Recovery data from drives

[Saiaravind37]

When my laptop has windows 10 version accidentally formatted D drive after few weeks i installed windows 8. Can i recover the old data

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can try to perform a deep scan with a recovery program such as Recuva or Test Disk. 

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

You need to perform deep scan since the drive has been formatted. This can take many hours or even days depending on the size of the hard drive. You will need another drive to save the files the program finds to. You should do this before usinfg the computer for anything else, the more you use the computer before recoverinn the less chance you have of recovering your files.

If you have extremely important data on the drive, bring to a professional or send to a professional recovery service. This is a very expensive option, but they will probably be able to extract more of your data.

Hope it helps,

David

[Jaxon_John]

Hi,

You can recover data by using a good software.

Make sure that you dont perform much operations on the hard drive to avoid overwriting, otherwise it will be difficult to recover the data.

https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download

As said, Recuva is the best option as it is a free software. It can recover most of the files. Incase if you couldn't recover the files using Recuva, I suggest you to use trust worthy software like Remo Recover, Mini Tools,  or Ease Us.

https://www.remoharddriverecovery.com/

Good Luck !