The Options for Consumers When It Comes To Data Recovery

A number of consumer products can be used for the simple task of getting back a deleted file, disk partition, or data from a damaged disk sector. An example of one such program is that of Microsoft Windows built-in CHKDSK command which can identify and remap damaged sectors. In addition to this, commercially produced software such as R-Studio, Ontrack, Easy Recovery, Stellar Phoenix and others are fully capable of recovering deleted or reformatted disk partitions on a number of storage devices (both internal and external), USB thumb drives and SD Cards.

One can find numerous backup and disk imaging products in the market as well, such as Acronis, True Image, Symantec’s Norton Ghost and many others can create full disk images that are also exact duplicates of the original.

Such Options Ineffective Against a Physical/Hardware Problem

While effective to an extent for some lost data, these approaches don’t work when the drive has a physical problem. What’s more, even when being quite effective such approaches involve over writing the source hard disk which can lead to unintended consequences, i.e. overwriting on a good file with a corrupt one.

According to Rockland County Computer Repair, roughly 60% of disk recovery projects can be easily repaired using software only. While consumer grade software is able to finish the job adequately, sometimes important data can also be overwritten due to such software.

Due to the sensitive nature of the task, computer users shouldn’t try their hand at data repair and recovery, especially if the hard disk in question is making noises such as chirps or clicks. If smoke is coming out from the device that too indicates a physical failure and won’t likely be fixed with just software.

This is why recognizing when professional help is needed to repair a corrupt computer system, or recover lost data is important. Call Rockland County Computer Repair to know more about how you can recover lost data and keep your computer protected against malicious software today.