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How to recover files from FAT hard drives?

FAT and NTFS are the file system of Windows Operating System. FAT is abbreviated as File Allocation Table this files system is used on many computer hard drives. FAT file systems are mostly used in memory cards, SD cards, and flash drives etc. Data loss occurs in hard drives due to various reasons like when you are trying to converting your FAT partition to NTFS partition for enhanced security or to upgrade the operating system if you have forgot to make a back of your important files, then you will not be able to access the files stored in FAT partitions which leads to data loss. However, it is still possible to recover those files from partitions.

When you converting your FAT partition to NTFS partition, the data stored in the FAT partition is not completely deleted from the hard drive. Only the index of the files is removed from the partition table. The Operating system considers the space as free space available for storing new data. These files will remain still in your hard drive inaccessible form. If you want to access those deleted files again you need to recover them back this is possible only by using FAT recovery software.  This software helps you to retrieve files deleted from FAT partitions.

Tips for assuring best recovery results:

  • Stop using the hard drive immediately after converting the partitions.
  • Do not try to install any new data recovery utilities to the hard drive. This could to overwrite your lost/deleted data by new data.
  • Do not restart your computer after formatting or switching from FAT to NTFS, this could lead to permanent data loss.
  • Before finalizing the product verify whether the software can restore files from various data loss reasons.
  • Check whether the software recover docx, doc, xls, ppt, jpeg etc file types from the FAT partitions.
  • Download the free version of the software to check the chances of recovery using this software.
  • Once if you verified demo version results, buy the full version of the software to recover files from FAT partitions.

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