Hard drive, removable storage devices like CD, thumb drives, IDE/SATA, SCSI and various types of memory cards are used to store data. These storage devices ensure you unlimited storage of data, music, movies and photos. However, your data is not very safe in any of these devices. Corruption caused to file system, hard drive crash; unintentional deletion of partitions or drives, formatting of the drives or partitions, power fluctuations and handling errors can make your data disappear from the hard drive.
Data lost from any storage devices can be restored with the help of specialized data recovery utility. There are some specific data recovery programs for each operating system is available in the market. Different types of data restore application that helps you to recover files from hard drive including.
Windows data recovery: This application can be used to recover files form hard drive, which helps to recover data from different data loss situations from Windows Operating system.
Mac recovery software- This restore application will help you restore various types of stored data including photos, videos, music and movies from Mac operating system. Data lost due to formatting or reformatting of the volume, volume inaccessible, corruption to Apple partition map, or catalog file, or deleted data can be restored using Mac recovery software.
Restoring data from hard drive
Steps for restoring data from hard drive are more or less the same like any of the operating system except Linux. Linux requires a host operating system based on Windows to run the recovery utility. Based on your OS, choose the applicable application to restore data and follow the steps given below.
- Remove the hard drive from which you need to restore data
- Connect this hard drive to a well working computer as secondary storage device
- Install the best data restore application on the healthy computer
- Run the application to restore deleted files
- Save the recovered files to the healthy drive