WINDOWS DATA RECOVERY PROCESS

There is a software in the market that helps you in recovery of all your windows data and that is called ' Windows Data Recovery '(and surprisingly, Win32) that allows you to recover deleted files in Windows.

This is an important software because normally, when files are lost by mistake, you have to resort it using the methods you read and watch online by yourself that leads to data deletion permanently. The fact this software is not known by so many of us because we never cared about data recovery and neglected if had any data loss. It can help millions of users to return important lost files to their hard drive or SSD.

How Windows Data Recovery Works

The first thing to do is install Windows Data Recovery, something that you can only do if you are on the latest version of Windows. Once installed, you must give it administrator permissions, and a screen will appear that indicates, in English, some instructions. According to Microsoft itself from a support website, Windows Data Recovery has three modes.

Default: This is the mode they recommend to use for recently filed files on disks with an NTFS file system. Use the Master File Table (MFT). Microsoft mentions that it works fine when file segments (FRS) are present.

Segment: This mode is recommended in NTFS to recover files deleted some time ago, after formatting or with a corrupt disk, and it does not require MFT but it does require segments, which according to Microsoft are file indexes such as date, size, type, etc. Microsoft recommends testing Segment first, then Signature.

Signature: For FAT, exFAT or ReFS file systems, Microsoft recommends Signature mode, which requires that the data be present on the disk, but allows this to be an external drive, such as a hard drive or pen drive. It does not work with small files.

Here we explains how Windows Data Recovery works. We will always have to use the "winfr" command , and if for example we want to recover a specific file from C: in Default mode and copy it to a folder on disk E :, we would have to do this, with 'Unistal'  being the name of the user folder, and 'Recovery.docx' the searched file name:

winfr C: E: / n \ Users \ Unistal \ Documents \ Recovery.docx

If we wanted to search in C: by file type (PNG and JPEG in this case) in Default mode, and we wanted to paste in E:, we would have to execute this on the command line:

winfr C: E: / n \ Users \ Unistal \ Pictures * .JPEG / n \ Users \ Unistal \ Pictures * .PNG

To search in C: PDF and Word files in Segment mode, and copy them in E, enter (/ r) in the action, and it would look like this:

winfr C: E: / r / n * .pdf / n * .docx

With Signature, it would be similar, using (/ x) in the syntax:

winfr C: E: / x / y: JPEG, PNG

Although at the moment it is not in Spanish, the most complete that there is the Microsoft support website, where they also indicate tricks like using "winfr /!" to access all the more advanced action syntax.

Conclusion:

Windows Data Recovery is very much underrated software which is not known by many of us but helps us in many ways by recovering windows files that is corrupted and deleted and it helps in recovery of all the data. So, we should use it in case we lost files from Windows and we need to recover it now.