FAQ: Accidentally formatted flash drive

Tutorial: How to retrieve data from formatted drive

 

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This is an FAQ about flash card formatted by accident.

You accidentally formatted flash drive or storage device. No need to panic. It is easy to get files even you formatted your flash drive, or other storage drives. What you need is to perform a formatted drive recovery, which can be done using iCare Data recovery Software which works on most Windows plantforms. All you have to do is to connect your flash drive to your Windows running PC and start a format recovery with this program.

Here are some cases usually happened to format recovery users besides accidentally flash drive formatted.

1. Have you formatted the drive to same file system for e.g. FAT to FAT or NTFS to NTFS?
2. Have you formatted the drive to other file system i.e. FAT to NTFS and vice versa?

Formatting a drive does not erase your data but the FAT, usually called fat allocation table, which is to record all the places of data storage. Your data is not damaged if you performed format. There is still chances to recover files. See a screenshot of how iCare Data Recovery Software successfully found files.

 

Recovering data from formatted flash drive by accident

1. Launch the application
2. Select the option “Format Recovery”
3. Select the physical drive containing formatted partition
4. Select the option “Show Files” which is on the left menu
5. iCare Data Recovery Software will list all files.
6. Preview lost files.
7. You're finished.

Isn't it simple to perform a format recovery from flash drive? If you happened to format your drive and need files back, be free to try iCare Recovery.

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