How to Restore Required Information
September 9th, 2008 admin
This article will explain you how to execute data recovery even if the disk sector is injured. No one is immune against the data loss. Even great corporations which expend great deals of money on modern systems frequently ask for assistance of professionals.
In case you asked for assistance of some professional he would say that it is not wise to store all the significant information just on the HDD as it is easy to lose it. Unlike CDs and other types of data carriers HDD is a mechanism that wears out as any other mechanical system. Except mechanical breakdowns there are many different ways to lose the information saved on your HDD.
Several years ago there was a really famous software solution which helped to restore some data. It was actually frequently used and was called fdisk. Nowadays the use of such programs even by really experienced users may cause irreversible consequences.
File systems
File system determines the method that is used to save data on the surface of the HDD. There are special sections that are named partitions on the HDD. Even not quite experienced user can easily say that there are two types of file systems and remembers their codes NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). Windows OS of the previous generation and DOS utilized FAT-16. Newer Windows work with FAT-32. In case we match these two systems we will find that FAT-32 may work with bigger volumes of data. FAT-16 may work with disks sizes not more than 2 GB. Developers of Windows of the modern versions gave the opportunity for the users to work with both FAT and NTFS systems.
Surely all the Windows OS could operate with FAT but NTFS proposes considerably more possibilities. That has become possible to set access rights for any file with usage of NTFS system. Every first sector of every disk includes data which is called disk partition table and boot record that is considered to be service information. Read the rest of this entry »
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