How to Restore Required Files
September 9th, 2008
There are many methods to perform data recovery and current article describes part of them. All that you require to know is written further. We will show how you may recover it and not to lose other important data and to resolve lots of other problems connected to information loss.
If you asked for assistance of some expert he would claim that it is not wise to save all the important information just on the HDD as it is easy to lose it. Unlike CDs and other kinds of data carriers HDD is a mechanical system which wears out as any other mechanical system. Except mechanical breakdowns there are many different ways to lose the data saved on your HDD.
In case you have been working in computers field at least for several years you should remember that one of the most popular programs of info recovery was fdisk. The main disadvantage of usage of this utility is that it is really hard to use and it may be properly applied only by a programmer.
File systems
The technique of saving and spreading the data on the HDD is usually defined by a file system. Every HDD is separated on some sectors. These sectors are called partitions. Even not quite experienced user can easily announce that there are two types of file systems and remembers their codes NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). FAT is earlier system that was utilized in DOS as FAT-16 and in Windows 9x/ME as FAT-32. The basic difference between these systems is the capability of the system. That is difficult to believe that users utilized FAT-16 and had disks not greater than 2 GB. Producers of Windows of the newest versions gave the possibility for the users to operate with both FAT and NTFS systems.
The main reason why modern versions of Windows operate with NTFS as a main system is that it has got nicer level of safety. It has become probable to set access rights for any file with use of NTFS system. The most important part of data for the OS is the boot record and disk partition table which are located in the initial sector of any disk. System won't operate appropriately and OS won't start if there are some problems with this information.
Data recovery
When you realized that you have erased some needed data you have to stop executing any operations with any data to execute ntfs partition recovery. Of course there are some system operations which are executed by the OS but it won't affect the restore result. The same operations should be performed when you accidentally erased some significant data from the recycle bin. If you marked the new partition the data from the erased one is still on the surface of the HDD.
The most uncomfortable case is when your disk has got only one partition. You have to look for the other computer and connect your disk to it then. It is more convenient to work with the HDD form another computer.
Data recovery utilities
Another thing you should always mention is you don't have to reinstall the operating system not to erase the information ultimately. There are some software programs which permit you to boot the computer under the control of the some special operating system.
There are many sites in the network that offer you to download shareware or freeware solutions which can assist you to execute ntfs undelete. Producers of restore solutions understand that data really has got the great price.
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