Disk Data Recovery

Undelete Files

2011-06-12T20:27:00.000-07:00

"Hello, I accidentally deleted a Word document that I need for a project and emptied the recycle bin before I realized what I did. How can I undelete file after I empty the recycle bin?"

Windows marks files for deletion and removes them from the file system database when you delete them. This doesn't mean they are immediately gone and you have no chance to undelete these lost files. In fact, all that initially happens when you delete a file is Windows makes note that the space occupied by the file is listed as available space for storing new information. Until something new is written to the part of the drive where that old file was stored, your file is still there and you can undelete it with undelete freeware. Depending on how many sectors that file occupies, pieces of the file could exist on your drive for a very long time. If you very recently deleted the file, there's an excellent chance you will recover it, especially if you haven't downloaded a bunch of new files or created several gigabytes of data. The trick is finding the right tool to get them back.

For simple recovery of deleted files, one of the easiest solutions is easy recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition. The application works by scanning your hard drive for sectors containing files marked for deletion and then copying the files to space on your hard drive the operating system has marked as available disk space. When you run a scan with free Data Recovery Wizard, it will find thousands of files on your hard drive, most of which are temporary files deleted when your browser cache is emptied. The "Search files" and "Find file by name" options make it easy to identify files by either file size or alphabetically by filename if you already know what you're looking for.

Undelete file freeware

Deleted File Recovery - It can undelete data in instances of file lost by accidental deletion.

Complete Recovery - Designed to undelete files from hard drives formatted, file system crashed, and without drive letters on FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and EXT2/EXT3(Professional version only) file systems.

Partition Recovery - This module is designed for data recovery from Hard Disks with hidden partitions, crashed file system, mistakenly deleted or damaged partitions, drives with failed operation/file system, drives suffered from virus.

Key Features:

    Undelete files & folders emptied from Recycle Bin or use of Shift+Del key.
    Unformat partition from hard drives formatted on FAT 16, FAT32, NTFS and EXT2/EXT3(Professional version only) file systems.
    Recover files & folders deleted through Windows Command Line or from DOS.
    Recover/Unerase temporary backup files created by applications like Word, Photoshop etc.
    Support localized and long filenames.
    File recovery from deleted partition, lost or missing partition or formatted logical drive.
    File recovery from 'Ghosted' (or 'imaged') hard disk drives.
    File recovery from repartitioned (such as Partition Magic resize partition error) drives.

EASEUS Offers the most comprehensive file undelete and unerase software: Data Recovery Wizard for Windows.

File Recovery

2011-05-11T20:25:00.000-07:00

Having a hard drive or system crash coupled with data loss can be a complete nightmare for experienced and newbie users. If the file loss is not mechanical, but in fact a software issue, that file can be recovered with a low level of effort. If the failure is mechanical, and a hard drive has failed (i.e. makes clicking or banging noises and does not allow for booting, etc), professional file recovery becomes necessary.

When you have encountered an occasion when you need file recovery, act quickly, and DO NOT PANIC. Also, proceed with caution. The loss can be as simple as searching your computer's Recycle Bin. As well, you can try data recover software, such as Data Recovery Wizard, which are very effective in recovering your files.

File Recovery Tips

One thing that cannot be overstated is that if you hear noises or your hard drive is calling up serious errors - SHUT DOWN your computer immediately! At this point, only a data recovery professional company should be examining your drive. And keep in mind that the longer you run your system, the more likely your data will be permanently lost.

Back Up Is King

Although most people understand that backing up is the key to recovering files and data in cases of mechanical or software data loss, few do it. Having a comprehensive, and we cannot stress this enough - consistent - backup plan can save your company thousands of dollars when your hard drive inevitably fails. The fact is, your hard drive is a mechanical device, and although hard disks are remarkably well crafted today, they still fail. The question is, is it going to happen today, or ten years from now. Backing up consistently means you will always have a strong degree of safety. So, for better data security, our free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition in a few minutes.

Utility and Data Recovery Software Programs

While utilities are great for fixing minor hard disk and data problems, they are a double edged sword in the area of data recovery.

First of all, understand that if your drive is making loud or strange sounds, DO NOT USE A UTILITY. Turning off your computer immediately and contacting a data recovery professional company are likely your only recourse. This is because using your hard drive while it is making noises can cause permanent damage that even the best data recovery service will not be able to fix.

If you do not have a mechanical issue, a file recovery utility program may be a good choice. But, always use caution when using such a program, ensure you always do not save recovery files in source drive.

An Important Warning Regarding Your Hard Drive

Never, ever, attempt to open your hard disk drive by yourself. In fact, breaking the seal can damage many drives beyond repair, making your ability to recover data completely non-existent. This is because data drives are extremely specialized pieces of electronic equipment, and the slightest hint of dust or dirt will destroy the drive's integrity very quickly. So if someone asks to open your hard drive, think again. Only trust professional company with what is called a "clean room" to open your drive. Specialized equipment is key for this operation, and only professional data recovery companies can do this.

Disaster Tips

If your systems have been subjected to fire, flood or mechanical damage, it is best to leave your hardware as is, and to NOT attempt fixing any problems yourself. Attempting to clean or operate obviously damaged equipment can all but destroy your chances of file recovery.

An Easy Fix For File Recovery?

Believe us, it happens to everybody. Sometimes data loss can actually be as simple as a damaged or disconnected power cord or drive cable. These problems will be obvious to the naked eye, and can be looked at without the aid of a file recovery professional.

Here are some good tips when looking for an electrical/hardware issue:

Shut down the system - Attempting to check hardware while it has electricity running through it is always a bad move.

Try a new cord or cable - Sometimes, a broken down system may just be suffering from an iffy IDE drive cable or a power cord. Having replacements on hand can save you lots of time and money.

Make sure cords are plugged in tightly - Again, because your system may always be on, simple vibrations or change in room temperature can cause cables to loosen. Try disconnecting and reconnecting the cables (while being very careful of the drive pins), which can sometimes fix the problem.

Here are some practices to avoid while assessing the damage:

If you suspect an electrical short or mechanical damage to your hard disk, do not use file or data recovery software. This can ensure your data loss is permanent.

If your hard drive is physically damaged, DO NOT use it or the system it is connected to. Send it to professional data recovery company.

Watching Errors - A Key To Data Loss Prevention

Consistent application and operating system errors may be more than just a software or driver issue. Beware of constant error messages, even if they appear minor. The fact is, the appearance of consistent errors is an excellent sign that you are due for a file backup. Keep in mind that these minor errors often morph into a full-blown data disaster.

Why Data Recovery Software?

2011-02-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

Have you ever spent hours on a document, but suddenly the power goes out, and you discover that you failed to save your document and lost everything you'd worked on? Have you ever met when you turned on your computer and found that a virus had wiped much of your hard drive clean? Perhaps you've even deleted an email out of your trash bin, but you found that you desperately needed the information for work? All of these are very real problems and the Data Recovery Software is an equally real solution for all of them.

Through the data recovery software you can recover files that are compressed and encrypted. You can perform data recovery on deleted emails, recover files from hard drives located within a network or create image files of your hard drive for easier data recovery.

With the latest generation of the data recovery software you can also recover files that have been deleted from your recycle bin, files that have become damaged or files that are stored on a hard drive, CD or DVD that has developed bad sectors.

Today's data recovery software typically supports multiple types of hard drives and removable media, including USB drives, CDs and so on.

But the best thing to data recovery in these days is that it's so easy to use. Frankly, today's software is so friendly for users. Anyone, whether amateur or expert, can find and retrieve data.

Never install the data recovery software on the drive that you attempt to recover data from. Always install and run the data recovery software on a separate drive, such as an external hard disk or flash drive.

Why hard disk data can be recovered?

2010-12-26T19:34:00.000-08:00

Hard disk recovery is possible because of data remanence, which means that some data continues to exist on the hard disk drive even after it has been deleted. While data remanence is beneficial to hard disk recovery, there is also a downside; that is, data remanence is one of the most convenient tools used in cyber-espionage. That's why computer security experts tell you that simply erasing a file doesn't always completely delete it.

The best free hard disk recovery software - EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition, reconstructs lost files, regardless of whether they were deleted accidentally or are inaccessible due to a crashed hard drive, hardware failure or virus infection. In some circumstances, the hard disk may become inaccessible because of a hardware problem. The actuator arm, a small mechanical arm that moves back and forth across the hard disk, may have suffered a mechanical error. In this situation, the data is not lost at all, but is just inaccessible due to this hard diskmechanical problem. Similarly, the circuit board may develop flaws, which may make the hard disk inoperable. If there are strange noises or no noise at all, the cause is likely mechanical, and a technician will have to disassemble the hard drive to repair the problem. In some cases, the mechanical problem may cause the drive itself to become damaged, which may directly affect the data. Alternatively, data loss may occur due to a software problem.

Taking a little preventive action can help prevent the need for hard disk recovery. When files become fragmented, they are stored in multiple clusters on the hard disk drive, which makes the computer take more time to read it. A drive with a lot of fragmentation will be harder to recover in the event of a crash. Therefore, it is recommended to regularly defrag your hard disk drive.

When a file is deleted, the operating system marks the file name with a character that informs the computer that it has been deleted. The deleted data is actually still on the hard diskdrive until the file system overwrites it, but the operating system can no longer access it. The process of hard disk recovery finds the data that the operating system is unaware of, but still exists in individual clusters on the hard disk drive. However, clusters that have become corrupted or physically damaged cannot be recovered. In these cases, hard disk recovery has a greater likelihood of success if it is attempted immediately after the failure so as not to give the sectors with missing data an opportunity to be overwritten. A professional hard disk recovery service will not work on the hard drive itself, but will instead make a sector copy of the hard drive and work from that.

How To Prevent Data Loss?

2010-12-15T19:47:00.000-08:00

A serious loss of data is the worst time to figure out how it can happen. To protect critical business processes, managers should think about all preventing the disasters that can befall their data.

First of all, the computing environment should be clean, dry, secure, dust-free and arranged in such a way that equipment cannot be jolted or damaged. Larger companies and institutions should have uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) to save data during power outages while smaller organizations can use power surge protectors.

Most businesses keep their backed-up data off premises in a safe location, but all too often they ignore the simple step of verifying that the right data is going on to good tapes. It's not enough to see data on the tape - what if it's older data that isn't being overwritten by new information?

Viruses are becoming a more important threat to data and they can arrive from unexpected sources. Any and all data coming into the network must be scanned, and the system should be scanned regularly. The scanning software itself should be updated at least four times a year.

Any storage device that has been visibly damaged or exposed to heat, moisture or soot should not be used. Drives that sound "funny" should be shut down immediately to prevent complete destruction of data.

Data Loss Prevention Tips: An Ounce Of Prevention Is Like A Pound Of Cure.

Nobody likes to hear the words, I told you so, especially when they are busy trying to recover from a serious data loss. Here are some tips to help you avoid hearing them.

Computers should be located in safe, dry and dust-free areas. Low-traffic locations are best, to prevent physical damage to the computers.

Data must be backed up regularly, and the backups verified by actually getting the data off the tape and back into the computers.

Large power surges can destroy computer equipment but even relatively low-level bursts of energy can erase the data on hard drives. Uninterrupted power supplies give protection during lightning and electrical storms, so data can be saved or backed up during an outage.

Protect equipment from static electricity that can erase data or damage components. Today's storage media is becoming more vulnerable to Extraneous Static Discharge (ESD).

Viruses may not be as common as the news media makes them seem, but they do exist and they can be deadly to data. Use virus detection protection programs and keep them updated.

Many installation and diagnostic programs offer 'undo' disks that can restore systems to their original configuration if things go wrong. It's good practice to take advantage of this feature.

There are also software programs that can detect impending problems within hard drives. Using them regularly can head off problems.

The people who operate computer systems are only human. Physical components can wear out and break down. Good backups are good business.

The checklist gets longer but the message is short: if you cannot verify your data is safe today, it may not be around tomorrow.

Info For better data security, our free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition in a few minutes.

Understanding Data Loss

2010-12-12T17:49:00.000-08:00

Data loss is one of Information Technology industry's most misunderstood concepts. Very little information has been made public about data loss, and the information that does exist is inconsistent. Due to the mixed messages they receive, users find it difficult to properly evaluate their data loss situations and make educated decisions to recover from them.
Most lost data is not lost at all; it has simply become inaccessible to the user. Hundreds of thousands of gigabytes (GB) of data have been lost simply because users were not aware of their options and gave up hope of recovery.

How does a hard disk drive store data?

Hard disk drives store data on one or more metal oxide platters. These platters, which spin at a rate of 3600-10,000 revolutions per minute, hold magnetic charges. A read-write head attached to an actuator arm actually floats on a cushion of air, 1-2 micro-inches (one millionth of an inch) above the surface of the platters. Data flows to and from these heads via electrical connections. Any force that alters this process may cause data loss to occur.

More data is being stored in smaller spaces. Ten years ago hard drives stored 40 Megabytes (MB) of data. Today's hard drives store up to 80 gigabytes (GB) on a smaller surface than the drives of a decade ago. Increasing storage capacities amplify the impact of data loss. As more and more data is stored in smaller and denser areas, mechanical precision becomes crucial.

As a part of this advancing technology, the drive tolerance (distance between the read-write head and the platter where data is stored) is steadily decreasing. A slight nudge, a power surge or a contaminant introduced into the drive may cause the head to touch the platter, resulting in a head crash. In some situations, the data residing in the area touched by the head may be permanently destroyed.

The current tolerance drives is 1-2 micro-inches (millionths of an inch). Comparatively, a speck of dust is 4-8 micro-inches and human hair 10 micro-inches. Contaminants of this size can cause serious data damage.

About Data Recovery

2010-12-05T08:50:00.000-08:00

The Data Recovery is the process of retrieval of inaccessible or corrupt data from digital media that has become damaged or has been corrupted in some way. The Data Recovery can be used to recover data from devices as varied as Hard Disk Drives, Memory Cards, Tapes, Mobile Phones, Personal Digital Assistants, Floppy Disk, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Data Cartridges, Xbox and many more items.

The Data Recovery may be needed for reasons which could include issues as diverse as hardware failure, (the tape has been "chewed" up, the hard disk drive has failed, it could have suffered fire or flood damage, or logical failure, there can be corruptions in firmware, semiconductor failure, or accidental partition or file failure/deletion, a storage device could have been dropped, a hard disk drive may have been "accidentally" formatted). All of these instances will require the services of a professional data recovery company or a Data Recovery Software if the data was of such value (be it sentimental or financial) that the cost of the services is less than the perceived value of the data which is no longer accessible.

There are numerous ways that data can be recovered from digital media which can vary greatly, our professional Data Recovery Wizard software tools are available. If your storage has physical problems, we advise you to send it to a professional data recovery company.

The next problem is what happens when the hard disk or storage device doesn't work. For the smaller "Data Recovery Companies", this is a problem, and it is when the more serious Data Recovery Companies get involved, who specialize in higher end Data Retrievals. It is always recommended that the most critical work should be sent to a true data recovery specialist, (check out the accreditations - ensure the specialist has ISO9001-2000 Quality Assurance status, and is certified by ISO BE EN 14644 to ensure that their clean facility is at the correct level for intrusive data recovery work, find out how long that company has been trading, and check their testimonials).

And BACKUP is a good way to protect data.

Disk Data Recovery

2010-11-28T18:46:00.000-08:00

Data recovery is the process of retrieving lost, deleted or inaccessible data from failed electronic storage media such as computer hard disk drives, removable media, optical devices and tape cartridges.
Your data can become inaccessible due to a software problem, computer virus, mechanical or electrical malfunction or a deliberate human act.
Regardless of the cause of your data loss, without physical problem, our experienced Data Recovery Wizard is able to successfully recover lost data.
Info For better data security, our free backup software - EASEUS Todo Backup will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition in a few minutes.