How to Recover Deleted & Lost Files from Seagate Freeagent Goflex Hard Drive?

 

Seagate Technology is an American data storage company known for producing high capacity internal and external hard drives. Freeagent Goflex is an ultra-portable external hard drive model produced by Seagate. It comes with a flexible design and attractive features that allows you to store, access and encrypt your files with utmost ease. You can use this drive on both Windows and Mac platforms irrespective of hardware architecture. The built-in backup software of this hard drive allows automatic uninterrupted backup of your data. Although, the compatibility of this hard drive is optimal for USB 2.0, you can safely use it for USB 3.0 also.

In spit of the fact that Seagate Freeagent Goflex hard drives provides many attractive features, you may lose data from these portable hard drives during some undesirable situations. It is quite an unpleasant situation if the data loss from Freeagent Goflex becomes severe. Then your primary concern would be how to recover such lost data. Believe it or not, it is not a difficult task to retrieve lost or deleted files from Seagate Freeagent Goflex external hard drive. You can perform the recovery of data using a powerful tool known as Recover Seagate software. Recovering data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex will be an elementary task if you are using this software. Before going through the features of this software, it is good to know basic scenarios favorable to the loss or deletion of data from this type of external hard drive.

• Accidental Deletion: Human errors are unavoidable up to an extent. You may erase crucial files and folders from Seagate Freeagent Goflex hard drive instead of deleting unwanted files. Unwanted haste during the management of data over the external hard drive is answerable for these type of problems.
• Errors during Data Transfer: Data may get deleted while transferring data from/to Seagate Freeagent Goflex if you abort the data transfer forcefully. Unexpected power surge is also possible during data transfer which favors the deletion of data
• Unintentional Formatting: You may perform formatting of your Seagate Freeagent Goflex hard drive unintentionally, while doing it with the intention of formatting any other internal drive partitions.
• Third Party Tools: The use of unreliable Third party tools for cleaning of junk data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex is a possible reason for the loss of precious data from there. Suppose a file residing in Seagate External hard drive is virus infected. If the anti-virus software working on your computer is updated with latest definitions, there is a chance for the loss of that particular file from external hard drive irrespective of its importance.

Features of Seagate Data Recovery Tool

• This tool help you in recovering data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex external hard drives which are formatted with different file systems such as FAT32, HFS, ExFAT, etc. You can use this software for other external hard drives of Seagate. For instance, data recovery from Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 can be performed without any complexities using this tool.
• It even recovers data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex that contains bad sectors. Disk images are used for bypassing bad sectors on the hard drive.
• By the help of this tool, you can get back different types of files from Seagate Freeagent Goflex including Word documents, spreadsheets, audio files, email archives, ZIP archives, images, video files, and more.
• Recovering data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex using this tool can be performed in a hassle-free way because this tool is powered with a simple Graphical User Interface. Anyone who know the basics of using at least one application can easily use this tool.
• If you need to clarify any doubts arriving during recovery using this tool, don't hesitate to ask. Free technical support is available 24x7 to help you all.
• You can view recovered data on the basis of files and folders using “Data View” option and at the same time this tool allows you to see recovered data on the basis of file extensions called, “File Type View”.
• This tool can be used on all the latest versions of Windows and Mac computers to restore data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex drive.
• Additionally, you can use this software to recover corrupted hard drive data from all types of Seagate and other brands of hard drives like Hitachi, WD, Samsung, LaCie, Iomega, etc.
• Also, you can find the step by step procedure to safely perform FreeAgent Goflex data recovery by visiting the YouTube video and here’s the video link: https://youtu.be/J9eYEubV_KY

Steps to Recover Data from Seagate Freeagent Goflex hard drive:

Step (i): Download and install the free version of Partition Recovery tool on your PC. After successful installation, launch the software. In the Main Screen, select “Recover Partitions” option. Then, the tool shows all the logical and physical disk drives available in the system. Choose the Seagate Freeagent Goflex logical drive from where you have to recover data and click "Scan" option

Figure A: Main Window

Step (ii): Now, the software scans the selected partition to regain it's files back. Wait for the scanning to get complete. Upon the completion of scanning process, a list of recovered files are displayed. You can view the recovered files in Data View, and File Type View.

Figure B: Recovered Files in Data Type & File Type View

Step (iii): At last, if you are satisfied with the tool, then activate the license key of the tool and select the destination drive to save the recovered files.

Figure C: Save Recovered Files