How to restore/retrieve data from formatted hard disk drive?

Why to format hard drive or hard disk?

Before we introduce how to restore/retrieve data from formatted hard disk drive, let's begin with format.

Hard drive or hard disk formatting is a process to restructure your hard drive/disk to save new data. Formatting is usually performed when your hard drive gets corrupted due to metadata structure damage, bad sectors, software conflicts, file system corruption, virus infections and more. And a brand new hard drive always requires formatting as well.

However, if there are some important data on the hard disk and you want to restore or retrieve the formatted data, data recovery software will help you this time.

Restore or retrieve data from formatted hard drive/disk with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition

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

Now here is FREE formatted data recovery software, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. It will help you to restore/retrieve data from formatted hard drive or hard disk and recover lost files by many other reasons such as deletion by accident, partition loss, virus attack, etc. It will help you perform partition recovery, email recovery, office documents recovery, photo recovery, file recovery, etc.

Steps to restore/retrieve data from formatted hard drive/disk

1. Chose the "Complete Recovery" module after you launch EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition to restore data from formatted hard disk drive.

Formatted hard drive restore 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/partition that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching it. The Intelligent Searching mode will scan the selected volume

Formatted hard drive restore freeware - scan

4. After scanning, please click "NEXT" so that EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can launch the "Building directory" procedure to searching the formatted data. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

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 restore/retrieve data from formatted hard drive/disk safely

Why not download this free data recovery software to restore/retrieve data from formatted hard drive and experience its features and functionality now?

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