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.