By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
"My hard drive was formatted by myself accidently yesterday, when I wanted to do another operation on files on E drive. How can I do now? I could not fell relaxed to try any ways to recover lost data, because lots of important files are stored on this drive. Is there any effective and safe way or tool for data recovery?"
Disk formatting or erasing does not mean data on disk have disappeared thoroughly. Lost data are just moved to address table. So don't be panic if you format hard drive or partition mistakenly. At first, we can make sure data lost because of disk formatting could be recovered. Then, let's find one powerful tool to recover formatted data from hard drive or partition.
Now take iSunshare BitGenius as an example. You will understand it is your best choice after recovering lost files with it. With easy-to-use interface and simple steps, you can recover files from formatted hard drive easily.
Step 1: Download and install iSunshare BitGenius on your computer.
Step 2: Launch this tool and click the formatted hard drive in the Hard Disk Drives section. Then click Start button on the bottom right corner.
Step 3: The tool starts to scan the files in the formatted hard drive, which may take much time. When finished, a tip of Scan Finished will be shown in the processing bar. All the files and their directories will be shown on the interface.
Step 4: You can check the checkbox next to the formatted hard drive. Then all the files in this hard drive are selected. Click Recover button.
Tips: This tool offers the features of filtering and searching so that you can selectively recover the files that you want from the scanning result. For example, if you just need to recover the photos in the formatted hard drive, you can click Filter button. On the new popup box, check the checkbox of Pictures and then click Apply button. All the photos in the formatted hard drive are shown on the right pane. Check the checkbox of photos and click Recover button.
Step 5: After clicking Recover button, you need to select a location to store the recovered files. Note that you need to make sure that the destination has enough free space to store the recovered files.
Step 6: When the files are restored successfully, a tips box will pop up prompting that data recovery is completed and asking you if open the recovery folder. Click Yes button and you will see all the lost files are recovered from the formatted hard drive successfully. That's all.
Tips: This software can save the scanning process, when you scan the same location next time, this software will ask you whether to recover your lost data from the record, which can skip the scanning process saving much time.
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