Freeware to retrieve data from formatted disk

Formatted disk data retrieval software

Now, hard disk drives are the most popular and convenient storage media to store or save data. But if these hard disk drives get corrupted, damaged or formatted, they will lead to many hardships.

Many people probably did not know that every hard disk must be formatted before it was available to use. Actually, all the hard disks have already been formatted when they were out from its manufacturers.

When the hard disks were formatted by the manufacturers, what they did the formatting in the "Low level formatting" way, which is different from what we do in Windows. What we usually format disk by mistake or accident is regular formatting or quick formatting, which does not hurt the data, but the address tables. Do not panic, therefore, if you accidentally reformat a disk that has useful data. You can use the data retrieval software to help you. After a long time searching and comparing. I recommend EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. It is a powerful and free tool to retrieve data from formatted disk. In addition, it also provides "Deleted File Recovery" and "Partition Recovery" mode.

To retrieve files from formatted drives, please follow this procedure:

1. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard.

Retrieve data from formatted disk

2. Select the file types you want to recover and then the second screen on the "Complete Recovery" tool will display a list of file types. After choosing the file types, you will see a list of volumes found on the drives in your system. If the volume does not have a drive letter, then the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

3. You should choose the volume that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume.

Choose a volume to retrieve data from formatted disk

4. The Intelligent Searching module will scan on the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes which are possible on it.

Possible partitions to retrieve

Possible partitions to retrieve

5. After this scanning, Data Recovery Wizard will permit you choosing 4 volumes at most to recover the data. And then, press "NEXT" button. The Data Recovery Wizard will launch the "Building directory" procedure to searching the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Possible partition to retrieve

6. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button.

Select files or folders to retrieve

7. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Please see "Complete Recovery" for more details.

NOTE: If the hard disk has mistakenly deleted volumes, hidden volumes, drives with failed operation/file system, you should use "Partition Recovery".

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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