Recover deleted files from external hard drive which shows 0 Bytes

Sometimes when you open your external hard drive on computer, you can not see any files in it, or you cannot access the drive. Right-click the drive and choose Properties, you will found in the File System part, there is no file system and the Used space,Free space, and Capacity all shows 0 Bytes. If you try to format it, you may even cannot format it. It will prompts you that “Windows was unable to complete the format”. So how to solve this problem?

In anyway, you should not directly format it. Of course, if you have not important data on the external hard drive, you can format it. Format will erase all the data on the drive. Before you format it to fix this problem, you should try to recover your lost data from this drive. After you have get back all your files, you can format it to fix the 0 Bytes problem. If you found you cannot format your external hard drive, you can follow this way to format your drive.　

How to recover deleted files from external hard drive shows 0 Bytes?

If your external hard drive cannot be recognized by computer, or cannot work normally, you should try to re-plug it again, and try to insert it into different USB ports and different computer.

If your external hard drive can be recognized by computer, you should replug it and try different USB ports. If you can find your external hard drive in the Disk Management, that’s great. You can start your recovery now.

Choose a reliable and professional data recovery software is very important. For the good data recovery software is safe, easy to use and have great success rate of data recovery. If you do not know much about data recovery software, you can trust Hdata recovery as it has helped more than 6000 users to successfully recover their files. It provides free download and free trail on its official website.

To recover deleted files on external hard drive you need to choose the mode of Recover Deleted files from Flash disk. You can follow the steps on software to complete the whole recovery process. It gives you a free trail and free scan. If you want to recover your files after you have previewed the files, you can buy a registration code to recover your lost files.

Reasons for your External drive shows 0 Bytes

You do not safely remove your external hard drive or unplug it when in transmitting process.

Power loss when in transferring.

Virus infection or corrupted file system.

Physical damage such as bad sectors on external hard drive.

Other unknown reasons.