Hard Disk Recovery

Have you ever formatted your hard disk drive mistakenly? As we know, once a partition is formatted, we are unable to access to data stored on it? Therefore, more and more users are eager to know whether they can recover data after format. For instance:

I stored massive important files (pictures, music and some studying data) on my hard drive partition. However, I mistakenly clicked “Format” button, and all of my data on this partition were lost. (as shown below)Under this situation, what should I do? Can I recover lost data after format without affecting the original data?

Overview of Recovering Files after Formatting

In general, to recover lost data, we need to know some information about formatting at first.

As we know, disk formatting contains low-level formatting and high-level formatting. The former is often performed by hard disk manufacturers while the latter is made by users themselves. High-level formatting just clears data on hard disk, generates boot information, initializes FAT, and labels logical bad sectors when the partition has existed. Thus, formatting will not delete data permanently, and deleted data are still stored on our computer.

As a matter of fact, if users don’t care about money and data security, they can resort to professional data recovery companies to recover lost data.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of green, professional and concise data recovery software, can help to easily recover lost data after formatting. Besides, with this data recovery software, we can recover lost data without affecting the original data since it is a read-only tool which can keep data safe all the time even in case of sudden power outages.

How to Recover Data after Formatting

In the beginning, we need to launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery to get its main window as follows.

In the main window, we can select the “Damaged Partition Recovery” to recover lost data after formatting since this module is specially designed to recover data from formatted, damaged and RAW partition.

At this time, select the target formatted partition and click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, we can get the following interface.

In this interface, we are supposed to select all desired data and then click “Save” button to store them on a safe place. Note: it’s recommended to store recovered files on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten.

Thus, we have finished recovering lost data after formatting.

If you format you hard drive by mistake, please don’t worry and you can try using MiniTool Power Data Recovery. With this professional data recovery software, you can easily and quickly recover lost data without affecting the original data. In general, as long as files loss is not caused by hardware failure and lost files are not overwritten, we can recover them with this professional data recovery software. If you want to get further understand of this professional tool, please see Check Out This Way To Recover Files From Formatted Hard Drive.