Recover Files from a Formatted Drive

Use GiliSoft Data Recovery to recover files from a formatted drive when a partition, USB disk, memory card, or external drive has been formatted and important files still need to be restored.

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What This Recovery Page Covers

Scan formatted hard drives, external disks, USB flash drives, and removable cards.
Restore documents, office files, photos, videos, archives, and other common file types.
Use preview and selective recovery to avoid restoring unnecessary files.
Keep the recovery workflow focused on common Windows formatted-drive scenarios.

How to Recover Files

1. Stop writing new files to the formatted drive as soon as possible.

2. Open GiliSoft Data Recovery and choose the affected drive.

3. Run the scan and wait for recoverable files to appear.

4. Preview the results and restore selected files to another healthy storage location.

Best Fit

This page is most useful when the drive was formatted but still appears in Windows and you need file-level recovery instead of partition rebuilding.