File recovery How to use system restore to fix your computer issues?

When our computer has serious problems, such as virus attack, malware, slow down computer, blue screen, we will tend to use system restore or reinstall system. System restore is the Windows built-in feature to restore your computer to a certain time point you want. If your computer have problem after you have updated the system, installed a certain program, or your lost system files, you can use system restore to roll back your system to a certain time point to get rid of the problems. Rather than factory reset, reinstall system or system restore will not affect your personal data on other partitions. You do not need to reinstall the system, factory rest every time. So let’s we take a look at the different computer problems and the solutions.

The computer crashes after you have updated windows or install a new software

In that case, if you are sure that it is the new software and the Windows update that cause the computer crash, you can use the system restore to roll the computer to a time point before you have update or reinstall on the computer. But if you have not created a restore point, the system restore does not work for you.

The computer is infected with malware

You can use the system restore to remove the malware, but if you want to clear out it completely, you’d better reinstall the system. The advantage of reinstall system is that it only delete the files in system drive so that it will not affect most of your data. In this way, you only need to back up your data in system drive before reinstalling the system.

You want to wipe data on the computer

If you want to sell the computer or give it to others, you need to wipe all the data on the hard drive first. If you want to deal with the computer you no longer need, the factory reset is not enough. After you factory reset your computer, your data on the hard drive still can be recovered.

Therefore, you should adopt the other ways.

The most common used way is to use the data wiping software. The software will delete the files from your hard drive and at the same time they write new data to overwrite the raw data so that the data become unrecoverable. So before you are planning to wipe your data, you need to back up your important files first.

Another way is to encrypt the hard drive first and then format the encrypted drive. If you perform a format on your encrypted drive, the data will never be recovered.

How to recover files with data recovery software?

To restore files from your hard drive, you should make sure that no files have been overwritten. If you have write new data to the hard drive. It has great possibility that you cannot recover all your data.

First, you need to install Hdata recovery software on your computer. If you lost data on the system drive, you should not install it there.

Second, launch the software and choose a recovery mode according to your data loss cases.

Third, scan the drive and then preview the scanning results. If you can preview the files you need, check them.

Fourth, choose the recovery path to store the data.