How to restore NTFS partition?

NTFS partition

Before we discuss how to restore NTFS partition, let's learn some knowledge about partition and NTFS.

Partition:

Disk partitioning is the act or practice of dividing the storage space of a hard disk drive into separate data areas known as partitions. A partition editor program can be used to create, delete or modify these partitions. Once a disk is divided into several partitions, directories and files of different categories may be stored in different partitions. More partitions provide more control, but too many may become cumbersome. The way that space management, access permissions and directory searching are implemented depends upon the type of file system installed on a partition. Careful consideration of the size of the partition is necessary as the ability to change the size depends on the file system installed on the partition.

NTFS:

NTFS (New Technology File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft's Windows operating systems. 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 volume, which could keep our privacy safely.

When to restore NTFS partition?

In the following cases and more, you need to restore NTFS partition:

1. Delete files from NTFS partition by mistake, and then empty the recycle bin.
2. Format NTFS partition.
3. Corrupted or damaged NTFS partition.

If you encounter these cases above, please don't panic. You still have the possibility to restore NTFS partition unless you have overwritten data on NTFS partition.

Note: Please do not use the NTFS partition any more after you lost data!

Here, a free NTFS partition recovery software is recommended to restore NTFS partition. It is EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. This best partition recovery freeware provides professional recovery solution to restore NTFS partition. It can support Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7 and work well with dynamic disk, RAID and EXT2/EXT3 file system. You can use it to restore 1GB data free of charge.

Now, let us learn the three modules of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition to recover data from NTFS partition. "Deleted File Recovery" is designed for restoring deleted data from NTFS partition. "Complete Recovery" is designed for recovering data from formatted NTFS partition. "Partition Recovery" is designed for data restoration from deleted, lost or damaged NTFS partition.

EaseUS free partition recovery software to restore NTFS partitions

For deleted steps to restore NTFS partition, please refer to Tutorial of NTFS Hard Drive Recovery.

You can free download this NTFS partition restore tool to see if the files can be recovered now.

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