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Quick Formatted USB Hard Disk
Have you ever quick formatted your USB hard disk? You must feel terrible if you have saved a lot of files on it but do not know how to get them back from the quick formatted USB hard disk. What would you do then? You will never be bothered by such formatted USB hard disk problem. Data recovery software is at your hand. It could help you retrieve all kinds of files such as photos, audio files, and so forth saved on the USB hard disk after being quick formatted.
Case of the USB hard disk being quick formatted
I totally have no idea what to do after quick formatting my USB hard disk by mistake. There are many useful files and folders about both work and life saved on the USB hard disk when it is formatted. I have to retrieve all of them as soon as possible. No one around me could help me get my lost information, neither do I. I know my losses could be restored by a certain way, but just do not know what it is. Can you tell me what the flexible way is? -Rose from Australia
Steps to restore lost data from the quick formatted USB hard disk with data recovery software
The way to restore lost files and folders from the quick formatted USB hard disk. What you should do after the quick formatting action is to stop using the USB hard disk, including format the USB hard disk again, save new data ob it, and so on before all needed information is retrieved. Make sure the good connection between the USB hard disk and computer, then perform the restoration step by step as follows:
Recover data from formatted USB hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the USB hard disk to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.
Various data loss situations may happen to USB hard disk
It seems that data loss situations are common due to so many different information loss scenarios we may meet or hear every day. Data saved on the USB hard disk is lost because of the quick formatting operation is just one of them, actually. Then what are other data loss situations happen to USB hard disk? Here are some poplar cases as follows:
1. Virus attacks. Virus here is not one could infect human beings, but it is also powerful in destructiveness and we call it computer virus or data virus. It is usually contained in harmful software and suspicious files. We should stay away from them, because we will lose our data saved on the USB hard disk once it is infected by virus.
2. Accidental deletion and formatting also include intentional one. Files saved on the USB hard disk were deleted or the USB hard disk was formatted because of some reasons, they may be the most common data loss situation we have ever encountered. Data recovery tool can retrieve them easily from the USB hard disk.
3. Disk corruption. Some improper action may lead to the disk corruption, and data saved on the USB hard disk would be lost if it happens.
4. Partition table errors. All files saved on the USB hard disk are inaccessible if there is something goes wrong in the partition table, which means that you lose those files.
Where does files saved on the USB hard disk go after being quick formatted
Files saved on the USB hard disk is not erased indeed or permanently after being quick formatted. We can not access any one of them because that they are hidden somewhere in the USB hard disk. So data recovery program could retrieve them easily and quickly. System marks those spaces which saved the lost information free and other new data could be saved on it. If there are other free spaces except from the lost files, the new data will be saved on other real free spaces. But if there are not, new files will overwrite the original information. Those lost files can not be got back by the data recovery tool once they are overwritten by new data.
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