How to Recover Files from Formatted Hard Drive (Video Tutorial Supported)

Formatting hard drive is a way to free up drive space and fix some problems. However, if you find you lost the files after a hard drive format, you may get a heavy headache.

Format Drive Recovery

Do not worry, and we get the remedy for your headache.

In this tutorial, we will show you a gull guide to recover deleted or lost files from formatted hard drive.

• Part 1. Formatted hard drive recovery from Data Recovery (video tutorial)
• Part 2. How to recover data from formatted hard drive
• Part 3. Tips of formatting hard drive

1Formatted hard drive recovery from Data Recovery (video tutorial)

I also formatted my hard drive somehow last time. This hard drive held my hundreds of photos, videos and files. Can I recover data from formatted hard drive? My computer is Windows 7.

Yes.

When you lost your files from a formatted hard drive, you can recover the drive data after format.

As a matter of fact, the data in the external hard drive may get recovered as long as they are not overwritten.

Note: So remember the more changes you have made, the less chances you have for data recovery.

What you need is the data recovery software.

Aiseesoft Data Recovery is the formatted hard drive recovery program that will help you exactly.

• Recover data from hard drive that is formatted, crashed, deleted, virus attacked, etc.
• Restore inaccessible or hidden data from hard drive, RAW hard drive, RAW partition, data system damage, partition loss, etc.
• Get back media files like images, videos, audio files, etc.
• Find back documents like DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, PDF, CWK, HTML/HTM, INDD, EPS, etc.
• Retrieve other data like Emails, ZIP, RAR, SIT, and other useful data.
• Undelete data from memory card, computer, flash drive, digital camera camcorder, removable drives, etc.
• Compatible with data recovery on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP (SP2 or later).

Check the video tutorial to get the formatted hard drive recovery.

2How to recover data from formatted hard drive

You can also refer to the following description to get the data recovery with detailed steps.

1Free download, install and run this software on your computer.

2 Scan data

In the main interface, you need to select the data type and hard drive for scanning.

For the file type, you can find image, audio, video, Email, document and others. Tick the data types that you want to recover.

For the hard disk drive, just checkmark the drive where you want to extract the files.

Then click "Scan" to start to scan the formatted drive.

3Recover data from formatted hard drive

After the scan is done, you can find all data are categorized data type. Select the data type, and click the folder to see all the files. For viewing the data details, you need to choose and click "Recover" to save the deleted or lost data from formatted hard drive to computer.

If you format your Mac, try to recover deleted file from Mac here.

3 Tips of formatting hard drive

Whether you want to format a hard drive for converting FAT partitions to NTFS, or just want to get more space on your computer, you should bear the following points:

1. Backup computer data to other hard drives or external drive.

2. If you are prompted to format external hard drive, then you had better repair the error for avoiding the format error. Read this post to fix memory card error.

3. Format in the exact steps to avoiding the data loss:

1Click "Computer" on your desktop, navigate your hard drive, right-click the drive, and select "Format".

After the scan is done, you can find all data are categorized data type. Select the data type, and click the folder to see all the files. For viewing the data details, you need to choose and click "Recover" to save the deleted or lost data from formatted hard drive to computer.

2You are able to select the file system for drive from NTFS (Default) or FAT32.

FAT32 file size support tops out at 4GB and volume size tops out at 2TB, while NTFS is limited by design to 16EB (Exabytes).

If you need the drive for a Windows-only environment, NTFS is the best choice.

If you run non-Windows system like a Mac or Linux box, then FAT32 will give you less agita, as long as your file sizes are smaller than 4GB.

Then click "Start" to format your hard drive.

During the formatting process, you just need to wait patiently.

When you hard drive is external drive like SD card, you can refer to this post to format SD card.

Now, it is your turn

This page is working on showing you how to recover data from formatted hard drive, and tips of formatting drive. You can get the 100% recovery from your formatted hard drive if you follow the advice.

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