How To Recover Data From Crashed Operating System

For windows users, we are here with a cool method for How To Recover Data From Crashed Operating System. Due to viruses or any other factors, our operating system gets crashed in general cases and then you can’t access your valuable data. However, the worst case is when you have your important data on your drive where OS is installed. Because whenever you install a new OS then the drive gets formatted and all your data get deleted. So here we have a way by which you can recover your lost data in crashed OS.

How To Recover Data From Crashed Operating System

Before we share the method to recover data from a Crashed operating system, its important to know the possible causes behind the Operating system crash. The operating systems generally crash due to third-party software conflict. Some other key cause of Operating system crash is kernel bugs, bad sectors on hard disk drives, corrupted system file, incompatible hardware, Change in BIOS settings, etc.

So, if you have made a few changes to the above-listed things, then you need to revert the changes. If your system continues to crash after reverting the changes, then you need to follow the methods given below.

Things To Do If your PC is booting

Well, if you are able to boot into the Windows operating system, but at times crashes due to some fatal errors, then you need to immediately implement the methods given below.

#1 SFC Command

The system file checker utility of Windows 10 is capable enough to deal with corrupted system files. So, if your PC at time crashes due to fatal errors, then you need to run this command. To run SFC Commands, follow the steps given below.

• Right-click on Windows icon and select ‘Command Prompt (Admin)’
• On the command prompt window, type in ‘sfc /scannow’ and hit Enter.
• Wait until the scan completes.

If the SFC utility finds any problem, it will fix it by its own. Once done, restart your computer and use it normally. You won’t deal with system crashes anymore.

#2 DISM Command

Well, DISM command or Deployment Image & Servicing Management is another command which can fix lots of problems. The command is mostly used to restore system health. So, let’s check out how to use the DISM command to fix the system crash.

DISM Command

• Right-click on Windows icon and select ‘Command Prompt (Admin)’
• On the command prompt window, type in ‘DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth’ and hit Enter.
• Now, wait for a few minutes until the scan completes.

Once done, restart your computer and your operating system won’t crash anymore. If it still crashes, then follow the next methods.

Recover Data From Corrupted OS

In this method, we are going to use EaseUS data recovery to recover data from a crashed operating system. The software is mainly designed for data recovery cases of any operating system crash. So, let’s check out how to use EaseUS data recovery to recover data from a crashed operating system.

Step 1. First of all, launch EaseUS data recovery on a working computer. Select ‘USB Drive’ from the list and click on ‘Proceed’. Wait for few minutes until EaseUS data recovery creates a WinPE bootable disk.

Step 2. Once done, connect the bootable disk to the PC with the corrupted Windows system files. Restart the PC and press F2 during the start. This will run the EaseUS data recovery on the startup.

Step 3. Now it will show you the disk partitions. Select the disk where you want to recover data and then click on the ‘Scan’ button.

Step 4. Now, wait for a few minutes until the tool scans for the available data. Once done, it will list all file types that can be recovered.

Step 5. You can either choose to preview or click on the ‘Recover’ button to save the file. Make sure to choose a different drive or different USB to save the file.

That’s it, you are done! This is how you can use EaseUS data recovery to recover data from a Crashed operating system.