How to retrieve lost files from Windows OS

Windows operating system is developed and marketed by Microsoft Inc in three variations like Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate. Windows XP, Windows Vista came with fully loaded new features along with many upgrades to existing ones like an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Aero, detects hardware problems before they occur, redesigned search option, multimedia tools including Windows DVD maker, peer-to-peer technology to simplify file sharing, etc. Windows Vista uses NTFS as default file system but do supports FAT to avoid the compatibility issues.

Compare to XP, Windows Vista is highly secure, consume less power, offers good performance with less hardware consumption. When it comes to hardware requirements, Vista needs minimum hardware resources and it is compatible with SATA, SCSI and IDE hard drives. Hence most of the people are migrating to Windows Vista from its predecessors.

Data loss is common problem even with Vista like its predecessor and other operating systems. Users sometimes end up with huge data loss in Vista due to deletion or formatting an entire partition. There are many situations in which users lose their data stored in an entire partition like while formatting your hard drive or external drive, re-installing Vista, re-partitioning the hard drive using Disk Management tool, accidental deletion of partitions, etc. File Recovery in Windows can be done using powerful file recovery software.

You might be thinking that how does re-partitioning leads to data loss. While creating new partitions in your hard drive using Disk management tool, operating system will ask to format the partition in order to install the files system, at this point of time if you say yes without taking the backup of files stored, then you will lose all the files. Sometimes while deleting an existing partition, if you accidentally delete some other partition which had some important files, then it leads to critical data loss.

In order to avoid the loss of files, it is advised to take some precautionary measures before doing major changes to your hard drive like formatting or partitioning. Few of them are listed here.

  • Prior to formatting any partition in your hard drive, make sure that a proper backup is taken.
  • Always keep a backup of your important files stored in your computer hard drives.
  • Before deleting any partition, just spend few minutes in examining the things like you have taken a backup of important files stored, you are deleting a proper partition, etc.

In worst case scenario, if you end with losing files without backup, no need to panic. Stop using the hard drive or external drive from which the data is deleted and avoid making silly mistakes, because using some professional data recovery or partition recovery software, you can recover the deleted or lost files from formatted or deleted Windows partitions before overwriting the drive.

Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro Edition is one such advanced partition recovery software which is developed by data recovery experts. This utility facilitates you to recover files from formatted, partitioned and re-partitioned Windows partitions. Apart from hard drives, it supports recovery of data from external drives, RAID partitions, flash drives, memory cards, iPods, FireWire drives, etc. Using this software you can recover files from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT partitions. In case if your hard drive had bad sectors, this tool helps you to recover files by create Disk image. You can download the demo version of this software and evaluate the recovery results. This software facilitates you to preview the recovered data before saving. Recovered data can be saved to any storage device which is accessible to Windows operating system.