Reading this text you will search out a huge amount of data about hard drive recovery and some actions executed to restore data. That is really big problem today as the amount of data saved on disks is rapidly growing and it is difficult to manage all the information appropriately.
Professionals announce that HDD is not actually the best place to store some important info as there is a probability that it would be lost soon. Unlike CDs and other kinds of data carriers HDD is a mechanical system which wears out like any other mechanical system. If there is a mechanical failure sometimes that is not possible to restore any information as HDD gets fully unworkable.
In case you have been operating in computers field at least for several years you ought to remember that one of the most popular programs of data recovery was fdisk. Nowadays the use of such programs even by really well skilled operators may lead to irreversible consequences.
File systems
The technique of saving and spreading the data on the HDD is usually defined by a file system. Free space is divided on some partitions with definite logical drives within. Even not very well-skilled user may easily announce that there are two sorts of file systems and remembers their codes NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). FAT is earlier system which was used in DOS as FAT-16 and in Windows 9x/ME as FAT-32. In case we compare these two systems we will find that FAT-32 can operate with bigger amounts of data. It is hard to believe that users utilized FAT-16 and had disks not greater than 2 GB. Operating systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP are can work with FAT system meanwhile FAT is not the primary system.
The main reason why modern versions of Windows operate with NTFS as a primary system is that it has nicer level of safety. Moreover NTFS permits to determine access rights for any single file. The most significant part of information for the OS is the boot record and disk partition table which are located in the initial sector of every disk. Continue Reading »