Long hours pass in a painful typing of boring text. Consciousness falls asleep, fingers get tired, want to eat, drink, sleep (underline the necessary). The work is coming to an end, the long-awaited pillow looms ahead. And then one wrong movement of the little finger - the file was erased and …
The situation is familiar to all PC users who had the misfortune to remove the fruits of their labor through negligence, accident, or deliberately, and then regretted what had happened. Is there anything you can do before taking revenge on the "soulless machine" by smashing it against the wall? Such cases have happened with employees in many countries. No need to hurry. You still have a chance to get out of oblivion "Favorite file.doc".
The patient is more alive than dead
The system stores information on the hard drive as follows. First, it writes the necessary information to the hard disk, and then … marks this sector as empty. In fact, only the user and the operating system consider this place to be unoccupied. But the data is still there, only you can't see it. And if nothing was recorded for this place - there is a chance!
Adrenaline, discharge - we are losing it
Just as it is important for the doctor in the intensive care team to have working tools, you should have your own emergency kit. And in it about in the first place the program for data recovery. Among them, you can advise
Each PC user must have one of these programs in his arsenal.
• Undelete - classic software, familiar to many since the days of DOS. Now it is used extremely rarely. Currently, it is more of a museum antiques than a useful app.
• Recover 4 All - a powerful program that disassembles each sector to the smallest detail and finds everything that you yourself have long forgotten. "Combs" the hard drive twice, shows which files can be recovered, and where it is better to write an obituary right away.
• R.saver is an easy-to-use program for recovering files in FAT, NTFS, exFAT systems.
• Acronis Recovery Expert Deluxe is one of the most powerful programs in this segment. Allows you to recover entire hard disk partitions if they were deleted as a result of user error or a failure in the hardware or OS.
• Partition Recovery - flexible software that even helps to "repair" the MBR partition (if it says something to you), checks all files for availability, and brings back information to life. Requires certain skills and is not recommended for beginners.
Calm and only calm
If your information is not found on the disk, do not rush to get "heavy weapons", occupy the hard disk with hourly checks with serious programs.
Recovery software will be useless if you haven't cleaned your computer from viruses.
Sometimes the fact is that some viruses block folders or files, making them invisible and inaccessible to the user. Try using a reliable antivirus first. And only then start up the programs from the list.
