It is advised not to use the hard drive after formatting. This increases the chances of successful recovery from the formatted hard drive.
To retrieve lost photos from a formatted hard drive, use Stellar Photo Recovery software.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you recover lost pictures using Stellar Photo Recovery:
• Open Stellar Photo Recovery. On the home screen, select the formatted drive from which you want to recover. Click Scan.
- The software will start scanning your drive. The process will take some time to complete.
- Click OK once ‘Scanning Completed Successfully!’ dialog box appears. In the left-pane of the main window, all the found files and folders are listed. The bottom-right pane lists the files stored in the selected folder. Select a file and preview in the right pane.
Note: If your required media files are not in the list, choose Deep Scan for advanced scanning of the formatted hard drive.
- Select the desired files and choose Recover. In the dialog box, specify the location to save the media files. Click Save to save the file in the desired location.
