How to unformat files with unformat utility

People always say, don't cry over spilt milk, because nobody can change what has been a fact but just regret. However, if we operate mistakenly on computers, we can rescue it now, such as, deletion, format, etc. which will lead to data loss. Here I take files unformat for example.

We format a new hard disk to prepare it for use, including setting up an empty file system, while 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. Also we perform format when we want to clear content of a hard drive or arrange the great amount of files in the hard disks such as photos, videos, emails, etc. Format really helps us a lot to clear chaos, but what should we do if we find something important or not backed up are lost after format? This will make us feel troubled.

Exciting news comes to us that we don't need to worry about format lost files from now on, a reliable data recovery software to unformat files to recover format lost files will do us a favor even if we know little about computer. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, an easily-used and cost-efficient format recovery utility to unformat files, can recover format lost files from formatted FAT, NTFS hard disk, partition, USB drive, SD card or any other storage media which we could see in "My Computer".

Rules to unformat files from formatted disk

To unformat files from formatted disk is not an easy but highly technical task. In order to ensure high-quality file recovery, following rules must be noted:

Don't partition it again;

Don't format again;

Don't write files to it;

No reinstallation;

Unformat files from formatted disk

As far as unformat files is concerned, some unformat utilities in early time applied some methods by which users were not able to recover format lost files completely. Now, we can choose a professional data recovery software, that is, EaseUS Date Recovery Wizard - an efficient unformat utility to recover format lost files completely. We just need to download it and run "Complete Recovery" module to achieve the goal.

Complete Recovery to Unformat Files

Select the file types you want to recover. Tick 'Search lost files by types' to find specific lost file types. Tick 'Ignore bad sectors' to skip bad sectors when scanning.

Select file types

Choose Partition to Unformat Files

The software will scan the disk for directory entries. After scanning, we can view files and folders structure in the search result screen, and click the "Preview" item to preview files we search. If yes, we could unformat files successfully. The last but not least is saving the files.

Recover Format Lost Files after Scan

After what we discuss above, it is never difficult for us to unformat files to recover files after format with unformat utility. Data Recovery Wizard will help us to unformat files.

The free demo version of the Data Recovery Wizard helps us to identify the format lost files before we decide to purchase. If we can review the format lost files, just try it without any worries behind because EaseUS Software provides complete refund in 30 days if the unformat utility can't solve our problem.

 

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