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Quick Formatted ExFAT FAT32 Partition
Have you saved files on exFAT or FAT partition? What if you happen to quick format these partition if you have stored a lot of vital and crucial files and folders on it? You should read this passage if you want to get the lost information back but have no idea what is supposed to do. Yes, those lost files have the opportunity to be retrieved from the formatted partition. The condition is that the losses have not been overwritten by any new data. You will get the way from the following information.
Example of FAT partition being quick formatted
I met an unpleasant thing those days, which disappoint me every minute. It is that I quick formatted the FAT partition on my computer, on which massive useful files were stored. I can not lose them and have to get them back. But the partition has been formatted already, then how can I retrieve all the losses? I never heard the lost files could be restored but I still want to have a try. Is there any possible way for me to get the lost information back from the formatted partition? -Ellen from Utah
How to retrieve information from the formatted partition such as exFAT and FAT partition
Those lost files and folders could be got back from the quick formatted FAT or other file system partition. The exact way is to use data recovery software. It is very easy for data recovery program to retrieve the lost information, so all the losses could be restored within a short time. Here are its guiding steps as follows:
Recover data from formatted EXFAT FAT32 partition
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can run the software and select a proper recovery module to restore data from the formatted partition.
Things should be known after the partition being quick formatted
Please do not feel anxious when you quick formatted the partition on the computer by mistake, no matter how many important files and folders have been saved on it. Now we know the reason is that all those lost files could be retrieved form the formatted partition by data recovery tool. Before restoring lost information with data recovery software, there are some things you should know as follows, which will ensure you retrieve your losses successfully:
1. The lost files and folders are not removed from the formatted partition truly. Those seems lost information is still stored on the partition as the same though it is quick formatted. The only difference is that they become invisible to us. What’s more, system regards the space those invisible data saved as free and allow other new files on these spaces. The lost information could be restored by the data recovery program quickly and easily before new data overwrite it, but once it is overwritten by any new information, there is no chance for the losses to be retrieved.
2. Stop using the formatted partition if there are files and folders need to be restored. There are some aspects we should keep an eye on. Firstly, we should not save any new information on the partition once it being quick formatted. Secondly, we should not rearrange the partition after being quick formatted. Thirdly, we should not rebuild the partition before the needed files being got back. Fourthly, we should not format the partition which has been formatted previously one more time.
3. Save the data recovery software and files to be restored on other normal partition which not being formatted. System will ask us to choose the location top save the data recovery tool when mount it after being downloaded and files which are selected after previewing, we should not store both of them on the quick formatted partition, nut another one instead.
4. Other actions that may lead to the lost information be overwritten are also forbidden.
Different files system
Both exFAT and FAT are the system of files. There are some other file systems we may meet usually, such as NTFS, Raw file system and so forth. Raw file system is a disk partition which has not been formatted by NT file system, such as FAT system and NTFS system. FAT file system is a kind of file system which let MS-DOS and other windows operating system to arrange files. NTFS file system is a senior file system which owns the security, function, reliability and advance features that FAT file system can not afford.
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