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Summary Query: Help, I’m in deep trouble. I lost my precious data from my Western Digital 2 TB external hard drive due to accidental formatting. Does there exist a solution through which I can recover my data from WD external hard drive? Note: I am using MacBook Pro with macOS High Sierra” Solution: Comfort yourself, as there are really easy & powerful techniques through which you can. Go through the methods mentioned in this blog to recover and safeguard your data.
Icebreaker Knowing your Western Digital (WD) external hard drive is essential in recovering data. Your hard drive is an electromechanical non-volatile data storage device that stores data permanently on a rotating platter coated with the ferromagnetic material, which is read or written using the magnetic head. Hard drive stores data in a series of logical blocks or sectors. These sectors are allocated to files, and the data structure information is stored as metadata.
When you delete a file its metadata information is updated. Also, when the drive is formatted fresh data structure (file system) is created. In both the situation, data stored in the sectors remain unharmed. This gives a chance of data recovery. Mounting an External Hard Drive WD External hard drive mounts on you macOS High Sierra when it is connected to Mac. Mounting makes the drive available for use and is visible in Finder and Disk Utility.
In case the drive is corrupt, the data structure information is damaged or lost, which makes hard drive unmountable on macOS. The only way to create a new data structure is to format the unmountable external hard drive with APFS file system. Nevertheless, formatting also makes hard drive data inaccessible from macOS and as a consequence you lost data. The same situation occurred in your WD. Steps to Recover Lost Data In order to recover WD external hard drive data on macOS High Sierra, you need to get.
This effective and efficient macOS High Sierra data recovery tool provides the intuitive user interface to ease your recovery process.