DISK DATA RECOVERY

Maybe you have ever heard of and used a FAT partition, but the fact is – most of us don’t know much about this partition type except for its data storage function. We save, modify, move, delete and do many other common operations on the FAT partition, but we don’t care about how data are stored, how they are deleted from a FAT partition or whether it is possible to restore deleted files on FAT. In view of this, we decide to focus on telling users the exact data deletion and recovery principle of FAT partition.
 

How Could It Be Possible to Restore Deleted Files on FAT

Since FAT and FDT manage data by the chain storage of data, data can be found by searching storage chain. Only when FAT works together with FDT, can unified management be performed to the files on the entire drive; meanwhile, the exact location of deleted data can be located accurately in this way.
 
The deletion work of file under Windows system is actually modifying the first character of this file to be “E5” in FDT. At the same time, modify the corresponding information which indicates the space occupied by certain file in the second sector of boot sector. Therefore, if we edit corresponding places, search E5 deletion flag and look at & analyze the data chain of deleted file, we could undelete files from FAT successfully.
 
Unfortunately, the biggest problem lies in this method is too difficult for the majority of users. Thus, an easier but effective way to recover deleted files from a FAT partition is urgently needed for users who’re stuck in FAT file loss now.
 
Indeed, we do have a simpler way for even inexperienced users to restore deleted files on FAT. This is to install MiniTool Power Data Recovery and make use of its “Undelete Recovery” function.
 

 
Just choose “Undelete Recovery” by clicking on it from main interface. Then, select the FAT partition from which files were deleted and then tap “Scan” to continue. When the scan finishes, you’ll need to pick out which files are needed and which are not. At last, just tap “Save” button to save those picked files to another location and quit software to complete undeleting files from FAT.
 
This is the whole process of how to recover deleted files from a FAT partition.