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How to Get the Data after Format the Drive by Mistake
Have you ever lost information by formatting the drive accidentally? What a huge loss if files saved on it are crucial and valuable. If you happened to encounter this terrible situation before, did you figure it out that how to find back the lost data? You may be confused that how the data saved on the formatted drive could be retrieved. Yes, the truth is you could get back lost information from the formatted drive. What you need is data recovery software.
Example of formatting drive by error result in data losing
I formatted my drive F by mistake last night and then I go to bed without performing any operation on it. I have thought that there is nothing important saved on it, but I can not find my favorite pictures when I want to share them with my friends. And I recalled that I have removed them to drive F few days ago. There is not anything on my drive F now when I open it again. I have to get back them because so many reasons and who could help me, please? -Lauren from New York
How to get back the lost files from formatted drive with data recovery software
You could get back the lost information from formatted drive with the help of data recovery software. You may feel strange about data recovery software and do not know how to use it. Don't worry; the following steps will guide you one by one:
Recover data from formatted drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you need to run the software and select a proper recovery module.
Actions will reduce the opportunity to restore data from formatted drive
Some improper operations may impede the success of data recovery. As a result, you may not be able to get back all lost information but some of it if you performed the wrong actions to the formatted drive before you retrieved all needed successfully. The following actions will reduce the chance to find back lost data from formatted drive:
1. Format the drive which has been formatted again. Reformatting will cause data was overwritten.
2. Save new information on it before data saved on it has not been retrieved. If the lost data was overwritten by new information, you may not be able to find back it.
3. Download and launch the data recovery tool on the formatted drive. Generally, the system will suggest you not to do so.
4. Store the recovered information on the formatted drive directly. You should save the recovered files on other normal disk first and remove them to the formatted drive later.
Other data loss problem could be solved by data recovery software
Except from formatting drive, there still are other data loss scenarios. Though most of the lost files could be found back by data recovery tool, you still need to be careful in case of data losing. Here are some common data loss situations besides formatting disk as follows:
1. Accidental or intentional deletion. It is one of the most common data lose cases. Delete or shift delete will lead to losing information temporary if you retrieve it with data recovery software.
2. Virus and infection. It is likely to be infected if you download that suspicious software or information on it.
3. System corruption. Your data may lose if you encounter a corrupted system.
4. Partition table errors. You will meet errors during the creation of new hard drive partitions or during file system conversion and that will lead to data loss.
5. Other similar logical corruption situations.
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