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Recovering Data from Formatted Hard Drive

"I have a hard drive with a mass of valuable information on it, but recently I found it inaccessible any more. I had to format it in order to make it available for use. But meanwhile, I erased all the useful data on the HDD. What can I do to get them back?"

Formatting your hard disk is a good way to activate it and make it reusable, at the heavy cost of data loss. However, the data lost from your hard drive is still recoverable. Just put your worrying aside and try to restore it by the data recovery software.

Why does data recovery software can recover data from formatted hard drives?

Specifically, the files lost due to formatting are not erased from your hard drive, on the contrary, they are still in the same place where they used to be. We cannot see them because they hide them up and become invisible. This way, the "blank place" is available for writing new data in. But before new data take the place of the covert data, the original files are much likely to be restored.

What's more, data recovery software is regarded by professional visitors as terrific software, for they are pretty useful and powerful. This program is capable of recovering data of different file types and formats, and it is highly recognized by various file systems, including FAT, NTFS, HFSX, VFAT, HPFS, JFS.

In addition, data recovery program support all popular operation systems. It has the magic power to rescue data lost from varieties of memory devices, such as laptop hard drives and external hard drives. It is able to recover music, image, video, word documents, etc.

What can I do to get my files off a formatted hard drive?

Above all, you should stop writing any more files or programs into the hard disc. Check if you have backed up the important data somewhere else. If you had the backups, just copy them back to the disk. If you do not have any backups or you cannot find your backups anywhere, you need to retrieve your files by the data recovery software.

How to restore files from a formatted hard drive?

Once you had your hard drive formatted by mistake, the best choice for you to rescue the lost data from the formatted external hard disk, hard disk, memory card is to apply to the data recovery software which is highly compatible with all current operation systems such as windows XP, windows 7, windows vista and many more. This program is quite simple and easy to master. So, you do not have to worry if you are not a person equipped with abundant professional knowledge or technical skills. There are only a few simple steps for you to restore your lost data from the formatted hard drive.

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Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Launch the software and go to a proper recovery module.

1Download, install and run data recovery software. Then, go to a proper recovery module.
2Choose the hard drive where data got lost and enables the software to perform scan.
3You need to wait when the software is scanning the drive to search for lost files.
4You can preview the files after scanning.
5Select the files you want to recover and save them to a different storage media.

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