How to recover lost files from NTFS partition using Windows 7 file recovery tool?

Windows 7 Operating System supports two ways to format the hard disk i.e. one way is by using FAT32 file system along with other is to apply NTFS file system. NTFS file system has many perks over FAT32 file system like encryption, security, compression, disk quotas etc. Generally, NTFS is needed to share files and folders with network users. You can use FAT32 file system to share files and folders but, it does not provide permissions that are needed to secure the files and folders on the network. NTFS are only able to authorize user groups and accounts to get connected to files and folder permissions that are required to implement required security. Hence, once you move files and folders to FAT32 formatted partitions, NTFS permissions are taken out of them.

Even though, NTFS supports any partition size that you’re going to wish to use, you can’t access each of the data from the device by moving NTFS formatted devices derived from one of computer to other. Because, the access permissions of NTFS are set by utilizing accounts, that happen to be precise to a network, single system or both. You can also convert FAT32 partition to NTFS partition using CONVERT command-line utility. But, you are unable to convert NTFS partition to FAT16 or FAT32 partition. If you need to convert NTFS partition to FAT then you need to reformat the partition. Accidentally converting partition from NTFS to FAT may ends in loss of data. NTFS recovery can be done using relevant Windows 7 file recovery tool.

If you convert NTFS partition to FAT32 partition, all of the data held in that specific partition get deleted then creates new FAT32 file system to save files. Windows 7 supports 3 a variety of disk storage i.e. basic, dynamic and GPT (GUID partition Table). The disk whose storage type is Basic is backward works with other versions of Operating Systems and supports up to 4 partitions. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are the different versions of Os supported by dynamic storage disks. Whereas, GPT storage type supports partitions whose storage capacity is more than 2TB and will have around 128 primary partitions.

Generally, all disks are basic disks also it can be changed to dynamic disk without loss of data. If you convert basic disk to dynamic, all of the partitions in that disk are automatically changed to appropriate volumes. However, converting dynamic disk back to basic disk is bit risky. You should take backup of all the data before converting dynamic to basic. Accidentally converting a disk from dynamic to basic may leads to data loss.

Always, take backup to avoid data loss. If you have lost the info and then make usage of relevant data recovery tool to retrieve lost data from harddrive.

Remo Recover (Windows) Pro Edition can recover lost data from various kinds of hard drives like SATA, SCSI and IDE. The utility can also recover data, that’s been lost as a result of accidental conversion from dynamic to basic disk. FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and ExFAT are the different file systems supported by this software. This software can also recover lost data from accidentally formatted or reformatted hard disk drives. Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung etc are the different brands of hard drive supported by this software. Download free demo version to estimate recovery results.