Solution for mistakenly format external hdd

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Some same users got the same problem with their external hdd or USB drive

"Hi data recovery experts, I am in the trouble of mistakenly formatted my external hard drive that was FAT32 before the formatting. It is 60GB external hdd that I bought many years ago and most files in the hdd are my family photos and backup files. I tried to format a new memory card, however the external hdd was also connected to my XP pro, then I mistakenly selected the external hdd to format. I did not touch the formatted external hdd after the formatting was done since I knew any new file would make the files lost forever."

"Formatted the wrong hard disk drive when reinstalling XP. Here is my story. I installed XP on my system since I inheritated it from my uncle and after installing some software from my external hard drive which I stored frequent used applications and other important files, then i realized something went wrong with the xp install. What could i do? I decided to reinstall the OS. However troubles wouldn't occur if i managed to unplug my external hard drive, which appearred with my internal hdd when i was reinstalling the XP, and I did not pay attention to this, so I selected the wrong disk to format and install the OS. OOps, my files gone after reformat."

Chance of recovery after mistakenly formatted external drive

Quick reformat, complete format, full format files can be restored if Windows nor users wrote new file to that reformatted drive. Formatting often occurs when you did it by mistake on your storage devices and most frequently, the devices can be external hard drive, memory card, sd card, cf card, usb drive, flash drive etc.

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Which recovery module shall I select?

"Lost Partition Recovery": Recovering files when partition lost or deleted with following symptoms:

• deleted partition by mistake
• bad partition table
• partition lost without a reason
• partition or drive not detected by PC

"Advanced File Recovery": Recovering files with the following symptoms.

• SHIFT+DELETE command keys
• partition inaccessible but is visiable in PC under "Disk Management".
• emptied recycle bin
• symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now

"Deep Scan Recovery": the most powerful recovery module that searches every byte

• system crashes
• bad MBR, bad partition table, bad boot sector
• bad file allocation table
• software failure like merg partition failure, resize partition failure, ghost failure
• RAID array damaged
• symptom - drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now
• RAW file system, raw drive

"Format Recovery": Recoveirng files related with format problems

• formatted partition, card etc by mistake
• CHKDSK is not available for RAW drive
• Pressed restore button of iPod, iPhone, iTouch, blackberry

For any unstated data loss rescue, we recommend you to use "Deep Scan Recovery" to search lost files.

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