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"Hi, I have formatted an 8TB external hard drive with a third-party disk formatting tool. But, I forgot to back up my files before formatting the 8TB external hard drive. That’s big disaster. I lost all my files. My friend gave me a suggestion – downloaded your software to scan the 8TB external hard drive. This is the most correct choice in this year! Your software finds all my files in the formatted 8TB external hard drive. Thanks so much!" – Mike

If you are facing the similar problem with mike – losing data on 8TB external hard drive, you just come to the right place. There are many methods can help in recovering lost data from 8TB external hard drive. In this article, we will show you an easy and safe method to recover your lost data from 8TB external hard drive. But, first of all, to prevent the lost data in the 8TB external hard drive from being overwritten by new data, please don’t put new files to the 8TB external hard drive.

Now let’s get started. First of all, you need to download 8TB external hard drive data recovery software. In this article, we recommend you to try Do Your Data Recovery. This software can help you recover lost data from 8TB external hard drive under Windows OS and Mac OS. Main features:

  • Recover permanently deleted files from 8TB external hard drive.
  • Recover lost data from formatted, inaccessible, crashed or damaged 8TB external hard drive.
  • Recover lost data from 8TB external hard drive due to virus infection.
  • Recover lost data from 8TB external hard drive when the system asks you to format the 8TB external hard drive.
  • Recover lost data from raw 8TB external hard drive.

Do Your Data Recovery can recover all types of files including photos, videos, audio files, voice files, documents, emails, archives from 8TB external hard drive. It offers two scan modes: quick scan and deep scan. The quick scan mode can quickly find recently deleted files. If you can’t find all lost files after quick scan, just try deep scan mode. The deep scan will deeply scan the 8TB external hard drive, and find every recoverable file on the 8TB external hard drive.

Three Steps to Recover Lost Files from 8TB External Hard Drive

First of all, just download and install Do Your Data Recovery on your computer. Then connect the 8TB external hard drive with the computer. You can follow the three steps below to get all your lost files back!

Step 1: Choose the file types you want to recover.

Do Your Data Recovery can recover all types of lost files from your 8TB external hard drive. Just select the file types you want to recover at this step. Then move to the step 2.

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Step 2: Select the 8TB external hard drive and scan it.

Select the 8TB external hard drive, and click on Scan button to scan the 8TB external hard drive to find all your lost files.

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Step 3: Preview and recover lost files.

After scanning, you can preview and recover the files. Before recovery all the lost files, don’t save the files to your 8TB external hard drive.

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If you can’t find all lost files after quick scan, just click "Advanced Recovery" to enter deep scan mode. You will recover all lost files from the 8TB external hard drive.

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Written & Updated by Anderson

Anderson is a big fan of computer technology. He joined DoYourData in 2018 and has been writing 200+ articles about disk clone, data recovery, computer technology, data erasure, Mac system optimization, etc. He loves music, movie, and reading. In his spare time, he’s studying music and playing tennis.

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