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. (more…)
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