The Proper Choice of Data Restore Solution

admin | 1:05 pm | September 9, 2008 | Computers & Internet

Reading this article you will find a great deal of data about hard drive recovery and some actions executed to save data. No one is proof against the information loss. Even great corporations which spend great deals of money on the newest systems frequently ask for assistance of professionals.

If you are an experienced user you ought to understand that HDD is not considered to be a reliable place to save some quite important information. Unlike CDs and other kinds of data carriers HDD is a mechanism which wears out like any other mechanical system. Except mechanical breakdowns there are many various ways to lose the data stored on your HDD.

Several years ago there was a really popular software solution that helped to restore some data. It was really frequently used and was named fdisk. Today it is used just in rare cases and just by true professionals because amateur may make harm to information with it.

File systems

File system is a type of software which assists computer to interact with HDD and perform needed operations with data. Every HDD is separated on some sections. These sections are named partitions. Even not quite experienced user may easily announce that there are two types of file systems and remembers their names NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). Windows OS of the old generation and DOS used FAT-16. Newer Windows work with FAT-32. If we compare these two systems we can see that FAT-32 can operate with bigger volumes of info. The disk space limitation for FAT-16 is only 2 GB. Developers of Windows of the modern versions brought the possibility for the clients to work 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 higher level of safety. Moreover NTFS permits to define access rights for every single file. All these systems utilize disk partition table and boot record which are saved in the first sector of every disk and determine which one is boot disk. If the information in MBR is unreadable computer won't boot at all and some partitions can be shown as empty.

Data recovery

The first rule you should never depart from is not to write on the lost data in case you want to perform hard disk recovery. Even when you have erased the entire partition you have got the opportunity to restore it but don't write any information. In case you deleted something that was stored in recycle bin and you understood that you want that data do not write any information on the HDD. In case you created the new partition the data from the deleted one is still on the surface of the disk.

The most inconvenient variant is when your disk has got only one partition. You need to find the other computer and connect your HDD to it then. Work with another computer has many advantages.

Data recovery utilities

Another thing you should always remember is you don't have to reinstall the operating system not to erase the information ultimately. To execute any actions you need to boot special operating system that is commonly used exactly in such cases.

There are many freeware programs but commonly they are not as effective as shareware recovery files. Developers of restore solutions understand that information truly has got the great price.