How to Recover Files after Unexpected Shutdown? [2021]

When the computer meets an unexpected shutdown, it will cause files lost. This article shows how to recover files after an unexpected shutdown with data recovery.

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Apr 10, 2023 • Filed to: Windows Computer Solutions • Proven solutions

If you are working on an important document, an unexpected shutdown might cause a data loss. Additionally, an unexpected shutdown of system can make your data inaccessible as well. The best way to overcome this problem and recover files after unexpected shutdown is by using a recovery tool that supports Windows PE. So in the following content we will show how to recover files after unexpected shutdown easily with a powerful recovery tool.

How to Recover Files after Unexpected Shutdown

When your computer shutdown unexpected and cannot access to the data. Recoverit can help you to recover data back, it will create a bootable media and access to the system and perform an operating system crash recovery. After creating bootable media on Windows PE, you can choose all the data to recover including documents, photos, videos and lost data from deleted drive.

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  • Recover lost or deleted files, photos, audio, music, emails from hard disk effectively, safely and completely.
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  • Supports to recover data for sudden deletion, formatting, hard drive corruption, virus attack, system crash under different situations.

Download and install Recoverit on a workable computer, prepare a blank USB drive and connect to the computer. Follow the next simple steps to creat bootable media and recover data from computer.

How to Create a Bootable Drive

  1. Click "System Crash Recovery" on the menu, and click "Start" button on the window to create a bootable drive.
  2. how to recover files after unexpected shutdown-click system crash recovery

  3. You can select a mode to create a bootable drive by choosing USB bootable drive or CD/DVD bootable drive and click "Create" button to start. Before the process was started, make sure you back up your files on your USB/CD/DVD, because recoverit will need to format your drive.
  4. how to recover files after unexpected shutdown-choose USB or DVD CD

    how to recover files after unexpected shutdown-format USB

  5. It will take for a while to competed the process of creating bootable dirve.
  6. how to recover files after unexpected shutdown-create bootable media

  7. After the bootable drive is created, you will need to follow a guide to retrieve your data back.
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