NTFS is a file system that is widely used for hard drives, especially external hard drives, like USB flash drives. However, there are times that you have to remove everything on NTFS for fixing errors on the NTFS drive. Or you have deleted files from the NTFS hard drive and wanna get back deleted files quickly for free.
You're here because you want to find the right NTFS undelete tool to recover files from the NTFS drive for free, right? Check whether the undelete files from NTFS freeware (Qiling Free Data Recovery) are what you want or not.
Click the DOWNLOAD button to get it. After then, install it on your computer on which you want to restore files from NTFS for free. If the NTFS hard drive is an external hard drive, please connect it with your computer first.
Launch the NTFS data recovery software. You can see all the partitions and hard drives connected with the computer are listed. Please select the NTFS partition or drive and click "Scan". After then, you can see a process bar displaying the scanning process.
If there are many files on your NTFS partition or hard drive, it might take longer for the whole scanning process. Wait patiently for it to finish. After then, you can see all found files are put into categories. Select the file type in the left panel and check out the details on the right side.
If you have tried the above-mentioned free NTFS undelete tool, it will ensure you display all the recoverable files. However, if you want it to get you a satisfactory result, you need to:
Formatting can be a great way to fix errors on NTFS drive. However, it is the second reason (deletion files is the first reason) for data loss from the NTFS drive. The Undelete NTFS tools are able to recover files from formatted NTFS drives as well. However, if you want to increase the recovery success rate, do not transfer or create any file to the formatted NTFS drive before the NTFS recovery.
The undelete NTFS freeware is able to display the deleted NTFS partition in the left panel of its window. However, it can't help you undelete NTFS partition, but help you save the files from the deleted NTFS partition. In this case, you can use the tool to recover files from the NTFS partition first. After then, create a new NTFS partition and transfer the recovered files there.
There is an NTFS data recovery tool named as Deep Data Recovery for Mac. You can use it to undelete files from NTFS files on Mac. Just download and install the software on your Mac > scan the NTFS drive > preview and recover deleted NTFS files.
It's better to have an extra copy of your important files on an external hard drive or on cloud services. Though we can use the free data recovery software for Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 lies the undelete NTFS tool, to recover files. It's always a risk of losing the files if there is any damage or corruption on the device.