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Quick Formatted SATA Hard Disk Drive
What would you do if you happen to quick format the SATA hard disk drive but there are massive important files on it? You can get them back simply if there is backup. But what if there is no backup at all? You may become upset at that time, but you do not need to. As a matter of fact, those lost files and folders could be retrieved from the quick formatted hard disk drive effectively by data recovery software as long as they are not overwritten. Let us look a formatted hard disk drive example first below.
Example of SATA hard disk drive being quick formatted
One of my hard disk drives is quick formatted by myself the other day accidentally and all information saved on it was lost. Those lost files involve many precious pictures and other valuable data which I can not afford to lose. I have no idea what to do to get my losses back. Is there any feasible way for me to retrieve my lost files from the formatted hard disk drive? Help me, please. By the way, I did not perform any operations on the formatted SATA hard disk drive. –Trigger from Utah
How to retrieve lost information from the formatted hard disk drive with data recovery software
You can get back the lost files and folders from the quick formatted SATA hard disk drive just within a few minute. What you need is to download data recovery software from the website and let it assist you. The data recovery program is an amazing tool for you to restore lost information after formatting. Here are its guiding steps as follows:
Recover data from formatted SATA hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can run the software and choose a proper recovery module to begin data recovery.
How to use hard disk drive correctly in order to avoid losing data
As it known to all, there are many other matters also could let the files and folders saved on the hard disk drive lost like the formatting one. According to statistics, most data loss situations belong to the logical corruption and due to the improper usage to hard disk drive. It means that we can avoid much data loss problem if we use the hard disk drive to store information correctly. Here are some right tips as follows to which we should pay attention:
1. Do not cut files. We may usually hear some people complain that they can not find their information on the original disk and also can not view it on the aim drive when they cut and paste files from one disk to another. Consequently, those files are lost during the process of cut and paste. It seems a system bug which may happen occasionally. So it is better to copy needed files and delete them after paste them on the object disk successfully. It will not cost much more time than cut and paste.
2. Do not perform disk fragmentation arrangement directly. It is better not to arrange the disk fragmentation directly especially to partition on which has many directory files. The reason is that something may go wrong in the process of arranging the disk fragmentation, which is hard to be recovered. We should copy the useful files to other disks and then perform the disk fragmentation arrangement.
3. Do not adjust the size of partition by the third party tools. It is likely to make mistakes when adjust the partition, such as power failure and cause the data lost. What’s more, it is also difficult to get the lost files back. So it is necessary to back up important information before adjust the partition.
4. Back up the vital data. It is important to develop the habit of backing up the useful files regularly. We can get the lost files back quickly and safely if we lose them one day.
5. Other correct usages to hard disk drive.
What is SATA
SATA, whose full name is Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, is the hard disk interface specification proposed by Intel, IBM, Dell, APT, Maxtor, and Seagate jointly in 2001.
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