External Hard Drive Windows 11

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Dany· Answered on Mar 10, 2023

Yes. You can recover your data with the help of professional data recovery software. If you have an effective data recovery program, recovering data from a Seagate external drive is quite straightforward. We propose EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard in this case.

When you launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, you will notice your external disk listed under External drives. This program can also repair corrupted external hard drives. To utilize it, connect the Seagate external drive to the computer first and ensure it recognizes it.

After selecting the external hard disk, click the "Scan" button. The software will find and display more lost and deleted data in the scan results as soon as the scanning process begins. The retrieved information will be well-organized.

Another way is to recover with the CMD command line. Viruses and malware can sometimes erase or hide files on your storage devices. And the solution to this problem is to use CMD to recover data from an external hard disk. Make sure to type the correct command lines each time.

• Use the "Win + R" keys to open the Command Prompt window.
• Type cmd, then press the "Enter" key.
• Type the following command lines and hit "Enter" each time: chkdsk F: //f - Y - F - F:\\&attrib -h -r -s //s //d *.*
• (Replace F with your Seagate external hard drive.)
• Wait for the procedure to finish before closing the window with the exit.

So why your data from Seagate hard drive disappeared? When you install your Windows, the MS Media Creator writes around 6-7 GB of data to the drive, which is entirely at the beginning of the disk.

Whatever was in this area will be lost, whatever it was. This could represent file system structures, user data, or space if files in that region have been deleted previously. Regardless, anything in that place will be lost. Files kept within the first 32 GB will also suffer periodic harm. There's nothing you can do about it. When you write something into a sector that was previously occupied by something else, the preceding content is gone.