How to recover lost files from hard drive on WIndows 8.1

Your computer was down when installing Window 8.1

System re-installing seems not a easy job, especial for the green hand of computer. When you get the news about Windows 8.1 update, you are happily buy this new OS to update your computer, however, you find it is not easy to install,finally, your computer may be down, even if you have installed Windows 8.1, you find some files in your computer hard drive(generally C drive) are lost. How to recover lost files from hard drive on Windows 8.1??

The basic knowledges you need to know when you do hard drive files recovery

In fact, data recovery isn't a new and strage thing in our daily life, but we still need to pay attenttion to something important skills when doing hard drive data recovery:


1. When you find some files were lost after Windows 8.1 update, you had better not install other software to your computer har drive so far.


2. Check whether there are backup in your computer, such as Windows 7/8 have the "file history" feature that can allow users restore data from hard drive or cloud drive.


3. when you use data recovery software to get back your lost files in hard drive, you can install the recovery tool to other drive partition which didn't sufer from data loss to avoid data overwritten.

A step by step example for how to use data recovery software

Here I take Tenorshare Data Recovery Pro as an example. This software provide multi-types recovery mode, which allow you recover formatted, deleted, or other unaccessible files from hard drive(partitions).


1. Properly, you need to make your hard drive running on Windows 8.1 or other version of Windows system.


2.Install the recovery tool to your computer,don’t forget that you need to install it someplace other than the drive that you want to recover.


3.Launch Tenorshare Data Recovery Pro and choose the recovery mode you need, then click "scan" to find our your lost files in the hard drive.


4.After scanning, you can preview the files(photos) in the right part of the software, then choose the one you want to recover.


(P.S. don't save the recovered files to the other place than the same hard drive that lost files.)

how to prevent your Windows 8.1 hard drive from data loss

*Backup


Enable the sync feature in "file history" of Windows 8.1,even if your lost files, you can restore your computer to the former state. Besides you can backup your important files to external drive or cloud drive which are pop now.

The Easiest way to recover deleted photos from SDHC card

Is it possible to recover deleted photos from SDHC card?

Most people hold the point that, we can't recover deleted files from SDHC card, unless we deleted them on computer. We can get back deleted files from Recycle Bin, but there is no Recycle Bin.

Yes, this is a common sence that we can get back deleted files from Recycle Bin. However, indeed, we just know its appearance, but not the heart. For any files deletion or foramtting in storage media including SDHC card, there are a file system which controls data storage and erasing. When we delete a file in SDHC card, the file system just make the deleted files invisible to us, at the same time, the system will mark the space where the deleted file is still on accesible for new data. This "mark" or so called " flag" can tell the new data this space can be ocuppied, when new data save to the SDHC card. After new data saving to this space, the deleted file will be overwritten, at this moment, deleted file is deleted exactly and permanently


Therefore, if we accidentally deletd photos from SDHC card, or camera, we still have chance to recover deleted photos from SDHC card.

What we need to ready for SDHC card deleted photos recovery

Be calm! Although we know we are possible to get back deleted photos from SDHC card, but there are some preparation we can't ignore:


1. As we learn above, deleted file will be overwritten when new data save to the SDHC card. So we can't use the SDHC card, no taking photo with camera or using the device that the card work on.

2.It is better to unplug the SDHC card from device and keep it carefully.

3.We need to seek some tools tp help me scan out the invisible deleted photos in the SDHC card, those tools are so called card data recovery softwware or photo recovery software.

4. Ready a Windows or Mac computer, we should do all the recovery job on them.

5.The last, we need to be patient and smart, even it seems easy to ahieve it.

Step for SDHC deleted photos recovery

If we have got ready everthing well, we can go to restore deleted photos from camera SDHC card.

1.Dowload the photo recovery software such as Tenorshare Photo Recovery( I ever used it to get back deleted photos), and install it to your computer.

2.Connect your SDHC card via card-reader, then you can see the software will read your card as a external drive.

3.Choose the option for photo recovery, then the software will scan out the deleted photos for you.

4.After scanning, generally, you can preview those deleted photos, and you just choose the one you want to recover.


(Note: when you choose the place to store recovered photos, you had better store them to another place, not the SDHC card.)

Some reasons which can cause photo loss from SDHC card you need to know

In the daily life, if we are careless, it is easy to lose photos from SDHC card or its supported device. We can check the following list, and prevent accidetant happening.

1.Accidetanl deletion in SDHC card, camera, or computer.

2.Mistaken foramtting for SDHC card.


3.Wrong plugging and unplugging the SDHC card from device or computer, which can make memory card corrupted even damaged.

4.Device suddently power off when data are transfering between SDHC card and device.


5.Physical damage such as shaking, water damage, pressing, etc

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