How to Recover Files After Factory Reset Laptop

Reset Laptop to Factory Settings But Didn't Backup Data and Personal Files

"My Dell laptop was severely infected by unknown malware and viruses, and antivirus software did not help eventually. For the last hope, I reset Dell to factory settings. Unfortunately, many programs, data and personal files were erased after factory reset. Can I use data recovery software to get them back?"

How many of you did rectory reset laptop but forgot to backup important files on it? To tell the truth, it's not a wise option to factory restore a PC or laptop without transferring personal files to an external USB flash drive or external hard drive, because data will be completely removed once you choose to reset the machine.

However, in many events we need to do a reset. For example, laptop's performance is getting worse and worse, with virus problems or just need to wipe programs' settings, passwords or other sensitive data before sending it away or selling it to other people. Anyhow, restoring laptop to its factory settings will bring a total data loss. Only third-party data recovery software provides a chance to restore lost data back.

How to Recover Files After Factory Reset Laptop?

Basically, factory restore laptop will completely and permanently erase all post installed programs, applications, games or personal documents, pictures, music or movies off from the machine. It'll no longer be difficult to recover data from wiped disk partition as soon as EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard comes to help. It's professional in data recovery field, and has helped millions of customers successfully recover lost data in an easy way.

Now download EaseUS free data recovery software to recover lost files after factory reset laptop HP, Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Sony, Samsung, ect. with detailed guide below.

Step 1. Select laptop's hard drive and click "Scan" button.

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will start a quick scan first. After the quick scan completes, a deep scan will automatically launch in order to find more files.

Step 3. Choose the file(s) you want to recover by file types from the scanning results. Click "Recover" button to recover the selected files. You'd better choose a different location instead of the original hard drive to avoid data overwriting.