subject: Restoring formatted data from Windows Hard Drive [print this page] Restoring formatted data from Windows Hard Drive
Hard drive failure, formatting the hard drive, operating system corruption or an improper system shut down all these reasons may lead to loss of your valuable data. However, you can now recover all your lost data with the help of format data recovery software. The good news is that you can use the recovery software to recover data from hard drive even after formatting it.
Even if you are not able to access your data, the entire lost data that was saved in your system will remain in the hard drive till you overwrite them. Most of the data recovery software has advanced scanning features that allows it to recover lost data from the formatted hard drive of your PC or laptop with windows OS, or even from external hard drives and other removable storage device. The quality of the recovered data will depend on how vigorously you have used the hard drive after you have formatted the drive or lost data. If you have used the drive actively to create or store new information, this could lead to your data getting over written.
To recover hard drive data from your hard drive, remove the hard drive from your system to a healthy system as a slave.
Install the hard drive recovery software to the healthy system. Run the recovery software to recover the data.
Save the recovered data to the healthy system or to a removable storage device.
Before buying the product check the capability of the software by evaluating the trial version of the product.
Choose a product that enables you to preview the recovered data. This will make data recovery faster and efficient
Select a product that can recover data from various other storage devices other than hard drive alone.
