Retrieve Photos from Formatted Laptop

Keeping pictures on laptop hard drive is very common practice now since it helps people to make their memories available for very long time. Additionally, you cannot be dependent on digital camera memory card or any USB flash drive to keep thousands of pictures for a long duration as these devices possess less memory than a laptop hard drive.

People think their collection of photos is safe in laptop hard drive; but the fact is that photo loss is still possible. Amazingly, many users lose their valuable images from laptop as a consequence of formatting laptop. Couples of instances where users may format laptop and lose pictures are given below:

• While re-installing OS on laptop, users may select wrong partition to format. It may cause deletion of all photos that were residing on laptop partition that was mistakenly formatted
• If laptop hard drive partitions get inaccessible due to viruses and the problem remains unresolved even after scanning, user may format affected drive on laptop
• One can lose pictures on laptop after formatting when it gets corrupted due to erroneous file system, re-partitioning, re-sizing and other drive management operations
• User may format laptop hard drive to make it free of junk data; but they forget to back up essential photos and lose them

Yes it’s true that you may feel helpless when you end up losing treasured photos from formatted laptop. You may experience the same, in other circumstances where in you moved files from SD card to PC, accidentally deleted files, formatted external devices etc. In such moments, you can take suggestion of any data recovery professional to overcome your photo loss; but it would cost so much money and time. So better you search a reliable photo recovery tool online. It will be the best and easiest solution for you to get back pictures from formatted laptop hard drive.

Formatted laptop data recovery software:

By choosing a right application, you can achieve successful recovery of photos from your formatted laptop hard drive. Yodot Photo Recovery utility is highly recommended to restore pictures that are disappeared after formatting partition or entire hard drive on laptop. It is equipped with advanced photo recovery features to support easy restoration of erased pictures from formatted laptop promoted by different brands like Dell, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Sony and so on. This image recovery software can retrieve photos from formatted camera, USB drive, external hard disk, SSD, flash memory cards and other removable storage devices. With this read only wizard, one can recover pictures files in JPG, JPEG, IMG, PNG, PSD, GIF, PSP, BMP, TIFF, TIF, PIC, PCX, WEBP, EXI, DNG, RAF, KDC, RAW, NEF, CR2 and other file formats from formatted laptop that are enabled all latest Windows OS versions including Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

Step by step guide to extract photos from formatted laptop:

• Download Yodot Photo Recovery program to your laptop and install it on any drive except the formatted one
• Run the software to explore photo recovery instructions that are given on main screen
• In order to regain lost images from your formatted laptop, click on “Lost Photo Recovery” option
• The recovery program shows you all the dives present in your laptop including that formatted drive
• Choose the formatted drive from where you have lost photos and click on “Next” tab
• Wait for a while till the software completes scanning of the selected drive. After completion of the scanning operation, all recoverable picture files get displayed on a window
• Toggle between “Data View” and “File type View” options to choose images that you want to restore from formatted laptop
• You can utilize “Preview” option to see any image to confirm right selection of files
• At last, save the recovered pictures to your desired location on laptop or to any external storage devices; but not to the same formatted drive

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