How to Recover Data from a Hard Drive That Won't Boot after Windows 10 Upgrade?

Updated on March 05, 2020

Windows 10 won't boot after upgrade is a terrible issue that many users are facing. Accompanying with this issue, black screen of death generally occurs. It can be easily fixed by clean installation of the Windows 10 operating system. But, opting for the clean installation of Windows 10 again needs a sacrifice of data loss on the system. So, very few people opt for this option to fix the issue.

When you upgrade the PC to Windows 10 OS, you may often encounter the above mentioned problem due to improper upgrade. When you come across this issue, all your crucial data saved on your system will be out of reach. However, you do not have to worry because Yodot Hard Drive Recovery utility makes your job easy. It recovers files lost after Windows 10 upgrade quite easily and effortlessly.

First thing you need to do is, remove hard drive from non bootable PC and connect it to healthy Windows computer as external hard drive. Later Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery application then follow below given steps.

Steps to Recover Files from Windows 10 after Upgrade:

  • Install and launch downloaded Yodot Hard Drive Recovery program on your PC
  • Select “Partition Recovery” option on main screen then it will navigate to next screen automatically
  • In next window select the connected drive from list of available drives and click on “Next” to continue
  • Further, choose file types to restore or click on Mark All and click “Next” to begin scan
  • Later, you can sort restored files in “Data View” or “File Type View”

Salient features of Yodot Hard Drive Recovery Tool:

This tool will allow you to restore data from PC that won’t boot up after Windows 10 upgrade. Along with this, the tool can recover files lost after reinstalling Windows 10 on your computer with ease. You can even easily retrieve data when Windows 10 drive gets deleted, lost, formatted, reformatted, missing, or corrupt due to any reasons. It supports various hard drive types such as SAS, SATA, PATA, SCSI, ATA and other storage devices like memory card, pen drive, iPod etc. Not only on Windows 10 OS, this utility supports Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.

Note: To save recovered files in desired destination, purchase license key of the product

Here is a small description of other common data loss scenarios on Windows computer:

Any scenarios like errors with the OS, hard drive failure due to annoying reasons, issues during OS update are certain causes for vital data to be inaccessible or consequential data loss. So it is suggested to preserve backup of essential data regularly to prevent data loss in such situation.

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