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31 July 2023  Amanda J. Brook  Senior Product Manager
 

Summary
Learn how to effortlessly recover data from a mobile hard disk, a popular and practical storage device with ample capacity. Never lose your files again!



Table of contents

table iconI. Reasons for Data Loss of Mobile Hard Disk
table iconII. How to restore the data in the mobile hard disk?
table iconIII. How to repair the failure of the mobile hard disk?
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I. Reasons for Data Loss of Mobile Hard Disk

A removable hard drive (external hard drive) is a device that can be connected to a computer to increase its storage space. Unlike hard drives installed in computers, external hard drives are portable and can be used to store files from multiple devices. Therefore, it is a good choice to use a mobile hard disk to back up the most important files.
If the data in the mobile hard disk is not accidentally deleted by you, but is automatically deleted or suddenly disappears, then the mobile hard disk may be faulty, and the reasons may be:
● Virus and malware attacks.
● There are bad sectors in the mobile hard disk.
● The removable hard disk is not ejected in a safe manner.
After understanding the reasons why the mobile hard disk may fail, let’s take a look at how to recover data from the mobile hard disk and fix hard disk errors.

II. How to restore the data in the mobile hard disk?

At present, there are many professional data recovery software that can recover the data in the mobile hard disk, and the recovery steps are similar. The following will take Renee Undeleter as an example to introduce the data recovery steps. This software is compatible with Windows and Mac systems.

1. What is Renee Undeleter?

Rene.E Laboratory ™ data recovery software It is a software specially used to restore various data files. When you accidentally delete important files, empty the recycle bin, or format the disk/storage, you can use this tool to retrieve the lost data. The software covers four functional modules, including file recovery, format recovery, partition recovery and image creation, which can help you solve all data loss problems in an all-round way.
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2. How to use Renee Undeleter to recover the data in the mobile hard disk?

Specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Undeleter on the computer, and select the (Partition Recovery) option on the main interface.
Note: Do not install on the disk that needs to restore data, so as not to cause data overwriting.
Select partition recovery option
Data recovery function introduction:
File Recovery – Quickly retrieve files lost due to accidental deletion or emptying the recycle bin.
Formatted Recovery – Quickly recover files lost due to inaccessible or formatted partitions.
Partition Recovery – Analyze and get partition information and perform a full scan of the entire partition.
Create Mirror – You can create a mirror image for a partition to back up the current partition state.

Step 2: Next select the hard drive that needs to recover data. After the selection is complete, click (Next).
Select target device for partition recovery
Step 3: Please wait patiently for the scan. This process will find out all the partitions that have existed on the hard disk, and then the “Select the partition you need to scan” window will pop up, and you can select a specific partition to scan. If not selected, all partitions will be scanned and it will take longer.
Select the appropriate partition to scan
Step 4: During the scanning process, you can double-click the file to preview. If all the required files have been found, you can check the target file and click the (Recover) button to restore the data of the mobile hard disk to other disks of the computer.
Partition recovery scan result presentation
The above are the specific steps to recover data from mobile hard disk. If your mobile hard disk files are lost due to hard disk failure, you can check the following repair methods, which may be able to solve the problem of hard disk failure.

III. How to repair the failure of the mobile hard disk?

1. Run antivirus software

Sometimes viruses and malware can cause hard drive failure. Therefore, scanning and removing viruses with antivirus software may fix some corrupted hard drives. It is recommended to connect the mobile hard disk to another Windows computer with antivirus software installed, and use reliable antivirus software to scan and remove viruses.

2. Run the chkdsk tool to repair hard disk errors

The chkdsk tool is a command for the Windows system to check the current state of the disk. It can display the disk state, memory state, and the number of discrete files in the specified path, and can also repair the disk. It is very simple to repair hard disk failure with the help of chkdsk tool. The specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Connect the faulty hard disk to the computer, directly search (cmd) in the search box in the lower left corner, and select (run as administrator) to open the command prompt tool.
run command prompt
Step 2: In the opened command prompt window, enter the command ( chkdsk G: /f ) (G refers to the disk number of the hard disk), and press (Enter) to fix the error.
Enter the disk repair command
Kind tips If (chkdsk G: /f) cannot solve the problem, you can also try (chkdsk G: /r), (/r) can find bad sectors and restore readable information, and (/r) includes (/f) feature and additional analysis of physical disk errors.

3. Use Windows built-in disk checking tool

You can try to use the Windows built-in Disk Check tool to check and fix external hard drive errors. Please do the following:
Step 1: Connect the mobile hard disk to the computer, press (Windows icon + R key) on the keyboard, please enter (diskmgmt.msc) in the pop-up input box, and then click (OK) to enter the disk management.
Run window input diskmgmt.msc
Step 2: In Disk Management, right-click on the failed hard disk partition and select (Properties) on the menu.
click properties
Step 3: In the (Tools) column, select (Inspect).
Toolbar selection check
Step 4: If your system is Windows 7 or Windows 8, please check (Automatically repair file system errors) and (Scan and try to recover bad sectors), and Windows 10 automatically repairs all errors by default. Then wait for the inspection and repair to complete.
Tick Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
The disk check function is mainly to mark the space where bad sectors appear as unusable at the file system level, so as to prevent file data from being written into these unstable data storage spaces. After repairing, if you use hard disk detection software such as HDD-Scan to scan, these bad sectors will still be displayed. If you want to completely solve the problem of bad sectors, you can only perform low-level formatting (not necessarily repairable) or replace the hard disk.