Hard Disk Recovery

Sometimes, we need to format hard drive. As we know, formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for use. If a drive has data on it, formatting the drive will remove all of the pointers to your files.
However, what if we accidentally formatted a drive contains massive important data by mistake? In this case, is it possible to recover data from the formatted drive?

Formatted Hard Drive Data Recovery

As a matter of fact, formatting will not delete data permanently, and deleted data are still stored on the hard drive. And, professional data recovery companies and data recovery software can help to recover lost data after formatting. Here, considering data recovery companies need high recovery fees, we can try using a piece of free yet professional data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Next, let’s see how to use this software to recover lost data after formatting.

Guide to Recover Data from Formatted Drive

1: You need to download this professional data recovery freeware from its official website, install it on computer, and launch it to get its main interface as follows.

2: In this window, you can see 5 different data recovery modules, Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery and CD/DVD Recovery. Here, to recover lost data from formatted hard drive, you can try clicking “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this module is specially designed to recover data from formatted, RAW and damaged partition. In general, as long as partition exists, you can recover lost data with this module.

3: Select the formatted drive and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, all found data are listed in the following window.

4: In this window, select all desired data and then click “Save” button to store them. Note: it is recommended to store recovered data on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten.

See! With MiniTool Power Data Recovery, we can easily, quickly and effectively recover lost data from formatted hard drive without affecting the original data because this tool offers simple interface, excellent performance and high security.