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Recover Data from a Formatted Hard Drive

Do you find yourself in trouble with formatted hard drives sometimes?In fact, such problem is ever so common to most hard drive users. Once it occurs, formatted hard drive recovery tool can help you get back the lost data in it under the premise of no overwrite.

Practical cases of problems about recovering data from a formatted hard drive:

Occasionally, people are careless enough to format their hard drives by mistake or by accident. Once the hard drive is formatted, all the data inside the drive will be removed no matter you expect or not. In that case, the data recovery software would be exceedingly helpfu with data recovery after formatting. Here are two of the frequently emerged problems:
Last night, I did a formation on the hard drive of my PC, unfortunately, I forgot to backup the files which are so important to me! I wonder if there are any possible solutions for this matter? I want to have my music, my photos, my videos and my documents back. What can I do?

My HD had just suffered a disaster from my three-year-old daughter. She formatted the hard disk while fondling with the keys. I turned extremely angry but have no idea what to do with it. Can it be recovered and all things retrieved? All my precious files are in it and I will suffer heavy losses if they were gone. Help! Help me, please!

Solutions for recovering files from formatted hard drives

Such cases as is above are too numerous to mention. Generally speaking, the causes of formation problem can be classified as internal factors and external factors, conscious ones and unconscious ones. No matter how the formation is done, there are possibilities of recovering the files as long as the hard drive is not totally ruined yet. In addition to recover data from inner hard disk, the data recovery software is also available for formatted external hard disk data recovery.

Recover Data after Formatting Hard Drive

To achieve the goal, you should stop writing new data into the disk, and manage to install the hard drive recovery software on your computer. Then, launch it to restore the files you need. If you want to save your hard drive and find back the files in it, do follow the tips below:

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Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your PC. Then, run the software and choose proper recovery module to begin data recovery.

1Download the data recovery software and install it to your computer workable. Then, run the software.
2Locate the formatted hard drive on your PC and then click "quick scanning" button.
3The software starts to scan the lost files on the specified partition of your computer.
4After scanning, it will show you all the scanning results.
5Select what you want to restore and begin recovering.

When you have finished the data restoring, do not forget to check the files condition before you turn off the hard drive recovery tool. If there are files in the other districts of your PC you still want to retrieve, just take no hesitation to fix them by a few more clicks. It is believed that more useful information would come back to you at one time. Didn't that thrill you, too?

Tips for data recovery on formatted memory drives:

  • Although recovering data from hard drives is relatively easy and you do not have to master any professional knowledge at all, it is also strongly recommended to make a backup of the valuable files on your PC. After all, this is the most reliable method of saving your data. You have to know that there is no tool perfect, or rather, all utilities can make mistakes. And people, can cause so much damage to the device that only make thing worse. The good news is, however, people can' make use of the tools, and redeem what they destroy.

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