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Accidentally Formatted Hard Drive

Accidentally formatted your hard drive and want your files back? Don't worry! There are several methods for you to get all of them back. Hard drive users discovered this problem since a long time ago. In fact, this loophole was invented together with the hard drives. As you see, all hard drives must be formatted before usage. Actually, the primary purpose of formatting is to make a memory card available for storing data. However, unintentional format will inevitably cause unexpected data loss.

Accidentally formatted my hard drive, how to recover?

It is often asked by people that how to recover a formatted hard drive. Obviously, this kind of problem does happen a lot. It is no use crying over split milk, the only thing you should do is to recover it.

I clicked the format button on my hard drive by accident, but I stopped it straight away after I realized it. After that, I find my computer won't boot up. I have no choice but to reformat it and reinstall windows 7. The trouble is, I can't have my files back now. Who can tell me how to get them back?

Okay, the problem goes that my external USB disk was formatted by me a moment ago. All the files I stored in it were erased but I did not back them up! I should have done this but I forgot to. If there is some way for me to get my data back, I would spare no effort to do it. But the question is, I have no way to do it! Is there any body can help me?

If you had the same problem as the above, think of how to recover the memory drive and get back the lost data from it. Absolutely, you have the chance to rescue it by yourself.

Can I recover files from a hard drive formatted again and again?

As long as the files are still on your hard drive, that is to say, the formatted files haven't been overwritten by other files yet, they are retrievable and you are able to recover them by the data recovery software which can recover data afater formatting. Actually, that the files can be retrieved or not doesn't depend on how many times you formatted your hard disk.

How to prevent data loss from accidental formatting?

The most reliable one of all methods is to back up the fatal data on different memory drives, don't save all the important stuff on the same hard drive without any backups on other drives. Or you can hook the majority of files up to the cyber sphere as soon as possible. Besides, you could often use the antivirus program to scan and kill the virus once it appears. However, if you had already formatted the memory drive and deleted all the files from it, the only way left is to restore them by the data recovery tool. Good luck to you.

Recover Data after Formatting Hard Hrives:

The best solution to recover data after formatting your hard drive must be the data recovery software. It is frequently applied to recover data lost from all kinds of memory devices. It has the power to rescue all types of files on varieties of storage devices. Once the files on your hard drives are formatted by mistake, try to make use of this program to restore your data by the following steps:

Recover data from formatted hard drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Run the software and choose proper recovery module so that the software will scan for lost files.

1Download the data recovery and install it to your computer.
2Connect your hard drive to the computer which has installed the data recovery tool.
3Launch the data recovery software and detect your drive.
4Get the program to scan and recover the target files
5Preview and save the retrieved data to other drives rather than the problematic one.

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