How to recover photos from formatted hard drive?

Have you lost the only copies of precious photos because you accidently format your hard drive or your hard drives memory cards, digital cameras? The problem like this actually puzzles many of us, and we always regret formatting hard drive which makes our precious photos gone.

But, things always have solutions. Here I will provide the way to recover photos from your formatted hard drive.

Cause of photos loss

This terrible thing really happened on my best friend. He intended to clear partition by format after his computer was attacked by Panda Burning Incense and the antivirus software was disabled at that time. Actually it's a good method to save the machine, but he didn't notice that My Document actually was under partition D; he thought it would be safe to his document, so he pressed "OK" after the warning shown.

Process of recovering photos from the formatted hard drive

The result is obvious. His precious photos of his family all were deleted. He was very sad and looked for the way to recover the photos all the day. At the end, he happened to read some articles and testimonials about the software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard when he searched in Google intending to find out a method to retrieve deleted photos from formatted hard drive.

"THANK YOU SO MUCH EaseUS!
I accidently deleted my photos and EaseUS Data Recovery software was my rescue!
EaseUS Data Recovery software saved my photo partition with 6 Years of semi-pro photography work. THANK YOU!
Jonas Angermund"

My friend had a try. He downloaded the demo version to be sure he can preview the deleted photos and exported searching results. Then he bought a full copy and imported the searching results, which saved the time of re-searching. What a magic thing! All his photos had been recovered. He wants to share with us.

Steps to recover photos from formatted hard drive with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is professional photo recovery software which could search for and recover lost photos due to format, deletion or partition loss from many kinds of storage media such as hard drive, External(Removable) hard drive, USB flash drive, digital camera, memory stick, SD card, etc. under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7and recent released Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1. Here are the steps to retrieve deleted photos from formatted hard drive.

Step A: Launch the software, and choose a module according to the reason for jpg photo loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for deletion restore, "Complete Recovery" is for formatted restore, and "Partition Recovery" is for photo recovery when partition is lost or corrupted.

Here we should choose "Complete Recovery" to recover deleted photos from formatted hard drive.

Step B: 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.

Step C: Choose the volume where there were photos and click "NEXT" to start searching, and then we will see a list of volumes where photos loss possibly happens. After that, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you to choose 4 volumes at best to recover. And then, press "NEXT" button, it will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the photos. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step D: Choose and preview the photos that we want to recover and press the "Next" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save deleted photos.

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is not only software used to recover photos from formatted hard drive, but also could be used to recover office document, video, music, email, etc. under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7 and recent released Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Are you trapped with photo loss and want to recover them? Would you like to use the demo version of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to scan and preview photos then export the results? When you order the full version, you just import the results of recovering deleted photos from formatted hard drive and can began to recover.

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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