How Do You Retrieve File from a Hard Drive
What should you do if you must retrieve an erased file from the hard drive or a flash memory card? It is safer to write the retrieved file to another disk. When the file size is small, you could use a floppy disk. Otherwise, you could write the file to a different drive letter on the same hard drive. Norton Disk Editor, part of the Norton Utilities and Norton SystemWorks, lets you to perform such tasks.
Disk Editor is designed primarily to access FAT-based systems such as FAT12, FAT 16, and FAT 32. It is a command prompt program. If the Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP is installed on a FAT32 partition or hard drive, you could use Disk Editor to carry out data recovery task. Only when Disk Editor is running in physical sector mode, it is able to work on NTFS volumes. To avoid making any unintentional modifications to the hard disk when you are performing data recovery tasks you have to set Disk Editor to default Read-only mode.
The location of the file is determined using following process:
- Determine the cluster size of the file.
- Run the Disk Editor to find out the name of the deleted file and identify which clusters contain the file data.
It is not essential to restore the filename because it would be restored to another drive. Because the cluster will be copied to another file, it can be a wise idea to look at the cluster and ensure that they have the necessary data. You should use the Norton Disk Editor to look at the starting and ending clusters of the file before you try to recover it. This is especially essential if you wish to recover files from formatted drive.
The sectors that have the file must be specified if you want to copy the contents of clusters to a file safely. You may use Disk Editor to identify the sector number as well as the cluster number.
Other recovery software REMO Recover provide easy to use and slick interface. Remo recover is a effective recovery software that uses efficient scanning algorithms for data recovery. The software contains components which allow you to recover files from formatted drive. You can also use it to recover files from USB drive and recover files from SD card.