The first thing that strikes a person's mind when he hears the word data recovery is the loss of files and the methods employed by various data recovery software, for recovery of data. Though there are many ways of categorizing data loss and data recovery software based on these data loss scenarios, the makers of data recovery software keep in mind the various devices that their software has to support, if it has to recover data in an efficient way. Let us summarize some of the common storage media, and how data loss occurs on these devices and their respective solutions.
One of the most commonly used storage media is the hard drive. The fixed hard drive is used more than the external hard drive. Data loss on the fixed and external hard drive can be varied in nature, as the type of data stored on this media too is different in nature. Data loss is again of different types and only data recovery software that is highly proficient can deal with data loss on a hard drive.
The second most commonly used storage media is the USB drive and along with it the flash memory cards. They are used widely in multimedia devices like cameras, mobile phones, mp3 players etc. Though physical data loss is high in number in the case of these devices, there are also considerable amount of logical data loss that occurs on these devices. In this case a data recovery software or a data recovery service can be of use.