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"As I format my data partition on my Windows 10 laptop by accident, I use the third-party data recovery software online to recover the formatted files. The files are successfully recovered, but I find that some of them are corrupted and inaccessible. What can I do?"
If you are encountering the same trouble as what above says(a user reported), then you are in the right place. This post focuses on the issue "files are corrupted after data recovery" and introduces 3 fixes for you to get rid of it. Now, let's read on for more details.
Viruses or malware can lead to the problem in some cases. To check whether it is the culprit, you are suggested to use the anti-malware tool to thoroughly and deeply scan your Windows OS. You can use the Windows built-in antivirus named Windows Defender to help do the scanning job. Certainly, it's also available to use a reliable third-party tool to scan your system for viruses. After the successful scanning, open your recovered files again and see whether the issue is gone.
Compared with another 2 ways here, this way can fix the files corrupted after recovery issue more effectively and directly. You can find a trustworthy file repair tool to repair your corrupted Office files, photos, video and so on. Take corrupted Office files as an example, you can fix them with iSunshare Office Repair Genius which can fix Word(.docx), Excel(.xlsx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files with easy steps and a high success rate in Windows.
Sometimes, this issue can be efficiently resolved by recovering lost/deleted/formatted files again with another data recovery tool. Here, iSunshare BitGenius is recommended. BitGenius is the specialized data recovery tool developed for restoring different types of files(e.g. photos) from various storage devices like external hard drives in Windows. It can be applied in the situations including but not limited to formatted drives, shift-deleted files, emptied Recycle Bin, etc. To try this powerful software, only 3 steps are needed.
Before following the steps below, you need to download, install and run iSunshare BitGenius on your Windows computer.
Step 1: Scan out the lost or deleted files.
Just choose the location where the files are lost and then hit Start to begin the data scan process.
Step 2: Select the wanted files to recover.
After scanning, you can begin locating to the file you want to restore and make it check.
If you know the specific location where saved the lost file before, you can directly head to the place and check the target file to recover.
When you are not sure of the original location of the deleted file or there are many scanned-out files, you can apply the Filter function in the upper right corner to reach your wanted file quickly.
Step 3: Recover the deleted files to a secure place.
After making your needed files select, you can hit Recover in the lower-right corner. Then a Select folder window will be popped out and you could select a safe place that is not the location where you lose files to save the recovered data.
Once restored files are stored to the set location, you can view the recovery result by clicking Yes in the shown prompt.
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