This tutorial is meant to guide you through the process of recovering your lost data or deleted files on any system hard drive. I know it is hard to believe by non tech geek that files can be recovered even after system has be formatted or reformatted over and over again.
Get it straight right now, data is indestructible. It is only being converted to file type that doesn’t show up. But when the system space is getting filled up, new installation or files will then take up the space of the deleted or formatted files. Thereby overwriting the deleted ones. Although on the visual reality you see the normal capacity when your recycle bin is emptied.
The good thing now is you know you can recover your files. But that shouldn’t be a guarantee for you not do your daily , weekly, monthly backup and follow measures to save important data.
Follow this steps to recover Deleted files from your formatted hard drive
Choose and download any of the software listed below to get your desired file restored.
- First of all you will need to download and install Piriform Recuva Software as an administrator.
- Open the application and check the deep search mode option.
- Select the file type you want to sort in the hard drive.
- To minimize time waste, switch to advanced mode instead of using the wizard. There, you can select a location, pick a file type and enter a specific name or wildcard combination to limit the search
- Click on Next button to proceed
- Allow it to locate the deleted files from your formatted drive
- When the search for recovery is complete click on recover on the next screen.
- Please remember just before you click the recovery button that files can be damaged if recovered to the same hard drive. I recommend you use another hard drive for your recovery.
- Select the files by checking the boxes of the what you want recovered.
- Create a folder in the location (Hard Drive)for the recovery.
- Click on recover.
NOTE: The Recuva basic version software is free recovery tool. It also has a USB-Compatible version which means you can likely choose not to install the software in your system and run it from the USB.
Alternatively,
- You can also choose, download and install choice version of the EaseUS Data Recovery tool which is available in Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. With EaseUS Data Recovery, you can run a deep scan to restore old deleted files.
- The third Software for data recovery is the Active@UNERASER. Download and install Uneraser. This software is only available for Windows. With the Active Uneraser recovery tool, You can undelete damaged partitions but the software limits your view to files 10MB or smaller
It’s that simple. So don’t forget to share this with your friends to let them know this exciting news.
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