How to Recover Data from a Formatted Hard Drive (5 Ways)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- You need to watch this video to learn how to recover data from a formatted hard drive without erasing it in the process. Formatted HDD recovery tool: bit.ly/33KY7j8
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:03 Stop using the drive
01:24 Use reliable software
01:40 Try a different drive
02:01 Create a byte-to-byte backup
02:43 Use new recovery location
03:15 Recover data from formatted external hard drive
07:09 Conclusions
Learn more about recovering data from a formatted hard drive:
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Before we begin the data recovery process, I would like to emphasize that the chances of successful data recovery depend on how accurately and precisely you follow the procedure. Your end result depends on this and it directly affects the amount of data that can be recovered from an accidentally formatted hard drive.
So here are five important rules you need to follow:
1. Does formatting a hard drive erase data? No! When the operating system deletes a file or folder, It simply marks the space occupied by the item as available for future use by the system. So stop using the hard drive otherwise you risk overwriting and losing your data.
2. Use a reliable recovery tool. It can be any data recovery tool you want but in our case, it’s Disk Drill.
3. Use a different drive to run the recovery procedure. It can be a USB stick or another hard drive. Do not download or install the software to the same drive from which you are trying to recover data as you risk overwriting it.
4. Create a byte-level backup. This will allow you to safely attempt to recover files without affecting the data on your hard drive. You can even create an entire volume copy and recover the formatted partition.
5. Recover your data to a new location. This, again, is extremely important because you may accidentally overwrite data on a formatted hard drive.
All of these tips are viable for the accidentally formatted hard drive on Windows 10 or any other version of Windows or Mac.
If you have followed all my recommendations, you are ready to start the data recovery procedure and now we can recover files from a formatted hard drive.
How to recover formatted hard drive data:
1. Download & Install Disk Drill Hard Drive Recovery Software
2. Launch the App & Select the Drive From the List
3. Select the Scan Mode & Start Scanning
4. Preview the Results & Select the Files
5. Choose the Location & Recover Your Files
That is how you recover files from a formatted hard drive.
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Timestamps:
01:03 Stop using the drive
01:24 Use a reliable software
01:40 Try a different drive
02:01 Create a byte-to-byte backup
02:43 Use a new recovery location
03:15 Recover data from formatted external hard drive
What's the name of the software
Great Insight and great material here , he definitely knows the in's and out's and what to do and what not to do
Thank you, Andy you gave me hope again. Keep up your excellent work
Thank you, you saved me, scan in proccess but still seems to work, tysm
You're welcome!
Nice Andy - working so far. Fcukin legend mate. I had a ton of sensitive files lost to a liquid spill and thought I would never see them again. Ive been bummed out until now when I pulled my sad out of my macbook air and out it in auxiliary HD. Then out of habit I formatted it. Hah shoot - I thought I was screwed but thanks to your easy to follow video they are slowly recovering.
Big ups. Got yourself a new sub and new friend.
Thank you for the sub! :-)
@@cleverfiles Looks to be around 50% complete - the Disk Drill program finished its initial scan, then prompted something like "it could find more" type thing so I clicked yes. Now its re doing the scan. Is that ok? Did that happen to you? Tks
You missed one of the greatest features of the program. In the bottom right-hand corner the "Show scan results in Explorer" option.That is the best part of the program and I use it all the time even during mid scan because you can view everything like you would normally in File Explorer as it will come with its own letter and labeled "Recoverable". This is a great program to have.
That's a great tip!
thanks for nice tutorials
Glad you like them!
I found Disk Drill to be very good. after accidently formatting my SSD on my TV! I have ran scans and it has found the full drive. It's not finished but I can see the files there. Luckily I have managed to recover and download important work files from this year and also all invoices dating back to 2021. Unfortunately I have to upgrade to download the full drive, which may be worth it to get it all back, but either way. Disk Drill has been a lifesaver tonight!
I am glad you find Disk Drill useful!
Thx man!!
Can’t thank you enough god bless you man 🙏
if above 500mb, it will cost 100$+
yeah, I discovered that after I hit 15% on my scan. I can't find any other options though for much less. $89 is worth it for me because the drive in question essentially has 90% of ALL my files since the beginning of time. so it sucks to pay that but I can't lose everything.
DUDE.!!!!! YOU Sir, are a goddam marvel to modern science.!!
Thanks do much. Saved me a world of pain.!!!!
Happy to help 😊
Hi, I am wondering can I install software on the same drive if I need recover formatted hard drive partition, not the entire hard drive?
We recommend you install Disk Drill on a different drive to make sure that no data has been overwritten.
thanks buddy
Nice one
great video, since it just happened. my son formatted his hard drive. so byte to byte backup is set to another hard drive. Will you be able to scan the backup or just from the original drive?
Thanks for commenting! If the drive is malfuntioning and Disk Drill cannot scan it directly, it is recommended to scan a backup.
You rock you just saved me $2,000
Happy to help!
Hi wondering if the drive has windows and all my files that i try this with does it bring the drive back to the state it was before i formatted it. So i can use it again?
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
I also recently accidentally formatted my SanDisk 1TB extreme SSD, stopped it immediately.
Have been trying SanDisks own recovery "pro" but really annoyed with how it just names everything "File001" doesn't attempt to find the original file names or folder trees.
Even the demo version can't complete a scan, because it is actually finding the files and storing them in Program Files! The hard drive is 1tb & my PC is only 256gb.
Disk drill seems like it will work better.
If I try the free scan, will it require lots of space to store the found files before even choosing what to recover?
No, but you'll need that space to save the recovered files.
STOP SCROLLING/WATCHING!
6 hours lost, it's just to sell you the software at the final step.
Any useful tips? All these videos are just trying to sell software
Hey Andy, is there any software you know of that will recover the original file/folder structure of a formatted HDD?
Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done in this case, as formatting a drive wipes the directory. Nothing wrong with the files -- just with the directory. Since the directory is not accessed, the data recovery app has no idea of how those hierarchies are supposed to be and thus can't recover them.
@@cleverfiles thanks for the reply. Sadly not the answer I wanted to see.
@@cleverfiles I'm looking at disk drill right now though and it is showing all the folders in the I had on my drive in the "existing" menu, so are you saying it will recover the files that were in the folders but not the actual folders, If so then why would it show the folders?
Hallow
First of all, thanks for your interesting videos. I need your advice about hard disc recovery. I did quick format by mistake to drive E and I need to restore all formatted data urgently. So, if I follow the steps in this video will help recover all data, or should I use different way ?
I really appreciate your advice.
Regards
Murad
Yes, it is a good idea to try recovery methods listed in the video.
What if the file is NOT reviewable? is it lost forever...?
I am not for sure. but I was trying to recover my documents folder that I deleted during a format from my external ssd drive. it's a sandisk extreme 1tb. Hopefully it goes well once I get it to do a deep scan. So far its running and finding files I deleted. Please keep your fingers crossed. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. Fingers crossed!
Is it possible to recover the files back onto the External Hard Drive that was formatted?
I've installed Disk Drill & run it on my laptop, but I dont have enough space to recover all the files back onto my C: drive.
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
I have a ton of audio files associated with Studio One software... I need to restore them to the original folder??? HELP!!! They are on an external drive that reformatted and now won't open up. Disc Drill sees the files but it would take a log time to restore each file to its folder. How can I do this? thank you!
This case requires a more deep investigation. Please reach us at: help@cleverfiles.com
I looked for your info on how to do #4 to create a byte to byte backup of your drive but couldn't find it. Do you have a clip on it? If yes, where do I find it (Title)? Also, can it be done to a drive with data on it but plenty of room to create a directory or a separate partition?
Sure, here is the clip: ruclips.net/video/IF5KOkkdCE4/видео.html
Disk Drill creates a byte-to-byte backup copy, which means it takes an entire copy of the drive, including the free space. This allows you to work with the disk image as if it were the original drive.
Any other drive with the required amount of free space on it will be fine. F.e. for 1TB disk image you should have about 1.1-1.2TB of free space on the drive
Hey glad you just posted this because I screwed up last night! I have sandisk extreme ssd and I tried Disk Drill and it just had the newly formatted name on the drive. Not the old files that I had one it. Do you think I need to buy the professional one? I need these files they have RED Komodo footage on it. What are your thoughts? I am currently running a "deep dive" right now. This is taking 5 hours which I don't mine as long as I can hope to get my files back. I had about 1 tb of footage on here. Thanks man!
You can identify recoverable files with the free version. The license is only needed to get the files back. If the free version of Disk Drill can't find your data, please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
You can always use Ghost 8.0 to back up the drive and then tinker with it.
that's very intersting...in my case i have lost my files accidentaly and i have uplode new windows to that hard disk so do you think it's possible to recover the lost files. tnx
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I downloaded disk drill, and started the scan but after a couple of hours it still handnt completed, and so I clicked off it and it stated the scan had still had about 20 hours to run so should you leave it on all night then?
Need to check the log file to see if there weren't any issues during the scanning process. Please reach us at: help@cleverfiles.com
I just made a HUGE mistake by setting Time Machine on my external hard drive. I stopped it as soon as I saw but still deleted all my files on the hard drive (2Tb). Please help
Every recovery case is unique and depends on thousands of parameters. The only way to verify that your files are recoverable is downloading Disk Drill Basic, running the scan with All recovery methods on the whole drive (not just volume or partition) without interruptions, locating the files in question, and previewing them to verify the content. Disk Drill PRO will recover the files that can be correctly previewed in Disk Drill Basic.
This will be hard, when you format you randomly assign 1 or 0, 10 times to every bit. Then you format the whole drive without using quick format. A deleted file in Windows is just gone if done right. No software can read deleted files.
It depends. If the original files are rewritten during disk formatting, there is no way to recover them. However, in most cases people use quick format and in that case files stay intact so it is possible to recover them.
@@cleverfiles I swear by not having a recycle bin. I only format after effectively formatting it 10 times before with random data. If I delete a file I also delete it 10 times.
Otherwise you are not really deleting or losing files.
Disk drill is shit and found nothing of my lost 163gb of data after formatting with a fresh windows installation
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You have ana activation code sir, please help me.
Hi there, i was wondering if this will help in recovering video game data or save data on an external hdd that my ps4 or ps5 says the usb file drive is unsupported. I have not formatted the drive, and afraid if i do, it will erase all those video game data and saved files. Will this help in recovering those data? Thanks
That is hard to predict. If Disk Drill identifies your drive, try using it to recover your save data. Avoid formatting if possible.
@@cleverfiles thank you, I will try.
Hi, I accidentally turn my Sandisk Pro external hard drive of 1TB into a windows 10 boot drive which contains a lot of files, and then it got formatted. After using Disk Drill Pro nothing was showing. Is it still possible to back up the files that were inside the drive?
It depends. Please, contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
I did the same mistake yesterday. Lost all files let me know if you were able to recover your old files. I need my kids memories back😢
@Diana Wangechi I tried using a program but no luck. I called this place and they were charging between 800-2k which is ridiculous I didn't bother.
@@AllanSagurit ok, thanks
We never saw you properly format the hdd.
Aka not quick, but full format 8-)
Is there anything that can be done with a hard disk that was formatted for windows with some files on (not nearly to full capacity of the disk though), that has been then reformatted for mac, and new files have been added on it? Have the previous ones been deleted completely? @cleverfiles
Try scanning your drive with Disk Drill. If you can find and fully preview your files, it is a guaranteed recovery.
I formatted my disc and scand it with disc drive. It was recovering the files to my new hard drive then it got cancelled after 1/8 of the recovery. If I scan it now it only finds 120 files instead of the 30000 it had on there. What can I do?
Please contact support at help@cleverfiles.com
Hi Andy I used EaseUS data recovery program which recovered my files and now there in 3Ds format which i cannot view, any ideas?
Try Disk Drill Basic and make sure to preview your files before recovery.
EaseUS data recovery is a joke. They say that they have 24/7 customer service and they don't. It's also hard to understand when the people who are talking have a heavy accent and talk very fast. I wouldn't recommend that site to anyone.
Hey i have a question, i lost an account for something a while ago, i was wondering if the password i used will still be on the hard drive?
Alas, Disk Drill does not recover credentials like password unless you saved it as a file.
Can you recover files on an accidentally Q.format of an M.2 drive? (long day, chose the wrong drive to format) I tried Disk Drill and no results.
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
@@cleverfilesI also tried Easus & Recoverit, but no go. I've been told it has to do with TRIM being enabled. I'll have to accept it won't be recovered. It could have been much worse (although I lost a lot of important files) as fortunately, it wasn't my C drive.
So I tried downloading windows by USB for my computer to completely restart it. On my other computer there was a red external hard drive with family photos and such which had no backup. I followed the first 2 steps on the official windows website on how to do so,not knowing that an EHD was different than a flash drive. I continued through not knowing it would hard format it and it erased 18 years of photos is there anyway to recover this?
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@@cleverfiles Thank you your product has just saved 18 years of photos and videos
How did you do bro ?
@@mathewsilva7575 How did you get them back? it just happened to me from windows format too
@@truetoyoupresetsaimes desk drill I had it run through the drive and it recovered everything only downfall was the price had to pay 90$
Hi brother how can we recover sad formatted accidentally through diskpart and it is still un allocated space how can. We recover that I have alot of vedios and pictures of my late friends 😢
It depends. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.
I accidentally reformatted my drive D: ssd during windows 10 installation ( that drive contains all my backup apps, docs, pics and so on) I tried scanning the drive with drill disk but it only shows my files from the newly installed windows 10 is there a way for drill disk to recover the file before formatting/installing windows 10?
Every recovery case is unique and depends on thousands of parameters. The only way to verify that your files are recoverable is downloading Disk Drill Basic, running the scan with All recovery methods on the whole drive (not just volume or partition) without interruptions, locating the files in question, and previewing them to verify the content. Disk Drill PRO will recover the files that can be correctly previewed in Disk Drill Basic.
@@cleverfiles I already did tried disk drill and unfortunately it cant recover the files that I lost, it only detects storage structures within the new operating system installed, It is unable to detect the status of the drive before installing win10 , I tried all scan method on disk drill and with no luck.
Sir if files are need to recover from the PC after formatting it's possible to regain my data again.
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
Can you encrypt backups or recovered files by default?
No, Disk Drill does not feature that option.
Can we recover by mistakenly we have already done without knowing that i have missed a file, please share me any idea?
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Thanks for your quick response. I am sorry for bothering you again but still I have some questions to know please:
1- Does the s/w able to restore large data size like 70 or 80 Gb?
2- Is it harmful to recover the data on the same erased drive, in my case E and why it should be restored to another drive?
3- Who is better, Disk drill, or Recuva or Back to life?
4- Finally, the restored files will come back as it was originally under their folders, or it will be returned as files without folders or subfolders?
Best Regards
Murad
No problem:
1. You can restore files regardless of their size.
2. You should always recover to a different drive, otherwise, data might overwrite and corrupt.
3. Disk Drill Basic is free with outstanding algorithms. If you can find and fully preview your files, it is a guaranteed recovery.
4. File names and folder structure are very intricate metadata. To increase the recovery chances make sure to run the scan on the whole drive (not just volume or partition) without interruptions, locating the files in question, and previewing them to verify the content.
@@cleverfiles thanks
I still have another issue, Idid deep scan and when I tried to recover to external ssd harddisk it gave error of not having enough space, even though the external hardisk has 500 gb free space and the E drive I want to recover is just 100 gb !!??
Does this work with Memory cards that have been formatted?
Yes, try running a scan with a Disk Drill and check scanning results.
Accidentally formatted my external hard drive hastily using a tool to mod my ps4, thank god for disk drill because man I wouldve lost 1.5tb worth of stuff, holy cow
Happy to help! 🤜🤛
Can the external drive that is being recovered from be used again eg formatted after recovery onto another drive and then send files back there again?
Yes, you can format your drive and copy your files back to it after recovery is complete.
@@cleverfiles that’s great news 🙏🏻
@@cleverfiles it took 4 days to do a deep scan and now it looks like the “all recovery methods” scan has started from scratch!!!! 😤😫🥺 Is there a way to cancel “all recovery” and go back to the deep scan results? 🧐
I accidentally formatted my external hard drive that I used on PlayStation 5 to play PlayStation 4 games. Atm I’m no longer able to play the games that was on the drive, will this process get my data back for the games and be make so I can play them again?
Would love some help
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Can I do the same on a Mac?
Yes, it works the same way.
after i recover the files or data. in other memory .....i will format the external drive?the i can use it again????
You can recover your data to a different external drive, then format the original drive and use it again.
@@cleverfiles thanks for the info... queation .if i format again. then try to recover again.. the file is still there???
How long did it take to recover on your 1tb
Scan and recovery duration depends on many factors, including your Drive size and health, as well as your computer performance.
If your Hard Drive has a hardware malfunction, including bad sectors, then this might be the reason Disk Drill is taking longer than expected to complete the scan.
Please, I'm tryuing to recover my files but it's asking fir activation code
You can upgrade to Disk Drill Pro here www.cleverfiles.com/pro.html
3:44 What if my hard drive is not on the list, but does show in disk manager as a RAW unpartitioned drive?
Great vid! Just trying workout what software to go with to recover the data on my corrupt hard drive…
4tb external, working great for years until data cable/socket got damaged. I removed drive and installed into new housing…. Now I’m being voted to FORMAT the drive to use 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
When Disk Manager shows a drive as RAW and unpartitioned, it likely means the file system metadata is damaged. Before formatting, try running CHKDSK to repair errors. Consider professional data recovery if crucial data is at stake, as formatting will erase all content. You can contact support at help@cleverfiles.com
what if I can not preview any files? Are they corrupted?
Most likely, but not necessarily. In any case, we can only guarantee correct recovery of files that you can preview.
@@cleverfiles thank you
Now why do you say "do not recover the files to the drive you are recovering from"? Can I move items to say my desktop from a drive and then once recovered, move them back to the external drive?
Yes, you can. Recovering files directly to the same drive can overwrite them.
@@cleverfiles ok thank you for the response.
I also wanted to ask, if I had a drive that I re-formatted a few times and deleted clean (cause of an issue), would disk drill still be able to find some of the initial files or after a few rounds of erasing and formatting would that likely be too far gone. Similar if I wanted to find something that I emptied from my trash bin on mac and I have since emptied it again?
I formatted over an external drive with an Apple Photos library on it. My son has done a recovery of the files but most of them do not have the folder, filename or the original create date. I have 20,000+ files that are in a random order. Does this happen only with Apple photo library - as I am now concerned if I should change to more "open" photo editing software that reads standard folder and files rather than Apple's proprietary library structure.
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Ironically enough while creating a clone of my 4TB SSD I ended up unintentionally killing the SDD, here's what happened. I was using my Sabrent 2-bay disk dock which uses hardware cloning to clone my 4TB SSD to another 4TB SSD. It was going on 8hrs and it still hadn't even reached 25% cloned yet so I aborted the cloning process. But then when I tried to just drag and drop the files from one drive to the other Windows was saying there was a problem, that there was a signature conflict between my source and destination drive I'm assuming because they were both the same drive letter. I googled it and it said I could simply right click the offline disk and click "online" then assign a letter then format it. Well I did and windows started low level formatting my source SSD instead. So I aborted that and now my source SSD is coming up as not recognized by Windows. I'm using disk drill right now and it appears that I might be able to get ALL of my files back but it's going to take a few days, which sucks. Edit: It actually just went from an eta of 86hrs to now just 2hrs, so wish me luck.
I hope Disk Drill will help you with this. Good luck! :-)
@@cleverfiles it worked but unfortunately it didn't recover the folder structure, so I ended up with one folder filled with over 46,000 files. I ended up using Wondershare Recoverit which kept the folder structure. Please implement this feature in the future. It's great that it is able to recover the files but having to sort through thousands of files after recovery is going to be a huge deal breaker for most people. Strangely enough before I clicked the "Recover" button it did show all of my folders but it didn't actually recover any of them, only the files that were in the folders.
You son of a bitch this worked.. Unbelievable.. NOT click bait.. this is incredible wow..
So far drill disk has only recovered 5mb of data when the drive had 370gb of data.
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Nice, but I only want to use it once. I think the £76 is a lot for something I'm only going to use once. Why can't they offer a lower price for a limited use?
Use it once - £3
Use it up to 5 times - £10
Etc..
Why can't i use the trial version of 500 MB ??? It demands for an upgrade!
We offer a free recovery of up to 500 MB of your data if you use Disk Drill for Windows. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Mac users at this time.
We do guarantee the recovery of the files you can fully preview in the free version.
Can recover my games ?
Please, contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
500mb limit!!!! in last step wants money....
Bro only 50mb can recover. Need to upgrade to pro version...
We provide 500MB recovery option in the Disk Drill Basic. We can also make a good discount if you can find your files in a full and correct preview. For more details: help@cleverfiles.com
Is it possible to recover data after full-formatting my hard drive?
It depends. Please, scan your drive with the free version of Disk Drill to check.
100EUR for 1 time thing, files are not that worth! Is there any free app who get back 100% files ?
We offer a free recovery of up to 500 MB of your data if you use Disk Drill for Windows. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Mac users at this time.
We do guarantee the recovery of the files you can fully preview in the free version.
@@cleverfiles useless i have 800 +gb to recovrt, i need it one time deal, whats the point to pay monhly payment ? What im going to do witth that app for other 29 days ?
U scammed thousands of people including me, because u didnt specify that the software required a subcription above 500 mb. Now ive done this which took 5 and a half hours to scan my drive, now saying i need to PAY to use your software. Can you help ?!!!
@CleverFiles
@CleverFiles
@cleverflies
Please contact us at help@cleverfiles.com for further assistance.
We offer a free recovery of up to 500 MB of your data if you use Disk Drill for Windows. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Mac users at this time.
You can find more information here: www.cleverfiles.com/help/disk-drill-mac-windows.html
We do guarantee the recovery of the files you can fully preview in the free version.
500 mb only for free??
can i recover the files in different external drive????
Yes, you can.
@@cleverfiles but you didnt show in the video. do you have a tutorial ???