Recovering Folder Structure from Formatted Drive

“Hi everyone, I had formatted partition on my computer hard drive. After formatting, I realized that there were vital files on formatted partition and folder structure of drive has been erased after format. I want to restore folder structure somehow to get back data from formatted drive. Please help me recover folder structure from formatted drive if you know any solution. Thanks in advance…”

Above may be the scenario faced by lot of PC users; so how to recover folder structure to from your formatted drive? A Folder structure is quite self-explanatory; it is the organization of files into hierarchy of folder, so that one can access information easily without overloading a single folder with files. However, when you format any drive; all data of files saved on formatted drive will be erased from its file system and formatted drive will be ready to save new data on it. If you forgot to take back up of your crucial data before formatting, then that may make you feel down. Do not get upset and discover how to recover files from formatted drive with whole folder structure by reading ahead in various scenarios when you format a drive:

  • Accidental Format: While formatting other drive, you may select and format partition consisting of important data on hard drive
  • Quick Format: Entire data will be deleted when you quick format any drive on computer hard drive unintentionally or intentionally for some purpose
  • Format Error: You may get format error while accessing partition on computer hard drive due to corruption. When you click on drive, it may show up format error stating that the drive needed to be formatted before you could use it. After getting error message, you might format it by approving format process

There may be numerous reasons for formatting any partition on your computer hard drive. However, in the absence of data backup, you can recover folder structure from formatted drive on computer using Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software.

Formatted drive recovery software:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is the best software to restore folder structure from formatted drive. You can get back MS Office documents, videos, photos, audios, program files and other file formats from your formatted drive using this utility. This formatted data recovery tool enables you to restore data from formatted external hard drive, USB flash drives, memory cards, iPods, media players, SSD drives and from internal hard drive on computer. It consists of powerful scanning mechanism to restore files and folders from any formatted storage drive easily within few steps. Try demo version on any PC or laptop running with Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 OS versions for more details.

Steps to recover folder structure from formatted drive:

  • Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software and install it on your computer
  • Run the software and select “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery” option from home screen
  • Then select icon of formatted drive and click on “Next”
  • Select file types which you need to recover from next screen and click on “Next”
  • Software scans for selected file types and displays the result in “Data View” and “File Type View”
  • Select desired file and choose “Preview” option to view selected media file
  • Save recovered files using “Save” option on computer hard drive other than formatted drive

Valuable Tips:

  • Always check twice before clicking on ‘Format’ option
  • Backup your important files on safe storage devices before formatting partition

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