Retrieve data from hard drive How to recover lost data from formatted C drive?

Formatting is a good way to solve many kinds of hard drive problems, and to erase the data on partition to make them inaccessible. It’s not very common to format the C drive. If you have to format the C drive, you should be careful. As your operating system is installed there, boot sector and all the programs and user data are placed here, you should back up all the data before you perform the format.

Why you need to format the C drive?

Here are the situations you would like to format the C drive.

You want to reinstall Windows operating system.

The file system is corrupted and you cannot access to the files on C drive.

The system cannot create a new partition.

Virus and malware damage the boot sector on C drive, so you can not boot the operating system from C drive.

The power outage damaged the hard drive.

To format the C drive, you should perform outside the Windows. As the operating system is installed on the C drive, you cannot format within the Windows system. You should use a installation disc or a flash drive to format it.

Before you format the C drive, you should back up all the important data. If you forgot tot back up your data before formatting, or your backups become inaccessible, you may have data loss. If you want to rescue the data, you need to use a good data recovery software.

What you must to do is do not write any data to the C drive after you format it. If you want to recover all your data successfully, you should try to avoid writing any new data to C drive. Any new data written to there will make the data unrecoverable.

Tutorials: How to recover files when the C drive was formatted?

When you find data loss after formatting the C drive, you should response immediately to use the Hdata recovery software to retrieve all the files back.

Download and install the Hdata recovery software on your computer. Run the Hdata recovery software and choose a recovery mode. As you want to recover data on C drive, you should not install and run the software on C drive.

Click the mode of Formatted Hard Drive accidentally to recover data. Click Next.

Choose the Partition C and click next to scan it. Do not interrupt the scanning if you want to get a full recovery.

After the scanning ends, you should choose a recover path to store the data. Notice not choose the C drive, and other location where has a data loss in case the recovery failure may lead to data overwritten.

At last, we suggest you not to format the C drive casually and frequently as it is the system drive to boot the system. And try to avoid accidental formatting when perform other operations on hard drive. Back up your files often is easier than to use a data recovery software to have a recovery.