In this case, stop using your drive immediately and send it to a professional data recovery service. Warning: It’s also possible that your drive or partition got corrupted due to physical damage.
Note that corruption may also apply to the data itself – fortunately, data recovery software can usually rebuild the data and make it readable/usable again. As long as only a Quick Format is performed, you should be able to recover data after the format. Again, this will prompt the user to perform a format in order to fix it. Hard drive or partition corruption – A corrupted hard drive or partition is usually unreadable by the operating system.Infected drives and partitions are usually highly recoverable. In such cases, Windows may ask to format the drive or partition to make it functional again. Virus infection – Viruses may corrupt a partition’s file system, making it unreadable by the operating system.In such cases, formatted partition recovery will only work if Quick Format was selected (it usually is by default). Users might also format the wrong partition. Accidental formatting – The user accidentally formatted the partition via File Explorer or through the Disk Management app.Hopefully, your case falls under one of them. Below are 3 common scenarios that result in formatting (and consequently, data loss), that still have a high chance of recovery. What Was the Reason for Formatting the Partition?įirst, let’s figure out the root cause for formatting the partition.
We’ll break down each factor below, and by the end, you should have a better understanding of your situation and what to do next. There are 3 main factors that can affect partition recovery: (1) the reason for formatting, (2) the type of formatting executed, and (3) what happened after the partition was formatted. Is It Possible to Recover Data from a Formatted Partition?
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