Search
  • For Individuals
      « Back
    • Windows Data Recovery

      Recovers lost or deleted Office documents, emails, presentations & multimedia files.

      Free Standard Professional Premium

    • Mac Data Recovery

      Recovers deleted files, photos, videos etc. on Mac.

      Free Standard Professional Premium

    • Photo Recovery

      Recover photos, videos, & audio files from all cameras and storage on Windows or Mac.

      Free Standard Professional Premium

    • Video Repair
    • Photo Repair
    • iPhone Data Recovery
  • For Business
      « Back
    • Email Repair & Converter

      Repair for Exchange Converter for EDB Converter for OST Converter for NSF Converter for OST MBOX Repair for Outlook

    • Database & File Repair

      Repair for MS SQL Repair for Access Repair for QuickBooks Software Repair for Excel Extractor for Windows Backup Repair for MySQL

    • Data Recovery & Erasure

      Data Recovery Professional Data Recovery Technician Mac Recovery for Technician Virtual Machine Recovery File Erasure Software Mobile Erasure Drive Erasure File Eraser Software File Eraser Software for Mac

    • Toolkit

      Exchange Toolkit Outlook Toolkit File Repair Toolkit MS SQL Toolkit Data Recovery Toolkit

    • Forensic

      Email Forensic Exchange Auditor Log Analyzer for MySQL Log Analyzer for MS SQL

  • Store
  • Partners
  • Services
  • Offers
  • Support

 

  • For Individuals
    DIY software for anyone who works with data.

    Windows Data Recovery Recovers lost or deleted Office documents, emails, presentations & multimedia files

    Free Standard Professional Premium

    Mac Data Recovery Especially for Mac users to recover deleted documents and multimedia files from macOS

    Free Standard Professional Premium

    Video Repair Windows Mac Repair multiple corrupt videos in one go. Supports MP4, MOV & other formats.

    StandardPremium

    Photo Recovery Windows Mac Recover photos, videos, & audio files from all cameras and storage on Windows or Mac.

    Standard Professional Premium

    iPhone Data Recovery Windows Mac Recover deleted photos, videos, contacts, messages etc. directly from iPhone & iPad

    Recover Erase Toolkit

    Photo Repair Windows Mac Repair multiple corrupt photos in one go. Supports JPEG & other formats.

    Standard Professional Premium


  • For Business
    • Email Repair
    • Email Converter
    • File Repair
    • Data Recovery & Erasure
    • Toolkit
    • Forensic

    Exchange Repair Repair corrupt EDB file & export mailboxes to Live Exchange or Office 365

    Outlook PST Repair Repair corrupt PST & recover all mailbox items including deleted emails & contacts

    OLM Repair Repair Outlook for Mac (OLM) 2011 & 2016 backup files & recover all mailbox items

    Exchange Toolkit Repair EDB & Exchange backup file to restore mailboxes, convert OST to PST, & convert EDB to PST

    Active Directory Repair Repair corrupt Active Directory database (Ntds.dit file) & extract all objects in original form

    EDB to PST Convert online & offline EDB file & extract all mailbox items including Public Folders in PST

    OST to PST Convert inaccessible OST file & extract all mailbox items including deleted emails in PST

    NSF to PST Convert IBM Notes NSF file & export all mailbox items including emails & attachments to PST

    MBOX to PST Convert MBOX file of Thunderbird, Entourage & other clients, & export mailbox data to PST

    OLM to PST Convert Outlook for Mac Data File (OLM) & export all mailbox data to PST in original form

    GroupWise to PST Convert GroupWise mail & export all mailbox items - emails, attachments, etc. - to PST

    EML to PST Convert Windows Live Mail (EML) file & export mailbox data - emails, attachments, etc. - to PST

    Office 365 to PST Connect to Office 365 account & export mailbox data to PST and various other formats

    DBX to PST Convert Outlook Express (DBX) file & export all mailbox data - emails, attachments, etc. - to PST

    SQL Repair Repair corrupt .mdf & .ndf files and recover all database components in original form

    Access Repair Repair corrupt .ACCDB and .MDB files & recover all records & objects in a new database

    QuickBooks Repair Repair corrupt QuickBooks® data file & recover all file components in original form

    MySQL Repair Repair MyISAM & InnoDB tables and recover all objects - keys, views, tables, triggers, etc.

    Excel Repair Repair corrupt Excel (.XLS & .XLSX) files and recover tables, charts, chart sheet, etc.

    BKF Repair Repair corrupt backup (BKF, ZIP, VHDX and .FD) files and restore complete data

    Database Converter Interconvert MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Anywhere database files

    PowerPoint Repair Repair corrupt PPT files and restore tables, header, footer, & charts, etc. like new

    File Repair Toolkit Repair corrupt Excel, PowerPoint, Word & PDF files & restore data to original form

    Data Recovery Windows Mac Recover lost or deleted data from HDD, SSD, external USB drive, RAID & more.

    Technician Toolkit

    Tape Data Recovery Retrives data from all types and capacities of tape drives including LTO 1, LTO 2, LTO 3, & others.

    Virtual Machine Recovery Recover documents, multimedia files, and database files from any virtual machine

    File Erasure Permanently wipe files and folders, and erase traces of apps and Internet activity.

    Standard Corporate

    Mobile Erasure Certified and permanent data erasure software for iPhones, iPads, & Android devices

    Drive Erasure Certified and permanent data erasure software for HDD, SSD, & other storage media Windows Mac

    Exchange Toolkit 5-in-1 software toolkit to recover Exchange database, convert EDB to PST, convert OST to PST, restore Exchange backup, and reset Windows Server password.

    Outlook Toolkit Comprehensive software suite to repair PST files, merge PST files, eliminate duplicate emails, compact PST files, and recover lost or forgotten Outlook passwords.

    File Repair Toolkit Powerful file repair utility to fix corrupt Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents created in Microsoft Office. It also repairs corrupt PDF files and recovers all objects.

    MS SQL Toolkit 5-in-1 software toolkit to repair corrupt SQL database, restore database from corrupt backup, reset database password, analyze SQL logs, & interconvert databases.

    Data Recovery Toolkit Software helps to recovers deleted data from Windows, Mac and Linux storage devices. Also supports recovery from RAIDs & Virtual Drives.

    Email Forensic Advanced email forensic solution for cyber experts to audit, analyze, or investigate emails & gather evidences.

    Exchange Auditor Exchange Server monitoring solution to automate audits, scans and generate reports ìn real-time.

    Log Analyzer for MySQL Analyze forensic details of MySQL server database log files such as Redo, General Query, and Binary Log.

    Log Analyzer for MS SQL Track & analyze MS SQL Server database transactions log files.

    Email Forensic
    STELLAR EMAIL FORENSIC

    Advanced email forensic tool to analyze and collect the mailbox data of email clients

    Learn More arrow


    All Products arrow

    All Products arrow

    All Products arrow

    All Products arrow

  • Our Partners
  • Lab Services
  • microphone-icon-android

    Trending Searches

    Data Recovery

    Photo Recovery

    Video Repair

    iPhone Data Recovery

    File Erasure Software

    Exchange Repair

    OST to PST

    PST Repair

    Raid Recovery

    MS SQL Repair

  • English Deutsch Français Nederlands Italiano Español 日本語 简体中文
  • Support
Windows Data Recovery - Standard 5 minute read

Recover Data after Reinstalling Windows-Complete Guide

Updated on February 24th, 2021
Isha Rikhi
Written By
Isha Rikhi
Rohit Arora
Approved By
Rohit Arora

Summary: Windows PC is the most widely used Operating System (OS) on PCs. However, it may get corrupted, formatted, or crashed, due to which you may need to reinstall the Windows on the system. In this blog, we have shared some tested ways to recover data after reinstalling Windows. We have also listed the steps to restore data efficiently using a data recovery tool.

Recover Data after Reinstalling Windows-Complete Guide

There may be situations when your system may start malfunctioning due to several reasons. For example:

  • A problematic Windows Update
  • Corrupted System files got
  • Invalid/corrupt registry entries
  • Corrupted or incompatible device drivers
  • Malicious application, program or software
  • BSOD (Blue/Black Screen of Death) errors, etc.

These issues may lead your system to malfunction and crash eventually. Hence, to get rid of these issues, you may have to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows on your PC, which results in data loss. So, how would you get your essential data back? We have articulated the best ways to recover data after reinstalling Windows.

What happens to data when you reinstall Windows?

Reinstalling or installing Windows will wipe out the entire data stored on drive c: /. It formats the whole partition, deleting all applications, files, drivers, programs, software, resulting in data loss. Hence, we recommend to take a back-up of the data before reinstalling Windows. If you have a backup, you may restore essential files, folders, documents, etc. using some tried and tested methods. However, if you forgot to take a backup, you will need a powerful data recovery tool to recover data after reinstalling Windows.

Easy Ways to Recover Data after Reinstalling Windows

1: Recover Data with Backup

A. Backup and Restore (Windows 7)

If you used Windows’ built-in utility – Backup and Restore (Windows 7) utility to create a backup of the system data, you may recover your data by following the given steps:

a. Type Control Panel in Windows Search bar, open it and click Backup and Restore (Windows 7) under System and Security.
b. You may also directly select ‘Restore files from backup.’ (See Image 1)

System & Security Setting
[Image 1: Restore files from back-up)

c. On the next prompt, either select Restore my files or Restore all users’ files. (See Image 2)

Backup or Restore Files
[Image 2: Choose Restore Users’ file/Restore my files]

d. From the backup, select the files you want to retrieve. (See Image 3)

Browse Files to Recover
[Image 3: Select files to recover]

e. Afterward, choose either ‘Browse for files’ or ‘Browse for folder.’
f. Click Next to proceed. (See Image 4)

Browse Files to Recover
[Image 4: Browse for Files/Browse for folders]

g. Select a destination to RESTORE your data.
h. Once the process is done, check if you can see the files in the desired location/drive/storage media.

B. Recover Data with Windows’ File History

If you used Windows’ File History to back up your important files and other data, restore it using the following steps:

a. Go to Control Panel and open System and Security. (See Image 5)

control penal
Image 5: Open System and Security

b. In the open window, open File History.
c. You may also directly go for ‘Restore your files with File History’ mentioned under File History. (See Image 6)

System & Security 1
Image 6: Select Restore your files with File History

d. Search for the data you need and use the arrows to see all the versions of the backed-up data. (See Image 7)

Select files to restore
Image 7: Select files to restore

e. When you find the current version of the data, click Restore to save it in the original location.
f. If you want to save the recovered data to a different location/drive/storage media, right-click ‘Restore’ and select ‘Restore to.’
g. Provide the desired location and save the restored data.

2: Recover Data after Reinstalling Windows with a Data Recovery Tool

Have no backup of your data? Try recovering data after reinstalling Windows with a data recovery tool such as Stellar Data Recovery. This easy-to-use, DIY software can extract lost or deleted files, folders, documents, emails, photos, videos, audios, and more. The software is also efficient at recovering data from formatted or corrupted Windows PCs, laptops, and storage media. It provides built-in support for data recovery from RAW drives. Additionally, it can retrieve data even from drives encrypted with Windows’ BitLocker utility. To recover data, follow the given steps:

a. Download and run Stellar Data Recovery Software on Windows PC.
b. On Select What to Recover window, select ‘Everything,’ or select the type of data you want to retrieve and click Next. (See Image 8)

Stellar
[Image 8: Select What to Recover Screen

c. Select the drive on Recover from screen from which you want to restore data, and click Scan. (See Image 9)

Stellar
Image 9: Select the drive/folder and scan it

d. Once the scanning process is completed, the results will appear on the screen.
e. Select the files from the results showing on the screen. You may also preview the data and click Recover. (See Image 10)

Stellar
Image 10: Select files and click Recover

f. On the next prompt, click Browse to choose a destination.
g. After selecting the destination, click Start-saving. (See Image 11)

Stellar
Image 11: Save the recovered data

[Note: Save the recovered files and folders to an external storage media device such as USB, Hard Disk Drive (HDD), and Solid State Drive (SSD)]

Conclusion

System data and files will be deleted after reinstalling Windows. If you took back-up using Windows’ built-in back-up utilities such as File History, and Backup & Restore (Windows 7), you may restore the data easily. In case you don’t have any back-up, a Windows data recovery tool such as Stellar Data Recovery can help you recover data after reinstalling Windows. You can restore lost or deleted documents, email files, photos, videos, and more with this tool.

About The Author

isha

Isha is a technical blogger and data recovery expert. She has experience in Windows data recovery. She writes about technical tips and tutorials.

Best Selling Products

Stellar Data Recovery Professional

Stellar Data Recovery Professional

Stellar Data Recovery Professional softw

Read More
Stellar Data Recovery Premium

Stellar Data Recovery Premium

Stellar Data Recovery Premium for Window

Read More
Stellar Data Recovery Technician

Stellar Data Recovery Technician

Stellar Data Recovery Technician intelli

Read More
Stellar Data Recovery Toolkit

Stellar Data Recovery Toolkit

Stellar Data Recovery Toolkit is an adva

Read More

20 comments

  1. cody says:
    May 16, 2022 at 6:33 am

    Thanks for sharing all the manual steps in detail; it was very helpful.

    Reply

Comments navigation

Older comments Page 1 Page 2

Leave a comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

5  +  4  =  

Table of Contents    

Categories

offer banner

Related Posts

related post
Windows Data Recovery - Standard

Stellar Data Recovery Crack: A Threat to your Privacy and System Integrity

Stellar Author Ashutosh Kumar May 31, 2022 Read More
related post
Windows Data Recovery - Standard

How to Recover Deleted Google Drive Files?

Stellar Author Ashutosh Kumar March 2, 2022 Read More
related post
Windows Data Recovery - Standard

How to Recover Deleted Outlook Emails on Windows 10/11?

Stellar Author Mansi Verma January 28, 2022 Read More

Stellar Official Website

Stellar Data Recovery Inc.
48 Bridge Street Metuchen,
New Jersey 08840,
United States

ALSO AVAILABLE AT

Partner Logo

About

  • About us
  • Career
  • ISMS Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • License Policy
  • Refund Policy
  • End User License Agreement

RESOURCES

  • Blog
  • Articles
  • Product Videos
  • Knowledge Base
  • Case Studies
  • Whitepapers
  • Software Catalog

NEWS & EVENTS

  • News
  • Events

PARTNERS

  • Affiliates
  • Resellers
  • Distributors

Useful Links

  • Contact Us
  • Support
  • Special Offers
  • Student Discounts
  • Awards & Reviews
  • Downloads
  • Store
  • Sitemap
Follow Us

tw in yt

Stellar & Stellar Data Recovery are Registered Trademarks of Stellar Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. © Copyright 2022 Stellar Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. All Trademarks Acknowledged.

Hippa Logo tuv footer partner logo DMCA.com Protection Status
We use cookies on this website. By using this site, you agree that we may store and access cookies on your device Read More Got it!