Recovering lost data in Windows Case Study:

You’ve accidentally deleted or lost access to your files. Here’s how you can recover it…Our services help with all versions of Windows, including Server editions.

It can be the most annoying kind of data loss, simply because files have usually been lost because of user or hardware error. The important thing here, as with any kind of data recovery, is to keep calm, and think about who to contact. If you react and try to recover the files yourself, you could make another mistake and make it harder to recover the data in full.

Quick Tips

The first place you should look after deleting a file is the Recycle Bin. It may seem a little obvious, but this back-up facility can be overlooked if you are panicking. If your file is in there, right-click it and select Restore from the menu and Windows will move the file back to its original location. Of course, the Recycle Bin doesn’t catch every file that gets deleted and remember, deleted files do not stay in the Recycle bin forever.

When it comes to file deletion, the important thing to know is that the data for the file is not actually removed from your hard drive. All that happens is that the file location is changed to point at the Recycle Bin instead. The data for the file is not changed at all. You may think that this information is deleted even if you empty the Recycle Bin, or when you bypass the Recycle Bin. But, the actual data for the file is still left intact, only the file location address is flagged as ok to be reused if the disk needs new space the next time a file needs to be saved.

Quick Recovery Services

We have procedures that can recover files by searching through unused disk space for entries that have been flagged as ‘empty’, but still contain data. We also scan the hard drive for clusters that look like they may contain unallocated data. For disks that have mechanical damage, we repair the drive first and then clone the data to another device and then we extract the files.