Information on File Recovery on a Hard Drive
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011If you have to retrieve an deleted file from the hard drive or a flash memory card, what should you do? It is safer to write the retrieved file to another disk. You may use a floppy disk if the file size is small. Alternatively, the retrieved file can be written to a different drive letter on the same hard drive. You are able to perform this task using Norton Disk Editor. Norton Disk Editor is part of the Norton Utilities and Norton SystemWorks that could be used to retrieve lost data.
Disk Editor is a command prompt program created primarily to access FAT-based file system such as FAT12 (floppy disk), FAT 16 (MS-DOS), and FAT 32 (Windows 98). If the Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP is installed on a FAT32 partition or hard drive, you could use Disk Editor to carry out data recovery task. Only when Disk Editor is running in physical sector mode, it is able to work on NTFS volumes. If you want to get back data from a hard drive and copy the data to another location, you should set Disk Editor to default Read-Only mode to prevent making any accidental alterations to the hard disk.
The location of the file is determined using following process:
- Identify the cluster size of the file.
- Run the Disk Editor to view the name of the erased file and identify which clusters contain the file data.
Because the retrieved file will be restored to another drive, it is not essential to restore the original filename. However it will be a good idea to make sure that the clusters do contain the essential data. You must use the Norton Disk Editor to view the starting and ending clusters of the file before you try to recover it. This is particularly essential if you wish to recover files from formatted drive.
The sectors that have the file must be specified if you wish to copy the contents of clusters to a file safely. The sector number and the cluster number can be shown in Disk Editor.
You can get non command prompt data recovery program such as REMO Recover. The software comes with user friendly and slick interface. Remo recover is a strong recovery software that uses efficient scanning algorithms for data recovery. The software has components that permit you to recover files from formatted drive. It is possible to also use it to recover files from USB drive and recover files from SD card.