Formatting partitions can not clear away disk data thoroughly. Users can recover them completely as long as they adopt correct methods. In order to prevent data from being recovered maliciously by others, many computer users choose to format all partitions in disks to clear away all disk data when they want to abandon damaged disks. However, using this method is not absolutely safe. Disk data also can be recovered with MiniTool Power Data Recovery as long as platter for storing data is not damaged greatly.

The principle of formatting partitions
Data in disks are stored on partitions with a certain structure. Take FAT32 as an example. It is made up of DBR, FAT, DIR and DATA. DBR records the starting sector, ending sector, partition size, and other a series of information of the partition. FAT and DIR record specific file locations which can help users find corresponding files correctly. However, DATA is real data storage field. When users format a FAT32 partition, operating objects are DBR, FAT, and DIR. Formatting partitions will initialize recorded information of FAT and DIR in the partition, which makes operating system unable to find files in the partition so as to empty the partition. However, we do not do any operation in the process of formatting, so data in the partition are stored on the disk completely. Thus it can be seen we can not delete disk data thoroughly even if we format all partitions in the disk.

A miraculous data recovery software to unformat partitions
According to the formatting principle, MiniTool Solution Ltd. researchers and develops MiniTool Power Data Recovery elaborately. Surely, this data recovery software can recover data from formatted partitions, but it has a premise that users can not write-in data after formatting partitions. If not, original data will be covered by new data, leading to being unable to recover.
Next, let's see how to unformat data from formatted partitions with MiniTool Power Data Recovery:



MiniTool Power Data Recovery is such a data recovery software which is free for individual and home users. We can download it from its official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com. After running this software, please select "Damaged Partition Recovery" functional module to unformat partition data.



In the partition list, we select the formatted partition, and then click "Full" button to scan the whole partition. After finishing scanning, we will enter the following interface.



After scanning, we find the possible original partition states. Select the partition which has the highest matching degree (In general, the first partition is the wanted partition), and then click "Show Files" button in the left interface.



In the file list, those files with question mark are deleted files in the process of formatting the partition. Select the needed files, and then click "Save Files" button to unformat these files in given places.

From the above specific demonstrations, users will find data in formatted partitions, actually, can be recovered by MiniTool Power Data Recovery. If users want to clear away disk data from formatted partitions thoroughly, they need the help of MiniTool Partition Wizard whose wiping function can rewrite disks or partitions to recover original data thoroughly. As a result, original data are covered thoroughly. Therefore, these data can not be unformatted by any data recovery software.

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