How to recover files from formatted drive?
We usually format hard
drive to prepare storage device to execute read and write operations. Format is also done while upgrading the
operating system, due to virus attack, software malfunction or while
repartition the drives. If you format your hard drive without a backup you will
face data loss from hard drive. In such cases you will not be able to access
the stored files from the hard drive.
However, even if you lost files from hard drive still you can recover
files from formatted drive by using any advance formatted hard drive
recovery application.
If you format your hard
drive without making a backup of the stored data it do not gets removed
completely from the drive. Only the pointers to the files get deleted from the
file directory. But still the deleted data will be available in the hard drive
unless until it gets overwritten by new files. There is much recovery software
available in the market to restore files. While selecting a program ensure the
selected software is compatible with your Operating System, if you are using
Mac OS select good Hard
drive recovery program.
Steps for successful
recovery:
·
Immediately
stop using the formatted drive until you restore files from it.
·
Do not try to
install any new restore application to the formatted disk this might lead to
overwrite your deleted or lost data by new files.
·
Once after
format, do not attempt to restart the hard drive this could lead to permanent
data loss.
·
Select a good
restore application for restoring files form formatted drives.
·
You can select
the utility by searching for data restore utility on the internet. Before
finalizing the application makes sure the utility is capable to recover files
from formatted hard drive.
·
Evaluate the
free demo edition of the application to check the capability of the application
in restoring deleted files.
