How to Recover Deleted Photos on External Hard Drive?

How Can I Recover Deleted Photos from Hard Drive?

Yes, photos deleted from the external hard drive can be efficiently recovered. These photos could be very precious to anyone and you simply can’t afford to lose them at any cost. There are two ways that you can recover deleted photos from external hard drive:

• Recover Deleted Photos from Hidden Recycle Bin of External Hard Drive
• Recover Permanently Deleted Photos from Hard Drive Using File History
• Recover Deleted Pictures from External Hard Drive using Remo Photo Recovery Software
• Recover Photos from Damaged or Corrupt Hard Drive

Before we go about starting process of restoring photos from on external hard disk, let's look into what happens when you delete a photo on an external hard drive.

Where do Deleted Photos from External Hard Drives Go?

When you deleted photos or files from external hard drive they are not permanently deleted from the drive. Every external hard drive has in built hidden recycle bin folder which acts similar to the recycle bin folder you have in Windows. So, when you delete a file on your Windows 10, you can recover them from recycle bin.

NOTE: As you soon as you delete photos from external hard drive or any other storage device, it is important that you immediately stop using the device to avoid overwriting of data.

Recover Deleted Photos from External hard drives’s Hidden Recycle Bin

To recover deleted photos from external hard drive’s hidden recycle bin, follow the below mentioned steps:

• Go to File Explorer, in the top menu click on View

• At the right end you will see Options, click on that and click on Change folders and Search options

• Now the Folder Options Window opens up, here go to View
• Under Advanced Settings select show hidden files, folders and drives

• Uncheck Hide protected operating system files and click on Apply
• Now go to your External hard drive, you will see a Recycle Bin folder
• You can find the deleted photos here restore back to the external hard drive.

How to Recover Photos from External Hard Drive Using File History?

This method will help you recover deleted photos from hard drive if you have enabled backup feature on your Windows. With this feature you can recover previous versions of the photos and other files. Follow the below mentioned steps to restore photos from external hard drive using File history:

• Go to the external hard drive from which you deleted photos
• Now, Right-click and select Properties.
• Click on the Previous Versions and select the previous version where all your deleted photos are located.
• Finally, hit the Restore button to recover photos.

The above mentioned method will certainly help you recover photos if you have enabled file history. However, if you shift deleted or permanently deleted the pictures? Recovering permanently deleted photos from hard drive cannot be done from Recycle Bin.

You will have to make use of a powerful Photo Recovery Software that can get back your photos that have bypassed recycle bin of your external hard drive.

Remo Photo Recovery Software is a powerful photo recovery software that can help you recover photos deleted or lost from external hard drive in no time. The advanced scan engine ensures to scan every sector of your hard drive to get back your deleted pictures. Download the software and start recovering our deleted photos now.

How To Recover Deleted Photos From External Hard Drive Using Remo Recover?

Download and install Remo Photo Recovery Software on your system and connect your external HDD to computer in which you have installed the software. Launch the software and now, follow step by step guide from below, for recovering deleted photos from external HDD

Steps to Recover Deleted Photos from Hard Drive:

• Launch the software and click on Recover Photos, select the external hard drive from which you want to recover deleted photos from and hit the Scan button.

• Wait till the scanning process is completed, then you will see the recoverable photos listed in File Type View and Data View

• Preview the photos and verify if you have recovered all photos and finally save them on to desired location

Recover Photos from Corrupt or Damaged External Hard Drive?

If you have lost photos from external hard drive due to corruption in file system or damaged hard drive, then you can simply take help of command prompt to restore photos from hard drive. It is one of the free ways to perform external hard drive recovery.

• Connect your external hard drive to your computer
• Type Win+R to open Run and type cmd
• Once the command prompt window is opened, type the following command:
• ATTRIB -H -R -S /S /D E:*.* where E is the drive letter of the external hard drive from which you want to recover.
• Once the process gets completed the you can look for your recovered photos.

If the attrib command, didn’t help you with your data loss scenario then you can make use of Remo Recover to recover permanently deleted photos from computer hard drive or external hard drive easily.

Why Choose Remo Recover?

• Recovers deleted images from any storage devices supported on Windows and Mac
• Recover images of various formats including RAW images like CR2, CRW, SR2 photos, NEF files etc.
• Supports data recovery from external hdds like Seagate, Western Digital, Buffalo, Asus, Sony, Toshiba, Transcend, Samsung, Fujitsu and Hitachi etc.
• Recover photos from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT partitions or drives.

General Safety Measures

• Take regular backup of files stored in your hard drive
• Do not interrupt the file transfer process
• Think twice before selecting or formatting the external hard drive