How to unformat IDE/SATA drive with free hard drive data recovery software?

IDE / SATA drive and unformat IDE/SATA drive

IDE/SATA are types of hard drive interfaces which connects hard disk drive to the processor and memory. Personal computers have the following types of interfaces: IDE, SATA, Micro SATA, USB, FireWire, SCSI, SAS, PCMCIA, PCI, and Network. IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a standard type of connection for storage devices in a PC. SATA (Serial ATA), a serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the defacto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades.

While fallacious drive format often happens, intentionally or unintentionally, and IDE/SATA hard drive is so commonly used, an easy-to-use and free unformat IDE/SATA drive data recovery software is under the requirement by most computer users. Among those free unformat IDE/SATA drive data recovery software on the market, we find EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is most recommendable free unformat IDE/SATA drive data recovery software.

Freeware to unformat IDE/SATA drive - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a FREE, fast and safe solution for you to unformat IDE/SATA drive and recover your document files, lost images, photographs, and digital clippings etc; it can unformat FAT/NTFS, EXT2/EXT3. The free data recovery software provides easy and quick data recovery solutions to recover deleted files, formatted files pictures, audio, video files and any other files from your IDE/SATA drive. This free formatted hard disk recovery software support IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB, Fire wire (IEEE1394) hard drive and other media such as memory card/stick, SD card, USB flash drive, digital camera, digital audio player etc. Supports picture/photo recovery, office files recovery (word, excel, ppt, etc.), financial files recovery, etc.

How to unformat IDE/SATA drive?

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition provides three modules for data recovery under different situations: deleted file recovery, complete recovery and partition recovery. To unformat IDE/SATA drive, complete recovery module is the right choice:

1. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition; Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition - free unformat IDE/SATA drive software

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. After choosing the file types, the interface will display a list of volumes found on the drives. You should choose the formatted volume that you want to recover and click "NEXT" to start searching this volume.

Choose the formatted IDE/SATA drive volume

4. The Intelligent Searching module will scan the selected volume, after this scanning is finished, press "NEXT" button. The Data Recovery Wizard will launch the "Building directory" procedure to search the files.

Scan the formatted IDE/SATA drive

5. You will see file/folder tree soon. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button to save data.

You can free download the unformat IDE/SATA drive software now with the detailed instructions to have a fair idea whether your lost files can be recovered from your formatted IDE/SATA drive. Apart from unformat IDE/SATA drive, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard also supports recovering files from SCSI, USB, Fire wire (IEEE1394) hard drive, hardware RAID, SD and Memory Cards, etc.

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