“After upgrading my system to Windows 10, there are few updates available in Windows system update. I don’t know why I need these updates, I just clicked on install button and these updates are automatically installed on my system after I realize that I have made a big mistake. All the files on the system desktop are gone, what should I do now? How can I recover files from hard drive after Windows 10 update?”
In most case, you cannot find lost files in Recycle Bin after Windows 10 update. There are some data recovery utility which can help you to recover lost files but the first thing you should know after data loss is stop using the hard drive. If you will add any new data on system hard drive, then the files which you want to recover may be overwritten and become un-recoverable.
If you update your system to Windows 10 then you may have trouble finding your previous files. There are following things which you can try to recover it.
See if you are signed in with a temporary profile
- Select Settings > Accounts> Sync your settings
If you see message states that “You are logged on with a temporary profile. Roaming options are unavailable”, then restart your system and sign in again. This can remove the temporary profile and the files should be available again.
Look for the files using Search
Select search box on the taskbar and search your files. If you do not see them and you are not signed in with a temporary file, then use troubleshooter to fix problems with Search.
In the search box, type indexing and then choose Indexing Options. Choose Advanced Administrator icon button to view more options and then select Troubleshoot search and indexing link and follow below mentioned steps:
If you still cannot find the files, then you may restore them from a backup.
Select search box on the taskbar, and type Backup and Restore. Now, Open Backup and Restore and then choose restore my files. Follow the instructions to restore your files.
If you can’t restore using above-mentioned steps, then you can use Recover Hard Drive software to recover files from hard drive after windows 10 update with ease. For more details, you can visit this link: https://www.recovermyharddrive.org
Features of Recover Hard Drive Software:
- This software is capable of recovering files from hard drive after windows 10 update within few mouse clicks.
- It works on all major versions of Windows OS.
- Using this software, you can perform recovery of partition data from hard drive with FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, NTFS5, and ExFAT file systems.
- This software also recovers files from external hard drive, memory stick, memory card, USB drive, SSD, pen drive, etc.
- It recovers data from your drives in situations like formatting, corruption, reformatting, partition missing or deleted.
- Using Preview option of the software, you can view the recovered data prior to restoration.
Steps to recover files from hard drive after Windows 10 update:
Step A : As illustrated in Fig A, after choosing “Recover Partitions/Drives” on the welcome window, select either “Partition Recovery” or “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery” module.

Fig A : Welcome Window
Step B : From a list of logical drives connected to your laptop, select a hard drive partition to recover and click “Next”, as illustrated in Fig B.

Fig B : Select Laptop Hard Disk
Step C : Finally, a list of recovered data gets displayed, as illustrated in Fig C. Purchase the registered version of this tool to save the retrieved data.

Fig C : Recovered Data