Features

Unformat is a versatile utility that will help you recover data from a physical device or a logical drive that has been:

  • accidentally formatted
  • recently deleted
  • recently deleted and re-created

Major features and functionality of Unformat:

  • Creates a disk image for the selected drive or device that can be:
    • restored to the starting point if data recovery is impossible
    • scanned repeatedly to try other recovery methods
  • Scans the device or logical drive and finds all partitions (existing, deleted or re-formatted)
  • Displays scan results in a format that allows you to browse folders and files and determine recovery status
  • Recovers a selected partition, or data from it using one of the following methods:
    • Physical recovery: fixes boot sectors and Master Boot Record; a quick method but not always successful
    • Unformat: formats a target partition and copies all data from a disk image of the damaged partition to a new formatted drive
    • Copy: copies all data from the damaged partition to another folder on the local drive, or to a network folder

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows XP (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit & 64-bit)
  • Windows 2000

In addition, you must be able to lock access to the target drive. That means that you must close all open files on this drive and do not open this drive using Windows Explorer.