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Restore a formatted hard disk
Have you formatted the computer hard disk drive by mistake once? Generally speaking, files or folders stored on the hard disk may be important or crucial for us. But all of them would be erased off the hard disk drive after the accidental or intentional format. As a result, we need to restore those contents from the formatted hard disk drive. Fortunately, we may be able to get those previous files back after formatting the hard drive quickly.
Example of formatting the hard disk drive by accident
It is a piece of bad news for me that my hard disk drive was formatted by mistake. My brother told me that he formatted the disk in drive E on my computer by error the other day; what's more, all contents stored on it previously were erased off it. The only thing I want to do now is to get those deleted files back. But can you tell me is it possible to retrieve lost information from the formatted hard disk drive? If possible, please show me what the exact way is. Thank you. –Cora from Washington
How to retrieve lost data from the formatted hard disk with data recovery software
We can ask the data recovery software for help to get the lost data from the formatted hard disk drive, as a matter of fact. One thing we should pay attention to is that not to use the hard disk drive such as saving new information on it until the end of files recovery. The following steps can show us how to perform the recovery in detail:
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Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Problems we may meet when use hard disk related to data loss
One of the most terrible situations we may encounter when save information on the computer hard disk drive or read files on the hard drive is the data loss case. It seems inevitable to lose files off the hard disk drive by mistake. I guess that there is no one who wants to meet those accidental data loss problems though we have known that those lost files may be retrieved by data recovery tool. But it does not mean that we can perform lost files recovery with data restoration tool with one hundred percent guarantee. Here are some data loss problems as follows:
1. The hard disk drive is formatted by error. Like Cora in example above, we may meet the accidental format case during the process of using the hard drive. The hard disk may be formatted on our own, or it may be formatted mistakenly by other people. But we so not need to worry after the format case, because we may retrieve those lost files after the format if they are useful.
2. The hard drive shows not formatted error. Have you ever seen such message that you need to format the disk in drive F before you can use it normally? Or we need to format the disk in drive C or other drives? It shows that the hard disk drive is into the not formatted error. We can not access data saved on it previously in that case, but we can try to perform unformatted hard drive recovery to restore files w need.
3. The hard disk drive is infected by virus. Do you know what would happen if the hard disk drive was infected by virus and worms? As a matter of fact, the results of virus infection are more than one and different. For example, the hard drive may become raw file system, or the contents on the hard disk may turn to messy codes, or other consequences. No matter what they are, we can ask data recovery tool for help if files important lost.
4. Other problems concerned to data loss we may meet when use the computer hard disk drive.
Types of files may be restored from formatted hard drive
There are various types of files may be saved on the hard disk drive by us. For example, we may store movies, songs, pictures, word documents, videos, audios, and other files on the hard disk. No matter which types they are, there is an opportunity to get them back after losing them with data recovery tool.
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