We suggest you use the free data recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition 5.0.1.

The Format commands are typically run to prepare a new logical drives for use after Fdisked hard drive - enabling the installation of an operating system, application programs & eventual user data. The format command has been around for a long time, formerly they were stand alone DOS programs before being integrated into Windows.

When a drive has been formatted, the all data would disappear.

To recover files from formatted drives, please follow this procedure:

1. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard beta.

2. The first screen on the "Complete Recovery" tool will display a list of volumes found on the drives found in your system. If the volume does not have a drive letter, then the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

3. You should choose the volume that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume.

4. The Intelligent Searching module will scan on the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes which are possible on it.

5. After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard Beta will permit you choosing 6 volumes at best to recover the data. And then, press "NEXT" button. The Data Recovery Wizard Beta will launch the "Building directory" procedure to searching the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

6. Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "Next" button.

7. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.