Recover Lost Data after Quick Format
updated on 2018-09-11 to Data Recovery
What is 'quick format'?
Quick Format is a type of “low-level formatting” method. A quick format allows you to overwrite any files on the drive, but it does not fully erase them; with the right software, the old files could be recovered. In Windows you have the option to do a quick format into either the FAT or NTFS formats. A full format is generally preferred over a quick format; the latter is mostly used for its speed.
So, it is very easy to recover lost data after Quick Format. With a data recovery program, you can securely restore the quick formatted files. Here we will show you the steps.
Steps to recover lost data after quick format
First of all, lets find the most advanced Quick Format data recovery software. We recommend Magoshare Data Recovery, this data recovery software can help you recover lost data after Quick Format and Full Format. Just download this software on Windows/Mac OS.
Magoshare Data Recovery is able to recover formatted data from HDD/SSD, USB flash drive, memory card, digital camera, or any other formatted storage device. It supports to recover lost data from NTFS/+, HFS/+, APFS, FAT, exFAT, ReFS, NTFS, etc.
Here, we will show you the steps to recover lost data after Quick Format.
Step 1: Choose the formatted hard drive.
Run Magoshare Data Recovery on your computer, it shows all hard drives, just choose the hard drive which has been quick formatted.
Step 2: Scan the formatted hard drive.
Click on “Scan” button to scan the formatted hard drive to find lost data. The deep scan mode is able to find every recoverable file on the formatted hard drive.
Step 3: Preview and recover lost files.
After scan, just preview all recoverable files. Then choose the wanted files and recover them.
As you’ve seen, it is very simple to restore lost files after Quick Format. Magoshare Data Recovery offers deep scan mode to ensure finding all lost files after Quick Format.
Recover Lost Files from very Old Formatted Hard Drive
If you format a hard drive one year ago, just believe the data still can be recovered by data recovery software. Magoshare Data Recovery software can scan the formatted hard drive and find all old files. But, when you realize you need to recover lost data from this formatted hard drive, don’t put new files to the hard drive. Immediately run Magoshare Data Recovery to scan the hard drive and your data will be recovered.
Quick Format Recovery on both PC and Mac
Magoshare Data Recovery can be installed both PC and Mac. It is very easy to understand quick format recovery on PC. For Mac users, the quick format is performed by Disk Utility or third-party Mac disk format tool. When Quick Format happens, you may lose all your important data. Of course, if you have a backup, you can easily restore your lost data. But, if you don’t have a backup, you have to download data recovery software. Just run Magoshare Data Recovery Mac version to scan the formatted hard drive and recover the lost data.
The formatted hard drive becomes raw, how to do?
When the hard drive becomes raw after Quick Format, you also can run Magoshare Data Recovery to scan the raw hard drive to quickly recover your lost data, then you can format the raw hard drive again to build new file system to the raw hard drive.
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