What Should I do First after Formatting a hard drive?
Formatted your hard drive by mistake, and didn't back up the crucial data stored on it? The good news is that you still have the chance to unformat a hard drive. Remember, the faster you unformat hard drive, the more chance you'll have to recover your data. Also, after formatting the hard drive, you should keep the following things in your mind:
Don't partition the hard drive
Don't write any data into it
Don't install the Operating System or any program on it
Don't format it again
Don't try any untrusted unformat software to it
When the hard drive is formatted, you can't find any data on it. Actually the data are not really immediately erased out of the drive. They still stays somewhere, in an invisible status and this is because of the space taken by the formatted data is marked as available to reuse. When you write new data in, it will occupy the space for reuse. Then the formatted data is really and permanently cleared, and you can't get it back in any way. Thus, well protecting the formatted hard drive is extremely important, which can determine if you can unformat hard drive or not.
Unformat Hard Drive Recovery Program
As long as you protect your formatted hard drive well, it's quite easily to unformat hard drive and get the vital data back. In order to get professional and secure unformat hard drive software, Recoverit can help you to recover data from formatted hard drive.
Select a recovery scenario that you are planning to recover data from formatted hard drive. If your formatted hard drive is an external device, you should choose "External Devices Recovery". If your formatted hard drive is an internal drive on Windows or Mac, you need to select "Deleted Files Recovery" to recover all files.
Select the formatted hard drive location for recovery
After selecting the recovery scenario, you need to specify the location for scan. If it's your computer's hard drive formatted, you need to seach your whole computer. If it is an external devices, you should select your formatted hard drive location.
Begin to scan
If quick scan cannot find your files, please go to "All Around Recovery", it supports raw file recovery.
Preview and recover
The "All Around Recovery" will take you a bit long time, and you can have a cup of coffee during the time. After the scan, all the recoverable data are found out and listed in categories. You can check them one by one and select those you need to recover.
Note: please don't save it on the source hard drive to avoid data overwriting.
Sue Wayne
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