Sunday, February 3, 2008

Can You Find A Deleted File Even If Windows Can't?

It happens continuously throughout the world on personal computer and business machines, a file may be deleted accidentally or knowingly and cause data loss. Sometimes you think that you do not need for a particular file and you delete it. But later you feel that the file is required.

If you generally delete the file with delete button, you can find this file in recycle bin, but if you delete the file with Shift + Del key combination, the file will bypass the recycle bin and deleted permanently from your computer. A question is arises here in your mind that- can you get this file back? The answer is yes.

To know why you must know how the operating system find and show files on the computer. Every file and folder and bit of data that the operating system can access has a reference pointer. This pointer is the address of the location where the file is stored on your disk. These pointers are really very important for the operating system to be able to know if the file is exists. If the pointer is not available then operating system considers that there is no file with this name and extension.

The data deleted from the hard drive never lost permanently, the same sequence of 0’s and 1’s that make up all the parts of data and programs are still exists there sitting on the drive. It just can not be found because the reference of the data has deleted. In these situations, only the address of the file from catalog table is deleted and file becomes inaccessible for the operating system.

You can get these files back by rebuilding the pointers of these files. In windows this task can be performed with the help of inbuilt system utility called Chkdsk. In most of the cases of data loss, you can recover data with the help of this system utility. But what should you do, in case when you fail to recover data with it. This is really very bad situation for you. But do not panic. You can recover data in this condition also when your system utilities failed to do it. The solution is third party data recovery software.

Data Recovery software are specially designed to recover and restore lost data from your computer, no matter what is the reason. These software will help you in recovering data if your data is lost due to software problems. If it happened due to the logical reason like system corruption, virus attack and accidental deletion then you can recover your lost data very easily with the help of data recovery software.

In this situation, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best data recovery software. This software will help you in recovering your data in all the cases of data loss in Windows operating system on both files systems of windows - FAT and NTFS. This is a user friendly and easy to use data recovery software for Windows users.

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