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is there anyway to recover hard drive after formatting it?!!!

ok i feel like a moron at the moment so i went to erase one partition on my imac hardrive and for some reason it erased both one had snow leopard on it and the other my freshly installed lion with all my data. it has formatted both and i feel like bashing myself because the data is essential is there anyway i can recover this data.

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 1:12 AM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 1:19 AM

sorry the lion utility froze and for some reason showed lion as erased but it is not!!!!!!!!!!

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Nov 25, 2013 6:40 PM in response to appledudeco

I'm not aware of any freeware data recovery apps. If there are any, they're probably worth what you pay for them, as data recovery is a very complicated operation.

Data Recovery software is probably your best option, and is dirt cheap compared to professional recovery. It all depends how much your data is worth. Most recovery apps will give you a basic free version to show what may be recoverable, but will not let you actually recover the data. That version costs money.

Whatever you do, don't write anything to the disk you formatted, as that may overwrite the files you're trying to recover.

This type of issues happen one or another day but no need to get panic! You can easily recover data from inaccessible and formatted drives by using data recovery tools. I have perfect solution named as Hard Drive Data Recovery which is specially designed and developed by expert professionals to recover data from formatted hard drive within few minutes.

Hope it can help you!

Jul 5, 2014 7:33 AM in response to bobbylos

Well i already faced that kind of problem few month ago when i went to my uncle marriage anniversary. My neighborhood son peter formatting my E: drive and install windows xp os. When I reached home and check pc i lost every important data from E: drive and found a new windows os in it, now what to do even i confuse.


To resolve this problem i went to the cybercafe for searching & collecting information over how to recover lost data from formatted partitions, I found Recover Data web site & try to contact with them. They said "my partition is not overwritten, it just formatted" and send me a link of there software http://www.windowsdiskrecovery.com/windows-partition-recovery, i download & run the demo software in healthy drive & scan formatted E: drive, it shows all my lost files & folder in front of me. I fully satisfied with the demo software results & decided to purchase the full featured software in USD69


so, as you have the same problem i suggest you download the demo software from here: http://www.windowsdiskrecovery.com/windows-partition-recovery and scan your full hard drive. I hope its work for your need


John Methew

United States

is there anyway to recover hard drive after formatting it?!!!

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