Windows 7 is the most popular Operating System developed by Microsoft Corporation. Since Windows 7 provides application performance, designed with a crystal clear graphics and includes various enhanced features when compared to its predecessors, most of the Windows the users prefer to have Windows 7 in place of other versions of Windows OS. Frequent usage of the Windows 7 hard drive for saving and transferring files might cause data loss due to either user problem, and some technical issues.

Have you ever come across with an error message like an unformatted drive or format now, when you try to access the hard drive of your Windows 7 the computer? In most of the cases, the answer will be yes. Sometimes due to infection of macro virus or abrupt system reboot, file system gets corrupt which ultimately makes hard drive inaccessible. Whenever the user tries to access such drives, it says an unformatted drive. To be able to fix the corrupt file system, one has to format the hard drive, which eventually deletes all the stored files and leads to huge amount of data loss.

One most efficient way to retrieve files from such corrupt hard drive partitions is recovery from an unformatted drive by using appropriate hard drive recovery software. Performing a deep scan of the hard drive, data recovery software retrieves the raw files from the stored sector with the help of various file attributes. Even after getting an unformatted error; recovery software recovers lost files along with their names and folder hierarchy. Most important thing is choosing appropriate recovery software. As it is known fact, files can be recovered only before overwriting the drive, sometimes using wrong software might overwrite the drive and leads to data loss beyond recovery.

Unformat Drive for Windows is a trusted hard drive raw data recovery software recommended by industry experts. With this application you can undelete external drive & also corrupt SATA, SCSI and IDE hard drive and eventually recover files within a couple of minutes. This Unformat Drive has the ability to easily and quickly recover data from Western Digital external hard disk lost after unintentional formatting, hard drive partition corruption and  master boot record (MBR) corruption.As the tool is designed with simple the user interface, even a novice the user can restore his files with the absence of difficulties. Along with hard drives, it also facilitates to recover files from USB drives and external drives after getting an unformatted USB drive error. In order to estimate the chances of recovery before purchasing the software, one can download the free trial version to recover flash drive along with unformatting hard drive and external hard drive.

Requirements: 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Steps to unformat Windows 7 hard drive:

Step 1: Install and launch the demo version of the software either by double clicking Desktop Icon or from Start menu. Main Window pops up as shown in Fig 1. Select "Recover Partitions / Drives".

Fig 1: Main Screen

Requirements: 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Step 2: Since we have to recover files from an unformatted hard drive, click on "Formatted/Re-Formatted Recovery". The software will show the list of available drives as shown in Fig 2. Select the partition from which you wish to restore files and click on Next button.

Fig 2: Choose Drive

Requirements: 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Step 3: Now software enables you to select the file types which you want to recover as shown in Fig 3. Select the type of files which you want to recover and click Next to proceed.

Figure C: Recovered Files in Data View & File Type View

Step 4: Before saving the recovered files, you can preview each recovered file just by right-clicking on the file as shown in Fig 4.

Fig 4: List of Recovered Files

Requirements: 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

Step 5: Select one recovered file and click on "Preview" button. If you are satisfied with recovered results, buy the full version of the tool and save recovered files to intended drive.

Figure E: Save Recovered Data