How to recover data with formatted drive data or file recovery freeware?

How can I recover data from formatted drive?

Many people search methods to recover formatted data after they format hard drives by accident. Some people may ask for assistance from data recovery service center; while others may seek some data recovery software to restore formatted files among much same-type software. However, they may not know which one should be chosen at all to do a formatted drive data or file recovery. Before I introduce a reliable formatted drive data file recovery freeware, we should learn something about format.

What is format?

If you do not back up files or copy your partitions before format, all the files on the formatted partition would be lost. So, format recovery is not an easy task to do, especially for those who know little about computer. In order to give you thorough knowledge of formatted data file recovery, definition of drive format is responsible before the instruction to restore formatted files from hard disk drive.

Usually, hard disk drive format is much concerned in our life, disk format in particular. From Wikipedia, disk format is the process of preparing a hard disk drive or other storage medium for use, including setting up an empty file system. When you format a disk, the Operating System erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables for later uses to locate information. Besides, low-level formatting and high-level formatting are involved in formatting a disk, they are respectively:

High-level formatting: a process of writing the file system structures on the disk that lets the disk to be used for storing programs and data.

Low-level formatting: a process of formatting disk surfaces and installing characteristics like sector numbers that are visible to, and used by the disk controller hardware. Usually, data lost due to low-level formatting cannot be recovered.

Formatted drive data file recovery freeware helps you recover formatted data files

Fortunately, people always use "Quick Format". As we know, quick format will not hurt the original files in hard drive. The procedure of format is just to rewrite the table of partition. That means the files are still at the original place after quick format. This offers opportunities to recover data after format from hard drive/disk for who want to perform formatted drive data recovery.

Now here is formatted drive data file recovery freeware: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. It will help you to recover formatted data and recover lost files by many other reasons. It will help you do hard drive/disk recovery, partition recovery, email recovery, file recovery, picture and photo recovery, etc.

Steps to recover formatted drive data files

1. Chose the "Complete Recovery" module after you launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

Formatted drive data file recovery freeware - main window

2. Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search all lost files automatically' to find all lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

3. Choose the volume that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching this volume. The Intelligent Searching mode will scan the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes on which lost data is possibly existed.

Formatted drive data file recovery freeware - scan formatted drive

4. After this scanning is finished, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will allow you choosing 4 volumes at best to recover data files after format. And then, press "NEXT" button.

5. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

After the four steps mentioned above, you can recover formatted drive data files successfully. You can download this formatted drive data file recovery freeware to understand its powerful data recovery features and functionality.

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