Data loss and deletion of data has for long been associated closely with information recovery and data retrieval software.
This is due to the fact that for long data recovery software makers have been implementing new and improved methods for handling different kinds of data loss scenarios.
This has led to development of recovery utilities that are customized for specific storage devices, different types of data and different scenarios.
Not only have these parameters being considered, but the type of working environment too been considered during the development of new data retrieval tools.
Let us summarize some of the types of data recovery and the methods involved.
Majority of data rescue cases involve recovery of files and folders.
This might include recovering files like documents, multimedia files and other types of files that have been lost or deleted from different storage devices like hard drive, flash memory cards, USB flash drives etc.
Recovery of files is a relatively easy process compared to recovery of partition, as the size of the data is considerably smaller.
The other type of data recovery is partition recovery.
Partition recovery involves the process in which the user has to recover deleted partition or sometimes even a lost partition from his hard drive.
If the operating system being used is Windows based, there can be two types of partition recovery namely NTFS recovery and FAT recovery based on the partition being used.
Partition recovery is a lot more complicated than file recovery, as the whole partition starting from the beginning to the last sectors need to be recovered.