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Understand How to Unformat a Hard Drive – Using Simplest Steps

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Published By Siddharth Tehri
Aswin Vijayan
Approved By Aswin Vijayan
Published On May 22nd, 2018
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As we know, the hard drive is a storage medium where to save all necessary data without any kind of loss. Moreover, Unformat means to recover lost data from the newly formatted hard disk. Sometimes most of the users have accidentally formatted the hard drive or some other storage media. Thus, it’s necessary to unformat or repair the important files from hard disk. However, the high-level format may be formatted rather than low-level format cannot be. In the below section, we will discuss two ways so, that a user can understand “How to Unformat a Hard Drive” effortlessly.

Main Reasons to Unformat a Hard Disk Drive

There is various situation arises due to which users require to unformat hard disk drive or recover the data from fresh formatted hard disk. Sometimes users have pressed format button by mistake and they have lost all the necessary data like images, videos and so on. Due to such type of situations, there is a need to unformat a hard drive in Windows as per security purpose. Also, preserve and protect the data from any kind of data loss.

Users will get more clear after considering the following scenario which is taken from overloaded forum site such as:

“Accidentally, I have formatted the hard drive and lost all files. I feel panic when I realize that I lost my important files in the formatted hard disk. I was unable to find those images and videos from anywhere either on my system or on the hard device. Please suggest How to unformat a hard drive or removable device and want to restore the lost data.”
“I have an external hard disk of 50GB which got corrupted or damaged somehow. My friend suggested me to unformat hard drive but I don’t know how to unformat a hard drive in windows os. Is there anyone who can help me to recover the deleted files from hard disk?”

When Is It Possible to Recover Formatted Data from HDD?

Before explaining how to unformat a hard drive, users must figure out that when format recovery is needed. The format is just a Microsoft DOS command, which can run to remove information from a hard drive, floppy disk and so on. There are two ways of format those are mentioned below:

  • Low-Level Format is a process, which involves the creation of actual structure on the surface of the media that are used for holding the data.
  • High-Level Format is the procedure of creating the disk’s logical hierarchical structures like the file allocation table as well as the root directory. There is two types of formatting i.e., quick and full format will use the chkdsk command to scan small area and remove the table when quick format deletes the table.

While users tried to format a hard drive, they will lose everything on the disk, no matter which format method has been followed. Hence, it is more required to retains the backup of everything that users might require later. However, the user does not have a backup file, still, users have the chance to recover formatted data. Simply unformat a hard drive to repair users necessary files in the form of high-level format Low-level format will physically corrupt the disk and shortly cut the life of hard disk, thus data loss due to low-level format cannot be easily recovered. You can easily unformat a hard drive in Windows OS.

Manual Steps to Recover the Data from Hard disk

Solution: Using CMD to recover virus infected files

    1. First of all, plug in your hard disk, memory card or USB drive to your system.
    2. After that, go to Start menu. Enter cmd command in a search bar and then, display “cmd.exe” under a list of programs. 2
    3. Right-click on “cmd.exe” and hit on Run As Administrator then, get command Windows that permits you to restore virus infected files.

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Conclusion

After discussing the needs related to recover formatted hard drive data, article focusses on two ways when the recovery is possible. In this article, we have tried to explain the manual solution to recover or repair the important files. Also, given the points why it is necessary to unformat a Hard drive in Windows OS System.

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