Free format recovery software to restore formatted files

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 are scratched), and creates internal address tables for later use to locate information. Every Hard Disk should be formatted before use.

But sometime when you accidentally reformat the computer system or hard disk, it often shows following errors: (these errors are frequently displayed on a black screen with white text)

• Operating System not found
• Invalid or corrupted FAT
• Cannot find file or program
• Invalid command.com
• Primary/Secondary Hard disk failure
• Non system disk
• Disk error

Do not panic if you accidentally reformat a disk that has useful data. Note that reformatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables. A computer specialist should be able to recover your most vital information from reformatted disk. You can also try using Windows data recovery software, to recover data from reformatted disk.

Free format recovery software

As a powerful and free format recovery software, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is able to restore files when you formatted drive no matter quick format or complete format, or reformat twice... It is also able to fix format related partition problems like drive has not been formatted, do you want to format it now error. And it is featured with simple to use interface and no technical skills to handle the data recovery by yourself.

Key Features:
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can perform format recovery in following data loss cases:

• Unformat the FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions from formatted hard drives via quick or complete format.
• Recover files & folders formatted through the Windows Command Line or from DOS.
• Recover files & folders formatted through disk manager tools, such as EaseUS Partition Master, Partition Magic.
• Support localized and long filenames.
• restore files when partition has not formatted error.
• restore files from reformatted drive.
• recover files from formatted external hard drive(Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate...), memory card, flash card, USB drive...
• recover files from formatted memory card, pen drive, flash memory...
• recover files quick formatted partition, complete formatted drive, even format twice.
• fix File system RAW and restore files.
• chkdsk is not available for raw drives.
• disk space shows 0 bytes.
• Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista/2003/2008/Windows 7 format recovery.

Data Recovery Wizard can recover data from various files types and storage media including:

• Hard Drives.
• Zip Disks.
• Digital camera cards, memory card, pen drive, flash memory.
• USB Drives and external hard drive.
• Any other storage devices whose drive letters are displayed in Windows "My computer".

How to recover files from formatted drive with free format recovery software?

1. Download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition first and launch it. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard.

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. The second screen on the "Complete Recovery" tool will display a list of volumes found on the drives found 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 "*".

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

5. 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.

6. After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will permit you choosing 4 volumes at best 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.

7. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button.

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

Besides unformat hard drive, Data Recovery Wizard can also recover deleted files, recover files from lost or deleted partition and recover lost data due to virus infection, software crash, unexpected shutdown and other unknown reasons.

 

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