How to Recover Data from Hard Drive after Overwrite?

Data stored on a hard drive can be easily lost or overwritten due to many reasons including hard drive partitioning or repartitioning, formatting or reformatting of the partitions, using third party tools to manage partition, reinstallation of the operating system etc. Hard drive recovery software program helps you to recover overwritten data from hard drives. This recovery software has advanced algorithm, which specially helps in restoration of hard drive data that is overwritten. It allows you to search your lost files based on their unique signature on computer hard drives, FireWire hard drives and external hard drives. It also helps in recovery of data from corrupt, damaged and damaged hard drives. For easy and effective recovery of data from hard drive with bad sector disk images are created, it does not affect the data stored in hard drive.

The hard drive data are overwritten due to the following reasons:

• Partitioning/re-partitioning the hard drive – You may format the partition to install/reinstall the operating system without taking backup of or important data. After the installation of new operating system, you realized that you do not have the backup. Your data is overwritten and you cannot get back those data by normal backup process.


• Formatting / re-formatting the hard drive – There are many instances where you need to format the hard drive like virus attack, reinstalling the operating system. When you format your hard drive the table which holds the information about location of files on hard drive, is deleted and the data becomes inaccessible. Reformatting process changes the file system of your partitions. During formatting and reformatting process, you may overwrite the stored on your hard drive. You recover formatted hard drive easily by using hard drive recovery tool. To know more click on this site (http://www.myharddriverecovery.net/formatted-hard-drive-recovery.html)


• Accidentally overwriting data on hard drive – External hard drive is most commonly used to backup your important information. While backing up your data from external hard drive you may accidentally overwrite your existing data that causes severe data loss.

In order to avoid these critical data loss, always create a backup copy of important files stored in your hard drive, which helps you to restore the lost files. To perform hard drive recovery after overwrite successfully you stop using the hard drive once you notice that your HDD is overwritten and do not save any data on your hard drive. It is still possible to restore data from your hard drive using effective recovery tool. To know about restoration of hard drive partition click here. Hard drive recovery software is the best tool to recover data from laptop hard drive for both Windows and Mac. The software restore lost files from Seagate hard drive and other brands like Maxtor, Toshiba, Western Digital, Hitachi, Fujitsu, iOmega, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony, Transcend and LaCie. To know more click on this site (http://www.myharddriverecovery.net/from-seagate.html) It is also capable of recovering hard drive partion after partition error, fragmentation error, unintentional partion deletion. This software can identify numerous file types and recover them based on their unique signatures. You can also undelete dead hard disk files after hard drive failure, blue screen of death error, repartitioning, etc.It supports recovery from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS4, NTFS5 and ExFAT formatted partitions. You can also recover Mac hard disk files by making use of Mac version of the software.

To recover lost data from hard drive after overwrite, follow these steps:

Step 1: Download hard drive recovery software and launch on your computer. Select "Recover Drives" option from the screen as shown in Figure 1.

Step 1 : Main Screen

Step 2: Now from the next window select "Partition Recovery" option. Select the drive from the displayed  list of found partitions then click "Next" button to continue as shown in Figure 2.

Step 2 : Select Partition Recovery

Step 3: Next, you will need to select the physical drive on which data has been overwritten. After selecting the physical drive and clicking on "Next" all the detected partitions get displayed. You need to select the partition from which you need to recover data as shown in Figure 3.

Step 3 : Select Partition Recovery

Step 4: The recovery tool scans the selected partition. After completing the process, all the recovered data from hard drive is displayed, which you can view using "File Type View" and "Data Type View" options as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: View Recovered Data