Data recovery after format: How to permanently delete data from hard drive?

There are so many reasons for hard drive format. It may due to your mistaken operation or your intentional format. People tend to format a hard drive or reinstall Windows after getting virus or slow running speed. And when they want to clear all the data on their hard drive, they will just format it to try to erase the data. As the action of format will delete your data on hard drive, you should secure your data and at the same time, take the proper method to format the hard drive.

Can I recover data from a formatted hard drive?

Yes. If you can recover files depends on you adopts a quick format or full format, and if you have written new data to this hard drive.

Quick Format

If you perform a quick format, the data are just deleted from your hard drive. Like the data deletion, with an data recovery software, you can easily get all your data back. The quick format has a quicker speed than full format.

Full Format

Full format will not only erase your data from hard disk, but also produce new boot reformation,rebuild the file system table,check the logical bad sectors. You can repair the bad sectors then.

Whether you choose a quick format or full format, you should take care of your data if you still need them. If you want to permanently erase all the data on your hard drive, you can use the full format.

How to permanently delete data from hard drive?

1. Write enough data to overwritten the raw data. As we know that data will be unrecoverable after they have been overwritten. Therefore, you can delete all the data on hard drive and then write enough data to overwritten the raw data. The drive after the first overwritten will be unrecoverable for data recovery software, but the data recovery experts may still can recover them. So you’d better repeat this action for several times to make your data really unrecoverable. Another simple but crude way is to smash your hard drive to pieces.

2. Use data eraser to clear data. There are many safety software on market with the function of erasing files permanently. This function is called file shredder. The principle is the same as data overwritten. After delete files, the software will overwritten the location with new data. If you try to use data recover software to recover data after they are shredded, you will found that the recovered are junk files.

To permanently delete your files, a safety software with file shredder is a good choice.

How to recover deleted file from formatting?

 If you want to know how to recover data on hard drive after you have deleted them, you can use Hdata recovery software. As long as you have not written new data on the hard disk or you have not shredded the files, you can get your data back. If your lost important data cannot be recovered by software, please ask the Hdata recovery team for help.