Looking for solutions on how to recovery hard disk that have been formatted unintentionally? Here’s it. This Data Recovery Tool is the right program you’ll need, no matter it’s Windows System or macOS.
Take Windows for example, you may have formatted or deleted the hard drive in Disk Management, since there’s warning message before you actually perform the operation, it cannot be canceled by pressing the Ctrl+Z button to undo things like we delete a file in the conventional way.
If you’re right now running Disk Management, please do nothing, don’t use the Extend Volume, Shrink Volume, Delete Volume, or Format…functions, the less you operate on the hard drive, the more data we can recovery. For Mac users, it’s better not to do anything on Utility.
How to recover formatted volume?
Run the Windows or Mac Data Recovery program or download it first if it’s not available on your disk. Then do the followings to get back the formatted volume:
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Click on the type of data you want to recover, if you’re not sure about this, click Everything, then click Next to continue.
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In the select location window, click on the Question mark partition to recover lost partitions, then click on Scan
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Then click on a disk where the formatted partition were once created, then click Search.
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If there’s no result for the formatted volume, click on Deep Scan to check this disk thoroughly, although it may take longer time, it’s the safer way to check if there’s formatted volume info on the disk.
Data Recovery Tips:
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If you’re about to recover the specific type of file from the formatted volume, eg, image, video, or document, you can click on the corresponding icon in the first screen to speed up the scanning process.
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Speaking of Ctrl+Z to undo deleting, it works like this: (Windows OS)
- In File explorer, some path to you file, you clicked on one file, and press the Delete button inadvertently and confirmed the deletion (or not, if you set to directly delete), and then, oops!, the file is deleted
- Now, press Ctrl+Z to undo this, no matter you simply deleted it or pressed Shift+Delete to remove it, the undo operation always work
- If, by any chance(since Windows may crush on this keyboard shortcuts) this combination operation fails, it’s time to run the Windows Data Recovery program.
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If the scanning process hangs or stuck and you heard some clicking noise during the whole time, it’s likely that the hard drive is corrupted or about to fail. How to tell if it’s normal or abnormal when there’s no clicking sound but hangs there for quite a long time? Well, that’s when you should check the volume size, if it’s few GB, 10GB for example, but takes hours, that’s not normal.
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Use Macrorit Disk Scanner to check if the hard disk is physically damaged if Data Recovery programs failed to scan and recover data.