Techniques You Can Employ on Your Data Recovery Efforts

Oct 22
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2011

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In the event that an important file we have in our storage media is deleted, there is no need for alarm because there are ways to retrieve them back. This article gives some useful pointers that you can take.

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When an important file that we have is deleted,Techniques You Can Employ on Your Data Recovery Efforts Articles regardless if it’s accidental deletion, virus attacks or due to system crash it is easy for us to panic and be frantic about it. We tend to think that these data is lost forever and can’t be restored back. However, truth of the matter is that it is often not. There are ways you can do restore data back. One of which would be hiring a data recovery company. They can restore your data back into, say, your hard drive even if you have already formatted this several times in the past. Aside from this let me share with you some other techniques that you can do on your own before resorting to any data recovery service.

If the best way to keep a disease at bay would be by prevention, this same principle applies to data management, too. To prevent the occurrence of loss of important data most especially if your data pertains to your business, studies, projects or what not, it is best that you accustom yourself into doing back-up copies of them. But if your data is too important, say it involves your business documents, it is best to have the services ofdata recovery company to restore them for you. Being experts on this kind of job, they can accurately tell you how much of the lost data could still be recovered. They would be able to determine exactly the percentage of deleted files they can retrieve for you. Be advised though that you may have to shell out some amount of good money for this.  But if the data you need to recover is too important to be lost, you have no choice but to take this up.

Data recovery companies would be able to do this kind of job because they have the facility, software detection tools, technical knowledge, skills and years of experience and all these makes them more than qualified to do the job. You can do data recovery process on your own, but you need to get first good open source software to use and you can download them from the Internet. Be advised, and this is a common mistake by many people out there, that if you lost data don’t try to save additional data into the very same storage media wherein your data was lost. Try to have a logical thinking first verify where your lost data might have gone. Isolate the issue if you have indeed lost that data, you can verify from your computers recycle bin to see if it’s just sitting there. Also, consider doing search option in your computer’s operating system and this is available in most computers actually. This you will be able to determine quickly if you have it saved somewhere inside your computer.

Another manual process you can do on your own, which is quite easy to execute, and that your computer has been under attack by a virus, Trojan or worm you can employ this process instead. If you have Windows as your computer’s operating system, go back to the folder where you have originally stored your lost data and then go to the menu bar after clicking on tools option. You will see there “folder options” from the tools menu, from there go and click on the view tab. You should see there “Show hidden files and folder” option, click on it and verify if your data should be sitting there.

If after trying all these recommended manual steps and nothing provided you the much needed results, this would be time that it would be advisable for you to undertake data recovery techniques. Do you want to know how data can be retrieved back even if they were previously deleted? Let me share this process with you just so you know and will have an idea about this matter. The manner in which computer stores data is way different from how we know it does. It makes use of binary format (in 0s and 1s) to represent data. When we delete a file and the computer would delete it, say, from the hard drive, it would take out of the addresses (addresses refers to the spot in the hard drive wherein data is stored). As these areas in your hard drive become free again, your computer could write another data on it. However, the binary digit format it previously held remains intact. It could only be lost if in the event your computer writes another data into the very same spot there in your hard drive. Of course, it would be lost if you deleted the data on your own. There are also shredding open source program that can do the same process to your computer.

If you are going to download a data recovery program to use, make it a point that this open source application you are going to have is compatible to the file format you have chosen for your operating system when you are installing it.  Otherwise, if they are not compatible recovery process may not be that successful at all.