How to Retrieve Files from Formatted Hard Drive?

• Simple yet powerful tool to recover data from formatted hard disk drives, pen drives, memory cards, and other mass USB storage drives
• Supports all types of the disk file system - FAT16, FAT 32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS 5, HFS, HFS+, etc.
• Available in free demo edition that recovers data and avails a free preview of the recovered files even before activating the compleete version of the software
• Comes in both Windows & Mac versions that is compatible with the latest Windows & Mac OS X

Formatting of a hard drive is either performed intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes hard disk may get infected by virus & due to it the response time of the systems gets increased. Most of the users don’t like their PC when there is a slow response. So in order to make the system work fast, they format the hard disk and reinstall the OS.

Formatting is the best method that could help the user to get rid of the unwanted data. Audios, Videos, Photos, documents, files, etc. are all part of the data. After sometimes this data might become useless and you might feel to get rid of it. Hence, the deletion of file one by one will take much longer time if the hard disk is of large size. Better to opt for the formatting the hard disk.

What formatting actually does is, it clears all the pointers gives access to the data in the hard disk and gives you the fresh copy of files system. NTFS & FAT are the two file systems used in the hard disk to keep the tracks of the data stored in the drive. So far you have seen the intentional formatting of the drive but what if you want to get back the formatted data. For example, if you have formatted the NTFS partition and want to restore formatted NTFS partition then? In order to recover the formatted partitions, just use the Formatted Partition Recovery Software

Easily bring back formatted data from HD drives

To retrieve files from the formatted hard drive will not be a difficult task if you are using some recovery tool. To retrieve files from a formatted hard drive the very first measure that you need to take is to avoid performing any task on the HDD. The overwriting of the data will be avoided and it will be kept safe i.e. because the fresh copy of files system is generated and the data is still present in there. Learn more reasons for formatting the system-

• Error message: – Sometimes you might be encounter an error- "The Disk Drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?” and unwillingly you have to format the disk which ends up with huge file loss
• Logical failure: – This is yet another reason which compels a user to format the HDD. This results in deletion of the files via formatting which has to be done due to inaccessible hard disk

So if you come across any of such situation then just don’t worry as this is very common to occur. If you have formatted the hard disk and want the data back then just use the HDD Recovery Software.

Steps to retrieve files from a formatted hard drive

Step 1: Launch the Recover Formatted Partition program on your system. Select Recover Partitions option.

Step 2: Choose the formatted drive partitions and click on the Scan button to trigger the data recovery process.

Step 3: The software performs a scan and extracts all formatted data in no time.

Fig 3: Select Drive

Step 4: All the recovered files are presented on the screen. Files can be viewed in any of the Data View or File Type View.

Step 4: Click on any file item in the list to preview.

Step 5: Save the files to a destined location on your computer.