Recover Formatted Partition

How to Recover Data from Formatted Partition Easily?

2012-08-21 14:06:52 / Posted by Jerry Cook to Data Recovery
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We often divide a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units. This unit knows as partitions. With multiple partitions, users can separate operating system and program files from user files and can keep frequently used programs and data near each other. However, multiple partitions slow down moving data from one part of the physical disk to another place and make it easy to lost data owning to partition resizing, formatting, etc. When the partitions got formatted, is there any way to recover formatted partition and get back your cherished data?

Generally speaking, the data should be still in PC for hard disk always leaves room for the lost, deleted or formatted data. If the room was not taken by new data, you can get back the data. Therefore, make sure not take use of the PC instantly once formatted partition. Then search for third party formatted partition data recovery program. Here, we recommend useful tools to you. Formatted Partition Recovery software and Formatted Partition Recovery for Mac software are professional partition data restore tools for Windows and Mac users. They can recover photos, video, music files and documents from formatted partition. The programs works very well for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ file system based computer partitions as well as other storage device with those file system. It works perfectly under all Windows operating systems including the latest Windows 8 and newest Mac OS X 10.8.

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How to Recover Data from Formatted Partition (For Windows Users)

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Step 1: Select Formatted Partition and File System to Scan

Download Formatted Partition Recovery and install it in PC. Launch it. You can see the interface with four recovery modes shown there. Select "Formatted Recovery". If you plan to recover computer partition, just highlight proper partition, in the pop up window, select file system of the partition, then click "Scan" to start. If you are going to retrieve other formatted storage devices, first, please connect the device to PC, and then scan the corresponding partition.

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Step 2: Preview Scanned Data

You can see all scanned result listed in the lost files folder. Unfold it to check the specific files. This tool allows you to preview photos and audio files. Check the file in the task list, and you can watch them in the right preview window.

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Step 3: Recover Files and Specify a Destination Path to Save Them

After determining which files you would like to get back, select them by ticking the box before each file and then click "Recover". At last, choose a secure place to save the recovered data. Please do not save them to the formatted partition again.

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Section 2: How to Recover Formatted volume on Mac?

If you are using Mac machine, you need to turn to Mac Formatted Volume Recovery. Following you can find a short guide of how to recover formatted partition on Mac:

Step 1: Select "Lost File Recovery" and choose the volume which was reformatted. Click "Scan".

Step 2: Select the files you need to recover from a file-tree window. Click "Recover".

Step 3: choose a location to save the recovered data instead of that formatted partition.

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