Formatted Data Recovery

Recover Formatted Hard Drive Data

Have you accidentally formatted your hard drive? Get your important data back from formatted drives. Remo Recover is an award-winning software, which is capable of performing formatted data recovery in severe data loss situations like accidental formatting, re-formatted partitions / volumes, re-partitioned hard drives or even after re-installing the operating system.

Features

Remo Recover (Windows)

• Scan entire drive heuristically to recover lost data from formatted drives
• Restore files from formatted partitions, even when you have re-installed Windows
• Retrieve data from partitions, which are lost due to partitioning errors
• Recover deleted data from deleted, corrupt or formatted partitions from RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5 arrays
• Recover data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExtFAT formatted partitions / drives

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Remo Recover (Mac)

• Advanced volume scanning engines to recover data from accidentally formatted Mac volumes
• Powerful scanning algorithms to locate and recover data from missing / deleted Mac volumes
• Recover lost data from volumes that fail to mount
• Recover files from hard drives, flash memory cards, Memory Stick, USB external drives, FireWire Drives, iPods etc.
• Recover data from HFS+, HFSX formatted Mac volumes
• Compatible with both Intel and PowerPC Mac platforms

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Need for formatting

The most common situations where you might require formatting your hard drive include re-installing a latest operating system of Windows / Mac, when system is running slow, system errors, bad sectors, virus attack and adding additional drives may be some of the main causes to format the hard drive.

Common scenarios where data is lost due to formatting

Accidental formatting: When trying to format d: you may press f: and accidentally format that partition, which results in data loss

File system error: You may encounter errors while converting from one file system to another resulting in data loss

Partition conversion: Data loss may occur when accidentally converting partition from dynamic to basic

System Restore: Trying to repair the system using system restore CD / option formats the system resulting in data loss

How to restore formatted data?

Step 1: Download and install the free demo version of Remo Recover (Windows)

Step 2: Launch the software either by double clicking on the shortcut icon or from program files.  The main window appear, now select "Recover Partitions / Drives" as shown in figure 1

Step 3: Now, click on "Formatted / Reformatted Recovery" option as shown in figure 2

Step 4: Select the logical drive from which you need to recover the data and click "Next" as shown in figure 3

Step 5: Once you click on "Next" option, the software starts scanning process as shown in figure 4

Step 6: Once scanning process is completed, the recovered data is displayed in "Data View" or "File Type View" options as shown in figure 5

Step 7: "Preview" option allows you to preview the recovered data can be prior to saving process as shown in figure 6

Step 8: Use "Save Recovery Session" option to save the scanned information to avoid re-scanning your hard drive as shown in figure 7

Step 9: Once you are completely satisfied with the recovery results, you can purchase the software online

Step 10: Later, you can activate the software and use the option "Open Recovery Session" to load the previously saved scanned information and click "Next" as shown in figure 7

Step 11: Once you click on "Next", you will get an option to save the recovered data either on a drive or on CD / DVD as shown in figure 8

Step 12: You can compress recovered data before saving, to save the disk space

If you want to recover data after format on Mac OS X use Remo Recover (Mac) software

Note: Avoid running or installing any application or programs on the drive from which data is lost, as it may overwrite the lost data by saving / updating new data.

Supported Storage Device Manufacturers: Seagate, Buffalo, Maxtor, Quantum, Imation, Iomega,Samsung, Gigabyte, Acer, Apple, Lenovo, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, Transcend, Western Digital, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Compaq, Iosafe, Kingston, LaCie, SanDisk.