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Question

Restoring Formatted Drive Partition

Jul 22, 2016 5:53AM PDT

Hello,

I wanted to format one partition on my computer which had to be cleaned but accidentally chose another partition (partition D) where all the important data is stored. The formatting was at slow speed (the check mark was removed from "Quick Format" option before the formatting started). After 9 percent of the partition had been formatted, I realized that I had chosen a wrong partition with all the important data on it. I instantly terminated the formatting process by switching off the computer to make sure that the process stops immediately. Now Windows system says that the partition is not accessible.

Does anyone know how to restore the data in the partition and regain access to it?

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Re: restoring formatted partition
Jul 22, 2016 6:26AM PDT
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Re: restoring formatted partition
Jul 29, 2016 10:36AM PDT

Thank for help. It is useful to have a backup partition. I have used some software which restores files from formatted partitions. The restored files have been scattered and their names have been removed. So restoring data can be of little help when some big programs were installed on a partition which was then damaged or partly formatted with slow formatting.