If you have converted your FAT partition to NTFS partition for enhanced security or to upgrade the operating system? While converting if you forgotten to make a backup of very important files, then you will not be able to access the files stored in FAT partitions. However, it is still possible to recover FAT files by using good FAT recovery software.
When you convert your FAT partition to NTFS partition, the data stored in the FAT partition is not completely deleted from the hard drive. These files will remain inaccessible in your hard drive. When you delete or lose files from the computer, these files do not get completely removed from the computer. Only the pointers to these files are deleted from the file directory. To access these files again, you need to first recover them. In this scenario, you need to use a good FAT file recovery program to recover files stored in the FAT partitions.
Tips for best recovery
- Stop using the hard drive immediately after converting the partitions. Because if you save any new files the old deleted files get overwritten by new files.
- Do not try to install any new data recovery utilities to the hard drive. This could to overwrite your lost/deleted data by new data.
- Do not restart your computer after formatting or switching from FAT to NTFS, this could lead to permanent data loss.
Before finalizing FAT recovery software check whether the utility can restore data from various data loss scenarios and from different file formats. Make sure always download the free demo version of the application before buying the software to check the recovery results. This will help you to evaluate the capability of the program in restoring data from FAT partition. Follow the few simple steps to recover FAT files.
- Connect the hard drive from which you want to retrieve files to another system as a secondary hard drive.
- Download and Install FAT file recovery application to the computer to which you have connected.
- Run the software to recover inaccessible data from FAT partition.
- Follow the instructions and accordingly restore files from FAT partition.