Important Tips before Recovering Data from Formatted Disks

Human error is one of the main causes of data loss. People try to format their hard disks for various reasons: convert from FAT to NTFS or set up a empty file system for a "new feeling". Sometimes it's just a click on the wrong button. 

Formatting by accident is frustrating especially when you never had the chance to backup useful files. After a accidental formatting people may choose a professional data recovery company for help, or search for some data recovery software to attempt a rescue. Either way, here are some important tips before you recover data from formatted disks.

1. Do not shut down or restart your computer. People may panic when unexpected error occurs. They often try to solve the problem by turning it off and on again. But it won't help in this case. When you high-level format a disk, the operating system only erases data on address table. All your files are still there, marked as inaccessible and ready to be overwritten. By restarting computer, the OS may overwrite those files with newly generated data.

2. Cease operating the computer. Similar to the above point, new data may overwrite into the formatted disk, resulting in file corruption or data loss.
Use another computer if you want to search for any data recovery software or related solutions.

3. Do not run dskchk. After formatted your disk, system may ask you if you want to run dskchk to check disks. Normally, running dskchk will list and correct minor disk errors. It will not help you recover lost data.

4. No defragmentation. Why would you defrag a emptied, accidentally formatted disk anyway? It may add to the difficulty by removing data information needed to perform a successful recovery.

5. Save recovered data on another partition or another disk. If you save recovered data onto the formatted one, they may overwrite the old ones, causing permanent data loss.

6. Take immediate action! Whether you turn to professional data recovery services for help or try one of those data recovery software, the sooner you act the more successful your recovery would go.

How to recover lost data?

If you are in the good habit of backing up your important data then this is the time those backups are for. You can backup your data in an external hard drive, a USB card or one of those cloud services.

If you didn't backup any file, you may choose a data recovery software to save your day. With average recovery software, data recovered from a formatted disk are corrupted and can't be read. This is not the case with Hdata Recovery Software. Hdata Recovery deep scans the disk and recovers full, readable files. If you come across any problem any time of the day, contact our experienced experts for technical support.