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Reformatted NTFS partition by mistake
How much do you know about partition recovery? For example, do you have any idea what to do when the NTFS partition is reformatted by accident? It means that do you know how to recover lost data from the reformatted NTFS partition. There is no doubt that those lost files can be retrieved from the reformatted NTFS partition. But what the way is? Actually, we can ask the data recovery software for help, which have the ability to restore files form the reformatted NTFS partition.
Case of reformatting NTFS partition by error
The NTFS partition on my computer was reformatted accidentally two days ago. I want to get lost files back, because they are important and valuable for me. But what troubles me is that I have no way to recover my losses from the reformatted NTFS partition. As a matter of fact, I even have no idea what the unformat means. Is it possible for me to retrieve files after reformatting the partition? Please tell me what I can do if you have any idea. Thanks a lot anyway. –Fei from Washington
How to restore lost data from the reformatted NTFS partition with data recovery software
Data recovery tool can help us get the lost files back from the reformatted NTFS partition. What's more, anyone of us can perform the data recovery, because it is easy and simple to handle. There are just five steps or less to retrieve lost information after reformatting the NTFS partition. Here are the steps as follows to guide us in detail:
Recover data from reformatted NTFS partition
Preparation: You need to download and install the data recovery software on your computer first of all. Then, you can run the software and select a recovery module.
Other events that may cause data lost from NTFS partition
We may lose files saved on the NTFS partition due to various events. For example, some people may lose their files by formatting and reformatting the NTFS partition accidentally or intentionally, some people may lose data from the NTFS partition by delete them directly, and some people may lose information because of other reasons. We can conclude that there are more than one data loss cases and the reasons are vary from people to people. We should be very careful to avoid such terrible situations. Here are some of them below:
1. Deletion. Files saved on the NTFS partition may be deleted directly which we can get them back from the recycle bin. But we can not find them in recycle if we delete them by shift delete or empty the recycle bin, so we can not recover them at that time. The other possible way for us to recover them is to ask data recovery software for help. Generally speaking, we can restore what we need after deleting them from the NTFS partition if they have not been overwritten.
2. Virus infection. Some people say that their NTFS partition is infected by virus and worms which hidden in the files saved on that partition. It is possible for us to save harmful information which contain virus and worms on the NTFS partition without carefulness and then lose data part or whole on the NTFS partition after it being affected by those harmful matters. Data recovery software is helpful at that moment.
3. Power outage. We may meet such situation that the computer closed abruptly when we are reading or writing files on the NTFS partition. There is a possibility for us to lose those files on that condition. It means that the abrupt close to computer may lead to data loss problems. So we should supply enough power to the computer when sue it or close it safely when finds it is in low power.
4. NTFS partition shows RAW file system and requires formatting.
5. Other possible events may result in data loss trouble to NTFS partition, such as formatting case.
Brief introduction to NTFS partition
NTFS partition is one kind of partition on computer, and we can store various types of files on it with its powerful function and features. Besides NTFS partition, we can also dived the computer to fat partition, fat32 partition, and so on. NTFS is also can be said as a kind of file system.
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