If you are reading this article, it is likely that at least once you experienced a loss of data. Data loss can happen to anyone. There are two kinds of problems that can cause the loss of data: hardware failure and data corruption. While one can hardly do anything with a physically defective hard disk but send it in for service, logical data corruption can be dealt with on site. Fortunately, about 95% of all data related problems are caused by some kind of a logical corruption. Operating system failures, power outages, accidental and malicious user activities, software faults and activities of viruses and malware cause all sorts of data corruption. Luckily, these sorts of problems can be often recovered without a problem and without sending the disk to a data recovery service.
Modern data recovery tools can undelete deleted files, recover repartitioned disks and restore partitions that have been reformatted by applying sophisticated algorithms that are quite different and much more effective than those used in Windows built-in disk recovery tools such as checkdisk.
Today, the market is full of various disk repair and data recovery tools. They compete in similar price categories and share similar specs, at least on paper. How would you choose the right one among the many offerings?
Recovery Review Blog is here to help you choose the tool that fits your bill by testing the many recovery tools in real-life situations. It is often not clear from the description whether or not these tools do what you need. Some tools can recover lost data but can’t repair damage to the file system or partition tables. Other tools concentrate on repairing disk system structures without making a data backup first. There are all-in-one solutions that can fix both the files and the disk system structures, yet they can be complicated and expensive. There are professional-grade and user-friendly solutions, as well as those that combine complex recovery algorithms with intuitive user interface. There are simple undelete tools and specialized products to recover digital pictures from flash memory cards. Recovery Review Blog will put these products through series of tests, and will point out the differences in plain English. Stay tuned for our reviews! Continue reading »