When you format a hard disk, the operating system erases all secretarial information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors, and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information. In general, formatting a hard disk erases everything on the disk.

There are two common types of format: “Quick” and “Normal”.

• Quick format just erases the hard disk’s root directory, twiddles a couple of other things, and you’re done. And also quick format does not overwrite files.
• Normal format actually overwrites all of the data on the disk. You’ll know you’re performing a normal format as it takes a long time.

Chances of data being overwritten are higher in normal format as compared to quick format. So if you’ve done a quick format, the chances are high that you can recover your lost data.

As soon as you format your drive, stop using the drive. The more you use it, the more the contents of the drive changes, and the less likely it will be that your data can be recovered.

Remo Recover (Windows) can easily scan the drive and recover the lost data after accidental format. Remo Recover (Windows) is a collection of data recovery tools, specially designed to recover:

• Folders that have been lost or deleted.
• Photos, RAW images, music & video files
• Crashed or formatted partitions and drives.

Why choose Remo Recover (Windows)?

• Quick and Comprehensive recovery
  Remo Recover (Windows) locates the lost data in a flash, and demands zero technical skills from the user for working with the software.
• No side affects
  Since, this is a Read-only software, the user can be sure of it not harming the unaffected drives or partitions.
• Easy Recovery
  You always have an option to save recovered data to another partition, external storage or to a mapped network drive.
• Comprehensive Trial
  Preview option provides complete assessment of recovery results that can be obtained with the software

Steps to recover data from a formatted drive

When you accidentally or knowingly format any logical drive to the same file system again i.e. FAT 32 formatted again to create a FAT32 partition or NTFS formatted again to create a NTFS partition, which means you again have chosen the same file system to manage your data.

Install Remo Recover (Windows) to another computer, which is healthy system and has the best of hardware components, and then attach the drive you want to recover as a slave to this machine and then proceed ahead recovering the data.

Never install the software on the drive from which you want to recover data, also never save any data on the same drive from which you are recovering data.

Step 1: Launch Remo Recover either from program files or by double clicking on desktop shortcut. Main application window of Remo Recover software is as shown in figure a.

Figure a: Remo Recover main window

Step 2: As you click on you get a window as shown in figure b.

Figure b: NTFS Partition Recovery

NTFS Partition Recovery: Recovers data from NTFS partition

FAT Partition Recovery: Recovers data from FAT partition

If you choose to recover data from a NTFS partition, then go ahead and click on NTFS Partition Recovery.

Step 3: As soon as you click NTFS Partition Recovery, the application main window will be opened as shown in figure c.

Figure c: Application Main Window

Step 4: As you click on Wizard icon in the application main window, a window with various options to perform is displayed as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Wizard

Select Recover your Data option and click on Next button to continue. As you click Next button, a window will be displayed to select the source disk from which you wish to recover your data (see Figure e).

Figure e: Select Source Disk

Step 5: Select a source drive and the processing mode to process the drive. By default the processing mode is set to Display default partitions. As you click on Next button, the application analyses the drive and lists all the found partitions in the partition table as shown in Figure f.

Figure f: Partition Table

Step 6: Select the formatted partition from which data has to be recovered for processing and click Finish button. Once partition is selected, software automatically would scan it for files and folders and would display the data in a tree format as shown in Figure g.

Figure g: Found files and folders

Step 7: Once the tree is formed the final step is to restore data to safe location.

If you do not want to save data now but do it later, then you can save scanned information in a file using ‘Save Scan Information’ option from Tools menu. Whenever required you can open scan info file using ‘Open Scan Information’ option from File menu and recover data to desired destination location.

Note: If you do not find your files and folders in the tree structure formed, then run Turbo scan option from Tools menu. In this operation, the application performs rigorous search to find files and folders and will list all the found files and folders.

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