Hello everybody!
This video will show you how to recover data after resetting Windows 10, resetting a laptop
to factory settings, or reinstalling Windows.
In one of the previous videos we have already shown you how to reset Windows 10, 8 or 7
to its original state of factory settings.
Often it takes users some time after resetting or reinstalling their operating system to
realize that the files which they need right now are missing.
So, here is a computer containing files, documents and images...
In order to demonstrate data recovery after resetting the system, let us reset the test
computer.
In a similar way, you can recover user files after resetting a laptop to factory settings
or reinstalling Windows.
To do it: • Go to Settings
• Update and Security
• Recovery • Click on “Get started” in the submenu
“Reset this PC.”
• Select the option “Remove everything” in the window that appears.
• “Just remove my files” • Next.
• The system will be reset automatically.
In the process, the computer will restart several times.
It will take some time.
• To complete the reset, some additional settings are required.
They are similar to those used when reinstalling Windows.
Watch one of the videos in our channel to see it; find the link in the description.
• The system has been reset, and the files stored in this computer are lost.
After reinstalling Windows or resetting a laptop to factory settings you will have the
same situation.
In order to restore files lost after system resetting, reinstalling Windows or resetting
a laptop to factory settings do the following: • Download, install and launch Hetman Partition
Recovery.
To do it, go to the developer’s website and download it for free.
Find the link in the description.
• Scan the hard disk of your computer with the tools that this program offers.
• Click on drive C, choose “Full analysis” and click Next.
Remember that in Windows 8/10, the default location to save all documents and user files
is the folder “Documents” which can be found in disk C:, images and photos go to
“Pictures” folder, downloaded files to “Downloads” folder and desktop files to
“Desktop” folder.
You should start looking for lost user files in these directories.
The paths to them will be given in the description for this video.
The folder “Documents” is actually located in disk C: following this path:
C:\Users\UserName\Documents “Pictures” folder:
C:\Users\UserName\Pictures Files downloaded from the Internet go to this
folder: C:\Users\UserName\Downloads
Desktop files are stored here: C:\Users\ UserName \Desktop
• When the process of scanning the hard disk is over, use the program to go to the
folder with the files that you need to recover.
Lost files can also be located in the program’s folder “Lost and Found” or “Content-Aware
Analysis.”
The folder “Lost and Found” contains the files and folders the location of which could
not be determined.
Make sure you check this directory if you can’t find the files in their original location.
The program searches for deleted files not only from file tables but based on their contents
as well.
Using a complex analysis of the disk contents, the utility finds signatures that identify
the beginning and end of a file.
Files found in such manner are placed in the folder “Content-Aware Analysis” and sorted
into folders by file type.
• Drag the necessary files to the Recovery List and click “Recovery”
• Choose the method to save files.
I will choose “Save to hard disk.”
I strongly recommend saving the recovered files to another disk or media to make sure
they won’t be erased.
That is why I choose disk E, and create a folder for the recovered files.
OK.
• Recovery.
• Ready.
• Go to the folder created on disk E to see the files have been recovered.
In a similar way, you can use Hetman Partition Recovery to restore data after formatting
the hard disk, operating system or hard disk failures, file system damage, recover data
from damaged or inaccessible disk partitions, as well as after emptying the Recycle Bin
or accidental deleting of files.
If you lost more than just a system partition as a result of resetting or reinstalling Windows,
in this case you can use this program to analyze the entire hard disk.
To do it, click on the necessary element in the section Physical Disks and start the scan.
As a result, the program will recover data of all lost partitions in the analyzed hard
disk.
We will show it in one of our next videos.
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Thank you for watching and good luck!