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Recover Partition Data from External USB Drive
Computer hard drive has certain storage capacity. Sometimes user may exceed the storage capacity and in such cases, users make use of USB external hard drive in order to store large amount of data. USB external drives are mainly used to backup important files and folders. The data storage capacity of these drives varies from several gigabytes (GB’s) to terabytes (TB’s).
Similar to computer internal hard drives these USB drives can also be partitioned into many drives, depending on the size. Partition can be done using Windows Disk management tool or by using third party tools which are specially designed for these things. The main reason of partitioning external USB hard drive is to organize different data in different partitions. By default, Windows operating system allocates FAT file system for USB external hard drives.
It is observed that when USB external hard drive reaches its maximum data storage capacity users usually prefer to format partition containing unwanted data. There are situations where user selects the wrong partition and formats it and after realizing their mistake wonders how to perform formatted partition recovery.
There are times when users having less knowledge of using Windows Disk management tool, when attempt to make partitions on USB external hard drive mistakenly delete partition. In such cases users need not get frustrated as Recover Partition help to recover partition from USB external hard drive. This software is inbuilt with an advanced algorithm which can recover lost FAT partition and also restore reformatted partition on USB external hard drive. It can be preferably used for partition recovery from laptop hard drive.
Steps to be followed to recover partition from external USB hard drive are mentioned below:
Step 1: Download and install the Demo version of Recover Partition, launch the software by double clicking on the icon present on the desktop. Once the software is launched the main screen appears as show below. Click on "Recover Partition / Drives" option which will direct you to the next step.

Figure A : Main window
Step 2: Then the software displays a new window with two options "Partition Recovery" and "Formatted / Reformatted Recovery". Select "Partition Recovery" option as shown in figure below.

Figure B : Select Partition Recovery
Step 3: This screen shows all the drives present on computer along with the external USB drive. Check mark the partition from which data is to be recovered and click "Next".

Figure C : Select USB Drive
Step 4: Select all the files to recover entire partition data or select any particular file to recover and click "Next" as shown in figure below.

Figure D : Select File Type
Step 5: Then the software scans the USB drive and displays all the recovered data. You can also preview the recovered files shown in figure below and evaluate the recovery results.

Figure E : Preview Recovered Data
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