How to Recover Lost Data from NTFS Hard Drive

• Comparison between NTFS and FAT 16/ FAT 32 and exFAT
• How to Recover Files from NTFS Hard Drive

1. How to Recover Files from NTFS Hard Drive

In case you have lost your file accidentally, may be due to deletion, virus attack, formatting, improper operation or any other. How to recover lost data from NTFS Hard Drive? The third party software Wondershare Data Recovery and Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac is powerful hard drive data recovery tool to have while in emergency of file lose. Wondershare hard drive data recovery software is capable of recovering anything in just few steps. Here are it features:

• -It is able to recover all types of files including documents, videos, messages, photos, audios, archives and many more.
• -It can recover from devices like recycle bin, hard drive, flash drives, memory cards, removable drives, digital camera/camcorder etc.
• -In most of the data loss scenarios this software will work be it accidental deletion, formatting, improper operation, computer virus, crash, fragmentation and many more.
• -Software works really fast and can recover data in minutes and in good condition. The interface is self-directing, hence, even an invoice can also use this software with ease.
• -Currently, it supports Windows and Mac computers.

You can download the full version wondershare hard drive data recovery software from its official site and both windows and mac versions are available. However, you want you can try free version with limited features. Here are the three steps to recover data from NTFS hard drive using Wondershare NTFS Recovery software.

1. Launch Wondershare Data Recovery and select the type of files you want to recover. You can select the option of "All File Type" and go to Lost File recovery.

   

2. Select the drive from which you want recover. Go to deep scan if you can't find any files after the quick scan. The deep scan will deeply search NTFS filed from hard drive but it will take more time.

   

3. Once, the scan is completed. You will have a list of lost files on that drive and condition of those files. You can also preview these files before you recover them to check their conditions. Now just make sure you tick the files you want recover. Now click on recover to begin the recovery process. That's all to recover data from NTFS Hard Drive.

   

After NTFS recovery, the files will be available at default location of the recover. Go open them and enjoy, your lost files are recovered. Things people should take care of when using NTFS. In order to keep the NTFS in best possible condition for long time, it requires some precautionary steps from your side.

1. Restrict yourself from using removable media. It is the most popular way of damaging your NTFS hard drives. Keep usb drives away using protective software or just physically remove them.
2. Keep your computer under control. You must see how you connect to LAN to make sure you are not harming the hard disk.
3. Always keep the Firewalls up. If possible, buy a powerful antivirus with firewall keep it updated to keep your computer safe from regular threats.
4. Great way to save your data. You can even back up your data on Cloud. On a regular basis, scan the hard drive or format it to keep it at optimum performance level.

NTFS, which stands for New Technology File System, is a file system that was developed by Microsoft in 1993. It took the place of FAT and High performance File System. NTFS had several technical improvements including support for metadata, and advanced data structure. Here are the features of NTFS:

• -NTFS came with better performance, reliability, and better disk space utilization.
• -It included additional extensions like file system journaling and security access control list.
• -It included new features like sparse file support, reparse points, disk usage quotas, distributed link tracking and Encrypting File System.   

2. A Comparison between NTFS and FAT 16/ FAT 32 and exFAT

NTFS is fairly new compared to FAT or Ex FAT however still all three are in use today because all of them have their advantages and disadvantage. Here we have compared NTFS, FAT16/FAT32 and exFAT to help you understand the difference between all.

Factor	NTFS	FAT16/FAT32	exFAT
Volume Size	232 clusters minus 1 cluster	32 GB for all OS. For some OS 2TB	128PB
Max files on Volume	4,2994,967,295	4194304	Nearly unlimited
Built-In security	Yes	No	Yes but minimal ACL only
Performance	If the volume is small, performance is degraded and goes vice versa.	Very high on small volumes and vice versa	High
Disk space economy	Maximum	Average	Maximum
Fault tolerance	Maximum	Minimal	Yes if TFAT is activated

These differences shows how each NTFS hard drive type has their advantage and disadvantage. Hence, for specific purpose hard drive with specific advantage is used. This is the reason still all the forms are in use.