· Definition of Data Recovery
The salvaging of lost data or making available the previously damaged
data stored on various damaged media such as hard disk drives, magnetic
tapes, magnetic disks, zip disks, CD-Rom, flash cards and other storage
media is known as Data recovery. For example the data of a file which
has been deleted by some accident can be recovered again.
· Data Recovery Service Providers
There are various Data Recovery Service Providers who are working for
24/7 in order to provide their customers with the best available data
recovery services. These service providers have highly trained staff
and they are continuously improving the process technology and their
quality systems. These providers allow their customers to recover every
important piece of data from all the popular file systems in case of
accidental file deletion, malfunctioning of software, formatted hard
drives, damaged or deleted partitions and erased or corrupted by a
virus.
These data recovery service providers offer a complete range of
solutions for the restoration of lost data. The different softwares
used by these providers are compatible for all the Microsoft Windows
Editions, Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux and Unix operating
system. They also provide data recovery from different file systems
such as FAT, NTFS, HFS, HFS+, NWFS, EXT2 and EXT3 file systems. They
prevent the various important data of our computer by different data
safety and data security softwares from unwanted accessing of data,
corruption, modification or deletion by another user or from various
harmful programs such as viruses, spy ware, Trojan horses, etc.
· Some common Software used in Data Recovery
There are different data safety and data recovery softwares for hard
drive data recovery. Some common software used in Data recovery are
mentioned bellow.
Data Recovery with Fire: The FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based
software which can provide an immediate environment to perform data
recovery which includes different forensic analysis, virus scanning,
incident response and vulnerability assessment.
Data Recovery with LDE: The LDE or the Linux Disc Editor was originally
made to recover the deleted files in Linux. The simple curses interface
of the LDE resembles very much to the old version of Norton Disk Editor
for DOS.
NT Data Recovery: The NT Data Recovery software provides read access to
the NTFS drives in the MS DOS environment. The functionality of this
software includes support for files with long names and as well as
compressed and fragmented files. The NTFS Reader for DOS allows the
files to copy them from NTFS to FAT volumes in network drives.
Data Recovery with PC Inspector: The PC Inspector File Recovery
software is compatible for NTFS and FAT file systems. It has the
capability to recover files with the original date and time stamp and
can also restore them to the network drive. They can also recover many
lost files even when the header entry is not available. The software
can find partitions automatically on FAT systems even if the boot
area/sector has been damaged or erased. The PC Inspector File Recovery
software offers a user friendly interface that scans the hard drives
and automatically recovers the files from the deleted folders.
