There are many kinds of loss of data. One can lose data through simple logical problems such as deleting accidentally or software malfunction. There are however, some good ways of preventing as well as recovering data. One of the most common and basic ways is through the backing up of data.

If the data is lost from the hard drive, here is what you should do. You should stop saving any more data in that drive space. One should first safely assess what kind of problem affected your computer then fix it. Saving more data is bad because deleted data does not really get deleted. The computer only writes over these data once you save anything else. So before that happens, you should try to retrieve it.

You should first boot your computer using the OS disk in order to try data recovery through the hard drive. After that, you can either use the chkdsk, testdsk, or fdsk command prompt that will help scan the hard drive. Most of the time, this will help you recover the data you have lost through corruption. The commands above should be used in a Windows OS recovery console.

There is also such a thing as FINDNTS which is a nifty freeware that will help you recover data. This is just a free software that is centered on NTFS recovery (meaning it gets back NT files. One could also boot from this if the Windows OS is not working. You won’t even have to reformat)

Chkds as well as testdsk are both needed for hard drive information recovery. These simple tools retrieve the lost FAT as well as NTFS files. Basically, they find, retrieve, then fix the partition on the hard drive then reinstate boot sections. Usually, people would just reformat and get things over with. However these commands can help you boot and then fix the problem even if the OS is inaccessible.

Those stated above can manage loss from deletion yet it is also possible for one to get back files that might have been accidentally deleted. And what’s more, these are mostly free software you can find in the net.

So there you have it. Losing those all important files or data is not the end of the world. There are measures to retrieve them and there are measures to back them up in order to prevent loss. Just learn these basic hard drive data recovery tips and you should be fine.

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