subject: Your Deleted File And Deleted File Recovery [print this page] Files that you delete from your computer might actually still be there. You can almost be sure of this if you did not save anything else to your hard drive after carrying out this delete action. Deleted file recovery carried out anywhere is premised upon this fact.
When you do this, you are preventing your computer from possibly overwriting the data on your file. There is no certainty concerning when the files you have deleted will be overwritten; it might be done immediately with the next save action that you carry out. To get your file(s) back after this, will obviously mean engaging the services of a company for deleted file recovery; which is usually not cheap.
Obviously the very first place to check when looking for a deleted file is the recycle bin. Now if the file is not here, it may still be on your computer as mentioned earlier. This happens to be so because computers do not destroy or remove files that you delete. What happens is this, the file remains in its previous position, but that position is now seen as available for subsequent take over (overwriting) by files or data that you save afterwards.
This leads to recovering deleted file. If you are thinking of carrying out recovery of your deleted files all by yourself, it is important you understand some few things which will be shared in subsequent paragraphs. If you are using Windows, you will also learn a thing or two about NTFS data recovery (NTFS a.k.a New Technology File System is the standard Windows file system).
You might have heard about software for retrieving lost data or files on your computer, but before you attempt using any, you need to know that carrying out recovery of your deleted file on the same single hard drive where files are deleted, which by the way is no longer boot able may jeopardize this effort if your hard drive has only one partition.
The reason for this is due to the fact that some recovery software need space on the hard drive to accommodate recovered files. This means that this software may write over information stored previously on files having important data which might lead to problems with recovery efforts.
If you are in this situation your best bet is to either install a hard drive (new one) with a new operating system into the computer where you seek recovery of file(s) or move your hard drive from your system into another system. This is a safe procedure. NTFS data recovery is Windows NT procedure for achieving deleted file recovery.
NTFS data recovery cannot be achieved through all data recovery software. This is because not all of them are compatible with NTFS. Other file systems have recovery software that is compatible with them. Before you carry out any deleted file recovery, make sure you take note of these things.
