Hard drives may fail due various reasons; usually it may be due to a physical failure or logical failure. If it is a physical failure then it comes under hardware problem / malfunctions and should be sent to data recovery service centers to recover data / files, but if it is a logical failure then the important files can be recovered using data recovery software.
Some of the most common logical failures include
- Human errors
- Accidental files deletion
- Formatting, re-formatting the drives accidentally
- Virus attacks
- Corruption in the file system (NTFS or FAT)
- Power failure
- Abrupt shut down of the system
Precautions to be taken after losing important files from the drives are – Do not use the drive on which data loss occurred, stop running or installing any new applications, do not run disk utilities like chkdsk or defrag on the drive.
If you did not follow the above precautions, the hard drive data gets overwritten and it becomes difficult to recover NTFS files or folders. NTFS recovery software is the beat solution for this problem as it uses advanced algorithms to recover deleted / lost data. It allows you to retrieve lost, deleted or formatted files, images, word, excel, power point files, audio, video files etc. It supports windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 operating systems.
Undelete software can be used to recover photos from formatted SD cards, memory cards, XD cards, compact flash cards, MMC, USB drives, iPods etc. This software scans the drives quickly in search of deleted files, retrieves and restores them back. The recovered files can be previewed to evaluate the working of the software. The demo version of the software lets you preview the files but saving is possible only after activating the full version. You can save the recovered files to any accessible drive or CD / DVD.