Data Recovery Software Freeware Os X
Do-It-Yourself Data Recovery
Losing your data can be an awful experience, and especially harrowing for those who are not familiar with computers. Many of us have either intentionally deleted a file only to realise that we need the file sometime later or accidentally thrashed an important file then start freaking out in stark realisation of the destruction at our very own hands. If you are one of the many, then you would certainly be able to identify with the feeling of despair at not knowing what to do next.
Expert advice – what you SHOULD and SHOULD NOT do
For the clueless, this is the advice a data recovery expert has for you:
- Don’t meddle with your data and ensure that no new data is created or written over. As soon as you realise your data has been deleted, refrain from using the computer as the less activity you conduct lowers the risk of engaging in disk-swap activity.
- If you suspect that your hard disk has crashed, don’t panic and attempt to switch your computer on and off again or feverishly re-start it hoping for a miracle. It’s important that the system remains shut down. Forget about going through the shutdown procedure in the event of a crash – just pull the plug out from the wall. Believe it or not, this will decrease the risk of any permanent data loss.
- Instead, use another computer to find and download data recovery software and save the recovery tool to a flash drive and run it directly from there.
Data Recovery Software to help you recover files
Before fretting, take heart in knowing that it is almost impossible to entirely wipe out a file from your computer. When you delete a file from your computer, you are not actually doing anything to the file itself. It stays on your hard disk all the time. What you are changing is the way the computer looks at the file – your computer glazes over the file and is led to think that the file does not exist anymore. Fortunately for those of us who are no ‘techperts’, there are several data recovery programmes that help you recover those files yourself without causing you to tear your hair out.
DIY data recovery is a good idea especially if your data is not of utmost importance and losing it won’t exactly land you in hot soup or facing dire consequences. Not only does it save you the money from consulting a data recovery service, you can do it from the comforts of your home. However, software recovery tools are not for every type of recovery. If the crash is due to a physical damage, using such tools could only worsen the situation and lessen the chance of recovery. Such a situation would warrant the expertise of a data recovery service professional. Instead, only in situations like a logical file system error such as file system corruption or data deletion would a software recovery tool be suitable.
If you are sure you can go ahead with your DIY recovery mission, you might want to try ADRC Data Recovery Software (http://www.adrc.com/software/data_recovery_tools/)
ADRC offers its own data recovery software that is absolutely free and doesn’t require any installation. Designed with an extremely simple graphical user interface (GUI) for even the most novice users to use, this software is able to carry out critical recovery functions with minimum complexity to recover any deleted files on a FAT or NTFS file system. Users are given full control to recover the specific files types.
Surprisingly, this utility is packed with a number of functions not commonly found in similar class of freeware. These include backup of disk to image file, restoration of saved image file to disk and OS independent disk to disk clone.
For disk suffering from bad sectors, the software could intelligently optimize the copy process so maximum data will be copied out before the disk fails completely.
Here is a step by step guide to using the ADRC Data Recovery Software. Simply follow these steps carefully and you should be on your way to recovering your lost data.
Step 1: Download the software at http://www.adrc.com/software/data_recovery_tools/.
*Do note that you should download the software to a separate hard disk which is not the problem disk or partition.
**It is recommended to mount the problem drive as a secondary slave drive or usb.
Step 2: Launch ADRC Data Recovery Tools
Step 3: Select the drive letter of the data media
Step 4: Click search to scan the data media for deleted files
Step 5: After the scan is completed, select the file you wish to recover and click on the ‘Undelete Files’ button
Step 6: Ensure that the data drive selected to save the recovered file is not in the same location as where the file was deleted. It is safer that the recovered file is saved in another directory such as your external hard disk or thumbdrive.
For advanced users who are more comfortable with DIY data recovery programmes, you may even use ADRC Data Recovery Software to repair your boot sector. Despite its comprehensive features, the size of this software is only 44.4KB, making it one of the smallest but features rich data recovery freeware available
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