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An operating system is the software installed on your computer that manages different programs, its hardware, and regulates the way that a user controls the computer. There are many types of operating system available such as Windows, Linux, and MAC. Dataare any facts, figures, numbers, texts, files, graphs, images, audio, video or anything that can be processed by a computer. Whether it is your laptop or desktop computer, any type of loss can be devastating. Data Recovery is a process in which you can recover lost files and important data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally.
Data is stored in the hard disk in the form of files. These files have a beginning and an ending. The starting address of the file is normally stored in a table, specially constructed to store these addresses. When you delete a file, the starting address of the file is set to NULL and the location is marked as ready for overwriting in the table. Sometimes, this table either gets corrupted, or you reformat the disk, resulting in the table itself being rewritten. Sometimes viruses destroy the entries in the table. In all these cases, the data itself remains intact, and is only destroyed permanently if the location in which the data was stored is overwritten with some other data value. If the data has not been overwritten, good data recovery tool can repair the damage done, and get your files back for you. This holds true irrespective of the type of file. Audio, video, data, executable, backup and system files can be easily retrieved using such software.
A number of good third-party tools are available in the market, which cater to operating systems such as Windows, Unix, Linux, Macintosh and Novell. These tools also support audio, video, image and data file formats along with all the versions of the packages released till date. Most tools are user friendly, and take care of the intricate technical details, leaving you free to actually work.
In the area of Windows data recovery, Stellar Phoenix's Windows Data Recovery has earned itself a name as a reliable software utility. The software easily recovers from corrupt MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Access files. The utility caters to a wide variety of storage devices such as external drives, pen drives, memory cards, CD's and DVD's. It also recovers photographs, audio files, video files, data files and emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express.
