Don’t worry the data lost with a single mistake keystroke quick format will not lend your work into vain. When you think of formatting the hard drive it depends on the two methods such as regular format and the quick format. If we perform the quick format, the system deletes entries from the file allocation table and leaves the actual files intact, because the file addresses are no longer indexed in the file allocation table and they will be overwritten by new files. Quick format will not scan the disk for bad sectors. It is used when a hard disk has been previously formatted and it’s not damaged. All the data will be removed from the volume if we perform quick format. Since quick format remove the “entries” to data only, there is possibilities of quick format recovery unless the data area is overwritten by new data.
There is certain precaution that needs to be followed before performing data recovery which is listed below.
- For successful recovery of lost files and folders, make sure that you do not perform any read/write operations on the formatted drive.
- Download and install the software on to another system and attach the formatted drive as a slave to that system. This system will be used to recover data from the formatted drive.
You also use other software where any type of recover data from laptop.