How to Recover Data after Formatting Hard Drives

Is It Possible to Recover Data After Format

Usually, when you format a hard drive, the partition table of the hard drive is rewritten. This action will hide the files and remove them from the visible folder without damaging the original files on the disk. That means your files are still kept intact at the original place on the hard disk. And that's what makes data recovery after formatting a hard drive, partition, SD card, or another storage device possible.

Now you know it is highly likely to recover data from a hard disk (or another storage device) after formatting it. Then how can you recover files from a formatted hard disk? Depending on you, recovering data after formatting a device could be tough or easy. We heartily recommend you try an easy way, to use data recovery software.

How to Recover Data After Formatting Hard Drive

The most straightforward way to recover data after formatting a hard disk, partition, SD card, or more is to use hard drive recovery software, like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. This software has attracted many users by its powerful data recovery capacity and stable performance. Here are some features of EaseUS data recovery software:

• Recover from hard drive, partition, SD card, USB flash drive, memory card, and other storage devices.
• Supports deleted file recovery, recycle bin emptied data recovery, lost partition recovery, etc.
• Supports to retrieve file types, like photos, videos, audio files, emails, documents, etc.
• Available in file systems like FAT, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, ex2/ex3, HFS+, and ReFS.

Now download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover data after formatting a hard disk, partition, or any other storage device.

Note: To guarantee a high data recovery chance, install EaseUS data recovery software on another disk instead of the formatted disk. 

Step 1. Choose the formatted hard drive 

Choose the hard drive partition which you've accidentally formatted and click "Scan".

Step 2. Select wanted files

After the scanning process, you can click "Filter" to filter a specific file type to quickly find wanted files. Then use "Other Lost Files" or "Files Lost Original Name", "Tags", etc. in the left pane to locate your files.

Step 3. Recover files to a secure location

Select the data that you wish to recover and click "Recover". Choose a new location to store the files and click "OK".

You can also refer to this video tutorial to get a more intuitive understanding of how to use EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover files after format. 

How to Protect Hard Drive Data

Many users do not make a scheduled backup, because they think that the computer hard drive is safe enough for them to store data. However, in many cases, users could have experienced data loss. Here we list the most common causes.

• Hard drive failures like overheating, water, or fire damage
• Accidental Deletion
• Computer viruses and malware infections
• An unexpected loss of power

If you have faced any of the mentioned situations, your hard drive data might get lost and will be difficult to retrieve. As a result, you can take the following tips to prevent data loss:

1. 1. Save and backup your files regularly to multiple locations.
2. 2. Create an image backup BEFORE the first signs of a hard drive failure.
3. 3. Keep your anti-virus software up to date.
4. 4. Don't open suspicious emails or attachments.
5. 5. Don't delete files you don't know what are, especially system files.
6. 6. Keep your computer clean and dust-free.
7. 7. Don't keep liquids close to your laptop.

Following the seven tips above, you can prevent yourself from most hard drive data loss cases. And if you do need to recover data from a hard drive, you can still seek help from EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

Why Data Recovery Software Is Necessary

"Format" is one of the main ways that lead to data loss on a hard disk, partition, SD card, USB, or other conventional storage devices. There are many situations in which you have to perform "format" in order to make your devices usable again:

• To convert a RAW partition to NTFS
• To remove a virus on your hard drive, SD card, USB...
• To fix errors like "you need to format the disk", "the disk is not formatted", "USB showing the wrong size", and more

In situations like these, it would be greatly helpful to get the data recovery software and rescue the data on the hard disk, partition, or storage device. Besides, since data loss due to formatting, deletion, or misoperations occurs quite frequently, it's well worth equipping your computer with such a powerful tool to rescue your data at the earliest time possible.