Reasons to Format A Drive and How to Recover Files from Formatted Drives

Formatting is the procedure of preparing the storage medium for writing information and this mainly involves establishing a blank file system for new data that would be written later. Formatting a hard drive can be easily done nowadays. In Windows, you can perform a quick format with the built-in tool by right-clicking on the drive letter and select format...

We have discussed the different types of formatting and what they each aim to accomplish. Today we look into the different reasons why we would perform a disk formatting.

Reasons to Format A drive

Since formatting involves removing all the existing files and installed applications that is present on the hard drive, it is important to have a good reason before thinking about this option.

1. Your Computer Won’t Start
We sometimes receive warnings like "Non-System disk or disk error，replace disk and press a key to reboot"; "Error Loading Operating System". Errors like this are likely caused by viruses - viruses that attack and corrupt boot sectors and partition tables and paralyze your system, making it unable to boot. You can do little about this but to repair the partition table by formatting the disk and pay more attention to viruses in the future.

2. Hard Drives Riddled with Errors
Errors like “Location is not available - Access Denied” or “Hard drive/disk is not formatted” can be caused by various reasons.If there are a lot of errors and virus problems in the system, we might consider a disk formatting to cleanse the drive, which should work in these circumstances as it wipes out all the data on the computer which includes the viruses and the corrupted files. 

Sometimes it is easier to format your computer then try and find a solution. The trade-off is that you will lose all your files if you are not able to make a backup. However, with certain tools, we could easily recover data from formatted disks. We will talk about that later.

3. Remove All Files
Formatting is the easiest way to delete all the unwanted data and saves a lot of time. It will delete files that you didn’t even know existed. Sometimes the computer might be filled with a lot of temporary files that are hard to locate and delete. In this case, formatting the hard drive might be the easy way out to get a fresh system. Before formatting, make sure you backup of files that you need first.

How to Recover Files Delete by Quick Format

We might be able to fix various problems by formatting the hard drive, but what about the files that are deleted during the process? What if we never had the chance to make a proper backup? 

Hdata Recovery Software is the preferred software to recover formatted drives . It is simple and easy to use yet fully featured and powerful. Not only can it save your formatted disks but also salvage emptied Recycle Bins or recover lost partitions.

Performing data recovery with Hdata Recovery Software is just within a few clicks. Please proceed as follows:

Step 1. Go to our website and download the software with free trials!

Step 2. Install and Launch Hdata Recovery Software and select "Formatted Hard Drive Accidentally"

Step 3. Select the partition where your files used to be before they get deleted. Click Next to start the scan process. It only takes few seconds!

Step 4. When scanning is done, you will be able to see all the files that can be recovered. Check the files you wish to recover and click next to start the recovering process. If the scanning process failed to find your lost file, try our new feature "Universal Recovery". It is a special module that scans deeper and quicker into the storage and locates all deleted files.