There are lots of ways to execute hard drive recovery and current text describes some of them. All that you require to know is written further. That is really big problem today as the amount of data stored on disks is rapidly growing and it is hard to control all the information properly.

In case you asked for help of some expert he would say that it is not wise to save all the important information only on the HDD as that is simply to lose it. You need to realize that HDD is a mechanism and any mechanism has definite operation life and it is not really big. In case there is a mechanical failure sometimes that is not possible to restore any information as HDD gets fully unworkable.

In case you have been working in computers area at least for several years you should remember that one of the most renowned programs of data recovery was fdisk. Nowadays the use of such solutions even by truly experienced users can lead to irreversible consequences.

File systems

File system is a type of software which assists computer to interact with HDD and perform needed actions with data. Free space is separated on some partitions with some logical drives within. The most spread file systems that are utilized by Windows are NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). FAT is older system that was used in DOS as FAT-16 and in Windows 9x/ME as FAT-32. If we compare these two systems we can see that FAT-32 may operate with bigger amounts of data. The disk space limit for FAT-16 is just 2 GB. In modern versions of Windows the primary system is NTFS but it can easily operate with FAT without complexities.

Of course all the Windows OS could operate with FAT but NTFS proposes considerably more abilities. Moreover NTFS permits to define access rights for every single file. Every initial sector of every disk contains information that is called disk partition table and boot record that is considered to be service information. Read the rest of this entry »