Backups don’t just protect against data loss because of hardware breakdown, natural disaster, power outage, or some other catastrophe. No, they also protect against the innocent mistake. We do to portable external hard drives and to computer tape backup drives in order to protect the company from loss of its data that could cripple it if it happens. In most cases, the data backup are for individual users working from home. Of these PC users the majority has not made regular backups or many have not made any backup at all from stored pictures of family history and videos. They contain high nostalgic personal values.
Suppose you work as a PC computer geek and you get contacted by one of those computer users who say that the computer stopped working and the machine won’t start up again. Most likely the hard disk had a breakdown. And you know by experience that there would probably not exist any backup. To make it even more alarming, the home user, since he had a DOS prompt, tried a utility named FDISK thinking it meant “Fix disk” and accidentally deleted the disk partition. This is where you are in need of a software to recover lost data partitions.
Disk partitions should be worked on to those who understand them and how unforgiving it can be if the utilities for them are used wrong. The preferable thing is to have a partition utility product such as Norton Ghost that will make a partition backup of the basic configuration and system software and then a different utility such as Novastor Backup to do incremental and full backups of user files. Sometimes when a simpler partition tool for partition recovery can be used to restore disk partitions back without dangerous loss of data.
Because the disk drive refuses to start up, this does not always mean that the system disk can’t be fixed. It some cases the reason could be that just a a small number of sectors on the hard drive contains bad blocks and that this location is preventing the OS from booting up because booting errors are reported by the system. If a partition becomes deleted by accident, then the data in that partition still remains. Only the partition table has to be recreated.
EASEUS Partition Manager is one product that can recover deleted partitions. Another product is File Scavenger. File Scavenger even advertises that it can recover from formatting a partition. Still there exists other software utilities for this, but the goal here is to recreate condition from which you can move the information files to another partition or backup and then create a fresh boot partition. Now, it could be that after running the partition recovery tool that Windows boots up but in case that it won’t, you want to at least be able to get to a DOS prompt and be able to see those files that is need to be moved off.
If you can get to the DOS command prompt and see all the files in the user’s “My Documents” folder, then you are in a position to hook up an remote disk device (preferably a USB external hard disk) and start moving the user files off. From here, the disk drive should be reformatted, Windows reloaded, and the moved data files could be recovered. This of course is a cumbersome process but your client should be happy to get the family photo album return in its original state.
