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Recover Data from Formatted Hard Drive
Q: I accidentally formatted my hard drive, which held my hundreds of videos, photos and files. As a result, I could not find them again. Now, anyone can help me to recover files from formatted hard drive?
Right now, I am going to show you how to get lost data back after formatting.
Formatted Hard Drive Data Recovery
As we know, disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.
Note: here, you might be interested in this post: How to Format a Hard Drive with Ease
In a word, formatting just eases the address tables instead of the data, thus you can recover lost data if you mistakenly format a drive.
MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of green, professional, yet free data recovery software developed by famous software development company based in Canada, is recommended here. With this freeware, you can easily recover lost files from formatted hard drive. Detailed steps are shown here.
How to Recover Data from Formatted Hard Drive
Step 1: download MiniTool Power Data Recovery, install it on computer, and then launch it.
Note: never install it on the drive you are trying to recover data. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten and there is no way to recover them.
Step 2: click “Damaged Partition Recovery”.
Step 3: select the formatted hard drive and then click “Full Scan”.
Step 4: choose all needed data and then click “Save” button to store them on a safe place.
See, with a few clicks, you successfully recovered lost data from formatted hard drive.
TIPS: Watch this following video to know more information.
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