NTFS hard drive recovery
2014-03-17
Posted by Ricky Sears to Partition Recovery Articles
Have you ever been troubled with lost NTFS data such as important documents or previous photos? Now we will be free from data loss on NTFS hard drive, because we could use professional NTFS data recovery software, here is the tutorial of NTFS hard drive recovery.
Encounter NTFS Data loss
As we know, NTFS is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Windows 7.
NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft's Windows operating systems. NTFS has several improvements over FAT and HPFS (High Performance File System) such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization, plus additional extensions such as security access control lists (ACL) and file system journaling.
More and more computer users prefer to choose NTFS file system, because we could put a single file over 4G into NTFS hard drive, which couldn't be put into FAT hard drive, and another advantage is that we could encrypt files such as DOC, EXL, PPT in NTFS hard drive, which could keep our privacy safely.
However, it will bring us much trouble if we encounter data loss due to deletion, format partition loss or some outside reason such as virus attack. Since the data in NTFS hard drive is important or precious, we have to find out a method to recover NTFS data without any data loss.
Method of NTFS Hard Drive Recovery
Differing from FAT data, it needs more professional and safer method to recover NTFS data in hard drive. We cannot adopt method which will cause overwriting or data loss, so NTFS hard drive data recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is highly recommended.
Data Recovery Wizard is professional NTFS hard drive data recovery tool, which could help us recover data from NTFS hard drive, NTFS external USB hard drive, etc. The most important point is that Data Recovery Wizard can guarantee there is not over writing or data loss during scan and recovery. It is the best solution of NTFS hard drive recovery.
Steps to Recover NTFS Data
Stop any operation to the hard drive if we find NTFS data loss, and install Data Recovery Wizard to other partition to recover data in NTFS hard drive. The faster we perform NTFS data recovery, the more chance we could recover NTFS data. Following are steps to recover NTFS data.
Step A: Launch the software, and choose a module to recover NTFS data according to method of data loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for deletion recovery, "Complete Recovery" is for format recovery, and "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost or corrupted.
Step B: Select the file types you want to recover and then choose the partition where there is data loss and click "NEXT" to start searching, and then you will see a list of volumes where data loss possibly happens. After that, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you to choose 4 volumes at best to recover. And then, press "NEXT" button, it will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.
Step C: Choose and preview the lost NTFS data that you want to recover and press the "Next" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save them.
Besides NTFS data recovery, Data Recovery Wizard also can recover FAT, FAT16, FAT 32, EXT2, EXT3 data from other storage media such as camera media card, external ZIP drive, SD cards, etc. under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.
With its convenience, safety and no-data-loss guarantee, we can free download Demo version to scan and preview NTFS lost data and safe the recovered results with full version.
