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Recovering laptop hard drive accidentally put it back to factory
Do you know what does it mean that put the laptop hard drive back to factory? As a matter of fact, we can explain it in this way. All files and folders which we saved on the hard disk drive would be erased after the factory reset. What if some lost files are vital or crucial? Is there anything we can do to read them again after put the laptop hard disk drive to factory? Actually, there is a chance for us to retrieve the lost information from the hard drive at that moment.
Example of putting the laptop hard drive back to factory by error
I put my laptop hard drive back to factory the other day by accident. As a result, all contents had been stored on it were deleted. What I should do? There are some files important and useful on the hard disk drive and I need to get them back to access them again. But I had no idea how to restore those erased files at all. I tried to view them in the recycle, but there was nothing. Can you kindly help me recover those deleted contents after resetting the hard drive to factory defaults? -Maggie from LA
How to retrieve files from the laptop hard drive whish was factory reset with data recovery software
The way to get lost files back from the laptop hard disk drive after putting it back to factory is to use data recovery software, so we should do anything else but to perform files recovery on the hard disk drive if we need to restore its original information. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform in detail:
Recover files from hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software on computer. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Problems we may meet when save data on the laptop hard drive
Besides put the laptop hard disk drive back to factory action, we may lose files or folders off the hard drives due to other operations. In other words, we may meet data loss problems in other cases. Do you wonder whether we can perform files recovery in those cases just like factory reset recovery? As a matter of fact, we can try to get the lost information back with data recovery tool from the hard disk drives, too. So we do not need to worry about it. Here are some problems related to data loss below:
1. The laptop hard disk drive is formatted. One of the problems we may encounter when read or writes files or folders on the laptop hard drives are the accidental or intentional format. We may format the hard disk drives by mistake or because of a certain reason sometimes. Like the hard drive put back to factory case, files and folders saved on the hard disk drive at the previous time would be erased completely after the format. Luckily, we can ask data recovery program for help to retrieve the lost data.
2. The information on the laptop hard drives is deleted. We may delete the original files off the hard disk drive to store new contents if they are useless. What if those contents are deleted by error and they are important yet? Generally speaking, we can find them in the recycle bin and then we can recover them here. We need the help of data recovery tool if the recycle bin is emptied or those files are shift deleted.
3. The laptop hard disk drives turn to raw file system. It is a terrible thing for most of us that the hard drives become raw file system. As we all know, raw is a kind of system error and we can not use the hard disk drives normally if it is raw. Consequently, information saved on the hard drives at the original time become inaccessible. We need to retrieve them from the raw hard disk drive with data restoration tool and then format it to see those files again.
4. Other problems we may meet when use the laptop and save files on it, such as the virus infection and so forth.
Brief introduction to put hard drive back to factory
The action to put the laptop hard disk drive back to factory if to reset the hard drive to factory defaults. In other words, files and folders which saved on the hard disk drive on our own would be erased after the factory reset. But contents on the laptop hard disk drive which were not stored by us but the company defaults would not be wiped.
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