Q: Okay my brother hooked up my external hard drive to his xbox360 and it deleted everything on my hard drive. Is there any way to recover my missing stuff? I had tons of photos on it, which took me years and now they are all gone! Please help me if you can!

A: Besides resorting to a data recovery company, you can download a piece of professional photo recovery software and use it to recover photos from external hard drive. I advise to adopt the second solution, because it is time-saving and safer.

As mobile storage devices are used more and more commonly, data loss on these devices takes place more and more frequently as well. When we unfortunately lose precious photos, finding out a qualified recovery program is undoubtedly the vital section to recover lost photos successfully. Faced with mountains of similar recovery programs, how can we choose the most workable one?

In this article, we will recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery, which is a piece of excellent photo recovery software with friendly operating interface. Now we will tell the exhaustive steps to recover photos from external hard drive with this software.

Recover Photos from External Hard Drive

1. Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery. The following screenshot is the main interface of this photo recovery program and we can see there are 5 modules built in it. Different modules are for different data loss conditions. Based on the question described above, here we can choose “Undelete Recovery” module.

2. Select the partition where photo recovery will be done, and then click “Recover”.

3. Check photos we need and click “Save Files”. In order to locate target files, here “Find File” and “Advanced Filter” are well provided to find needed files promptly.

4. Save recovered photos to a specified place. Here we suggest strongly users should save the photos to other drive rather than the original one.

Now we believe most users have mastered the skill of how to recover photos from external hard drive with this formidable photo recovery software. Of course, MiniTool Power Data Recovery can also recover other files, such as emails, audio files and videos. Nevertheless, though this program can perfectly recover lost photos, the best way to protect files is to keep them well and make a backup.