What is recovery of lost information?
The regain of lost files from hard drive needs to be learned by all common users, because it is extremely important when users come across data loss problem. More often than that, malware or virus can damage users’ precious data and information on hard drive and other storage devices, for example partition table and file system. IT technicians are able to regain those lost files via special method and programming solutions. As to common users, the recovery of lost information was not an easy task, but now this is no longer a problem since such programs and services are now provided by many vendors or organizations.
Why does it attract so many attentions?
There are too many kinds of data loss scenarios. Often users lose significant files only due to careless actions or computer glitch, for instance, accidental deletion or mistake formatting. In most cases, lost files or folders can’t be retrieved from Recycle Bin, such as, formatting, partition turns inaccessible, files are emptied from Recycle Bin or deleted by Shift + Delete keys. What’s worse, lost data usually include precious family picture, working documents, school assignments, sensitive personal files, etc. Therefore, most individuals can hardly wait to find out an efficient and easy solution to get back files.
In the situation that data is lost from hard drive disk or USB drive, one thing you need to bear in mind is that you should stop storing any file to that partition or hard drive space. One should make sure that no writing operation is performed since lost files will be permanently damaged or erased once they get overwritten. Many computer users retrieve lost information via hex sector editor or certain program to repair file system or MFT, which is hard to learn to those who don’t have good command of professional and overall computer knowledge. Whereas software of data retrieving, which is user-friendly and easy-to-use, is available to individuals these days like Eassos Recovery, and such it get attention from public.
Notes should be considered when trying hard drive recovery
Some articles may advise to try chkdsk when file system goes wrong, for example, partition or hard drive can’t be opened and becomes inaccessible. It seems quite reasonable and feasible to perform chkdsk with the aim of rescuing files. As a matter of fact, this command indeed can repair file directory, but most of time the repairing do harm data. Because it is not able to repair directory which gets badly damages, especially when the file system is FAT 32. Moreover, after file recovery software finds out lost information or partitions, do not copy those file directory to the original partition or disk, otherwise lost data can be overwritten.
Hard drive recovery is possible and easy though, it is still strongly advised to form the habit of data backup which can avoid a lot of data loss problems. Also, the backup file should be updated in time and stored to different data storage devices.