Flying Elephant Software » deleted partition recovery

Scanning partitions for localized file recovery

keith — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:28:20 +0000

Very often I am asked what is a partition and how does it differ from my computer’s internal hard drive? The reason people ask this is because partitions and hard disk drives are confused with one another. The answer or explanation to this is rather simple. The partition is a section of a computer’s hard drive. In most computers that are over five years of age the partition and the hard drive are synonymous in size. However, in more modern computers the hard drive is sectioned off into partition areas so as to better facilitate systems such as separate recovery and dual boot operation.

Another advantage to this method is that when one needs to recover lost data it is usually possible to recover lost partitions Windows has neatly divided. Obviously it takes less time to recover all of the data on a 100 GB hard drive partition as opposed to the full 640 GB of the drive. Further, we often need to recover formatted partition files based upon damage or corruption such as that from a virus which is limited to the specific partition area itself.

Recovery of files on older XP operated computers

keith — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:31:23 +0000

While it is true that Windows 7 alleviates the need for much file recovery software with its ability to perform detailed system restore functions, it is also true that the vast majority of PC users are still using Windows Vista and Windows XP. It is for these computer operators that quality programs to recover deleted document and image files have been created. In fact, most programs to recover deleted files are Windows XP driven. What is meant by this expression is that most file recovery software was designed around problems inherent in Windows XP and then evolved to include Windows Vista and the new Windows 7.

Other specific data recovery functions include the ability to recover deleted document files and specialized image files such as camera raw files. The key to choosing the best available data recovery program is to check into whether that program has the ability to quickly scan the new larger sized computer hard drives. Obsolete data recovery programs can take as long as a full week to scan through a hard disk drive. Very rarely is that process not interrupted and rendered a failure.