How do I recover formatted logical drives?

What is format?
To prepare 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 all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information. You must format a disk before you can use it.

Note that reformatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables. Do not panic, therefore, if you accidentally reformat a disk that has useful data. A computer specialist should be able to recover most, if not all, of the information on the disk. You can also buy programs that enable you to recover a disk yourself, such as Data Recovery Wizard.

The previous discussion, however, applies only to high-level formats, the type of formats that most users execute. In addition, hard disks have a low-level format, which sets certain properties of the disk such as the interleave factor. The low-level format also determines what type of disk controller can access the disk (e.g., RLL or MFM).

Almost all hard disks that you purchase have already had a low-level format. It is not necessary, therefore, to perform a low-level format yourself unless you want to change the interleave factor or make the disk accessible by a different type of disk controller. Performing a low-level format erases all data on the disk.

The differences between Partition Table Doctor and Data Recovery Wizard

Have you found that there are some important files lost in your data loss disaster even though the partition table has been retrieved with a partition recovery software?

If the data in the partition was loss or destroyed, you can not access them after retrieved your partition. When you encountered this problem, select a recovery software such as Data Recovery Wizard is a good choice for you.

The following table is the details of common problems which can be solved by Partition Table Doctor or Data Recovery Wizard. Hope this will be helpful to you.

Features Partition Table Doctor Data Recovery Wizard

partition repair software

data recovery software

Rebuild partition structures Yes No
Restore data through successful partition recovery Yes No
Fix boot sector Yes No
Recover data from lost partition No Yes
Recover data from partition with corrupted boot sector No Yes
Recover data from partition with corrupted file system and directory No Yes
Recover data after emptied Recycle Bin No Yes
Recover data from formatted partition No Yes
Recover data after viruses and worms infection No Yes
Support Disk image No Yes
Support Windows Vista No Yes
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