Who has not, through carelessness or omission, forgot to back up their photos before they format their hard disk drive? If hardware failure can result in lost of data, human errors will be the main source of lost files. In the following paragraphs I will be providing some good info on data recovery and tips on how to make amends for your blunders.

Naturally, if your HDD has experienced a drop of 5 floors, or simply if it’s not recognized within the BIOS, looking over this post will not be very helpful. However, if you just delete the photos that you are sure to have saved on your hard disk, hard disc recovery software exists and should prove helpful to you.

To begin, we’ll explain why it is possible to undelete files despite formatting or deleting the trash. When you delete a file, you don’t really erase the data but simply get rid of the reference made in the index. The latter then considers that the disk space can be accessed again. Nonetheless it is fairly possible to recoup lost files by examining the surface of the drive. To make things more concrete, it’s like finding part of a book without the table of content. Although it may take longer it is possible.

This is why you need to avoid adding files, moving any folder or make some other manipulation that might use clusters previously assigned to your deleted file. Also you should not install any new programs in your hard drive to prevent any modification to your hard drive. Nonetheless you can still install new software on another hard drive for example an external one.