It is advised not to use the hard drive after formatting. This increases the chances of successful recovery from the formatted hard drive.

To retrieve lost photos from a formatted hard drive, use Stellar Photo Recovery software.

 Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you recover lost pictures using Stellar Photo Recovery:
 

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  • Launch the Stellar Photo Recovery software.
  • On the home screen, Choose the file type to scan on the main interface.

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  • Next, select the Drive from which you wish to recover the lost data. And click Scan.

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  • The software will start scanning your drive. The process will take some time to complete.
  • Click OK once ‘Scanning Completed Successfully!’ dialog box appears. In the left-pane of the main window, all the found files and folders are listed. The bottom-right pane lists the files stored in the selected folder. Select a file and preview in the right pane.

Note: If your required media files are not in the list, choose Deep Scan for advanced scanning of the formatted hard drive.

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  • Select the desired files and choose Recover. In the dialog box, specify the location to save the media files. Click Save to save the file in the desired location.