All hard drive are formatted either with Windows or Mac operating systems and the entire storage space on the drive is divided into multiple partitions. The specification of partition depends upon the file system & operating system, which you have chosen. There are different file systems like FAT, NTFS for Windows and HFS+, HFSX for Mac etc. All these file system have its own features, in order to get the latest features you usually change the file system & operating system. For example, you may upgrade your file system from FAT to FAT32 or FAT32 to NTFS or you may often downgrade the file system or operating system to provide backward software compatibility to some software applications.
Various problems that you may face daily are slow booting of system, software malfunction, accidental format, virus attack, system error, bad sector problem, bad sectors etc. To get rid of these problems you format, reformat or re-installing the operating system on your the hard drive.
While trying to format your drive you may end up formatting the incorrect drive or forget to take a backup of important files or you may format the complete drive accidentally rather than formatting a single partition or logical drive. Do not save the recovered data to the drive or partition from which you are recovering data from, as it may overwrite the data, and would lead to permanent loss of data.
Download the formatted data recovery product and install it on a separate drive, so that you can prevent the lost data from being overwritten. Start the process of recovering data, using this software to recover files after formatting hard drive, memory card, USB flash drive, iPods, FireWire drives and external hard disk drives. This software will also allow you to recover files after reformat, full format, quick format, re-partition, or even after re-installing the operation system.