Recover deleted pictures from formatted drive without data loss

Have you ever been annoyed by deleted pictures from formatted drive? Do not be panic! You can still recover your pictures with data recovery software even if you have formatted the hard disk, either intentionally or accidentally.

About format and picture recovery

Format includes low-level format and high-level format. The latter one is the common format most users execute. Low-level format means the operating system will erase all bookkeeping information on the disk, test the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, mark bad sectors, and create internal address tables for later use to locate information. A disk must be formatted before you can use it. Almost all hard disks that you purchase have already had a low-level format. So it is not necessary to perform a low-level format by yourself unless you want to change the interleave factor or make the disk accessible by a different type of disk controller. While high-level format only erases the data on the address tables. It is a process of writing the file system structures on the disk for storing programs and data. The data area on the disk remains intact. So the data including your pictures could still be recovered after a high-level format.

If you send your computer to computer maintenance services, they will charge you a high fee for repair service and they may cause your computer to lose more data. When you search on internet, you will find data recovery software is highly commended to recover your pictures. Among the data recovery software, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a good choice to recover your pictures lost due to formatted drive. It can not only recover your pictures without data loss but also let you preview the pictures before finishing recovery. Therefore, you can make sure whether the pictures include what you want to recover.

How to recover deleted pictures from formatted drive?

1. Launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition, and choose "Complete Recovery" module, which is designed to formatted data recovery.

   

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 with pictures you want to recover and click "NEXT" to start searching.
4. The volumes where photos loss possibly happens will be listed. You can choose 4 volumes at best to recover. Then press "NEXT" button, and it will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the pictures. You will see file/folder tree very soon.
5. Choose and preview the pictures you want to recover. Press the "Next" button. Then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save deleted pictures.

Now your picture recovery has completed!

If you are running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) & 10.6 (Snow Leopard) & 10.5 (Leopard), please go to see EaseUS Mac data recovery software.

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