Data Recovery
Article 1
Read the article below (Steps to Data Recovery).
Answer these questions regarding the article.
Create a notebook entry titled Steps to Data Recovery
1) What is the number one rule to follow when you have lost data and files on your hard drive?
2) What does the hard drive do when you click delete on a file?
3) Why should you not save anything more to a hard drive when you are trying to recover lost data and files?
Answer these questions regarding the article.
Create a notebook entry titled Steps to Data Recovery
1) What is the number one rule to follow when you have lost data and files on your hard drive?
2) What does the hard drive do when you click delete on a file?
3) Why should you not save anything more to a hard drive when you are trying to recover lost data and files?
Steps to Data Recovery
The number one rule to follow when you have lost data
is to not write anything more to the affected hard drive! This rule stands true for any situation...
If you have deleted a partition by accident, do not create another partition, just leave it blank.
If you have deleted files from the recycling bin that you realize you need, do not (if possible) save anything to the drive. The reason for this is that hard drives do not actually erase anything, not data or partitions. When you erase a file from the operating system, it is just marked on the drive as having been deleted. When the system needs to store more data on the drive, it will consider files on the drive marked 'deleted' as being empty space, and cheerfully copy over them. If that happens then you're in big trouble.
The same rule applies twice over for partitions; since partition information just presents the operating system with a way of addressing the space available on the drive. If you wipe out a partition everything from it will seem to be gone.
The number one rule to follow when you have lost data
is to not write anything more to the affected hard drive! This rule stands true for any situation...
If you have deleted a partition by accident, do not create another partition, just leave it blank.
If you have deleted files from the recycling bin that you realize you need, do not (if possible) save anything to the drive. The reason for this is that hard drives do not actually erase anything, not data or partitions. When you erase a file from the operating system, it is just marked on the drive as having been deleted. When the system needs to store more data on the drive, it will consider files on the drive marked 'deleted' as being empty space, and cheerfully copy over them. If that happens then you're in big trouble.
The same rule applies twice over for partitions; since partition information just presents the operating system with a way of addressing the space available on the drive. If you wipe out a partition everything from it will seem to be gone.
Article 2
Click here to read an article on freeware software programs that help you to recover lost or erased files.
Answer these questions below.
Create a new notebook entry titled Freeware Data Recovery
1) undelete programs do what when scanning your hard drive?
2) This article looks at PC Inspector, a freeware program that does what?
3) Click on the link PC Inspector File Recovery in the article.
How would you download this program?
Answer these questions below.
Create a new notebook entry titled Freeware Data Recovery
1) undelete programs do what when scanning your hard drive?
2) This article looks at PC Inspector, a freeware program that does what?
3) Click on the link PC Inspector File Recovery in the article.
How would you download this program?