Reinstalling Windows may not lead to permanent data loss. Lost files can be recovered with Windows file recovery unless the lost files are overwritten. If you want to recover lost files after reinstalling Windows, please stop using the hard disk and make sure you do not save any data to the hard disk, as this would cause data to be overwritten and permanent data loss. Recover files windows program is widely used for the data recovery in the Windows operating system to recover files from NTFS and FAT file system. It recovers from different devices like Pen Drive, USB Drive, Memory Cards, External HDD, Digital Cameras & any storage media devices.
Why do we reinstall Windows?
You would go to reinstall Windows due to the reasons such as Windows system files or boot files are deleted or corrupted, Windows registry has been corrupted, hardware failure causes Windows system crash, fail to remove the virus/spyware, a fresh Windows installation, Windows system upgrades or update, and other unknown reasons which cause Windows system unbootable. When you are in the process of reinstalling Windows system, you might suddenly remember some important files are in the “My Document”, system partition or on the desktop. After Windows reinstalled, you only find these important files have been lost.
Usually when you reinstall Windows, ‘Documents and Settings’ folder will be reinitialized while the files in that folder will be deleted, and all other previous files will be lost in the system partition. However, these deleted files are recoverable unless they are overwritten. File recovery tool restores files from recycle bin and the files which is been deleted using Shift + Delete keys.