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I should have maintained backup of all my essential folders before reinstalling Windows operating system. Today morning, I thought of reinstalling Windows operating system as I have some troubles working with my system because of its improper operation. During the process of reinstallation, it displayed two options namely, “Upgrade” and “Custom”. I accidentally pressed “Custom” option, due to which all my files and folders got deleted completely. Can deleted folders be recovered after Windows reinstallation? If so, then can anyone suggest me a best solution to get back all the files and folders? Thank you…!

Yes, the situation is very worst and it becomes more complicated, if you save any new files or folders on the deleted folders after reinstalling Windows. So, better stop using your system to avoid overwriting your deleted folders with new data. The very first thing you need to do in this situation is choosing best and reliable data recovery tool to get back all your folders. Recover Deleted Folders is one such reliable and best tool, which can retrieve missing folders after Windows reinstallation. This tool, with its outstanding scanning algorithms scans your entire system's hard drive and recovers all your lost or deleted folders in few couple of clicks.

Before proceeding with the complete details of this data recovery tool, let us know few common scenarios which may bring data loss:

Unbooting Operating System: Sometimes, your Windows operating system may fail to boot due to MBR corruption, boot sector corruption, improper device drive update, corruption in boot loader, etc. In this situation, it is required to reinstall your Windows operating system. If you don't have backup of your important files and folders, then all your folders will get erased after reinstalling Windows.

Windows Crash: Your Windows operating system may crash at any time, due to severe corruption in the file system, hardware conflicts, applications malfunction, etc. To resolve the issue, it is essential to reinstall the operating system. Reinstalling Windows operating system without backup will cause deletion of files and folders from your system.

Other Scenarios: Apart from the above mentioned scenarios, your folders may also get deleted in different other scenarios such as corruption of hard drive due to virus and worms, corruption in partition structure, sudden power failures while accessing data, and many more.

Even though Windows has made data backup so easy and simple, many users forgets to backup their important data and come across these data loss scenarios. The only way to recover erased folders after reinstalling Windows is to rely on effective data recovery tool such as Recover Deleted Folders software. This tool resolves your query “Can deleted folders be recovered after Windows reinstallation” in almost all scenarios. One can even make use of this tool to recover erased folders from removable disk drives like pen drive, FireWire drive, external hard drive, SD card, xD card, CF card, thumb drive, and so on.

Features of this software:

This tool supports deleted folders recovery after Windows reinstallation in almost all versions of Windows operating systems including Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows server 2003 and 2008, Windows 2000, etc. It has potential to recover even big folders with great ease.  It is capable enough to recover deleted folders after Windows reinstallation on various hard drives such as SATA, PATA, SCSI, and IDE. You can employ this utility to get back deleted folders from windows 10 as well as on other versions of Windows OS. It provides a real time preview option to view all the recovered files and folders before saving them to your desired location. Using this award winning software, you can even recover folders after shift delete, recover folders after emptying recycle bin, deleted files and folders after deleting from recycle bin, etc.

Few simple steps to recover deleted folders after reinstalling Windows:

(1): Launch the trial version of Deleted Folder Recovery software and on home screen select "Recover Files" option as illustrated in Fig 1.

Figure 1: Home Screen

(2): On next screen displayed click on "Recover Deleted Files" to restore deleted folders from particular partition / drives as illustrated in Fig 2.

Figure 2: Select Recover Deleted Files

(3): After selecting the drive from which you have to recover deleted files / folders, click on "Next" to proceed further as illustrated in Fig 3.

Figure 3: Select Drive

(4): After the scanning you’ll be able to view all the recovered files and folders by the software and you can see recovery results in Fig 4.

Figure 4: Recovered Folders