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Recovering hard drive formatted by mistake
Have you ever formatted the hard disk drive by accident? It may be a huge loss for us, because files or folders saved on the hard disk drive may be valuable or meaningful for us. What we can do after formatting the hard drive by mistake? As a matter of fact, we can try to get them back if the lost files are vital. The possible way to retrieve the lost information is to use the data recovery software, which is read-only, so we do not need to those lost contents revealed on the internet.
Case of formatting the hard disk drive by accident
I formatted my hard disk drive on the computer accidentally two days ago. I felt sorry because files on the hard drive are my sister's work documents. I know how important and crucial those files to her, so I want to get them back. Is there any way to recover lost files and folders from the accidental formatted hard disk drive? Besides those work documents, there are pictures saved on that formatted hard disk, and I want to retrieve them, too. Help me, please and thanks in advance. –Peter from LA
How to retrieve lost files from the formatted hard disk drive with data recovery software
The following steps can guide us perform formatted hard disk drive data recovery with the data recovery software if we do not know how to use it. What's more, we should keep it in mind that does not perform any other operation on the formatted hard drive until the end of files recovery:
Recover files from hard disk
Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can run the software and choose a recovery module after entering the main interface of the software.
How to protect files on hard drive from being lost accidentally
It is terrible to lose data off hard disk drive by accident especially when those lost contents are useful or vital. The accidental formatted hard disk drive is one case. We should be more than careful though we may be able to get the lost information back with the help of data recovery program. Then how to protect them from being lost off hard disk drive on the computer? As a matter of fact, there are some things as follows we can do:
1. Back up files useful or important regularly. The basic step to protect files from being lost off hard disk drive is to back up them. We can find and access them quickly and easily after losing them due to various reasons if they are vital or crucial in that way. We can back up them on the computer or on the external hard disk drive or other types of storage devices.
2. Copy and paste files if need. We need to remove the information saved on the hard disk drive to other drives or other storage devices sometimes. And some of us used to cut and paste files needed. It is risky, however. We may lose the needed information during the process of cut and paste and can not fond them either on eth aim disk drive or the original disk drive. So it is better to copy and pate files needed in case of data loss abruptly.
3. Download and mount anti-virus software on the computer hard disk drive. It is terrible that the hard disk drive is infected by virus or worms, because we may lose all files and folders saved on the hard drive after the virus attacks. The way to against virus infection is to download and install anti-virus tool on the computer. Then files suspicious can not be saved on the hard disk drive.
4. Other ways to protect information from being lost off hard disk drive.
File types can be restored by data recovery tool
There are various types of files can be stored on the hard disk drive, such as video files, audio files, image files, word documents, power point files, and so on. What we need to know is that we can perform formatted hard disk drive data recovery to try to get those entire file types back with data restoration program.
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