Recovering deleted files mac and windows iTunes files recovery after a drive crash

Computer hard drive crash usually result in data loss. You may lose your photos, songs of your iTunes library.You can only recover the items which you have purchased by the application, other files cannot be directly recovered. You need a data recovery software or backup to retrieve them. If you have made any backup, you can easily recover your lost files in iTunes after a computer crash.

What are the caused for a computer crash?

How to recover data from a crashed computer　　

Computer data recovery: How does computer crash happen?　

There are several method can help you retrieve your lost iTunes files

1. Backup of external drive

Restore from backup is the preferred and most effective way to recover files in any data loss situation. If you have ever backed up your files on the external hard drive of your computer, you can easily restore the lost files.

2. Restore from files from your iPhone

Many iPhone users have the habit of sync data between computer and iPhone. If you have sync your lost files to your iPhone, you can easily restore them to your computer. In that case, you only need to use an application to restore the files from your iPhone to iTunes.

3. Use iTunes Match to restore your music

If you lost your songs after a computer crash, you can access to your iTunes Match subscription to find your music. The iTunes Match subscription allows you access ti the iCloud Music Library. It scans your iTunes library and create a copy of it in the cloud so that you can enjoy your music on all your devices. But this method can only apply to music and you should have matched your files before a computer crash.

4. Use iCloud account

The iCloud keep all your files,apps you have bought or downloaded from the iTunes Store. But it doesn’t keep the other files such as from CDs or other stores.

5. Use data recovery software

How to recover lost iTunes files after a computer crash on Windows?

If you have suffered some data loss after a computer crash, you can try the above method to find back your lost files. If you still can normal boot up your computer and access to the hard drive, you can try to use a data recovery software to recover the iTunes backup. As we know that your backups of iPhone or iPad to iTunes are stored on your computer, generally the partition C. You can find them in this path::\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup .Drive is the drive letter, username is which you used to log in your computer. If you have lost the backup, the data recovery software for Windows can retrieve your lost files.

Recover with drive recovery software

First, you need to remove the crashed hard drive and connect it to another healthy computer as an external hard drive.

Second, download the Hdata recovery software and open it. Click the button of Hard drive partition lost or crash.

Third, scan the partition you have lost files and preview the scan result.

Fourth, choose a recovery path to save the recovered files, notice do not save them on the partition you need to recover.