DATA RECOVERY ARTICLES

What do you do if you or someone else has deleted your recent work? The first place to look for a deleted document is Windows Recycle Bin. But what if the file is not there? What if the Recycle Bin is completely disabled or emptied just before you catch up? The article explains your steps to recover the recently deleted documents.

Lost an important document after a system crash? Spouse emptied your Recycle Bin full of important stuff? Deleted a file by an accident? Don’t panic! The data isn’t lost when you delete a file. Instead, it is stored on the surface of your hard disk until the moment some other file takes its space. Winch means that you can get your work back if you use appropriate tools. But don’t wait! Windows writes something to the hard disks all the time, and every disk write reduces your chances of successful recovery. Act now to improve your chances of successfully recovering the deleted files!

How many different tools for hard disk recovery do you need? One for recovering files and data, another one to fix NTFS partitions, and yet another one if you have a FAT volume? Combine all three hard disk recovery tools into a single product! Disk Recovery Wizard is just perfect for hard disk recovery specialists and novice computer users, introducing a great deal of automation and a perfectly usable interface to the hard disk recovery process.

There are plenty of software tools that claim to recover data from damaged and corrupted disks, after accidental format, deletion, repartitioning or crash. Some of them are free, and some cost well over a thousand dollars. But are these tools worth it? Read my story of trying different data recovery software to save data from a constantly degrading hard disk.

Rule number one: never download, save or store anything onto the corrupted disk you are about to recover. Don't ever write, store or download any files onto a disk that contains the deleted files you want to undelete with the recovery tool. If you don't follow this simple rule, you might seamlessly overwrite the erased files or make the corruption much worse. Never write anything onto the corrupt disk! Instead, use another disk letter, a different partition or even a USB flash drive to store the data recovery program.

The first step of any data recovery process is also the most important. Determining the reason of data corruption has ultimate meaning to data security and recoverability. Was the hard drive at fault? Files disappeared after a system failure? Windows crashed while you were editing a Word document? Can't access a hard drive after a power outage? These are all valid yet very different cases, and each of them requires a specific approach and dedicated tools if you want to recover your data successfully.

The New Technology File System (NTFS) was developed by Microsoft to address the numerous security, reliability and extensibility issues of the older File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. The new technology allowed operating systems such as Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista to offer its customers stronger security and reliability as well as support of the larger hard disks and bigger volumes.

Anyone can empty their Windows Recycle Bin during routine computer cleanup and maintenance, but what if that sleek basket was used to keep the really important stuff? The sleek bin icon looks so cute that it begs putting the files in there! But then the files start disappearing from the bin mysteriously, you get in trouble.