Now days, whenever the name hard drive flashes, Seagate comes to mind. Seagate is the most popular hard drive manufacturing organization established in 1978. ST-506 was the first hard drive released by Seagate with the size of 5MB. Later with the successive upgrades, they released different type of hard drives with various sizes. Most of the individuals as well as organizations prefer Seagate hard drives in their computers and servers to store the digital information.
No matter which brand hard drive you are using and how much they are safe to store data, there are some tough times in which unknowingly files disappear from the stored location. In the same way, users lose their data stored in Seagate hard drives due to one or other reason. Accidental deletion, virus infection, unintentional formatting, partition loss and file system corruption are some of the common factors behind Seagate hard drive data loss.
Reasons may vary but the ultimate result is same i.e. loss of files. Suppose if you have lost files, you can retrieve Seagate hard drive files with appropriate data recovery software before overwriting the drive with new data after deletion. They will perform a deep scan with the built-in drive scan algorithm and retrieve deleted or lost files. Generally deleting file will not wipe the information kept in stored file. Just file is going to be flagged as deleted and particular storage space will be assigned as free to store new data, but the actual info continues to remain intact until and unless it is overwritten with new file. Data recovery software easily retrieves such raw data with the help of various file attributes. In addition to hard drive, recovery utilities are also compatible enough to recover lost files from FreeAgent drive.
Recover Seagate Hard Drive is a popular Windows data recovery software which is capable of recovering deleted or lost files from Seagate hard drive. This software enables you to recover lost files from Seagate SATA drive, IDE drive and SCSI drive along with file names. Since external hard drives are widely used to backup important files, this application is designed in such a way that in addition to hard drive, one can also retrieve files from formatted Seagate external hard drive which are lost due to accidental formatting. Moreover, with this application you can restore hard drive partitions easily.
Requirements: Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and 2008
Simple steps to recover Seagate hard drive data
Step 1: Download and install the demo version of the software. Launch the installed application by double clicking the Desktop Icon. Welcome window opens up as shown in Figure 1
Figure 1: Welcome Window
Requirements: Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and 2008
Step 2: Click on "Recover Partitions / Drives". You will get a window with two different options as shown in Figure 2. As we have to recover entire hard drive data, select "Partition Recovery"
Figure 2: Pick Partition Recovery
Requirements: Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and 2008
Step 3: After selecting partition recovery, you will get a window where you can specify the hard drive from which you want to recover files as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Select Drive
Step 4:Select the type of files to be recovered and click on "Next" button. Software scans the selected drive for the specified file type and displays the recovered file list as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Recovered Files
Requirements: Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and 2008
Step 5: Select a file and click on "Preview" button. If you are satisfied with recovered results, save the recovery session. Upon activating the application reload the saved session and save the recovered files to desired drive.