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Software recovers files if the hard drive was formatted
We may click on the format or format all button by mistake when intend to access files saved on the hard disk drive sometimes. As a result, the hard drive would be formatted and all files and folders stored on it at the previous time would be erased later. Is there any way for us to read those original files again? Actually, it is possible, because we can try to get them back from the formatted hard disk drive. What we need to use is data recovery software.
Case of formatting the hard disk drive by accident
The hard disk drive on my computer was formatted by error days ago and I did not know how to unformat it. There are a lot of contents which saved on the hard drive previously important, so I have to retrieve them. The way to retrieve the lost data is to unformat the formatted hard disk drive, but I do not know how to unformat it at all. Can you kindly tell me what I can do now? By the way, files I want to see again are video files and some photos. –Marina from New York
How to recover lost files from the formatted hard disk drive with data recovery software
The way to restore the lost information from the formatted hard disk drive is to use the data recovery program. We may not be able to get all lost contents back, but we can retrieve most of them under the help of data recovery tool. The following steps can help us to start and perform the hard disk drive formatted recovery:
Recover files from formatted hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software on computer. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Tips to retrieve data from formatted hard drive successfully
Do you think it is difficult to get lost information back from the formatted hard disk drive? Most of us may say it is easy and simple to perform the hard drive formatted recovery. It is easy, indeed. But do you know we may fail to view the lost files after finishing the process of files recovery after formatting hard disk drive? It is possible for us to lose the chance to restore lost files from the unformatted hard disk drive if there is something going wrong. So we should be more than careful after formatting the hard disk by error. Here are some tips as follows to perform formatted drive data recovery successfully:
1. Stop using the computer whose hard disk drive is formatted. Some of us may keep using the computer or surf on the internet after formatting its hard disk drive. But it is better not to use it until the end of data recovery. The reason is that some operations when we use the internet may cause the failure of formatted hard drives files recovery. Such as the overwriting and corruption.
2. Do not choose the formatted hard disk drive as the location to save any data during the process of files recovery. We would be asked to select the location to store the data recovery program and files to be retrieved during the process off formatted hard drive file recovery. We can not save the data recovery tool on the formatted hard disk drive. As for the files to be restored, it is better to save them on one of the other hard disk drives on the computer in case of overwriting.
3. Do not rebuild the partition. After formatting the computer hard disk drives, some of us may intend to rebuild the partition on the computer. But it is a harmful action to rebuild the partition. The reason is that the file allocation table or file record table may be destroyed easily in that way, and then it would be difficult for us to recover files useful or vital from the formatted hard drives.
4. Other things should be avoided other than formatted hard disk drive files recovery.
Reason that information on the formatted hard disk can be restored
I guess most of have no idea how we can get the lost files back from the hard disk drive after formatting it. As a matter of fact, those original files are still saved on the space of hard disk drive, but we can not see them at that time. What's more, we can save new data on the space on which the lost information stored. Those contents can be scanned by data recovery tool and then be retrieved as long as they have not been overwritten by new files.
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