Many electronics, such as the computer, mobile phone, music player all have the feature of factory reset.This feature help us to bring the device to the factory state. If your device has problems, the factory reset can help you to fix the problem. While it also remove tall the data on the device to return its software to the original manufacturer’s settings. If you forgot to back up your data, you may lost your data forever.
What is factory reset?
For the computer, mobile phone and tablet, factory reset it a kind of complete reformatting. It returns the device to the factory state when you buy them. Without any of your personal data, and the software is set by the manufacture. Every time you factory reset the device, it will erase all the data. Then where did your files go after factory reset?
The factory reset is not a complete wiping for your data. The original files have not been overwritten, so you still have great chance to recover the data. In that case, you need to use the data recovery software.
How to recover data after factory reset?
If you factory reset your computer, you should stop writing new data to this drive. Install and run the data recovery software to scan and recover the lost data immediately. But if you have encrypt the drive before you factory reset it, you will never recover your data. As you have factory reset the encrypted drive, without the original key used to decrypt the files on the drive, the data recovery become impossible. In that case, you do not need to try any data recovery software, if you have backups, you can recover from the copies.
Data recovery software to restore files after factory reset
Hdata recovery software can help to get the lost files from the factory reset hard drive.
Download and install Hdata recovery software on the computer
Select a recovery mode from the software interface. If you do not know which one you should choose, you can click the Universal recovery.
Let the software to scan the hard drive automatically, after scan, you will be able to preview all the recoverable files. Check the files you need.
Choose the location to restore your files recovered. The recovery path should have no data loss.
Check the recovered files in the recovery path you choose. If you have recovered the files, you should back up them to avoid similar data loss in the future.