How To Get Back Formatted Data
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How to get back formatted data

software consultant
"Formatted my hard disks accidentally, can I get back my lost important data?"

Of course you can.

We have all ever been in such a situation that we format hard disk, USB, memory card and other kinds of storage for data without back up. We can not help feeling frustrated and what we want is only to get back formatted data as soon as possible.

Why can get back formatted data?
Actually, format does not erase the data, which just re-write the disk again with the number 0 as the content of the data, which is called covering. So, we still have an opportunity to recover all data from formatted hard disk so long as there is no new data being written on after formatting. It's an incredible thing that we want to get back formatted data before. However, it becomes an easy thing for we can find many kinds of data recovery software. So once you found you accidentally formatted hard disk, please make sure that the formatted hard disk is not overwritten.

It's recommended that install data recovery tools on other partitions apart from the partition where you lost data to avoid overwriting the formatted hard disk. And then do the following 3 steps to get back formatted data by using Wondershare Data Recovery:


How to get back formatted data?

step1. Scan the formatted hard disk
There're four options for recovery on the interface. Choose the second one: Format Recovery, and then select the partition you have formatted. Next, you can select the file system for your formatted hard disk or just left as Auto Detect.

step2. Choose target files
All recoverable files on the formatted hard disk will be listed here. You can choose one file or folder you want to recover, and you can also choose to recover all.

step3. Select a path to save recovered data
It's highly suggested that you never select a path that is located in the formatted hard disk that you're searched data from, or it would eventually overwrite the source data.
After this step, you will find you succeed in getting back formatted data amazingly.

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