Sorting out the problems created by premature drive reformatting
It is always easy to affect a data recovery project prior to reformatting of a partition or an entire hard drive. In fact the ideal scenario is one where our computer is working perfectly and we are able to download a data recovery software utility onto a separate partition on our computer’s hard drive. This gives us a guarantee that we are not overwriting stored files. Very seldom does that perfect situation exists and in most cases successful file recovery must overcome very specific problems. One of these problems occurs in the form of partition recovery.
It seems we universally forget that reformatting a partition deletes all of the inherently stored files. Therefore we must scan that same partition with a deleted file recovery tool in order to bring back to life those deleted files. Almost always this is a successful procedure. Bear in mind that if files were deleted on a partition or hard drive and we then tried to recover formatted partitions information our file recovery tool may have difficulty in piecing together fragmented files.