My Hard Drive Is Formatting Due to Cloning Data, How to Recover the Lost Data?

“Hi, I cloned my 500GB SSD to a 5TB external hard drive using Disk Copy Software. I thought the software only cloned the 500GB SSD to the unused disk space (about 3TB) of the external hard drive. However, after successfully cloning the data, I found the 5TB external hard drive had been formatted and all original documents on the external hard drive were lost, I could only find the cloned data on the external hard drive. Is there any method to recover the lost documents?” - Jeremy

This article can help you solve issues like:

After cloning data, all files on the destination drive are gone, how to recover them.

The disk cloning failed due to bad factors, but all my files were gone, how to get them back?

After cloning my data, I can’t access to the data in the destination drive, how to solve this issue?

Clone failed and the computer can’t recognize my hard drive.

If you lose data due to cloning disk or clone failure, you still can get the lost data back even the lost data is overwritten by the cloned data. Some advanced data recovery programs can help you find lost data from a formatted or failed hard drive/external storage device. If you also want to recover original documents from a hard drive which has been overwritten by cloned data, you can try this powerful data recovery program - Do Your Data Recovery.

Do Your Data Recovery is a safe, powerful and easy-to-use data recovery program. It will help you recover lost data from a formatted or crashed hard disk drive whether the disk clone is completed or not. It also can help you recover lost data from external hard drive, memory card, USB flash drive, digital camera, etc.

Three steps to recover lost data which is lost due to disk clone

Do Your Data Recovery is a complete DIY data recovery software. When you find your data is lost due to disk clone, just download and install this powerful data recovery on your computer - don’t install this software to the hard drive where you lose your data. Then follow the steps below to quickly recover lost data from your hard drive or external storage device.

Step 1. Select the hard drive to start data recovery.

Just select the hard drive where you lose your data. If you want to recover lost data from the hard drive which is formatted due to cloning data. Just select it to start data recovery.

Step 2. Scan the hard drive to find lost data.

Just click on Scan button, then Do Your Data Recovery will scan the hard drive. It offers two scan mode: quick scan and deep scan. It is recommended to enable the advanced recovery mode to deeply scan the hard drive to find all lost or overwritten documents.

Step 3. Preview and recover lost data.

Once the scan is completed, you are able to preview all recoverable files. Then select the lost files and save them. If you can’t find all lost files after quick scan, just try advanced recovery mode.

If you lose data due to disk clone, just immediately use Do Your Data Recovery to scan the hard drive where you lose your data. Then you can completely recover the lost files. It can help you recover lost data from the formatted hard drive, inaccessible hard drive or failed hard drive.

In most cases, disk clone software will format the destination drive when you are cloning data. So, you’d better make sure there is no useful data on the destination drive before start disk clone.

Do Your Data Recovery is a powerful data recovery program. It can help you recover lost data on Windows and Mac OS. It can help you recover permanently deleted files, recover formatted data, and recover lost data due to hard drive crash, partition loss, logical error, human mistake, virus infection, etc. Download it here: