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Data Recovery from Formatted Hard Disk
Are you so careless that formatted your hard disk within less than one second? Have you ever experienced this kind of situation which bring about your own annoyance or others' criticism to you? Don't be tense; however, there is a simple way to help you retrieve all your information in fact. Data recovery software, an amazing tool which could restore the data saved on the hard disk lost due to accidental deletion or formatting or other reasons quickly. What's more, it requires no professional skills at all.
Case of data lost after formatting hard disk
I formatted my disk D 3 days ago by mistake. I just want to format one of files saved on it, but click the format all button accidentally. I have tried so many ways to recover other files and folders still useful for me, but none of them come back. Could I find them back yet? What should I do to recover them? I stored hundreds of precious information such as movies, music, pictures and some messages on it. And I lost my pen drive which the backup of these files on it. So the only way can I keep them is to restore information on the formatted hard disk. Please help me. - Miranda from Missouri
How to retrieve data from formatted hard disk by data recovery software
No matter you format your hard disk due to mistake or RAW file system or other reasons, you can get back the lost data easily using the data recovery software. 4 steps only and you will find files you need are all retrieved safely and effectively.
Recover data from formatted hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Then, you can run the software and select proper recovery module to start data recovery.
Things need your caution in the process of recovering files
1. Do not download and install the data recovery software on the formatted disk when choose the save route.
2. Do not store the retrieved files on the formatted hard disk.
The reason is that you don't know whether you could restore all data which are still useful only in one time. If you save the restored data on the formatted disk, data have not been recover may be overwritten.
3. Do not build new partition to the formatted hard disk.
In short, there should not be any operation on it.
How to protect hard disk carefully from losing data
We all know that data saved on a hard disk will lose if it is formatted, so in which condition else the hard disk will lose its data? How to avoid that situation? There are some tips to protect data on the hard disk:
1. Store all your data well when you closed your computer.
2. Don't download and launch any malware which may carry worms and virus to infect your computer.
3. Backup your important information.
4. It is better that avoid "cut and paste" model to shift files but choose "copy, paste and delete" one, because data could be lost easily during the process of cut and paste.
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