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How to recover files after quick format?

Need to recover lost files after quick format? Now, don't worry! This article will tell you an easy and safe way to recover your files after quick format. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard provides a best solution for quick format recovery.

What is quick format?

When you are ready to format your partitions, you have two methods to format a partition; you can work with default formatting and other format methods. The difference between the regular format and the quick format is whether the volume will scan the bad sectors by using the chkdsk command or not. The latter will not scan the disk for bad sectors. It is used when your hard disk has been previously formatted and your hard disk is not damaged. All the data will be lost if you perform quick format.

Why could you recover data after quick format?

If you accidentally perform quick format on your hard drive and lose all important files, there are still chances to recover files after quick format. Quick format only rebuild file system, while the data area couldn't be damaged. If you need to perform quick format recovery, a professional data recovery software will help you to recover your lost files after quick format. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a professional data recovery software to recover lost files after quick format, software crash, and other unknown reasons.

How to do quick format recovery?

"Complete Recovery" module built-in Data Recovery Wizard is designed for quick and full format recovery if you want to recover files after quick or full format. If you want to perform quick format recovery to recover files from formatted disk, please follow these steps after running Data Recovery Wizard.

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

Complete Recovery for quick format recovery

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.

Select file types

3. It will display a list of volumes found on the drives in your system. You should choose the volume that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume.

Quick format recovery step 2

Quick format recovery step 3

4. After the 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.

Quick format recovery step 4

Quick format recovery step 5

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

Quick format recovery step 6

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

After the six steps, quick format recovery is finished and you will recover the lost files after quick format.

NOTE: Actually, you can free download the demo version to see if your can recover files after quick format or not. Just perform quick format recovery to recover your important files now.

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