| Humans, true to their nature, will always | | | | application should open. No installation is |
| make mistakes. That said, how much effect | | | | required. |
| that mistake has on their daily routine | | | | |
| depends on how quick that mistake is found | | | | Create Disk Image |
| out and rectified. | | | | |
| | | | Creating a disk image file, while not really |
| And one of the main reasons that you lose | | | | necessary, gives you a buffer so that if |
| data is through human error. Deleting a file | | | | anything happens during the recovery phase, |
| (or even formatting even) is a fairly common | | | | you can always fall back on the original disk |
| occurrence and is not fatal mistake on its | | | | as it remains untouched. |
| own. Deleted files by default will go to the | | | | |
| recycle bin first and if you are missing any | | | | Once ADRC data recovery tools is running, You |
| files, just check your recycle bin. | | | | need to open the "image backup/restore" |
| | | | window. To do this, under the tools menu, |
| However, the problem arises when you have | | | | select "image backup/restore". Then, click |
| emptied the recycle bin OR pressed | | | | the "Create Image from Disk" radio button. |
| (shift+del) to permanently delete the file | | | | |
| (like I always do). When this happens, you | | | | Click the browse button under "Image File" |
| have no way of retrieving the data through | | | | and choose a suitable file name before |
| conventional methods. | | | | saving. Under "Image Disk", select the drive |
| | | | you want to create the image from, i.e.; the |
| To get them back, you need special software, | | | | drive that you have lost data on. Then click |
| another computer, and loads of luck. Oh, and | | | | the transfer button and wait for imaging to |
| stop using the computer. You do not want to | | | | finish. |
| accidentally overwrite the data and lose any | | | | |
| chance of recovering data. | | | | Remember that you must never ever save the |
| | | | image file to the same drive as the one you |
| Setup | | | | lost data on. |
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| First you need to remove the hard disk (the | | | | Recovery Phase |
| one with the deleted data), connect it to | | | | |
| another computer and set it as a secondary | | | | Once the imaging and backup is done, we can |
| slave drive. | | | | finally proceed to the recovery phase. |
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| Why do you need to do this though? | | | | We are still going to use ADRC data recovery |
| | | | tools software. This time however, under |
| This measure is taken to ensure that you do | | | | "tools", select "undelete". Select the image |
| not accidentally overwrite the data which you | | | | file that you created and click "search". |
| just lost. To do recovery, you will be | | | | After this, there will be an agonising wait |
| working on an image file of the hard disk | | | | for the process to finish. With luck, the |
| instead of the hard disk itself. I will tell | | | | file you need and deleted can be found in the |
| you the reason later. | | | | list. |
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| Software | | | | Select the files (to select many files, press |
| | | | ctrl and click) that you need. This can be a |
| Remember that you need to attach the hard | | | | tedious process as there may be many files |
| disk as a secondary/slave drive? If you | | | | which you do not need populating the list. |
| haven't done it, do so now! After you have | | | | Persevere! You need the files! Once you have |
| done that, you need data recovery software to | | | | selected the files, simply click the |
| help you recover the data that you just | | | | "Undelete Files" button. You will then be |
| deleted. I'm using ADRC's data recovery tools | | | | prompted to specify a location to save the |
| software, as it is free (and it works well | | | | files. |
| too!). Download it at this location: | | | | |
| | | | And there you have it! As long as you do not |
| ADRC Data Recovery Tools | | | | do anything (much) to the hard disk, you |
| | | | should have no problems in recovering the |
| Download, unzip and double-click on the | | | | files you need. |
| program icon. The ADRC data recovery tools | | | | |