Hard drive is a storage device, which helps users to store their valuable personal or business related data. However, the stored data is not very secure in your hard drive. you can find many scenarios that leads to files and folder loss from a hard drive such as file system corruption, hard drive failure, accidental deletion of partitions or drives, formatting of the drives, partitions, power fluctuations or handling errors. In such cases you will not be able to access your stored data from the hard drive. In order to access your stored data you need to recover lost files from your hard drive.
Data can be lost when you re-install your Operating System, when your are trying to convert your FAT file system to NTFS. In such cases you can easily recover lost files from your hard drive by using lost file recovery software.
How to recover files after reinstalling Windows XP?
You can easily recover files after reinstalling Windows XP by using lost file recovery software follow the few tips before selecting the software
- Surf the internet to find a good lost file recovery software. Read articles, reviews and blogs about the product
- Check whether the software allows you to restore data from both FAT and NTFS file system
- Make sure that the product is capable of retrieving data from various data loss conditions including formatting, re-formatting, re-installing and re-partitioning hard drives
- Check the software allows you to recover data from various file types
- Make sure the software allows you to preview recovered files before saving. This will help you to identity the files, which are deleted or lost
- Always download the free demo version of the software to check the chance of recovery results
- Once if you are satisfy with the recovery results you can buy the software to recover lost files from Windows XP