How to Recover Deleted Photos from Formatted Computer?

Updated on August 19, 2022

“I formatted computer before giving it to my friend for some work. I thought I had taken backup of all my important data; but later realized that I forgot to backup few photos. I need those deleted pictures back from formatted computer. Please suggest to overcome my problem"

When you format computer, file system journal will be cleared and entire data saved on its hard drive including photos will be deleted. Details of memory location where those image files are saved and actions that can be performed on them will be lost after formatting your computer. Sometimes you get format error on when trying to open certain partition on hard drive; such error message states that partition or hard drive needs to be formatted before usage. This happens due to file system corruption or logically faults on computer hard drive.

What are the Major Reasons to Format a Computer?

• Virus Infection: Sometimes viruses or other dangerous threats may severely infect data saved on computer hard drive and you need to format computer hdd to reuse it for saving data.
• Installation Multiple OS: One of partition on hard drive needs to be formatted other than C drive when more than one OS is installed on computer hard drive. If you format drive without taking data backup, it erases complete data including pictures.
• Hard Drive Corruption: File system damage, boot sector or partition Table corruption and other logical errors can eventually corrupt computer hard drive causing loss of data along with photos saved on it.

However, you need not upset thinking about deleted pictures after formatting computer hdd. In the absence of updated data backup, they can be recovered using accurate formatted picture recovery tool.

How to Recover Photos Lost After Formatting a Computer?

Yodot Photo Recovery software is best way for retrieval of deleted photos from formatted computer hard drive. This utility completely scans formatted PC hard drive to locate and extract various formats of generic and RAW image file such as JPG, JPEG, IMG, PNG, PSD, GIF, PSP, BMP, TIFF, TIF, PIC, PCX, WEBP, EXI, DNG, RAF, KDC, RAW, NEF, CR2, NEF, CR2, CRW, 3FR, MRW, PEF, etc. Other than formatted computer, you can also accomplish photo recovery from formatted SD card, SDHC card, SDxC card, CF card, MMC, xD, SM, Memory sticks and other flash card types. This picture recovery tool can get back images, videos, audio files and documents from formatted computer hard drive and other external storage drives on all supported storage drives on application is compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, and all previous verions of OS based the computers.

Steps for Recovering Deleted Photos from Formatted Computer:

• Download Yodot Photo Recovery software and install it on your formatted computer.
• Run installed tool and select Lost Photo Recovery option from main screen.
• Then select the formatted computer hard drive and click on Next.
• Select photo formats which you want to restore from list on next screen and click on Next.
• Software starts scanning deleted photos from formatted computer and displays the result in different view types.
• Select any picture file from recovered data list and click on Preview to view it.
• Save recovered photos to location preferred by on your computer hard drive or to any external storage drive.

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