Recover files after format What are the difference between Full format and Quick format?

Formatting are useful for us to fix many system and software problems.While if you do not back up your data before you perform the format, it will bring you disaster. All your data on the hard drive will be lost after formatting. And there two kind of formatting, one is quick format which is the most commonly used;while the other is full format. What are the difference between a quick format and full format?

Quick format versus Full format

Full format: Full refers to absolute. A full format will completely wipe your data on hard drive so that they will be come unrecoverable. If you want to completely clean your hard drive, you can perform a full format.

Another feature of full format is that it can check the bad sectors on the hard drive so that help to fix the drive. If the full format find the bad sectors on your hard drive, it will try to fix the. If the bad sectors can be fixed, they will be available again. After a full format, all your data on the drive will become unrecoverable.

Quick format: Quick format is the suggested way. It refers to quick. Differ from the full format, it only delete the journal-ling file system. The full format will rebuild the file system, but quick format will not. And it will not scan and fix the bad sectors, erase the data. Therefore, the data on the quick formatted hard drive can be recovered as long as you have not write new data to there to overwrite the raw data.

From above, I still cannot tell you that which kind of format you need to choose. As far as it determined by your purpose to format. The thing you must do before you either perform a quick format or full format is to remember to back up all your data on the drive. If you have backed up your data, you can perform a full format to deeply clean and fix the bad sectors although it may take you more time. It’s necessary to improve your hard drive’s performance, stability and secure your data on the drive. If you only want to fix the inaccessible drive and want to save time, you can take the quick format. If you are using a new and branded hard drive, your drive will have less chance to have bad sectors.

How to recover files after formatting?

As we have mentioned above, full format will completely wipe your drive on the hard drive, so your data will never become recovered. If you only perform a quick format, you have great chance if you have not overwritten the deleted files.

No overwritten is the key for data recovery. You should download and run data recovery software on other partition where have no data loss.

On the Hdata recovery software interface, there is a recovery mode named Formatted Hard Drive Accidentally. Click this button to scan the formatted partition.

After scanning, you can preview the results and then choose the location to store the data.

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