If you can recover those pointers then you can access your data again.
The only thing that formatting accomplishes is to eliminate the pointers that exist that tell your operating system where the files are physically located. The files and data are still there, but just cannot be accessed by your operating system. Until the particular drive sectors are overwritten, there is still a chance to recover a formatted hard drive. When you format a hard drive, the operating system loses its ability to reference the data on the disk. Let’s take a minute to understand what exactly formatting your hard drive does to your hard disk. Don’t panic, there are some options available to you that can restore your system to full operational order. No matter how you arrived at this point, the fact is that now to regain access to the data you need to recover data from a hard disk after formatting.
In some cases, you may have formatted to change file systems, run into issues, and now have to recover files from a formatted hard drive. Perhaps the drive was formatted inadvertently, or it could have been done purposely before you realized that you needed files that were resident on the drive. You find that an important hard drive has been formatted and now the data is inaccessible. Here is a situation that we all hope we do not ever have to face.
