How do i retrieve music files and others I backed up?

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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Have been backing up photos, music and docs for over a year. Internal hard drive was reformatted today and as I attempted to retrieve the files its as if they don’t exist. Daughter is freaking since she lost all her music, any ideas, this external hd some seem to be an intuitive tool! 

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If you reformatted the internal drive, then you have deleted all your files on that drive.

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Hi

even though the drive was formatter you can still recover the data, you can either get a free data recovery softwareand do it by your self or you can just take it to a data recovery company.-

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I formatted the computers hard drive not the WD external, why would reformatting my computer affect the external information? Isn’t this what an external does, keeps the information safe in the event the internal fails?

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OK, just to be clear.  You formated the HUB’s (not a computer) internal hard drive, but your files were on an external drive connected to the HUB.

Have you tried to plugging the external drive to your PC and seeing if the files are still there?

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You can tell how green I am with regard to terminology! The computer was locking up at boot and then recycling in safe mode so I executed the system recovery which I believed to reformat? and reset the “c” drive. I had been backing this up to the external all along and when This event occurred I naturally thought that I would have a clean place to drop the information back onto the “c” drive. So my computer is basically a clean slate again and seems to be working perfectly fine, just don’t know how to retrieve anything. If it matters this music was stored in the iTunes software, which I added back after the rebirth of the computer. I went through the process of adding this hardware back to the computer and attempted the retrieval to no avail.

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Wow, thanks for the heads up and the link sorry about that!

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Thread moved to WD External Drives : My Book for PC.

Regards,

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My advise applies for any kind of drive no matter which one you would like to recover data .-

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Thanks for the advice, I’m hoping to find the files on the external first, not sure why they’re so difficult …? If not then I will attempt to recover with your suggested software. Thanks again, much appreciated that you took the time to offer your assistance.