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Formatted hard drive by accident? Reformatted memory card when PC asks you to format it? SD card formatted twice? External drive was formatted by mistake? If you were trying to find a solution to restore lost photos, work documents, files, emails from the reformatted hard disk drive, there is a solution that could help you recover files from formatted hard disk.
iCare Format Recovery Software is a useful unformat utility which is free to search lost formatted files. It scans your reformatted drive and finds every possible single byte on the sector of your drives and lists them with its special recovery window. You may preview lost photos in the evaluation edition to make sure whether it finds your lost files. http://www.formatted-recovery.com/recover-formatted-partition.html
How could be possible that the reformatted disk drives files are still recoverable? The truth is when formatting hard disk, what has been formatted is the FAT (file allocation table) not the data. System marks different space for different use. And when data is stored on PC hard disk, the whole thing works like a library with index and bookshelf and data self. Usually FAT is the index which marks the storage room of certain files of data storage. Data self was stored in data area. When formatting a hard disk or external drives, PC will not erase the data but mark the location to be vacancy for new data accepting. The only thing that makes your data gone is new data accepted that is what we usually call data overwritten.
There are two levels of formatting, quick formatting and full level formatting, and usually with quick formatting popular whenever you select a partition to do format. Quick formatting is more popular since Windows provides the shortcut to perform quick formatting when you right click your hard disk or external drives, you may see quick formatting there and this makes mistakenly formatting easy happened. When you reload Windows system, there are options for you to format disk before system like XP reloading. The options are quick formatting, regular formatting (sometimes we call full format). Most frequently PC users will select quick formatting to format disk for system reinstallation.
When formatted hard disk, external drives, there is hope to restore files but need help of certain tools like iCare Format Recovery to read data without FAT. Besides recovering formatted drive files, it works to recover formatted memory card, SanDisk SD card, MicroSD card, formatted iPod, iPhone, blackberry For more information about recovering formatted lost files, you may visit here
