subject: Tips to Recover Deleted Partitions [print this page] Tips to Recover Deleted Partitions Tips to Recover Deleted Partitions
When partitions are formed in the hard disk, there are occasions in which data loss might happen. The entire partition may be deleted or lost, resulting in loss of important and private data. This can cause the data on the hard drive inaccessible. Computer uses a systematic technique to store the files called as file system. Windows operating system uses FAT and NTFS file systems. The partitions may be lost or deleted due to many reasons like accidental deletion, virus attacks, malware, corruption of file system etc. In order to recover deleted partition, a trustable partition recovery software can be used.
When we format a logical disk drive from NTFS to any other file system, we are actually reformatting the drive, and choosing separate file system for the logical drive to manage the data. If we format the hard disk to the same file system, this can be considered as simple formatting. Whereas, formatting the hard disk from one file system to another for example from FAT16 to FAT32 file system, it is reformatting. When we reformat the hard drive the chance of data being overwritten are higher as compared to simple formatting. The lost data while reformatting the hard drive can be recovered using an efficient Partition recovery software.
Make sure that the selected partition recovery software can recover the partitions lost due to accidental deletion or reformatting effectively. Also make sure that the selected software is a read only application, which means it will only read the content from the hard drive and never attempt to write to the hard disk from which you want to recover data.
