Solution for unformat desktop external hard drive
Question: I formatted my desktop external hard drive since I want to give it to a friend. I transferred all data to my external flash drive as a backup copy, however the flash drive reported RAW error and won't open again. I need a tool to unformat photos from my desktop external drive.
Is there way to restore files from reformatted desktop that are connected as external hard drive?
Solution: Try iCare Data Recovery Standard to restore files from quick 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 iCare Data Recovery Standard 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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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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