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Laptop Data Recovery: How to Recover Data from Laptop Hard Drive?

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Jan 15, 2024 • Filed to: Answer Hard Drive Problems • Proven solutions

1How Can I Retrieve Data from Laptop?

Hi all, some of my business office documents have been deleted from my HP laptop. Is there any way that I can get them back? My friend told me that my files are still on my laptop's hard drive. Please help me!!

Your friend is right: the deleted documents are still on your HP laptop's hard drive. But they can easily be overwritten by new data on your laptop. So, the best solution for you to recover data from a laptop is to stop using your laptop and find a laptop data recovery program to help you.

Recoverit is one of the most useful and risk-free laptop data recovery programs that helps you to recover data from a laptop with ease, no matter the data was lost due to accidental or intentional deletion, hard drive formatting, system error, or even virus infection. It offers you the ability to retrieve dozens of file types including office documents, images, audio files, videos, and emails from your Laptop. It works well with almost all famous laptop brands, such as Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony, HP, Dell, etc.

You can download the trial version of Recoverit Data Recovery below. Please select the right version for your computer OS.

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  • Recover lost or deleted files, photos, audio, music, emails from any storage device effectively, safely and completely.
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2 Restore Data from Laptop in 3 Steps

Let's perform the recovery with Windows version of the program. Before we get it started, please install the program on another hard drive of your laptop.

Note: If you are going to recover data from a laptop that is broken or crashed laptop, you need to take your laptop's hard drive out and connect it with another computer to do the recovery.

Step 1. Choose "Deleted Files Recovery"

To recover lost or deleted data from Laptop, you can select the option "Deleted Files Recovery" to start recovering data from Laptop

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Step 2. Scan your laptop hard drive

Then the program will show hard drives on your laptop automatically. You just need to choose the one that your data was lost from and click the "Start" button to begin scanning it.

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Note: If your laptop's files were lost because of formatting, you can go to the "All-Around Recovery" mode to try a deep scan after a quick scan.

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Step 3. Preview and restore data from laptop

Your laptop's found data will be shown in categories or paths after the scan. You are allowed to view file names to check how many files you will be able to retrieve. Finally, you can select files you want to restore and click "Recover" button to select a folder on your laptop to keep them.

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Please do not save the recovered data back to its original location. It's better to restore them on a new hard drive on your laptop.

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