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Recovering files after a hard disc format
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You can recover files after a format as all formatting does is to put new "magnetic markers" on parts of the drive. It doesn't erase anything at all so that any part of the drive that had files on it may still remain readable. If the drive is the only drive in your pc then everytime you use your pc you are reducing the chances of recovering anything because data is being written to it.
The best thing to do is to put the drive into another PC as a secondry drive. That way no further data will be written to it. Then try something like Bad Copy Pro. A free trial download is available from the company website
This site has a free data recovery program but it works file by file not for the whole drive. It is here
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