Undeleting Files
One of the biggest problems if not the biggest problem when attempting any type data recovery is sorting through the hundreds of thousands of files made available for rescue. It is all well and good to have a program that can copy from a crashed hard drive every single file to a safe secure external [...]
How does one choose the best tool to recover deleted files? Obviously when purchasing software price is always a factor. But when choosing a program for deleted files recovery price is quickly outweighed by speed and power. A file recovery tool that requires 30 or 40 hours to scan a hard drive and then another [...]
Microsoft Windows has an excellent feature known as system restore. It allows one to take the settings of their computer back in time to an earlier prescribed date. For many circumstances such as minor virus infections and accidental deletion of desktop applications system restore is a fabulous tool. What is lacking in system restore is [...]
The Apple Mac series of computers classify their proprietary file types using the type/creator system. While this system may resemble the file extension system used by Windows it is completely different and when one attempts to open Mac files using a Windows application an obvious failure results. The same failure is met when one tries [...]
Did you know that Nikon digital photographs files are stored in a special NKS format, and that Canon has a similar proprietary file type for their image files? Virtually every leading camera manufacturer uses a special file format to initially store the digital information which creates their photographs on your computer screen or in a [...]
If your computer uses a Windows operating system then any devices connected to it from which you need to recover your lost, damaged or deleted files will need a program for Windows recovery in order to rescue that data. Windows data recovery programs are directly targeted at recognizing file names and content created and stored [...]
When your Microsoft Outlook email client application fails a very simple thing happens. You stop receiving your messages. Considering that your inbox can become overstuffed with mail and ceased to work without your knowing it you can very easily miss hundreds if not thousands of important messages. The need to repair Outlook inbox corruption as [...]
Crashed hard drive recovery is a two step process. Oddly enough this process must be done in reverse order of what one would think best. The need for crashed hard drive recovery arises from the loss of important files used to open your hard drive and start up your computer. Obviously if your computer will [...]
Computers using Windows made prior to the implementation of Windows NT used the FAT file system. This file directory structure system is still in place today on many solid state digital storage devices such as USB flash drives or camera memory cards. This is one of the reasons that when a newer Windows based PC [...]
Which task would you think is easier to accomplish, recovering one file from among several hundred-thousand accidentally deleted on a huge Windows based PC hard drive, or recovery all of those files? The time and effort required to undelete files in both of these scenarios is about the same. In order to find one specific [...]