NTFS and FAT file system Recover files from hard drive

What are the advantages of NTFS file system compared with FAT?

NTFS provides file and folder level security. Each file and folder can be encrypted; while the FAT doesn’t provide file and folder level security.

NTFS supports 255 characters long file name; FAT only supports 8 characters.

NTFS supports partition size can up to 16 EB, file size up to 256 TB; while FAT up to 4 GB, only the exFAT up to 2 TB.

NTFS supports individual file compression; While FAT doesn’t.

NTFS has less possibly of fragmentation than FAT.

How to format the FAT to NTFS?

All the above advantage explains why NTFS is more popular and widely used. If you have accidentally found that you cannot copy large files to your drive, you need to check the files system of this drive. Click this drive and choose properties from the right-click menu, check the file system, you may found the files system is FAT. This explains why you cannot copy the large files. As we know that the FAT only supports files up to 4 GB. So you need to format this drive to NTFS files system.

If you want to convert FAT to NTFS on your flash disk and other devices, you can also follow this way.

Right click the drive you need to format, choose the option of Format from the right-click menu.

In the format window, select the NTFS from the drop-down menu of File system.

Click to finish the format.

You can also open the Disk Management and format the drive here.

Data loss after format the drive

Before you start to format the hard dive , you need to back up all your data on this drive, or you will find you lost your important data. And there are also many other reasons for NTFS partition data loss, such as system failure, virus infection, deletion.

If the data ware accidentally deleted, you can go to recycle bin to find them back. If they were lost from virus, you can try to find back the files hidden by virus

How to find the files hidden by virus?

　　

If you cannot find the files on your computer, you should try the data recovery software.

How to recover lost files from NTFS or FAT partition with free data recovery software?

First, you should download and run Hdata recovery software. Select a proper recovery mode. If you want to recover lost files from a formatted partition, you should click the button of Formatted hard drive accidentally. If you have a partition lost or crash, you should choose the mode of Hard drive partition lost or crash. If you deleted your files, you can choose the mode of Deleted your files accidentally.

Second, choose the correct partition to scan and recover.

Third, scan the partition and preview the results.

Fourth, choose a recovery path to store the deleted files.