Summary
Thank you for purchasing this WD product. The My Passport™ Essential Portable Hard Drive provides high-performance portable storage for your PC and Mac® and comes with sync & encryption and Google™ software (PC only). For the latest WD product information and news, visit our website at www.westerndigital.com.
Best free Western Digital hard drive repair tool - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition supports to restore lost WD data by simple clicks. Download this free software and perform Western digital recovery with ease.
We are going to talk about Western Digital/WD disk recovery and how to recover data easily from a Western Digital hard drive with it. You can download this freeware and follow the video to recover data from Western Digital hard drive.
About Western Digital(WD) Hard Disk Drive
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With the continuous growth in digital media availability, all information must be stored somewhere. And of course, the most commonly used storage media must be the hard drive which is also the integrant part of a computer. One of the famous hard drive producers is Western Digital. As one of the largest hard drive brands, it provides high-performance hard drives. WD HDD is a non-volatile storage device that stores data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces.
If you are using a Western Digital hard disk, data recovery knowledge is quite necessary. Data loss happens every day and everywhere.
Why Perform Western Digital (WD) Disk Recovery
Most Western Digital hard disk drive users must be troubled if they lost their data.
- Accidental deletion or format
Sometimes, it is necessary to format or delete the partition when we reinstall the operating system. But, some people would wrongly format or delete the wrong partition due to carelessness. Only to find the useful and precious data were gone after a few quick clicks.
- Other unexpected data loss situations
Far more than that, virus attack, power failure or partition corruption, and more would also cause data loss disaster.
When it comes to Western Digital disk recovery, third-party data recovery software must be the first choice. Compared to the complicated and time-consuming manual data recovery service, this choice is better.
It only takes you minutes to restore WD data. Also, it is compatible with all Western Digital hard disk drives like My Book Pro, My Book, WD Elements, My Book Studio, etc.
How to Use EaseUS Western Digital (WD) Disk Recovery Freeware
EaseUS file recovery software is designed to retrieve data from Western Digital, Samsung, and other hard disk drives easily. It enables you to do deleted recovery, format recovery, or partition recovery effectively. You can also use this freeware to retrieve data from the lost FAT16, FAT 32, NTFS, EXT2/3 partition.
Step 1. Choose the WD hard drive to scan
- Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Western Digital hard drive data recovery after installation.
- Locate and right-click on your WD hard drive partition under the 'Hard Disk Drives' list or under 'External Devices' list if it's an external hard drive that is connected to your computer/laptop.
- Click the Scan button.
Step 2. Preview files in the scan results
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You can choose to preview pictures, documents, videos or audio files the software has found by means of different view panes on the top right corner under the Search bar.
Step 3. Select files and recover
Choose the wanted files you'd like to restore and click the Recover button in the below-left corner. Do not save the data to the original WD drive again. It's going to cause data overwriting.
- Important
- Western Digital encrypts the data in external USB hard drives like the'My Book' or 'Passport' drives. If the USB-to-SATA interface board fails (which contains an encryption chip), then your chance of recovering the data with a simple 'undelete the files' program is zero. You cannot just remove the drive from the USB box and connect it to a desktop machine with SATA cables because the data is still encrypted, even if you did not set a password. Before you take actions, make sure that your WD disk is not one of these types.
What Else EaseUS Can Do for You (Bonus Features)
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard continuously gets good reviews and ratings since its release, why not download it now. It would be a must-have hard disk recovery freeware. It has these features:
- Recover deleted, formatted, and inaccessible data in different data loss situations.
- Recover photos, audio, music, and emails from any storage effectively, safely and completely.
- Recover data from the recycle bin, hard drive, memory card, flash drive, digital camera, and camcorder.
Get this freeware and recover 2 GB data. If you have more data, upgrade to the trial version - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional.
I'm having a problem with my WD external hard drive. The main partition on my WD My Passport hard drive is missing. I am not sure what went wrong because it was working fine until yesterday. Please let me know what is the best course of action? Is it possible to recover all my files?
Situations like these are common when using any kind of storage device be it hard drives or USB flash drives. Your missing partition is traceable. Remo Recover WD partition recovery tool crawls through the WD hard drive sector by sector and finds your lost partition. Then each and every file in the partition is identified and recovered using unique signature algorithms.
Partitions go missing often due to corrupt partition table or a corrupt file system, which may have happened in your case. This usually occurs when a hard drive is removed suddenly or gets disconnected from the system due to software errors.
Please note that corruption and partition loss do not happen every time a hard drive is removed abruptly. It is largely dependent on timing; that is if your system is writing to the hard drive at the time of removal, corruption can occur.
Remo Recover WD partition recovery tool recovers partitions that are lost due to errors during partitioning, during system recovery, due to virus/malware, incomplete Windows installation and other reasons. With its unique identifiers, it has the ability to recover any file type like .doc, .docx, .pdf, .xls, .ppt etc. within the partition. Get your trial now!
What causes partitions to go missing on WD My Passport?
- Incomplete installation/upgrade of Windows OS
- Removing a WD My Passport hard drive without safely ejecting it
- USB cable issues/software errors that may cause the hard drive to disconnect suddenly
- A power surge or a power cut when the hard drive is connected to a computer
- Errors during system recovery process may cause partition loss
- Lost partitions due to virus attacks/malware
- Accidentally deleting partitions when performing disk related tasks
Coming to partition loss; there may be two possibilities. The lost partition could get merged into another partition or the partition could get deleted to become unallocated space on the hard drive. In either case, it can leave you absolutely baffled.
However, irrespective of how you see the partition loss or the reason for it, you can recover your lost NTFS or FAT partitions with Remo Recover WD partition recovery tool.
Recover lost partition from WD My Passport using Remo Recover
Remo Recover partition recovery software undoubtedly ranks among the best. Its super-fast and efficient partition recovery algorithms along with compatibility for all models of WD hard drives makes it the most preferred partition recovery tool.
Remo performs a detailed scan of your WD Passport external hard disk, finds all the partitions and lists them. When you choose the partition to recover, the software further scans that partition and recovers all the files from it.
It is capable of recovering data from Western Digital hard drive in the most secure way. Even the original file names and folder structure are intact after recovery.
This tool not only works with WD My Passport but also on other WD models like: My Passport Go, My Passport Ultra, My Passport SSD, My Passport X, WD Elements, WD Elements Portable.
In addition to recovering lost partition from WD My Passport, Remo also works smoothly brands of hard drives like Seagate, Transcend, Samsung, HP, SanDisk etc.
- Supports partition recovery from NTFS, FAT 16, FAT 32, ExFAT, HFS and HFSX file systems
- Provides 'Sort' and 'Find' features for you to easily find and sort recovered files
- Provides a free 'Preview' feature to glance through the recovered files before purchasing the software
- Offers both Windows and Mac versions of partition recovery
Simple Steps to recover lost partition from WD My Passport
- Download and Install Remo Recover (Windows) software on your system
- Launch the software by double clicking on its icon, and select 'Recover Partitions' option on the main screen
- Next, choose your WD My Passport external hard disk from the list of available drives and hit 'Scan' button
- Now, from the list of lost partitions, select the partition which you want to recover and click 'Next' button
- Then, the software lists all the recovered files, which you can view in either 'Data View' or 'File Type View'
- 'Preview' the recovered files and 'Save' them on a desired location.
Tips & Tricks to deal with lost partitions on WD hard drives
Firstly, having a backup plan for WD hard drives and exercising it on a regular basis will protect you in case of data loss disasters. Along with having a local backup on your external hard disk, you can also invest in a cloud based backup. This will ensure you have a backup of data even when the hard disk fails.
Second most important thing when you have encountered partition loss is make sure that you don't write any new files onto it. Writing new files to the WD hard disk after a data loss will cause overwriting and make it very difficult to recover lost partition from WD hard drives.
Related:
- Formatted partition recovery
- Recover NTFS Partition