The Western Digital My book is a popular brand of external hard disk. The size of the device is like a small book and weighs around the same. The power LED is located at the back which is another excellent feature of this external drive. The drive has high data transfer rate. It is very useful, reliable, affordable and easy to use. The storage capacity of WD My Book is high and so you can store huge amount of data in it. The size of WD My Book ranges from couple of gigabytes to two terabytes. The HDD, like other backup drives, lets you to restore files if your files are lost or deleted due to system crash or if you accidentally deleted a file from your desktop or laptop computer. If you have reformatted your laptop without taking backup, then the file recovery solution can obtained at - https://www.unformatdrive.com/how-to-recover-files-from-reformatted-laptops.html.

It feels great that your WD My Book has high storage capacity that can store all important files, video, audios, photos, etc. However, losing a terabyte of data due to a power surge, system failure or a virus attack would be just terrible.

Suppose you have a WD My Book and you have been using it since few years. But you are facing problem with your HDD for several months. One fine day, your computer was recognising the drive, but won't read any of the files. You have restarted your system but still it didn’t work. You cannot access any of your data you have on it. When you looked in "my computer" it shows up as "local disk F" instead of it saying "My book L" like it used to. When you click on my computer, it freezes the system. After some time, it was asking to format the drive so you clicked on Yes button without knowing the results. When you able to access the contents of that drive, there were no files!!! This is because, formatting procedure deletes each and every file from the WD My Book hard drive. What Now? You had all your important backups in the WD My Book External drive!!! How to get back those files from WD My Book now?

No need to worry!!! There is a way to recover your files from formatted Western Digital My Book by using Hard drive recovery software. But the first thing you have to do is stop using the HDD. If you continue using the disk drive, there will be a risk that the files you want to recover will be lost forever due to overwritten. Every new file or action will take up more free space and it minimizes the chance of retrieving formatted hard disk of WD.

WD My Book recovery is a data recovery tool that specializes in recovery of important files from My Book drives with utmost ease. It includes restoring of data from Western Digital hard drives including laptop, notebook, desktop and external or portable USB hard drives. This software also recover data from formatted pen drive and also other brands like Transcend, SanDisk, Kingston, Moserbaer, etc. It also offer data recovery services for data loss caused by power surges, sabotage, viruses, equipment malfunctions, accidental format, partition errors, and user error. If you own a Seagate external hard drive and lost some crucial data due to formatting, then visit this link to know the complete recovery procedure.

Steps to recover data from formatted from WD My Book:

Step (i): Install and launch the software, when main window pops up select "Recover Partitions/Drives" option as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Home Screen

Figure 2: Select WD My Book

Step (iii): Software scans the WD drive and you can view the list of recovered files.

Figure 3: Recovered Files

Step (iv): Select one recovered file and right click on that file and then click on "Preview" button. You will get a preview of the recovered file.

Figure 4: File Preview

Step (v): If you are well satisfied with recovered results, buy the licensed version of the software and save recovered files to intended drive.