Disk formatting is the process in which a new disk medium is fully prepared to store files. The Windows OS just erases entire bookkeeping information from the disk when you format the disk and creates internal address tables that are used to locate information for later added data. You can perform Quick Format as well as Full Format to erase the complete data from hard disk drive. Quick formatting erases the hard disk drives metadata and file allocation tables and it hardly take few minutes where as Full formatting goes sector-by-sector across the disk and erases it. It takes hours together. You might need to format a hard drive if you are installing an operating system for the first time, trying to get rid of viruses, cleaning your hard drive to sell your computer, removing errors from your hard drive, etc. However, in case by mistake, if you have formatted your drive then you need to recover deleted files from formatted hard drive to recover all your files back. You can do this by using file recovery software like “Remo Recover (Windows) Pro Edition” which is one of the most powerful third party utility to retrieve files after formatting the storage medium.
You can perform the Quick format in various scenarios like if you right click on particular drive or an external hard drive, you can see a “Format” option available. If you click on that, you will get “Quick format” as an option and if you click “Start”, it will format the drive. You can also format particular drive using “format” command, which is a Microsoft DOS command. The syntax is: format drive: [/parameters] for example:
format C: /s, this command will copy system files to the formatted disk.
Format C: /q, this command will perform Quick formatting.
You have to be very careful while formatting the drive intentionally. If you are formatting the hard drive, take a proper backup of all your personal data and important information of your hard drive before you start the format process. If you are formatting hard drive because viruses have caused serious system and file system damages, then a backup might not be possible. Nevertheless, if you do not have backup of your data then no need to worry because old data remains until it is overwritten. You can recover data from newly formatted hard drive with the use of right recovery tool such as Remo Recover (Windows) Pro Edition.
Remo Recover (Windows) Pro Edition recovers lost data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT drive that has been formatted. This software works by implementing set of inbuilt algorithms. This software creates disk images to recover data from hard drive having bad sectors. The demo version is available free, which performs the detailed scanning of the drive being formatted and recovers all the lost files. You can use “File Type View” option to view recovered files or “Data view” option to view recovered folders in a hierarchical manner. Ones you get clear idea about the amount of data being recovered by the software, you can purchase the licensed version and start saving the recovered file after formatting.
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