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Am I doing Data Recovery on a Formatted Hard Drive Right?

I installed Windows Vista on separate partition from my existing OS and it seemed to had formatted the drive in which i had my OS so I lost all the files on there. I left the drive untouched and used data recovery in which i found a lot of the files but the files dont have their original names and I cant get the individual folders that the files belonged to. Is this just because of the software I used or is this normal for all other kinds of data recovery programs? Can someone tell me please

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1. I'm pretty sure that is normal. The recovery just finds remnants of the files, so you'll probably get a lot of incomplete/corrupt files, missing files, etc. It's like when you write something on a pad of paper, and then erase it. Sometimes you can go back and read the imprints your writing left to see some of what was written. Recovery programs work the exact same way. That's why secure deletion programs (like those used by the government) write over the same place with random information a bunch of times to make it impossible to go and read the imprints that are left and recover information.
2. It's normal.
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