Lost data when you eject or power off WD external hard drive improperly? Mistakenly formatted or reformatted Western digital portal hard drive without backup? You must feel at a loss and looking desperately for an efficient way to do Western Digital recovery.

Take a breath! A small and easy-to-use data recovery program could solve all your problems. Western Digital Data Recovery is the program that I recommend, a multiple data recovery program that allows deeply scan of the deleted, lost or formatted data with signature algorithm and retrieve them immediately. It supports password data recovery for all brands including Elements Portable, My Passport Essential, My Book Studio, My Book Home, Passport Portable, etc.

The commonest scenario about losing data in WD external hard drive

1. Deleted important files while connect it to PC;

2. Mistakenly formatted or reformatted WD external hard drive without backup;

3. Eject or power off WD drive improperly to cause data corruption in it;

4. The drive was inaccessible on account of virus attack;

5. Partition lost from Western digital portable hard drive or some partition errors;

6. Error message like "the disk in drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" occurs.

Let's do it together and see how to use Western Digital Data Recovery to do my passport data recovery in an easy and quick way. To do the recovery you need first download the program to your computer.

How to do WD external hard drive data recovery on Windows

Step1. Connect the external hard drive to PC with a USB cable. Generally, each portable hard drive has its corresponding USB like USB2.0, USB3.0. Run Western Digital Data Recovery on your computer and you will see your Western Digital appear in the "Removable device" part of the interface.

Step2. Select your device and click "Scan" to scan deleted files in the hard drive. You could notice that all lost data are listed in the task list with file signature.

Step3. Preview and select the file you want to recover. Then click "Recover" to retrieve lost data for Western Digital.

How to recover data for Western Digital on Mac

If you are using Mac you could just download Western Digital Data Recovery Mac and the steps to do Western Digital recovery are basically the same as that on Windows.