Formatting partition is a common method to clear partition frequently employed by users. Some directly employ the Windows build-in tool to format partition while others utilize third-party software. Whatever, once formatted, partition data would get lost and sometime users' important would be unconsciously formatted. At this moment, user should turn to third-party data recovery software to recover lost data. Speaking of data recovery, I would like to recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

High-level formatting and low-level formatting:
Hard disk formatting generally comprises low-level formatting and high-level formatting. High-level formatting only clear booting information generated by disk data, initialize FAT and mark logical bad track, etc. While low-level formatting mark out hard disk cylinder and track, subsequently divide track into several sectors and then mark out ID, segment, GAP, and DATA section, etc. Low-level formatting is a preparatory task prior to high-level formatting and every hard disk is performed with low-level formatting before leaving factory. Low-level formatting is a dissipative operation and would exert negative effect upon hard disk life. The formatting operation usually performed by us under Windows is high-level formatting. Under Windows, high-level formatting doesn't really delete data permanently but mark spaces occupied those deleted data as unallocated space and the deleted data still exists on hard disk. This is why we can recover data with data recovery software from formatted partition.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is free data recovery software developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. gathering features of powerful function, highly efficient and purely green. Furthermore, it runs perfectly under 32/64 bit (whatever personal, professional or corporate edition) operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 and supports all kinds of file systems like FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, etc. In addition, MiniTool Power Data Recovery bears five data recovery modules: "Undelete Recovery", "Damaged Partition Recovery", "Lost Partition Recovery", "Digital Media Recovery" and "CD/DVD Recovery".



After running MiniTool Power Data Recovery, user could meet the five function modules: 

• Undelete Recovery
  This module is to recover deleted data, for example, the deleted data is usually stored in recycle bin, in case recycle bin is emptied, user should adopt this module to recover lost data.
• Damaged Partition Recovery
  This module could perform full scan to partition. In case partition is formatted, or system is reinstalled, user should employ this module to recover lost data.
• Lost Partition Recovery
  This module is to recover lost partition, such as deleted partition or crashed partition.
• Digital Media Recovery
  This module is to perform digital media recovery, mainly directing at video or audio data, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, MP3, WMA, MP4, AVI and ASF, etc.
• CD/DVD Recovery
  This module is to recover lost data from CD/DVD.

The following is a demonstration on recovering data from formatted partition:



Select "Damaged Partition Recovery", and then select a desired partition and click "Full Scan".



Now many partitions are listed in the interface above, select the highly suggested partition (usually the fist one) and click "Show Files".



Check those desired files that you want to recover and then click "Save files" to store them into assigned location. For more information about MiniTool Power Data Recovery, please go to the official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com.