Reading current article you will find a huge amount of information about ntfs data recovery and other actions performed to restore data. We will demonstrate how you may recover it and not to erase other significant information and to resolve some other problems connected to information loss.
Experts announce that HDD is not actually the best place to store some important data as there is a possibility that it would be lost forever. Most users prefer some other types of data carriers as CDs and other magnetic devices specially to save quite important information. Except mechanical failures there are many various ways to lose the information stored on the HDD.
Several years ago there was a truly popular software solution that assisted to restore some info. It was really frequently used and was named fdisk. Nowadays the use of such programs even by truly experienced users can lead to irreversible consequences.
File systems
File system determines the method that is used to save data on the face of the HDD. Free space is divided on some partitions with definite logical drives within. The most widespread file systems which are used by Windows are NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). FAT is earlier system that was utilized in DOS as FAT-16 and in Windows 9x/ME as FAT-32. If we match these two systems we will find that FAT-32 can operate with bigger amounts of info. That is hard to believe that users used 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 main system.
Of course all the Windows OS could work with FAT but NTFS proposes significantly more possibilities. Moreover NTFS permits to determine access rights for every single file. Every initial sector of every disk contains data which is called disk partition table and boot record that is considered to be service information. Read the rest of this entry »