Data Recovery Tips- How to Retrieve Lost Data?

Written by Jacob Luis

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Data can get lost due to several reasons, which include human errors, viruses, operating system corruption, hard disk physical failure and disk formatting. In most of such cases, data loss translate into adversities for the user, generally when it loses important files and documents. Lost data is completely recoverable if you follow correct procedures and right techniques. Data Recovery Tools help retrieving all lost files, folders, partitions and other lost data.

Recovery procedure depends on whether data loss has occurred due to physical or non-physical/logical crash. In the former case, the disk doesn't remain physically intact and hence cannot be recognized or operated by system. However, in the latter case, disk doesn't suffer any physical harm, but instead loses data because of software reasons. Following are some basic tips that you need to follow while data loss:

Physical Crash

• Do not try to run the system after crash
• Avoid using any software utility in an attempt of recovering data
• A crashed hard drive might catch more damages if is subjected to extreme temperature, shocks and vibrations etc. Avoid them
• Do not attempt to open the hard drive as airborne particles might damage it further
• If you observe clicking and grinding noises emanating from hard drive, turn off the computer immediately
• The best remedy to recover data is to stop working with the system, place it safely in anti-static and anti-shock packing and consult a reputed data recovery company for further assistance

Non-physical/logical crash

• Use your computer and media as little as possible until you recover the data. More activities on the media might result into data overwriting. For best results, do not use the system anymore
• Try to make more and more free space available on disk containing your lost files. This helps reducing odds of data overwriting
• Avoid the use of disk defragmentation and volume repair like utilities
• Do not use the same disk to install data recovery software. Use a slave or some other removable media for the same and specify a safe location to restore the lost data
• Look for a reliable, safe and comprehensive data recovery tools to recover data logically

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About The Author:

Jacob Luis is a student of Mass Communication doing research on PST Recovery. He is also a ntfs data recovery Specialist.