How To: Restore Formatted Files

Nowadays, people always inquiry “Is there any way I can restore my files after format? Those formatted files are much important and precious to me and no backup in advance.”  Actually, those unhappy things always happen and people often trouble to find reliable data recovery software to restore those formatted files. Fortunately, EASEUS Software, specializing in data recovery and storage management software, will offer you an easy but best solution to restore those precious formatted files.

What is Format?

If you did not back up files or copy your partitions before format, all the files on the formatted partition would be lost. So, restoring files after format is not an easy task you have to do, especially for those precious and important files. In order to give you thorough knowledge of restoring formatted files, firstly, definition of format is responsible before we go to the solutions.

Usually, disk format, USB drive format, memeory card format and SD card format are much concerned in our life, disk format in particular. From Wikipedia, disk format is the process of preparing a hard disk or other storage medium for use, including setting up an empty file system. When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables for later uses to locate information. Besides, low-level formatting and high-level formatting are involved in formatting a disk, they are respectively:

High-level formatting: a process of writing the file system structures on the disk that let the disk to be used for storing programs and data.

Low-level formatting: a process of formatting disk surfaces and installing characteristics like sector numbers that are visible to, and used by, the disk controller hardware.

Every Hard Disk is required to be formatted before use. While it is not necessary to format your disk through low-level formatting, because it will physically damage the disk and cut short the life of the disk. A high-level formatting will suffice for most purposes by wiping out the control structures and writing new ones. The old information is lost and the disk appears as new after a high-level formatting.

Why formatted files can be restored?

Many computer users only hold such idea in their mind that once the disk has been formatted, the files will never come back. Few people know that formatted files can be restored -unformat. Theoretically, as with regular deletion, data on a disk is not fully destroyed during a high-level format. Instead, the area on the disk containing the data is merely marked as avail (in whatever file system structure the format uses), and retains the old data until it’s overwritten. If the reformatting is done with a different file system than previously existed in the partition, some data may be overwritten that wouldn’t be if the same file system had been used. However, under some file systems (e.g., NTFS; but not FAT), the file indexes (such as $MFTs under NTFS, etc.) may not be written to the same exact locations. And if the partition size is increased, even FAT file systems will overwrite more data at the beginning of that new partition.

Sometimes when you accidentally reformat the computer system or hard disk, it often shows following errors: (these errors are frequently displayed on a black screen with white text)

Operating System not found

Invalid or corrupt FAT

Cannot find file or program

Invalid command.com

Primary/Secondary Hard disk failure

Non system disk

Disk error

Don’t worry; a computer specialist could be able to restore your most vital information from reformatted disk. While if you use the right data recovery software, the lost files can be restored very easily. Success is more or less guaranteed if you do as soon as you realized that the files are missing.

When using data recovery software, the rules following you must remember: make sure that the formatted partition is not overwritten by new content; and you must stop using the disk that contains the files you want to restore; if not, the chance to restore your files is impossible; any data recovery software in market is to no avail. 

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard does a favor?

Are you still frustrated with losing your precious files or data when formatting the disk? Do you still regret not to backup those classic files after format? Or you just lose your cherished things because you cannot afford those expensive data recovery software? If so, good news comes to you now, EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard, with less pay but powerful function, will bring much benefit to you.

Considering your case, Data Recvoery Wizard Complete Recovery is the most comprehensive format recovery software for restoring files after format hard drive for the Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003.

Data Recovery Wizard Complete Recovery can search for formatted partitions on any version of the Windows including - Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista.

Data Recovery Wizard Format File Recovery can restore data in following cases:

·    Unformat partition from hard drives quick or complete formatted on the FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems.

·     Restore files & folders formatted through the Windows Command Line or from DOS.

·     Restore files & folders formatted through disk manager tools, such as EASEUS Partition Manager, Partition Magic.

·     Support localized and long filenames.

Data Recovery Wizard Complete Recovery can restore data from various files types and storage media including:

Hard Drives.
Zip Disks.
Digital camera cards.
USB Drives.
Any other storage device whose drive letter is displayed in Windows "My computer".

With easy and simple procedure, you could restore your formatted files easily; and that is what the magic EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard performs in the experience of restoring formatted files or data.