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FAT Recovery
How to recover deleted or lost FAT partitions on your hard drive?
Use Windows File Recovery software to recover the deleted/lost FAT partitions from the hard drive
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FAT Recovery
The Fat Allocation Table or the FAT file system is a file system that is used in Windows OS, along with the NTFS file system. Though not so widely used in hard drives, FAT file system is widely used in most of the USB storage devices and on laptops. The FAT 32 file system, the most widely used among FAT file systems was introduced along with Windows 98, and was made use of in Windows server 2000 and even Windows XP. Though FAT file system was initially popular, it lost its prominence with the advent of the NTFS file system.
One of the major drawbacks of the FAT file system is the absence of crash recovery and security options. This increases the chances of data loss in a FAT file system, and also reduces chances of data recovery of the same. There are various reasons for loss of data on a FAT file system, some of which can be described as follows,
- One of the most common causes for data loss on a FAT file system is due to accidental deletion of files/partitions.
- The second most common scenario in which data loss occurs on a FAT file system is when the user tries to convert from the FAT file system to NTFS file system.
- Other than the above given reasons, loss of data could also occur in a FAT file system due to corruption of the system files, malwares, virus attacks, re-partitioning of the hard drive etc.
You can follow the steps given below, to successfully recover the formatted / reformatted FAT partitions from your drives,
Step 1:Run the application, either by double clicking the desktop shortcut, or by selecting the icon from the Programs list present in the Start Menu. The Main window appears, as shown in Figure 1. There are three options provided. Select the "Recover Partitions / Drives" option to recover FAT partition.
Figure 1 : Main Window
Step 2: Once you select the "Recover Partitions / Drives" option, a new window is displayed where you have the option to recover formatted / reformatted partitions. From the options provided, select the "Formatted / Reformatted Recovery" option and proceed to the next step as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 : Select Formatted / Reformatted Recovery
Step 3: On selection of the "Formatted / Reformatted Recovery" option, the detected logical drives are displayed by the software as shown in Figure 3. From the list of displayed logical drives, select the logical drive from which you want to recover the data, and click the "Next" button. The software scans the selected drive / partition for previous file systems and displays a list of partitions / drives. Select the partition from this list and click on "Next"
Figure 3 : Select Drive / Partition
Step 4: You have an option to search for deleted / lost files based on their unique signature by selecting the specific file types as shown in Figure 4. You can select the "Skip" button if you choose to skip this step and continue with the scanning process. After you select the appropriate option, click on "Next"
Figure 4 : Select File Type
Step 5: On clicking the "Next" button, the software starts scanning the drive / partition that has been selected, and displays the found files and folders. The recovered data can be viewed using Data View or File Type View option as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5 : View Recovered Data
Step 6: Preview the recovered files using the "Preview" option and evaluate the recovery results as shown in Figure 6. Use the "Save Recovery Session" option to save the scanned information. Load the scanned information using the "Open Recovery Session" option once you purchase the full version of the software
Figure 6 : Preview Recovered Data
