Data recovery from formatted hard drive

I think many people ever have such a bad experience that only when have formatted the hard drive can you realize that you’ve just made a big mistake. Accidentally formatting, reformatting, installing a new operating system will let you lost all your data on the hard drive if you have not realized. Reinstall system is also a kind of formatting. Before you reinstall the system, you must back up your data on the system drive.

Unfortunately, only when we have suddenly realize that there are no backup available can we know how important is back up.

What worse, people often reformat the hard drive partition after the first formatting. So many people will ask that is still possible to recover data from the formatted or reformatted hard drive?

What should you do to retrieve the lost data on the formatted hard drive?

If you only perform a quick format, it’s better than a full formatting. We know that full format will erase the data from the drive so that you will never recover your files. As you just performed a quick format, you can follow the below methods to recover your data.

The key to recover data from the formatted drive

The key to retrieve your data from the formatted hard drive is to avoid data overwritten. After you have formatted the drive, you should not write to the drive if you would like to recover all the data. When the drive is formatted, the data will be deleted by system, so all the data is hidden stored on the drive, waiting to be overwritten by new data. If you do not add new data to replace them, the data recovery software can scan and recover them.

Therefore, if it is the system drive, you should not try to boot from this drive. You can boot from your created boot disk or USB flash drive.

The next step is to use the data recovery software to retrieve the lost data.

Pick the Hdata recovery software

If you lost data on system drive, you should download the data recovery software on another partition to avoid data loss.

Install and run the data recovery software. On the software screen there are three different recovery mode for your choice.

To recover lost files from the formatted hard drive, you need to take the module of Formatted Hard Drive Accidentally.

The software will automatically scan the drive which you choose. After scanning, you can preview the results to find the files you need.

Choose the recovery path to store the recovered files. To avoid data overwritten, you should not select the formatted drive as the recovery path.

If you have tried the data recovery tool and cannot recover your data, it may for your data have been overwritten. In that case, there is no way to recover your data from the formatted drive. Therefore, you should format your drive with caution. If you have to format the drive to fix the serious drive or system problems, you need to back up the data first. Also in daily time, you need to form a good habit to back up your data to other devices.