Best FAT partition recovery software
Are you planning to upgrade your operating system from windows to windows XP? The first thing you need to checkout is the system compatibility in terms of file system used by you r existing OS. The previous versions of windows worked on FAT partitions. Windows XP is compatible with NTFS file system. You can easily convert your FAT partition to NTFS partition. However before converting you need to make sure that you make a backup of your data from the FAT partitions. Many times users forget to make the backup and these results in loss of data. In such seniors you will not be able to access the data stored in FAT partitions. However, it is still possible to recover these files. When you upgrade your operating system, the data stored in the FAT partition is not completely removed from the hard drive. These files will remain inaccessible in your system. When you delete or lose files from the system. These data do not get completely deleted from the system. Only the index of these files is deleted from the file directory. To access these data again, you need to first recover them. In this situation, you need to use a good FAT data recovery program to restore files stored in the FAT partitions.
Tips:
- Stop using the hard drive immediately after changing the partitions from FAT to NTFS.
- Do not try to install any new recovery application to the hard drive. This could to overwrite your existing lost/deleted files by new files.
- Do not restart your computer after changing the partition from FAT to NTFS, this could lead to permanent data loss.
Before buying a recovery software check whether the application can recover data from different data loss scenarios and from different file formats. The software should be able to recover formatted hard drive. Always download the free trial version of the utility before buying the utility. This will help you to evaluate the capability of the application in recovering data from fat partition.
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