The data stored on the external hard drive recovery

Hello

Recently, my PC got corrupted and told me to save my data on an external hard drive before doing a reformat on my PC. In fact, all my data was saved when I update. A few months ago, in may 2014, I backed up my data in the drive C under the section 'My Document ' and also registered in my external hard drive as a backup. Thus, in June, July & the first 2 weeks of August 2014, I updated some data and stored in the 'My documents' file in the C drive. My PC got corrupted last week and told me to do a reformat as a last resort. Before that, I saved all my data (especially my Word & Excel) for my external hard drive to the file 'My Document '. After that the reformatting was made, I downloaded all required applications and try to remove my Excel file, which has the external hard drive, but the data were NOT the updated file, but the file that has been saved 3 months ago!

So, how can I recover my file up to date which was recorded August 12, 2014, supposedly on my external hard drive, or could it be hidden somewhere in the "C drive"?

Help, please!

Thank you!

Kind regards

Ros

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Original title: Back up my data on external hard drive

Hello

You could try to use Easeus Data Recovery Wizard (free)

http://www.EASEUS.com/DataRecoveryWizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

How to analyze a hard drive reformatted to recover files

http://www.ehow.com/how_6515288_scan-hard-drive-recover-files.html

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