(3 Steps) How to Recover Data from 2TB External Hard Drive in Windows 11/10/8/7 - Qiling  

How to Recover Data from 2TB External Hard Drive in Windows 11/10/8/7


How Do I Recover Lost External Hard Drive Data? Please Help!

"Don't know if somebody asked this already but I can't find any way out to recover files from the accidentally formatted hard drive. I'm using WD Passport 2 TB external hard drive without facing any problems and everything was running as it should until I pressed the disappointing quick format button. Soon I realized that the drive was holding an important file. Thanks in advance for any valuable suggestions!!"

how to recover data from 2TB external hard drive

Common Causes of 2TB External Hard Drive Data Loss

It is undeniable that the external hard drive facilitates our lives in storing data and transferring data. You can carry terabytes of data everywhere with it. However, some people complain about data loss on the external hard drive. Before you get the first-class data recovery software, let us explain some of the most common causes of external hard drive failure to help you successfully solve the issue.

2TB External Hard Drive Data Recovery Software (Recommendation)

If your external hard drive files are suffering from the errors mentioned above, there is no need to panic. Data recovery software is your best choice. Trusted by millions of industry experts, Deep Data Recovery is the best way to recover large files from portable hard drives on Windows and Mac. This quick and safe data recovery software can help you do the following things:

Qiling External HDD Recovery Tool

  • Recover lost or deleted files, documents (Word, Excel, PPT), photos, audio, music, and emails.
  • Recover deleted files from SD card, emptied recycle bin, memory card, flash drive, external hard drive, digital camera, and camcorders.
  • Support data recovery for sudden deletion, formatting, hard drive corruption, virus attac under different situations.

It also supports data recovery from a Mac hard drive, SSD, USB pen drive, and other storage devices with HFS, HFS+, HFSX, FAT32, and FAT16 file systems.

How to Perform 2TB External Hard Drive Data Recovery

Qiling has a modern and intuitive user interface, even an inexperienced user can restore data from an external hard drive. Considering that you need to restore 2TB of data, it is recommended that you use the paid version because the free version only supports recovering 2GB of data for free.

Step 1. Choose file types and click "Next" to start

Select file types that you want to recover

Step 2. Choose and scan the external hard drive

select external hard drive

Step 3. Check the scan results

recover deleted files from hard drive

Step 4. Preview and recover data

2TB External Hard Drive Recovery FAQs

If you want to get additional help, you can refer to the frequently asked questions below.

1. How long does it take to recover 2TB of data?

Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut answer to that question, as each case is different. It depends on your hard drive condition, OS and computer environment, and the size of the data. Also read: How long does Qiling take to recover data?

2. How do I recover data from my Seagate external hard drive?

Qiling data recovery software can get back data from Seagate or any other brand of HDD, SSD, or external hard drive.

Step 1. Select the Seagate external hard drive and then click the Scan button.

Step 2. You can find the desired files by following their original path from the left-side tree-view pane

Step 3. Select the target files and click Recover.

3. Can you recover data from a dead hard drive?

Yes. You still have a chance to restore data from a dead hard drive if you have made sure that the dead Disk is recognized as Online Disk and the partition or disk space is displayed in Disk Management. Then, you can retrieve data from a dead drive with Deep Data Recovery WinPE Edition.

4. What's the best hard drive recovery software?

Today's best HDD data recovery software:

Conclusion

DIY data recovery software is beneficial when you lose data from the 2TB external hard drive. You can recover unlimited amounts of data with Qiling data recovery software. Download the software to restore the deleted files on your computer or laptop.

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