External hard drives have been in great demand ever since they have been introduced into the market. It is not compatibility alone that is responsible for the increasing popularity, but also the increased access speed that has attracted customers towards it. Although these devices were initially used as a storage device for storing large files like movies or for backup purpose, they are now more than just plain storage devices. Many users make use of the external hard disk as their primary hard drive and using this external hard disk to run applications and perform other tasks, while the fixed hard disk acts as a secondary slave.

Though the external hard disk seems to be different from the fixed hard drive, both these are pretty much the same except for the fact that an external hard drive has an external USB casing to enable it to be connected to the CPU using a USB cable. Since both these hard drives are similar in nature, the problems that they encounter too are the same. I am referring here to the data loss that happens on this storage media. Like in the fixed hard disk, chances of data loss due to physical errors are always present, and especially in this case the probability is more.

However, data loss due to physical errors is something that needs to be treated in a more serious manner than a logical data loss. This is because of the very fact that these storage media make use of many moving parts that are very fragile, and damage to any of these parts could mean permanent loss of data from the hard disk. The data recovery process in this case is very complicated and time consuming and performed by data recovery specialists, with only a few cases being successful.

However, it is an entirely different scenario in case of logical data loss. This is because data lost due to logical reasons can be recovered using an external hard disk recovery software, and the chances of recovery very high since these software have been designed keeping in mind all the possible scenarios of data loss. External hard drive recovery software lets you recover deleted and lost data from both re-partitioned and formatted external hard disk. The guided user interface helps not only a professional user but even a novice to easily perform data recovery on both SATA and IDE hard drives.