HDD recovery

Who has not, through carelessness or omission, forgot to back up their photos before they format their hard disk? If hardware failure can lead to lost of data, human errors will be the main source of lost files. In this post I’ll be providing some good info on disk recovery and how you can make amends for your errors.

Of course, if your HDD has experienced a drop of 5 floors, or perhaps if it’s not recognized in the BIOS, reading this post won’t be very useful. However, if you just delete the photos that you are certain to have saved on your hard disk drive, disk recovery software exists and should prove useful to you.

To start, we’ll explain why it is possible to undelete files even after formatting or deleting the trash. When you delete a file, you do not really erase the data but merely eliminate the reference made in the index. The latter then considers that the disk space is available again. Nevertheless it is quite possible to recoup lost files by examining the surface of the drive. To make things more concrete, it’s like finding part of a book devoid of the table of content. Although it might take longer it is possible.

That is why you should avoid adding files, moving any folder or make some other manipulation that might use clusters previously allocated to your deleted file. Also you shouldn’t install any new programs in your hard disk to avoid any modification to your hard disk. However you can still set up new software on another hard drive such as an external one.