Many people will format their hard drive due to various reasons. Few of the most general reasons to format a drive are -
- When you are disposing or selling your old computer because you bought a new one, you would like to format the hard drive so that no one will be able to access your personal files that are present on it
- When your PC is badly infected with viruses and you may like to get rid of them
- When you want to reinstall the operating system Windows / Mac, by reformatting the hard drive
- When drives are fragmented then you will be left with no other option other than formatting the hard drive instead of running multiple defragments.
- When you drive have bad sectors and you are not able to access the files on it
- Other reasons may include system errors, when system is running slow
As a result of any of the above situations, the files on your hard disk, memory card, USB drive may be lost. In order to recover files after format you need to take the help of data recovery tools. These data recovery tools will help you recover files even after formatting, re-formatting and re-partitioning drives.
Re-formatting means formatting the drive while changing the file system i.e. FAT to NTFS file system. When you reformat, a hard drive the partition table is changed form FAT file system format to NTFS file system format, so you need to make use of reformatted hard drive recovery software to recover files / folders from re-formatted drives effectively.
However, in either of the situations i.e. format or re-format, files lost are still recoverable unless they are overwritten. This software will help you recover files from not only formatted, re-formatted or re-partitioned hard drives but also from formatted memory cards, USB flash drives, iPods, external hard disk drives etc.