FormatRecovery 4 can help you recover data from formatted hard disks. It is a data recovery application from the stable
of 0&0 Software-who specialize in hard disk utilities. Apart from individually deleted files, this recovery program can also completely restore newly-formatted partitions. FormatRecovery also promises to retrieve the folder structure- something essential for larger image or music collections.

In our tests, FormatRecovery restored over 5000 images from a quick¬formatted NTFS partition under Windows Vista. None of the images were lost and the folder structure and filenames were restored. Even when we changed the file system from NTFS to FAT while formatting, the application did not face any problem.

The tool also recovered data on external hardware, such as a formatted USB stick, but only when you do not change the local file system to FAT. If you change the local file system, it might not be of much help. The program doesn't offer loads of features like its counterparts, though some of the features offered are unique to it and are extremely functional.