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How to Recover Data from a Formatted Partition in Windows 7

Do you know how to restore files from a formatted partition in windows 7? If you happen to encounter this kind of problem, what would you do? You must want to find back the important and valuable data have been lost because of the formatted partition. But how, how to recover the lost files? You may get annoyed due to so much fail try and think that there is no way to retrieve your losses. But the truth is that you can restore it with data recovery software.

Example of losing information by formatting the partition in windows 7

I lose all my data saved on drive E in windows 7 because I formatted this partition. What should I do? Those lost files are important PPT and videos made by myself and they are important and crucial for me. I have asked for help to everyone around me but none of them could told me exactly what should I do to find back them. Should I give up and stop searching ways to recover them? Anyone could kindly help me, please? I really need your help. –Frank from New York

How to retrieve lost data from the formatted partition in windows 7

In fact, restore the lost files after formatting partition in windows 7 is not as difficult as you think. On the contrary, it will be very easy if you retrieve the lost information by using data recovery software. With the software, you can recover data from formatted hard disk partition, external hard disk and more.

Recover data from formatted partition

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Run the software and select the formatted partition for scanning.

1Download and launch data recovery software and select the version for windows on the computer.
2Start the data restoration program and choose the formatted partition to scan.
3 Preview files in the list when scanning is finished.
4Select the files you want to recover and save them to a different storage media.

Other data loss situations could be retrieved by data recovery software

Besides formatting the partition would bring about data loss trouble, there are still other different data loss situations. You could find back them with data recovery software after losing the important and useful files and folders. Here are some common data loss situations which could be recovered by data recovery software as follows:

1. Accidental or intentional deletion.

2. Empty the recycle bin or delete precious files by using shift plus delete buttons at the same time.

3. Disk corruption.

4. Virus and worms carried by malwares and skeptical files infection.

5. Corruption caused by too much fragmentation of windows FAT or NTFS file systems.

6. Partition table errors.

7. Other similar data loss situations due to logical corruption.

These kinds of data loss problems can occur on other storage media too. For example, you may format your memory card due to mistake, data might get lost from a USB flash drive due to unformatted error, etc.

Brief introduction to windows 7

Windows 7 is an operating system developed by Microsoft and it could works in family and business environment and could be used by computer, laptop, multimedia center and other related devices. What's more, it has several different versions in order to apply to various using environment. They are windows 7 starter, windows 7 home basic, windows 7 home premium, windows 7 professional, windows 7 ultimate, windows 7 enterprise, windows 7 ultimate signature edition Steve Ballmer and windows 7 ultimate commemorative CD. Each of them has some different function.

Which file types could be restored with the help of data recovery software?

Data recovery software is a powerful data recovery tool for you to retrieve the lost information. Its power due to both it could restore data lost by any reasons and retrieve lost data with so much file types. Here is some common file types data recovery software could be reclaimed after losing:

Pictures, videos, audios, word, excel, PPT, songs and other file types you could imagine or have seen.

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