How to recover a formatted disk?
The hard drive saves all your information. Sometimes it happens that you accidentally delete files that are important to you and can not return them. Then you have a number of questions such as how to restore a formatted hard drive? It's pretty easy to do. There are detailed answers to these questions, but before you can restore a formatted disk, you need to understand what exactly is meant by the term "Formatting a disk".
The concept of disk formatting process
Formatting a disk is a system processan operating system that is designed to partition the area on the disk where your information is stored, and by doing this option, you destroy your files. But who said that you delete them physically, you can restore data from a formatted disk, you just need to remember that in no case can you write to this hard drive, because all the previous information will already be not available, even to professionals. With formatting, the system, in addition to deleting your files, also registers them in the hard disk table, detects and cleans the hard drive clusters, marks the damaged blocks, that is, the disk is completely cleaned.
Data Recovery Software
And still, how to restore a formatted disk. In this you will help a huge number of different utilities, programs. I'll give a few examples.
The R-Studio program is designed fordata recovery. The utility has an English-speaking but understandable interface and is very popular among users. To correctly recover data from a formatted disk, you need to disconnect it from your computer and connect to another, because you can not save the recovered files to that formatted "hard drive".
Running R-Studio, you are in the main windowyou can watch all the drives that are installed on your computer. The new hard drive will be designated as a new storage medium. Selecting it with the mouse cursor, from the top of the program window you select the item "Open Drive Files" (this means to open the disk files).
Next, you will see a tree structure where youfind files with a ticked check mark, this means that the files still exist on the disk and can be restored. Then the "Recover" item selects all the files, then the window pops up, where you must specify the path to save the recovered files, click "OK". The process of file recovery begins. After its completion, you will be notified, go to the folder where you saved everything and see your "necessary" files. To more thoroughly check on a formatted disk you will need:
- Return to the main menu of the program, before selecting your "hard drive" again, use the "Scan" command.
- In the next window, tick the boxes corresponding to "Extra search for know files types" and detailed "Detailed" scanning. And click Scan.
- Next, you will see the window of the running process(by the way, the duration of the operation depends on the size of your hard drive so that you need to have patience). The progress of the process is indicated by colored squares.
- After successful completion of the scan in the main window, you again choose your hard drive, where you will already see the files that have been restored.
- Files will have priorities such as"Recognized 0", "Recognized 1", "Recognized 2" means that your files can be almost 100% restored. If the priority is "Extra Found Files", then these files can not be restored. After rebooting all the folders that have been restored, find your deleted files and mark them with a tick and again click "Recover". After a successful recovery, you can watch your "saved" information in the folder where you saved it.
In addition to R-Studio, there are other programs,such as "GetDataBack" and "File Recovery". With the help of these utilities, the question of whether a formatted disk can be restored has become completely solved. They are also easy to use and also perform almost identical functions for restoring data from a formatted disk, the difference is only in the interface.
