How to Recover NTFS Partition ?

Are you wondering about what you need to get back your lost NTFS partition and files on Windows operating system? NTFS parttiton recovery from Personal Computer’s whose one or more hard disk partitions are formatted becomes important if there are essential data that have been lost due to unintentional formatting. There are some unavoidable scenarios which leads to data loss from NTFS partitions on Windows operating system. But don’t worry!! You can easily restore NTFS partitions on Windows OS by using powerful Seagate hard disk recovery software.

New Technology File System (NTFS) is an enhanced version of FAT file system and have better support for metadata. NTFS uses advanced data structures to get better performance, reliability, disk space utilization, file system journaling, and additional extensions such as security via good encryption. NTFS drives are faster than FAT-type partition because it uses a high-performance binary tree to locate files. The NTFS file system partition has several different limits and these limits are based on the number of drive clusters. For example: Under Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 Setup, the NTFS partition can range from 7MB to 2TB.  Some of the widespread reasons for data loss from NTFS partitions are partition corruption, resizing of existing partitions, repartitioning of hard drive unsuccessfully, file system damage, hard drive formatting, malware attack, boot sector problems, etc. If Windows OS cannot access the disk drive because of bad sectors, the NTFS partition may become inaccessible. As a result of corrupted or damaged partition table you may also lose your current NTFS partition. Whether it is NTFS or FAT the recovery can be made using the recovery software. This recovery software is much powerful that it can recover formatted hard disk easily no matter what file system is used. The recovery can be accomplished by the user himself, get further details related to recovery by clicking here.

Sometimes while trying to access your NTFS partition from your system hard drive, you may get an error message like,

"NTFS Error: error in reading file_volume MFT record."

To resolve this error you need to replace the NTFS.sys file and involves a detailed procedure to replace the file, which may become complex for novice or inexperienced system users, aggravating the issue more. In such a case, you may have to format your system. However, formatting of your NTFS partition resolves the issue, but at the stake of your important data. The only safe method left is to go for a third party drive  recovery software to recover NTFS partition.

You can recover NTFS partition and can access all your files or folders in a same hierarchical manner from your file system using reliable hard drive recovery software. This recovery software is the tool, which is very good in recovering data from formatted NTFS partition. It diagnoses and repairs the complete data quickly. The software uses advance in builtin algorithm to recover all your lost files, images, audio-video files, documents, etc., from your lost NTFS partition. It restores all data from lost partition without missing single file and it is capable enough to recover files from Seagate FreeAgent external storage drive. You can obtain the demo version available for free to your system. Its user-friendly interface does not require any technical skill to run this software. You can save recovery session so that you do not have to rescan the partition once you go for the original licensed software. You can also preview the data from NTFS partition before saving it. Using the software you can recover lost NTFS partition to your system very efficiently. You can perform data recovery from Seagate external hard disk such as Seagate GoFlex, Seagate FreeAgent, Seagate BlackArmor NAS drives and so on.

Steps to perform NTFS partition recovery:

Step (i): Download and install recover seagate tool to recover NTFS partition. Launch the installed application by double clicking on the desktop icon. Main window appears with three major options. In that, you select "Recover Partitions/Drives" option as shown in figure A.

Figure A: Main Window

Step (ii): Choose "Partition Recovery" option as shown in figure B and proceed to next step.

Figure B: Select Partition Recovery

Step (iii): Select hard drive from the list to recover partitions and click on "Next" button to start scanning of your hard disk as shown in figure C.

Figure C: Select Hard Drive

Step (iv): After successful scanning of selected drive, you can see recovered data from partition as shown in figure D.

Figure D: Recovered Partition Data