Formatting a drive usually means that you are preparing the drive to read or write data on it. Do format / re-formatting a drive really wipe all the data present on it?
Format or delete options does not erase the data permanently. Whenever you format or reformat a hard drive, the data on the drive is not erased, only the partition table is erased. In case, you have accidentally formatted / re-formatted a hard drive on your PC or laptop, data recovery software is able to recover most or all of the data that is stored on the drive.
It is recommended to take a backup of your data that is available on the drive before planning to format / re-format it. You may come across various situations where in you format your drive to get rid of virus, where you may not be able to take a backup, as the drive may get inaccessible. In such scenarios, to recover data after reformat you have to take the help of effective formatted data recovery software to recover lost data.
To recover data from formatted partitions, the formatted data recovery software will rigorously searches your hard drive, finds the lost files, and restores them back. If you would like to retrieve a particular file after format, you can search the file using its extension the software will search for the files that match the extension and recovers them with ease.
This software application can recover formatted partition, re-formatted partition or re-partitioned drive and restore the data lost from those partitions. This helps you to recover data even after re-installing operating system. It can recover not only formatted hard drives but also can recover data after you format external storage devices such as memory cards, USB flash drives, external HDD, FireWire drives and iPods.