Who has not, through negligence or omission, forgot to back up their photos before they format their hard drive? If hardware failure can lead to lost of data, human errors are the main source of lost files. In the following paragraphs I will be providing some good info on data recovery software and ways to make amends for your blunders.
Obviously, if your HDD has experienced a drop of 5 floors, or simply if it’s not recognized in the BIOS, reading this post won’t be very useful. But if you just delete the photos that you are certain to have saved on your hard disk drive, hard disc recovery software exists and should prove helpful to you.
To start, we’ll explain why it is possible to undelete files even after formatting or deleting the trash. When you delete a file, you do not actually erase the data but simply eliminate the reference made in the index. The latter then considers that the disk space is available again. Nonetheless it is quite possible to recover lost files by evaluating the surface of the drive. To make things more concrete, it’s like finding a part of a book devoid of the table of content. Although it may take longer it is possible.
This is why you should avoid adding files, moving any folder or make some other manipulation that may use clusters previously assigned to your deleted file. Also you shouldn’t install any new programs on your hard drive to prevent any modification to your hard drive. Nonetheless you can still install new software on another hard drive such as an external one.
