Retrieve Files from System Volume Information

“Someone please help me. I recently accessed System Volume Information folder by following some online shortcuts and ended up in erasing files from it. I don’t have any recent backup from which I can retrieve these deleted files from System Volume Info folder. So, can anyone suggest me how to restore files from System Volume Information folder? Thanks in advance.”

Many of the computer users may lack knowledge about System Volume Information (SVI) folder. This is a protected hidden operating system folder that consists of restoration databases and recent System Restore points, and it can be seen on every Windows computer hard drive. This folder is used by System Restore tool to back up all the files from system hard drive. This SVI folder is inaccessible even by logging in as administrator because any wrong changes made in this folder can cause system crash or malfunctioning of hard drive. This folder is usually used while trouble shooting system issues. However, users may lose files from SVI folder in fewer scenarios as mentioned below:

• Most of the times, the size of System Volume Information folder keeps on increasing which is not a good sign of healthy drive; and in order to reduce the size of this SVI folder, user might Clean Up the folder without knowing whether the files are required further or not. Thus important files may be lost
• Performing wrong actions in the SVI folder might result in corruption or inaccessibility of that folder or even entire hard drive causing data loss
• Also, users may try to change the amount of space used by System Volume Information folder in order to make free disk space which results in deletion of necessary files from it

However, there are proficient data recovery programs to reverse the process of file loss from SVI folder. But, since System Volume Information folder is not an ordinary folder user should rely upon adroit and exceptional data restoration software in order to easily extract lost files from SVI.

Best utility to retrieve files from System Volume Information folder:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is one such brilliant software that can restore files from System Volume Information folder with extreme ease. Software includes advanced modules that safely retrieve data without causing any damage to it. As the tool is built by best data recovery experts using read-only strategies, to extract data from corrupted, virus infected, formatted, failed as well as unbootable hard drive using this amazing software. This tool is virus-free and safe to use, so that one can retrieve MS Office files, media files, program files, compressed files, partition information and all other data from Windows system hard drive after any data loss disaster. Just make use of the software trial version on Windows laptop or desktop running with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating systems to check out the recovery results.

Guidelines to regain files from System Volume Information folder:

• Download the software on your Windows system where files are lost from SVI folder
• If your system drive is not working properly, then download the software on a healthy computer and connect this drive to it as secondary or external hard drive
• Install and launch the utility by following onscreen instructions
• Main screen showing two options i.e. “Partition Recovery” and “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery” gets displayed
• Choose Partition Recovery option and proceed
• Now, select the partition from where files have to be restored. Also select the file types that you wish to recover and click next
• Now, software performs a quick scan of selected partition to extract all the lost or erased files
• Recovery results will get displayed under Data view and File type view options
• Check for your required files and preview its details
• At last, select the necessary files from the list and click on Save button to save them in desired destination location

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