{"id":827,"date":"2019-05-15T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T08:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2019-05-15T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T08:28:55","slug":"how-to-recover-deleted-files-from-external-hard-drive-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/blog\/how-to-recover-deleted-files-from-external-hard-drive-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Recover Deleted Files from External Hard Drive Manually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have accidentally deleted files \nfrom the storage drive such as hard drives, USB, flash sticks etc. and \nnow you want to recover deleted data from external hard disk then follow\n these commands in command prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First of all, press <strong>Windows key + R<\/strong> and type <strong>CMD<\/strong> in the search box.<\/li><li>After that, in the Command Prompt window, type <strong>chkdsk<\/strong> \u2018drive letter\u2019 \/f &amp; press <strong>Enter<\/strong> key. <em>For example, C: \\ USERS\\ PROGRAM FILES\\ chkdsk D: \/f<\/em><\/li><li>Then, press <strong>Y<\/strong> until the command lines start again.<\/li><li>In this step, type the drive letter again &amp; press <strong>Enter<\/strong> key<\/li><li>Then, type <strong>[drive letter : \\ &gt;attrib \u2013h \u2013r -s \/s \/d *.*]<\/strong>. This command will recover all the files in the storage drive (attrib -r -s drive:\\\\)<\/li><li>Finally, once the process is complete, a new folder is created on \nyour external drive with all the recovered files. Now, change the file \nformat and save the files at the preferred location.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: \u2013<\/strong> If the manual method is not useful for you  to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozesoft.com\/datarecovery\/windows-data-recovery.html\">recover deleted data files<\/a> from the external hard disk drive. Then  try a trusted tool and easily get back all lost files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have accidentally deleted files from the storage drive such as hard drives, USB, flash sticks etc. and now you want to recover deleted data from external hard disk then follow these commands in command prompt: First of all, press Windows key + R and type CMD in the search box. 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