by Nikolas Georgiakodis
It happens to even the best of families: a bad format, an accidental delete, or a hard drive crashing is enough to give you a temporary heart attack. Don't panic. Take a deep breath and let's see how to get your cherished pictures/videos/movies back.
Everything is erased! First of all, regardless of which program you use for recovery, the most important thing is that if you have accidentally deleted something, do not write any more files to the disk. Also, the sooner you start recovering the data, the better the results will be. The reason is simple: the hard drive works like a row of boxes that "take" data. Each box has an indication of the "free" or "occupied" style. When we want to save a piece of data, the disk goes to the first free box and puts it there. When we delete files, the only thing that is done is to restore the "free" label to the "boxes" of our hard drive. Therefore, if a piece of data does not "fit" into the "free" boxes, then we have the technology and the chances of recovering it even if we have formatted it.
How? There are several data recovery applications available on the Internet. An excellent option – and free too – is recuva. After you install it, it scans your entire hard drive in a fairly time-consuming process, which can take up to three hours depending on its size. Then, recuva takes on the task of recovering your lost files (documents, images, music, videos, etc.) easily through a simple step-by-step guide. Recovery is performed regardless of whether you had the program installed when you accidentally deleted the file. My hard drive “crashed” If your drive is dropped/hit/burned or its mechanical design has been affected in some way, then there are several companies that undertake to recover data from your… damaged component with a satisfactory success rate. The process includes opening the drive by a specialized engineer, who assesses the damage and accordingly makes a proposal for recovering your files and/or repairing the drive.
The entire process is done in the so-called clean room, in a special laboratory, the data recovery is done using special algorithms and the repair cost directly depends on the volume of data and the condition in which you brought the hard drive. The minimum cost starts from 200 euros at least and can reach in many cases even 500 euros. Indicatively, some companies that you can contact for data recovery are Northwind, Datalabs, cheap recovery and tic tac.
Source: freegr.blogspot.gr
