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How to Recover Lost Files after System Restore

How to recover data after system restore in Windows/Mac

"I haven't meant to restore my computer system, for I always doubt whether my files could still be there. But one day as the virus attack, I had to do that. Lack of experience, I didn't back up my files, thus many of them were lost. The files are really important for me, including my paper documents, precious videos, and the only photo taken with my best friend. I had been upset for nearly a week. Approaching the net, I surprisingly found that not a few people have met this kind of problem. Then how to recover files after system restore?"

People always regret after losing files after system restore. The best and cheapest way to prevent file loss is to do backups. Well, when the disaster strikes and there is no backup, you are not at the end. There is still a way to get them back.

A data recovery after system restore can do it: Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac. This professional recovery software understands the internals of the system used to store files on a disk (the file system) and uses this knowledge to locate the disk space that was occupied by a deleted file. While retrieving your lost files, it won't cause any further damage to your previous data.

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3 steps to recover files lost after system restore

Step1. Launch the program, go to Standard Mode and choose Raw File Recovery.

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Step 2. Select the partition where you lost your files after system restore, and start to scan.

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Step 3. After the scan, preview and check the recoverable files and click to recover.

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Scenarios of common file loss after system restore

I. No backup

Some people are likely to save their files on the disk C without any backup. When the system restore is done, this disk would be formatted, the operating system erases all book-keeping information on the disk, and we will lose our files.

II. Misoperation

Dealing with the system restore, some people may accidently choose all the disks to be formatted, thus all the files on them would lose; some may mess up the partition table, and the data could not be properly read and written; or some may not understand the instructions very well and omit a few steps, lost their files.

III. Others

In the process of system restore, other factors like the severity of virus, the internal fault of hard disks, or the incompatibility of systems are all likely to lead our files lost. Some of them are evitable, while some are inevitable.

Tips: Back up Files before System Restore
Back up your files before system restore is the best and cheapest way to prevent your files lost. You can do that with a storage hard disk or professional backup software like Time Freeze. It serves as a professional system restore software which helps you restore system, remove PC problems and prevent data loss with the help of up to 1,000 restore points (snapshots) you created. Thus you won't bother retrieving lost files after the system restore done.

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  • Selena  2013-05-13 03:34
    This is hard to tell. You can download a trial version of Wondershare Data Recovery to scan your computer's hard drive to have a try now.
  • google-5d86fe1d0455fcd8bfac058  2013-05-12 13:06
    Hi there, for some reason my windows 7 account would not start and i had to restart my computer to its delivery settings. I did have a backup system on my computer, which i think automatically backed things up but im not sure. Im really upset -not so much for photos but for hundreds of files/coursework. Is there any possibility of getting these back?
  • Selena  2013-05-09 01:56
    You just need to download a trial version of Wondershare Data Recovery to scan your laptop hard drive so as to check how many files you will be able to recover.
  • facebook-100000541753823  2013-05-08 13:47
    i had problems in my laptop then i made recovery to my laptop after then my all drive and files are corrupted .now i have no idea that how can i get my files back .i even have no backup
  • Selena  2013-03-29 07:21
    You can get a trial version of Wondershare Data Recovery to scan your hard drive. If your contacts have been detected, you can recover them.
  • sumith singh gowtham  2013-03-28 11:22
    in the starting i had windows 8 on my system but i have installed windows 7 and forgat to save the contacts on the other drive can i get back those contacts which were deleted
  • Selena  2013-02-25 09:22
    As long as images have not been overwritten by new data on your Mac, you can possibly retrieve them even if they have been deleted permanently from your Mac. Download a trial version of Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac to take a try.
  • Npadron625  2013-02-24 06:55
    i restored my mac. after installing everything back I noticed that in my backup I saved a folder that was empty thinking that I had moved the images there. I need this images but I already restored the computer. will this software help me get these pics? even if I installed everything back?
  • Selena  2013-02-17 06:57
    This happened because your files have been logically damaged or overwritten by new data, they can not be recovered actually.
  • Sheikh_farjad  2013-02-08 17:49
    i was restored my window to original factory. i was my backup in derive E,after restoring my window, when i want to restore my files from backup. then it did not work. it restore only empty folder with out data

Recover Files after System Restore