Free Format Recovery

Prepare a storage medium, usually a disk, for reading and writing. When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information. You must format a disk before you can use it.

Note that reformatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the data on the address tables. Do not be panic, however, if you accidentally reformat a disk that has useful data. A computer specialist should be able to recover most, if not all, of the information on the disk. You can also buy programs that enable you to recover a disk yourself.

The previous discussion, however, applies only to high-level formats, the type of formats that most users execute. In addition, hard disks have a low-level format, which sets certain properties of the disk such as the interleave factor. The low-level format also determines what type of disk controller can access the disk (e.g., RLL or MFM).

Almost all hard disks that you purchase have already had a low-level format. It is not necessary, therefore, to perform a low-level format yourself unless you want to change the interleave factor or make the disk accessible by a different type of disk controller. Performing a low-level format erases all data on the disk.

The Complete Recovery Module is designed for data recovery from formatted partition, crashed file system without drive letters.

First of all, select the file types you want to recover and then you will see a list of all the partitions found from all your Hard Disk. All of your partitions are arrayed by the drive letters. For each one listed here, the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition displays a number of statistics, including the volume label, the type of file system, the capacity, and its information. Once you have identified the partition from which you want to recover data, select the partition and then press "NEXT" to begin "Intelligent Searching". (If you are familiar with file system details, you can change "Option" before pressing the "NEXT" button).

The Intelligent Searching will scan the selected partition, collect and analyze every byte on the partition, then show you a list of partitions possible on it. In default state, the partition that was suggested in High was chosen. And the others are not chosen. This will give you a good idea that which partition will yield the best results. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button, you will have your lost file recovered from formatted partitions within minutes.

Compared to other free data recovery software, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can do format recovery and recover files from formatted with original file names & storage paths. Furthermore, it can recover files from FAT&NTFS file system as well as EXT2/EXT3 file system under Windows and support dynamic disk & hardware RAID recovery. In other words, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is fully-functional data recovery software. Please read the instructiion: How to recover files from formatted hard drives?

Features

• Recover 1GB data free of charge.
• Recover files from formatted partition with original names and storage paths.
• Recover files from raw, corrupted partition.
• Recover FAT&NTFS files as well as EXT2/EXT3 files under Windows.
• Recover office document, photo, image, video, music, email, etc.
• Recover .JPG, .JPEG, .DOC, .XLS, .MP3, .AVI, .PST, etc.
• Support dynamic disk and hardware RAID recovery.
• Intelligent search to find any possible file system on hard drive.
• Powerful search file function after scanning.
• Create a disk image of the current status of your hard drive.
• Continue previous recovery without rescan.
• Change the settings of "Option" to recover files as your need.

Other Recovery Module

There are other two modules in EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. Each is designed for specific scenarios.

• If you want to recover deleted files or lost files even emptied from Recycle Bin, please turn to Deleted File Recovery module.
• If you want to recover files from mistakenly deleted or lost partition, please turn to Partition Recovery module.

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