Recover format word docx freeware to get MS word files back

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a free office recovery software for word document recovery, excel document recovery, etc.

Word docx file:

.docx is extension of Microsoft Word document. It is a new XML-based file format appeared in Microsoft Word 2007. This new format is the default format for documents saved by Word 2007. Word 2007 also provides the capability to save files to the binary Word file format used in previous versions.

Two levels of formatting:

Low-level formatting:

Low-level (closer to the hardware) formatting program will mark the surface of the disk with sector numbers and other information to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk controller. This is intended to be the permanent foundation of the disk, and is often completed at the factory. It is not necessary to format your disk through low-level format because it will physically damage the disk and cut short the life of the disk.

High-level formatting:

High-level formatting is a process of writing the file system structures on the disk that let the disk to be used for storing programs and data.

You can format a disk by visiting how to format a hard drive disk.

As with regular deletion, data on a disk is not fully destroyed during a high-level format. Instead, the area on the disk containing the data is merely marked as available (in whatever file system structure the format uses), and retains the old data until it is overwritten. So you still can recover data after format hard drive.

If you formatted hard drive which contains word docx file by mistake, you still have the possibility to recover format word docx file. We recommend you use EaseUS free word docx file format recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. It can do format recovery and recover files from formatted hard drive with original file names & storage paths. In addition, it permit you recover 1GB file free of charge.

How to recover formatted word docx file?

Firstly, please don't write anything on the formatted hard drive which contains word docx file any more. Otherwise, you will overwrite data.

Then, you can use our recover format word docx freeware to recover format docx file. Please following the procedure:

Step 1: Launch Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

EaseUS free word docx file recovery software

Step 2: Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. 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.

Then, you will enter device list to see the partition information on your hard drive. If the partition does not have a drive letter, then the partition will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

Step 3: Select the partition which was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on the partition.

Step 4: The Intelligent Searching module will scan on the selected partition, collect and analyze every Byte on the volume, then show you a list of partitions which are possible on it.

Step 5: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will permit you choosing 4 volumes at best to recover the word docx file.

Step 6: Click "NEXT", Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will launch the "Building directory" procedure to searching the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step 7: choose the file you want to recover to preview.

For a detailed instruction of format word docx files recovery, please follow: How do I recover the files from formatted hard drives?

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