Lost file recovery How to format hard drive partition with diskpart tool?

There are many ways for us to format a hard drive partitions. You can format from an installation disc, repair disc, third-party tools, and disk management. Most of time, we tend to right-click to directly format the hard drive partition or format in the Disk Management. Diskpart is a useful tool for us to solve the disk problems.

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How can we format a partition with diskpart tool?

Type cmd in the search box and click cmd.exe to run as administrator.

Type diskpart and press enter.

Type list disk and press enter. You will see all the listed disk on your computer.

Type “select disk #” and press enter. # is stand for the drive letter of your selected partition. You can distinguish by the listed size. Please make sure that you have chosen the right disk.

Type list partition or list volume and press enter. Then it list all the partition of your hard drive. You can select the partition which you need to format by the size.

Type “select partition #”, # should replaced by the number of the partition you choose.

Type “format” and press enter. You can see the completed percent below. When it shows 100 percent completed, and Diskpart successfully formatted the volume. You should exit from the diskpart.

Type exit and press enter.

Finally, you have removed all the files from your chosen hard drive partition. However, although you have formatted it in the diskpart, you still have chance to recover your lost files from the partition.

If you accidentally format a partition by mistake, do not worry and feel depressed, you should take recovery method as soon as possible.

Los file recovery after format the hard drive partition

Files on hard drive partition that formatted by diskpart tool has not be erased. And if you perform a quick format on the hard drive partition, the files still can be recovered. If you do not want to wipe a hard drive, generally you will not full format it. Therefore a data recovery software is the only way to restore your lost files on formatted hard drive partition.

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Install a hard drive recovery software from the regular website. You’d better to choose a professional software and a paid and copyrighted version to increase the success rate of your data recovery.

Run the data recovery software and choose the mode of Formatted hard drive accidentally.

Choose the partition you have just formatted to scan.

As scanning ends, preview the results and then check the files you need to recover.

Choose the recovery path to save files. You should not save it on the formatted partition or other location where also have a data loss. In all, if you save new data to a location where have data loss, they will replace them so that these deleted files become unrecoverable.