Summary: Data on an NTFS partition would be lost due to different reasons. How to recover data from NTFS partition? Don’t be panic! The article will show you the complete and reliable solution to get back lost data from the NTFS partition with the professional tool TogetherShare Data Recovery.
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NTFS is widely used on Windows systems nowadays. Many issues will lead to data loss on the NTFS partition. To help you recover data better on the NTFS partition, we will introduce the NTFS in detail and provide the step-step guide about NTFS data recovery.
Part 1. Why do we use the NTFS partition?
NTFS is introduced because of its advantages. It can do more things than the old file systems. With NTFS, it’s more safe and easy to manage files on your computer. Let’s see what’s NTFS and what can it do for us.
What’s NTFS?
NTFS (New Technology File System) is a file system first introduced in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1.
It's the primary file system used in Windows 10/ 8/ 7/Vista/XP/ 2000, and Windows NT operating systems. The Windows Server operating systems also primarily uses NTFS. Other operating systems, like Linux and BSD, can also support NTFS. Besides, macOS offers read-only support for NTFS.
Main features of NTFS.
NTFS supports large hard drives. Comparing to the old FAT line of file systems, like FAT12/16/32, NTFS supports a larger partition size. In the Windows 8/10 and newer Server systems, it can support a hard drive up to 16EB. And it can support a single file size up to 256TB.
You can set disk usage quotas on NTFS partitions. In this way, the administrator can restrict the amount of disk space that a user can take up. It's used mainly on a network drive. It can help you manage space on NTFS drive flexibly.
EFS (Encrypting File System) is another important feature supported by NTFS. With file-level encryption, you can easily encrypt individual files/folders on NTFS partitions. It’s quicker and flexible than full-disk encryption.
To make your data safe, the NTFS offers a way for system changes to be written to a log, or a journal before the changes are actually written. In the event of a failure, it allows the file system to revert to previous and well-working conditions because the new changes have yet to be committed.
There are new file attributes available with NTFS, like the compressed attribute and indexed attribute. NTFS includes other features as well, such as hard links, sparse files, reparse points, Volume Shadow Copy Service, transactional NTFS, and so on.
Part 2. Main causes for data loss on the NTFS partition.
When you use the NTFS partition on your computer, data loss would happen sometimes. Different reasons will lead to data loss on the NTFS partition. In the following situations, you may lose important files on your NTFS partition:
- Delete files unintentionally on NTFS partition: When you remove useless or junk data, the important personal data would be deleted by mistake.
- Format NTFS partition by accidental: If you format an NTFS partition, the files on the partition will also be removed and you will lose access to the data.
- NTFS partition become corrupted: If the NTFS becomes damaged on the partition, the partition will not be accessible in the explorer. Also, you cannot access the data on the NTFS partition.
- NTFS partition gets deleted or lost: If you find the NTFS partition becomes unallocated in Disk Management, the NTFS partition should be deleted or lost. You will also lose the data on the partition.
- Other reasons for NTFS partition data loss: Some other issues will also cause data loss, like system crash, system upgrade, virus infection, unsafe drive unplugging, or other unknown issues.
No matter how you lost data on the NTFS partition, please stop using the partition the first time. If there are no further changes or data added to the partition, there will be no problem recovering the lost data. Then you can check and find reliable data recovery software to get back the lost data from NTFS partition.
Part 3. How to recover data from NTFS partition?
What’s the best solution to recover data from NTFS partition? We suggest you use the best data recovery software to help you in such a case. TogetherShare Data Recovery is the software we recommend. The software can recover lost data from NTFS partition in different situations.
Also, the software can recover the different types of files on the NTFS partition. You can recover pictures, videos, documents, audio files, or other files from the NTFS partition. If you lost data on your NTFS partition, you can download and have a try with the software. Here is the download:
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Before the recovery, please check and ensure the NTFS drive is connected to the machine. Then do as follows to recover the lost data from the drive step by step.
Step 1. Choose the NTFS partition.
After running the software, it will list all the connected drives on the computer. Please check and choose the NTFS partition on which you lost files.
Step 2. Scan the NTFS partition.
Please click the Scan button once you select the NTFS partition. Then the software will automatically scan the partition to search for lost data.
Step 3. Preview and recover lost files.
The software will show you all the found files once the scan process is done. You can check and preview the files first, then choose the wanted files and click the Recover button to save the files to another drive.
Part 4. Conclusion.
To keep your data safe on the NTFS partition, please be careful when you do delete, format, or other operations. Also, we suggest you back up your data regularly. Also, if data loss happens on the NTFS partition, stop using the partition immediately and try to recover data as soon as possible. You can use TogetherShare Data Recovery to help you recover data quickly and effectively.
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