How to recover lost data from Windows operating system

If you noticed loss of important files from your Windows operating system don't give up. Your files may still be recoverable. Following our recommendations try to recover them by yourself.

Data recovery operation from FAT or NTFS is not that hard to carry out. However, before you start recovery you should consider some facts:

If your files were lost from a system partition, we recommend that you recover your data using Emergency Recovery CD.

1. Data recovery from a storage with physical damages may cause permanent data loss. In this case we recommend that you not recover lost data by yourself and rather take the hard drive to a specialized data recovery center.
2. The less time your computer works after data loss the highest chances for successful data recovery you have.

To recover lost data from Windows FAT and NTFS file systems we recommend that you apply UFS Explorer Standard Recovery as the most comprehensive solution.

Instructions:

1. As soon as you discovered loss of your data you should stop all read/write operations to the partition of the hard drive or the storage you're going to recover your data from. Read/write operations include programs installation, copying, saving and download from Internet. Note that start of certain already installed programs may also cause writing to the disk if these programs use the disk to save their settings or other files such as web browser cache, media players play lists, games savings etc.
2. Select the partition where you'll conduct recovery of lost information. Draw up the list of lost files you're going to recover. Note major file descriptions (name, type, size, last saved time). Even if recovery of file name wouldn't be successful such kind of information will help you find necessary file.
3. Download UFS Explorer Standard Recovery and install it to the intact partition where no data disappeared.
4. Start the software with Administrator rights required to get access to disks. Please read the manual carefully.
5. Select the partition you're going to recover data from and start the scan.
6. Copy recovered files to another partition or storage. Copying recovered files to the same partition where they were recovered from may cause their permanent loss.

Hint: No software can guarantee 100% successful recovery of lost and deleted files. You can ensure safety and intactness of your files through timely backups only.

Warning: Never write, install or copy anything to the partition or storage where the data loss occurred. Otherwise, you may cause overwriting and permanent loss of important information.