Hard Drive Recovery: Recover Lost Data and Restore Lost Partition

Data on a hard drive may be lost due to file deletion, partition deletion or formatting, the RAW file system, hard drive damage, virus attacks, etc.

To recover data from a hard drive, you can use MiniTool Partition Wizard. This software has the following advantages.

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• Supports various storage device types, including SSD, HDD, external hard drives, USB flash drives, and SD cards.
• Supports various file formats, like videos (MP4, WMV, M4V, FLV, etc.), audio (MP3, WMA, AIFC, etc.), images (PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, etc.), documents (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, etc.), archives (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, etc.), and so on.
• Supports NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT file systems.
• Supports recovering data from an unbootable PC.

How to Recover Data from a Hard Drive

Step 1: Install MiniTool Partition Wizard, but the installation location should not be a partition where data has been lost.

Step 2: Launch this software and click Data Recovery. Select a location to scan. The following options are offered.

• Logical Drives: An existing or lost partition, or unallocated space.
• Devices: An entire hard drive.
• Specific Location: Desktop, Recycle Bin, or a folder.

Step 3: Once the scanning process is completed, find the files you want to recover under Path or Type. Select them and click Save. Select a safe location to put the recovered file so that lost files won’t be overwritten.

Bonus Tip: How to Recover a Partition from a Hard Drive

If a partition is deleted or lost, MiniTool Partition Wizard can also recover it. Here is the guide.

Step 1: In MiniTool Partition Wizard, click Partition Recovery. On the pop-up window, click Next. Then, select the disk for partition recovery.

Step 2: Select a Scanning Range (Full Disk, Unallocated Space, or Specified Range).

Step 3: Select a Scanning Method (Quick Scan or Full Scan).

Step 4: After the scanning is completed, tick the lost partition and click Finish.

Step 5: Click Apply to execute the recovery operation.

Step 6: The recovered partition has no drive letter. Right-click it and choose Change Letter. Then, follow the wizard to add a drive letter to the partition.

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Bottom Line

This article tells you how to make hard drive data recovery and partition recovery with the best hard drive recovery software – MiniTool Partition Wizard. If you have any question about this software, you can contact us via [email protected].