It is important to choose a file recovery program specifically designed to recover lost partitions on Windows. Many file recovery programs can search through an entire drive. When that drive is divided into partition areas it is preferable to use an application that recognizes the partition as separate. Data recovery programs will usually recognize a partition as partition zero or partition one.

The most recent versions of Microsoft Word have built in auto save capabilities that are not always included in earlier Word versions. Furthermore many programs designed to recover document files do not include in their search and locate functions the ability to find lesser known word processor type files. Most word processors that are open source such as Abiword or Open Office use proprietary file extensions. Lesser quality programs for document recovery are not able to recognize these file structures and as a result cannot recover these deleted files. The solution is to purchase a better quality data recovery program that is designed to recognize blocks of machine code pertaining to data storage of a document.