Recover the lost data Guide
How to recover lost data on hard drive. Sometimes you may lose data on one of the hard drives (electric shock ...) or during poor formatting. Fortunately, in most cases, it is possible to recover data thanks to data recovery utilities. However, restoration solutions are not 100% safe. It is best, therefore, to choose the right tool.
How to recover lost data on your hard drive, what do you need?
You don't have to save anything on your hard drive. For now, the data must be recovered on another medium: another partition, another disk (internal or external), USB memory, etc.
On the windows
If you cannot access the partition, skip to the partition recovery software. Otherwise, you can try to restore the data present on the partition with the free software described below.
Data recovery software
These solutions to recover your data are free.recuva
It is compatible with Windows and Mac. It allows you to recover deleted files from the Recycle Bin, as well as files that have been deleted by mistake, errors, accidents and viruses after formatting or partitioning.
It also works on external drives, digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.PC Inspector file recovery
Computer inspector file recovery is compatible with Windows 95/98 / ME / NT / 2000 / KSP. Manages FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
PhotoRec
PhotoRec is compatible with DOS, Windows 9k / NT 4/2000 / KSP / 2003 / Vista, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. It can recover files even if the file system mapping location (FAT, MFT) is completely destroyed. It will affect the file structure to recover the contents. Manages file systems FAT 12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5, ekt2 / ekt3 (Linux), HFS +, Xbox.
Finding and assembling partitions
Find and install partitions compatible with Windows 2000 / KSP / 2003 / Vista (32 bit). It allows you to find deleted or lost partitions on your system and save them for read-only to copy your personal data to another medium (speed limited to 512 KBites / s in the free version).
It has three partition search modes (fast, normal, deep) and manages FAT and NTF file systems. Read Partition Find & Mount - save data from your hard drive for more information.
Glari Utilities
Download Glari Utilities for Windows 2000, KSP, Vista and Windows 7: 32 and 64 bit versions. This software allows you to recover files deleted by error and also works on external disks. Install it and go to Modules > Lifestyle / Security > File Recovery .
Digital image recovery
It is specially designed for external hard drives . Works on Windows Win 2000 / KSP / Vista / 7. This software recovers deleted data such as images, audio and video on the following media: Flash card, SmartMedia, SONI Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card and Disk. compact.
SoftPerfect File Recovery
SoftPerfect File Recovery is compatible with Windows 95/98 / ME / NT / 2000 / KSP / 2003 / Vista / 7. It manages FAT 12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems, it is extremely simple, completely free and portable.
DiskDigger
It is compatible with Windows XP / Vista / 7. It does not need to be installed and can be used from a USB base. It also works on flash drives, memory cards, external hard drives, etc. The program only searches for certain types of files or sectors to be analyzed.
Practical recovery
Convenient recovery for Windows 95/98 / ME / NT / 2000 / KSP / 2003. Manages FAT 16/12/32, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.
NTFS Recover
NTFS Undelete for Windows 2000 / KSP As the name implies, it only manages partitions in NTFS.Restoration
It is compatible with Windows 95/98 / ME / NT / 2000 / KSP / Vista / 7. No installation required and manages FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.
Free undelete
Restore data for Windows 2000, KSP and Vista for free. This software manages FAT (16 or 32) and NTFS (1 or 2) systems.
Undelete Plus
Undo plus (free version) for Windows 95/98 / ME / 2000 / KSP. It manages FAT 16/12/32, NTFS file systems and mobile media.
How to use these tools
You choose the files to be restored and the backup destination. Backing up is done somewhere other than on a damaged or formatted partition (otherwise the extracted files will definitely crash the files to be recovered).
Complement
This file recovery software does not create damaged partitions again. They give access to this partition just to recover the data (at least until those files are damaged).
In fact, this software contains content to detect all partitions and then a list of different files that can be recovered. Then you have to recreate these partitions by other methods: formatting, formatting tools. Therefore, you will be prompted to reinstall frequently. An alternative is to avoid wasting time on data recovery and reinstalling and creating partitions.
How to recover lost hard drive data using partition recovery software
And : If you can no longer access the disk, it is likely that the partition must be damaged. You can try to repair the partition with these free programs:
Test drive
TestDisk for Dos, Windows 9k / NT 4/2000 / KSP / 2003 / Vista, Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOSX.
It allows you to find partitions on disk even if the partition table is destroyed and to rebuild the partition table, as well as to rebuild the boot sectors FAT and NFTS partitions. Managed by FAT 16/12/32, NTFS, NTFS5, ekt2 / ekt3 (Linux), HFS / HFS +, BeFS, JFS, Linux RAID 1,4,5 and 6, LVM, ReiserFS (3.5, 3.6 and 4), Sun Solaris, UFS / UFS2, KSFS.
EaseUS partition recovery
EaseUS Partition Recovery for Windows 2008, 7, Vista, 2003.It supports FAT, NTFS, Ekt2 / Ekt3 file system and has a wizard interface that guides you through the partition recovery process.
MiniTool partition recovery
MiniTool Partition Recovery (mini tutorial on the download list) for Windows 7 / Vista / KSP / 2000Pro. Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 file system.On GNU / Linux
Some Linux Live CDs include Testdisk and Photorec software for use in console mode. Otherwise, you will need to use the command line console to retrieve the newly deleted data. Here it is assumed that the partition on which the data will be written is properly formatted (even in FAT32) and mounted.Mount a read-only partition
If not mounted: mount / dev / particao / ponto / de / montagem -rIf it is already installed , you must disassemble and reassemble it with:
mount / dev / particao / ponto / de / montagem -o remount, ro
If root (/) is for download, add the option to stop writing about / etc / mtab
Connect
Use the command to find out which process this partition is using: merging -v -m / ponto / de / montagem
To kill the annoying process:
melt -k -TERM -v -m / ponto / de / montagem
Data recovery
Find the blocks freed thanks to the lsdel command . Example:echo lsdel | debugfs / dev / hda3> liste.tkt
Print the list.
Recovers files to the end of debugfs . In fact, it is better to use the command overturned y dd . Example: debugfs: dump "148003" / recup / 000allows you to create a file KSNUMKS () which contains incorrect information. In the future, you should correct the block file size using dd . Example:
dd count = 1 if = / return / 000 of = / true / 000 bs = 6065
The file " XNUMX " () should now be correct.
We hope this guide and tips on how to recover lost data from your hard drive have helped you.
