🔥 How to Recover Data After Resetting Windows 10, Resetting a Laptop to Factory Settings in 2021
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2017-05-18

👍 Watch how to recover data after resetting Windows 10, resetting a laptop to factory settings, or reinstalling Windows.

Read: Data Recovery After Windows 10 & 8 System Restore - https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/restoring-data-after-system-reset-to-the-initial-state.htm.

In one of the previous videos we have already shown you how to reset Windows 10, 8 or 7 to its original state of factory settings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSB-xBUlY7U. 
Often it takes users some time after resetting or reinstalling their operating system to realize that the files which they need right now are missing. 
So, here is a computer containing files, documents and images...
In order to demonstrate data recovery after resetting the system, let us reset the test computer. In a similar way, you can recover user files after resetting a laptop to factory settings or reinstalling Windows. 

Content:
0:00 - Intro;
0:38 - Returning the computer to its original state
1:43 - Recovering lost data
3:12 - Deleted and Found or Deep Analysis folder
4:57 - What can be done in a similar way with Hetman Partition Recovery

To do it:
• Go to Settings
• Update and Security
• Recovery
• Click on “Get started” in the submenu “Reset this PC.”
• Select the option “Remove everything” in the window that appears.
• “Just remove my files”
• Next.
• The system will be reset automatically. 
In the process, the computer will restart several times.  
It will take some time.

• To complete the reset, some additional settings are required. They are similar to those used when reinstalling Windows.  Watch one of the videos in our channel to see it; find the link in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7P2iATJwc

• The system has been reset, and the files stored in this computer are lost. 

After reinstalling Windows or resetting a laptop to factory settings you will have the same situation.

In order to restore files lost after system resetting, reinstalling Windows or resetting a laptop to factory settings do the following:
• Download, install and launch Hetman Partition Recovery.
To do it, go to the developer’s website and download it for free. 
Find the link in the description: https://hetmanrecovery.com/hard_drive_recovery/software.htm

• Scan the hard disk of your computer with the tools that this program offers.
• Click on drive C, choose “Full analysis” and click Next.
Remember that in Windows 8/10, the default location to save all documents and user files is the folder “Documents” which can be found in disk C:,  images and photos go to “Pictures” folder, downloaded files to “Downloads” folder and desktop files to “Desktop” folder.
You should start looking for lost user files in these directories. 
The paths to them will be given in the description for this video.


The folder “Documents” is actually located in disk C: following this path:
C:\Users\UserName\Documents
“Pictures” folder:
C:\Users\UserName\Pictures
Files downloaded from the Internet go to this folder:
C:\Users\UserName\Downloads
Desktop files are stored here:
C:\Users\ UserName \Desktop
• When the process of scanning the hard disk is over, use the program to go to the folder with the files that you need to recover.
Lost files can also be located in the program’s folder “Lost and Found” or “Content-Aware Analysis.”
The folder “Lost and Found” contains the files and folders the location of which could not be determined. Make sure you check this directory if you can’t find the files in their original location.
The program searches for deleted files not only from file tables but based on their contents as well. Using a complex analysis of the disk contents, the utility finds signatures that identify the beginning and end of a file. Files found in such manner are placed in the folder “Content-Aware Analysis” and sorted into folders by file type. 
• Drag the necessary files to the Recovery List and click “Recovery”
• Choose the method to save files.
I will choose “Save to hard disk.”
I strongly recommend saving the recovered files to another disk or media to make sure they won’t be erased. That is why I choose disk E, and create a folder for the recovered files.
OK.
• Recovery.
• Ready.
• Go to the folder created on disk E to see the files have been recovered.

In a similar way, you can use Hetman Partition Recovery to restore data after formatting the hard disk, operating system or hard disk failures, file system damage, recover data from damaged or inaccessible disk partitions, as well as after emptying the Recycle Bin or accidental deleting of files.

Playlist: Recovering Data Deleted From The Hard Disk of a Windows Computer or Laptop - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfvrWYvsWiJz-xwWNm8AnZSzoAzDq-Zp.

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