Which soft the best to unformat HD

[theGate]

Hi mates

A friend of mine format his HD. He format the wrong one !!!
Which software can I use to get the partition back to what it was before.

No new data has been written to the HD only pure format.

I am not a pro in that domain

ps.: I dont want to start a debate just have some idea to what is good to do that

thanks a lot

theGate

[cachito]

You can try testdisk but don't think it works for format, only for deleted/corrupted partitions.
If nothing was overwritten, getdataback or any other data recovery software should work just fine to recover the files.

[nikkapedd]

You can try R-Tools R-studio.. But if you used the complete option, you have almost no chance to recover the partition.. With this tool i recovered 3 lost partitions of an 1TB WD.
It takes time, because use the complete scan to every cluster..

[ZeNiX]

My first recommendation is R-Studio.

My second recommendation is DiskGenius which is Chinese only, the English version might be PartitionGuru.

[bolo2002]

If it were a quick format,you may get lucky but since windows 7,full format option=no hope.

R-Studio and testdisk are good,try them..good luck.

[cachito]

Check this one
http://www.rlslog.net/active-unformat-professional-v4-0-7-2-p2p/

Never tested it, just saw it in my daily RSS reading

[niculaita]

http://avxhome.in/software/Active_Unformat_Professional_4.0.7.2.html
http://nitroflare.com/view/1CFA8EA8C7F5E4A/Active.Unformat.Professional.4.0.7.2.rar


http://avxhome.in/software/Coolmuster_Data_Recovery_2.1.10.html
http://nitroflare.com/view/00B9B03E2FE59EE/Coolmuster.Data.Recovery.2.1.10.rar

http://avxsearch.in/search?q=data+recovery&a=&exact=0&c=10&l=any&sort_by=date_desc

[Jay]

If you are quick, Active@UNFORMAT v.4.0.7 is a giveaway on bitsdujour today 28 January 2016. Haven't had a chance to test it but other tools from that developer have worked for me where similar tools failed.

[lordi]

to gain the best result, you need to try different software, IMHO,

I tried Getdataback product and find it satisfying for me, try it

[val2032]

For recovering all your files R-Studio is the best solution.
I have experienced a blackout (no ups) when I tried to convert partitions (FAT to NTFS) and R-Studio solved this issue. It was the solution for accidentally partition format, too.

You can also check with Ontrack Easy Recovery.

[BlackWhite]

FinalData may be your choice.

[lordnasty]

One good software that same me several times is Recover4All.

R-Studio is very good too!

[Sn!per X]

ZAR X is my best choice:

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

.
tested by myself, you can restore data from HDD asking for format without formatting it.

[bolo2002]

Let us know what helped you to recover it.

[squareD]

Well slow, slower, Exetools

So let me also know, what helped you.
Best chance is buying a new HD, but I have so much problems to get here, there's no time for jokes, so pardon me.