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How to Recover Formatted Partition For lost data?

by Emerald Lee on May 11, 2010

Format is preparing for a storage medium, usually a disk, for reading and writing. When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure that all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (i.e., those are scratched), and creates internal address tables that are used to locate information later. You must format a disk before you can use it.

Sometimes people do format when they want to rearrange the size of partitions or just delete useless data on partition. Usually, these partitions are full of various files, people can hardly certify the files which are useful or not. So after formatting, they may suddenly find that some of their useful files are gone, and they need to recover lost data, otherwise they have to restart the work. Then here comes a question: how to recover formatted partition for rescuing data?

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