Solution for HDD got reformatted during a new XP installation

Question: My HDD was bought 2 years ago, 2TB Seagate Disk and now has reformat problem. The HDD was formatted during a new installation of XP, nothing was written to it, but it was formatted. I did not touch the drive since the wrong reformatting. I knew new files written to the drive could make my data lost. What kind of chances am I looking at in terms of salvaging some of the information? Is this something that your software is capable of handling? I'm currently searching for the best possible options as to recover information on a recently formatted external harddrive.

Solution: Try iCare Data Recovery Software to restore files from formatted drive with its special recovery module "Format Recovery". It is offered as free trial and it can search your lost files for free.

Please download a free trial of iCare Data Recovery Software at http://www.icare-recovery.com/icaredrs.exe and run the trial. Connect your external drive to a Windows system and then select "Format Recovery" to search lost files.

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Related Resouce with HDD Reformat Data Retrival

Data Retrival from formatted hdd or external hard disk drives is possible. The best recovery chance comes with no new data written to the reformatted disk drive.

There is a list of new file written to hard disk drive after format: You save new files to your hard disk that was reformatted. Your computer sufferred unexpected shutting down and Windows restarts by writing new files to any drive it could recognize. You save the found files by some recovery tool to the same reformatted disk.

Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows 7 plantform reinstallation or new installation often requires users to format disk and prepare for new system installation. It often happens that users would perform a wrong hdd drive reformat ie format the wrong hard disk drive or external disk drive. Most of the system installation reformat disk files could be restored.

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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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