The first reaction
of most of us when format the external hard disk accidentally may be unformat
it. But I have not heard the unformat tool yet. It does not mean we will lose
those files forever. Though there is no unformat too, we can access those lost
contents by restoring them. Yes, it is true that we can recover the data form the
formatted external hard disk. What’s more, it is not sophisticated. Here is an example of my students who format his
external hard disk by mistake.