A hard drive is a basic digital storage device that can store data on you computer or laptop. Formatting is the process of making the hard disk drive ready for its use by an operating system i.e. Windows or Mac, generally including the formation of a file system. To create multiple file systems on the same hard drive you may divide the disk into various sections called as partitions.
Some times, you may accidentally format of reformat partitions, which results in data loss. In this case, data can be recovered by using data recovery software utilities available in the market. This software can be used because the data is not actually deleted / lost even after formatting, reformatting or re-partitioning hard drives. The operating systems scans the drives and recreates the partition table so that the pointers to the data that is residing on the disk is lost but the data is still on the drive until it gets overwritten by new data as it is marked as available by the operating system. Windows / Mac operating system does not provide any in-built recovery options to recover data from formatted partition. Fortunately, there are many recovery software are available now a days, and one of them is the formatted drive recovery software. This software is very secure and reliable read-only software, which has the following features:
- An user friendly interface, which guides you through each and every step of recovery
- Supports various storage devices, which include hard disks, memory sticks, USB drives, flash drives, zip drives and external HDD etc
- Ability to preview the recovered files before saving them
- Can easily recover data from formatted, corrupted, deleted or lost partitions
- In case of bad sectors it provides disk imaging options
- Recovered data can be stored on any accessible drive, or it can be directly burnt to a CD / DVD