Posts Tagged ‘file recovery’

Retrieve a File from a Hard Drive

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

What must you do if you must retrieve an erased file from the hard drive or a flash memory card? You should write the retrieved file to another disk as it is better to do so. When the file size is small, you can use a floppy disk. Otherwise, you can write the file to a different drive letter on the same hard drive. You can perform this task using Norton Disk Editor. Norton Disk Editor is part of the Norton Utilities and Norton SystemWorks that can be used to retrieve lost data.

Disk Editor is a command prompt program designed primarily to access FAT-based file system such as FAT12 (floppy disk), FAT 16 (MS-DOS), and FAT 32 (Windows 98). If the Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP is installed on a FAT32 partition or hard drive, you could use Disk Editor to carry out data recovery task. Disk Editor could work on NTFS volumes provided it is running in physical sector mode. To avoid making any accidental modifications to the hard disk when you are executing data recovery tasks you must set Disk Editor to default Read-only mode.

The process of locating the file is as below:

  1. Identify the cluster (allocation unit) size of the drive where the file is located.
  2. Run the Disk Editor to check out the name of the erased file and identify which clusters have the file data.

Since the retrieved file would be restored to another drive, it is not necessary to restore the original filename. Nonetheless it will be a good idea to make certain that the clusters do contain the necessary data. Before retrieving any file, you have to use Norton Disk Editor to see and determine the beginning and ending clusters of the file. If you are retrieving file from a formatted drive, this is an important step that you must do.

To copy the contents of clusters to a file safely, it is best to specify the sectors that have the file. You can use Disk Editor to determine the sector number and also the cluster number.

Other recovery software REMO Recover provide user friendly and slick interface. Remo recover is a strong recovery software that uses efficient scanning algorithms for data recovery. The software has components that permit you to recover files from formatted drive. You can also use it to recover files from USB drive and recover files from SD card.

Undeleting Files in NTFS

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

The structure of NTFS is a lot more complex than FAT file system of a PC running on Windows Operating system. NTFS’s built-in compression might be used to compress files in the NTFS system. An NTFS specific file undeletion program is necessary if you want to retrieve deleted files from an NTFS drive. For example, a version of Norton utilities or Norton SystemWorks compatible with NTFS can be used. The Norton Protection feature might be useful since it offers certain level of data protection. You could use this function to keep deleted files for a specific period of time before getting rid of them from the system.

When you have to recover deleted files on a PC that has not been installed with an undeletion application such as Norton Utilities or Norton Unerase, you really should consider a standalone file recovery software which includes:

  • Active Undelete: This is a robust data recovery software that works on Windows. It could retrieve deleted files and restore deleted partitions. This package also works with flash memory cards.
  • Restorer Ultimate: The well-known Restorer2000 is the older version of this data recovery software. The newer version is faster and more reliable. To make data recover more simpler for user, the newer version has added additional features and improvements.
  • Remo Recover: REMO Recover is a data recovery software which employs enhanced and efficient scanning algorithms for data recovery. The software consists of components which allow you to recover recycle bin and recover files from formatted drive. You can test run Remo Recover software by trying to recover files deleted from recycle bin using the software downloaded from its website.

How to Recover Files on a Macintosh

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Apple Inc designs, develops and markets one of the most famous pc called the Apple PC. The Mac PC runs on Mac OS, an operating system developed by Apple. Apple computer normally includes a bundle of software that are developed by Apple such as iLife, the Safari web browser and the iTune media player.

Macintosh has a lesser usage share when compared to IBM compatible PC. Yet it is less frequent for a Apple computer to have malware and spyware issues. Similar to other computer systems, Apple computer is at risk of human errors, despite its innovative and slick Mac interface. For example, you can mistakenly delete essential file in a Mac. You may retrieve deleted file from trash bin if it is available. To recover trashed files Mac enables user to easily restore the files to its original location. You may need to use either software that comes with Mac or a third party Mac file recovery application if you empty a trash bin prior to you retrieve the deleted file.

Mac contains few handy programs which you could use to restore deleted files in Mac PC. One of the most useful programs is called the Time Machine. You can recover deleted file conveniently using this software. Another utility which you can use to safeguard your data is the backup program. You always possess a backup copy of the file should you have accidentally deleted it.

You are able to also try third party file recovery software, such as Remo Apple disk recovery software.. These software are normally paid software. These software could recover deleted files properly and restore them to its original state because they are using strong algorithms. Besides, they normally have user friendly interface.