


While the instant loss of hundreds or even thousands of files can seem utterly devastating, their recovery usually isn’t any more difficult than the recovery of a single lost file. The good news is that such mistakes can usually be recovered from using special data recovery software or native recovery solutions, such as File History in Windows or Time Machine in macOS.Ī lot can go wrong when you click the “Format” button without double- or triple-checking which storage device you’re about to format. All people make mistakes, and some mistakes lead to data loss.
