“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 the organization of files into hierarchy of folder, so that one can access information easily. However, when you format any drive; all data of files saved 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.
- Accidental Format: While formatting other drive, you may select and format partition consisting of important data on hard drive
- Quick Format: All data will be deleted when you quick format any drive on computer hard drive.
- 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
Formatted drive recovery software:
Formatted your drive and lost files? Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is the top Windows tool to restore folder structures and recover MS Office documents, videos, photos, audios, program files, and more from formatted internal/external hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, memory cards, iPods, and media players.
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
