Easily Get Back Windows 7 Hard Drive Data - Windows 7 Data Recovery Tool

Windows 7 is the latest version of Microsoft operating systems. Windows 7 provide highly advisable features for any windows 7 application users.

How to Recover Windows 7 Data?

Have you lost your important documents or by mistake emptied the Windows 7 Recycle Bin? So, what will you do if you have unintentionally deleted your vital files? Now, in such a circumstance – you have to to find the best windows 7 data recovery software that will do the data recovery job? You can smoothly use our windows 7 file recovery software.

Recover Data provides our best and affordable data recovery software for windows 7 users. Recover Data for Windows 7 is the best data recovery tool in this field. This data recovery tool for Windows 7 successfully recovers deleted files & folders from corrupted or formatted Windows 7 hard disk drive. Windows 7 files recovery tool can easily get back deleted files from any data storage media devices such as Pen drive, Hard Drive, Zip drive, Floppy Drive and many more. This File Recovery Software for Windows 7 provides four recovery modes such as Desktop Recovery, Raw Recovery, Images Recovery, Remote recovery. Every recovery mode uses different recovery techniques for providing trustworthy data recovery results.

Windows 7 Data recovery software helps to recover files in all major data loss trouble like accidental delete, hard disk formats, data deleted permanently from recycle bin, data loss by using shift + deleted, virus attack and other similar reasons. Software is design for recovering lost files and folders even if the MBR (Master Boot Recorder), MFT (Master File Table) or FAT (File Allocation Table) has been corrupted due to power outage. This Windows 7 recovery tools is fully compatible with all windows version such as Win95, Win98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista & Windows 7.

Easily Get Back Windows 7 Files from Windows FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS4 & NTFS5 file system with Recover Data for Windows 7 Data Recovery Software.

Windows 7 file recovery software is a fully capable and affordable windows 7 recovery tool. Software plays major role for recovering windows 7 hard drive data. You can quickly download our disk recovery software for windows 7 hard drives if you are fully glad with our demo version software then you have to purchase our Professional Windows 7 Data Recovery Software.

Some significant features of Windows 7 File Recovery Software:

• Recover lost data from deleted partitions.
• Recover lost data after software/hardware malfunction.
• Support recovery of compressed and encrypted files & folders.
• Recover lost data after corruption due to virus or Trojans attack.
• Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS4 & NTFS5 File System.
• Recover lost data after deletion of files using Shift+Del keys or after emptying the Recycle Bin.
• Software supports Win95, Win98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista & Windows 7 OS.

Difference Between Evaluation Version & Full Version of Recover Data for Fat & NTFS

1. Full Version of Recover Data for Windows 7 is fully featured with all the four Recovery MODES such as Desktop Recovery, Remote Recovery, Raw Recovery & Image Recovery. Evaluation Version is only limited to Desktop Recovery, other three types of Recovery are disabled in the evaluation version.

2. Evaluation Version restricted user to save restored files, Evaluation Version allows user only to see deleted files but not to save deleted files, Evaluation Version of the software is only for evaluating the recovery process of the software. Full Version is fully featured software and this will allow you to get back deleted files and recover your deleted files or restored files.

What is ATA?

(AT Attachment) The specification, formulated in the 1980s by a consortium of hardware and software manufacturers, that defines the IDE drive interface. AT refers to the IBM PC/AT personal computer and its bus architecture. IDE drives are sometimes referred to as ATA drives or AT bus drives. The newer ATA-2 specification defines the EIDE interface, which improves upon the IDE standard. (See also IDE and EIDE.)

There are several versions of ATA, all developed by the Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee:

ATA: Known also as IDE, supports one or two hard drives, a 16-bit interface and PIO modes 0, 1 and 2.
ATA-2: Supports faster PIO modes (3 and 4) and multiword DMA modes (1 and 2). Also supports logical block addressing (LBA) and block transfers. ATA-2 is marketed as Fast ATA and Enhanced IDE (EIDE).
ATA-3: Minor revision to ATA-2.
Ultra-ATA: Also called Ultra-DMA, ATA-33, and DMA-33, supports multiword DMA mode 3 running at 33 MBps.
ATA/66: A version of ATA proposed by Quantum Corporation, and supported by Intel, that doubles ATA's throughput to 66 MBps.
ATA/100: An updated version of ATA/66 that increases data transfer rates to 100 MBps.
ATA also is called Parallel ATA. Contrast with Serial ATA.
Data Recovery Wizard can recover data from ATA hard drive!

Laptop Disk Recovery - Hard Drive Data Recovery Software

With today’s mobile technology, more and more critical data are stored on Laptops The easy access and ability to work anywhere on laptops is now preferred more. But as data on desktop can get damaged, corrupt or lost similarly data and files saved on laptop can also get lost.

Our Specialized technicians at Disk Data Recovery can recover or salvage the lost or corrupt data from failed, crashed or damaged hard disks of Laptops. The common situations when there is a need of Laptop Data Recovery are as follows:

Hard drive failure
Laptop has been dropped
Accidental File Deletion or Human error(s)
Accidental re-partitioning
Physical damage from Fire or Flood
Overwriting of files
Software corruption and failure
Virus attacks and corruption
Blue Screen of death

If you are facing any of the above situations, our Data Recovery Technicians can help you recovering or salvaging lost or corrupt data from laptops.

Our Laptop Data Recovery Services Supports following Laptop Manufacturers:

• Dell,
• Toshiba,
• IBM Think Pad,
• HP Hewlett Packward,
• Sony VAIO,
• Compaq,
• Fujitsu,
• Fuji,
• Samsung and many other manufacturers.

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Undeleting Files In Windows Xp

The majority of this article deals with recovering lost data from vanished partitions and accidentally wiped drives. This is all well and good, but what happens if you simply want a couple of files back that you deleted? Gone from the recycling bin? All is not lost. A variety of applications are available that can dig into your hard drives history and recover deleted items.

As you read earlier in this article, a file that is deleted from a Windows drive is not actually erased from the disk. Instead it is marked as having been deleted. The next time Windows is writing data
to the disk, it will regard these deleted files as free space that can be copied over. This is why it's important to keep disk operations to a minimum when you are trying to recover data. It's also why you should install and operate your data recovery software on a different partition than the files you
are trying to save whenever possible.

Undelete programs simply scan your drive for files marked with the delete symbol and offer you a chance to restore them. Simple and pretty much foolproof as long as too much time has not passed since the original file deletion. You'll likely be surprised at how far back the files you find with these utilities go.

Let's take a look at some freeware file restoration programs:

Restoring deleted files with PC Inspector file
recovery

This versatile freeware program is capable of many
recovery tasks, including retrieving deleted files. Let's take a look at how to
use it to recover those documents your toddler accidentally wiped out. Note that
PC
Inspector


can only recover files on a FAT file system,
and does not work with NTFS formatted drives.

Start PC-Inspector.

Choose the 'recover deleted files' option.

Highlight the logical drive (c:, d:, e:, etc.) that you
wish to look for deleted files on and hit 'ok.'

Now expand the 'deleted' entry. The right pane shows a directory tree from the root of the logical drive you are searching. The green files are deleted files that you can attempt to recover, while green folders are deleted folders. Look through until you find what you are looking for, or use the 'find...' command in the 'object' menu to search for specific files.

Once you have located the file or files you wish to recover, right click them and choose 'save to.' Enter a location on the disk and the file(s) will be restored to that location. For a really simple and effective way to recover deleted files, it doesn't get much better than Restoration, that's next.

TestDisk Backs Up Lost Data

Once this search is complete, hit enter again. It's a good idea to run the 'search!' option to do a more comprehensive search of the drive.

If you initially had no partitions shown, because of a damaged or wiped partition table, Testdisk will now hopefully have rediscovered the partitions.

Verify the information and select 'write' to save the new information onto the disk. If removing your partitions was the only damage you did, you should now be up and running again.

If you damaged the partition boot sector on your partition, (as I did) you should select the
'advanced' option, then 'boot.'

Testdisk will compare the boot sector to the backup boot sector. If they are identical, it can do nothing more, but if they are different it will ask you if you wish to overwrite the boot sector with the information from the backup.

This operation made my 'lost' partition with the articles on it accessible again. Testdisk is an extremely useful tool for partition recovery. Though it lacks a graphical interface and can only be run from DOS, it is capable of restoring lost information in minutes.

Freeware For Findntfs

FINDNTFS (available here ) is a rather effective free program to locate and recover NTFS (NT File System, The default method of storing files on Windows 2k/XP) files. It is available in several
versions, including one that will run from a DOS boot, and thus can be used when the Windows OS is not bootable.

FINDNTFS is capable of several things besides finding and
copying lost files, but that is what we will focus on for now.

To use FINDNTFS, boot your system into DOS using a boot disk with the findntfs.exe file on
it.

To obtain a list of NTFS files and directories on the drive you are attempting to recover from, type 'FINDNTFS # 1 1 1 c:\recoverlog.txt files' at the command prompt. The "#" should be replaced with the number of the hard drive you are reading from. If you have only one drive, it will be '1', if there is
more than one drive in the system the physical hard drive with the 'c:' logical drive on it will be '1'.

This command tells The FINDNTFS program to search the entire specified disk for NTFS files, and output the file list to a text file on the C: drive.

Note that you can save the text file under any name on any drive, as long as it has the '.txt' extension. Do not save the log file onto a drive you are trying to recover data from however.

Once saved to another drive you can view the log file, which should look something like this.

If everything went well, you should have a reassuring, if somewhat jumbled list of the available NTFS files on the drive you selected. Search the document for the filenames that are most essential, and then scroll up until you see the directory that they are in.

You will need to do this, since the directory order that FINDNTFS sees will not necessarily be the same as you had before the data was lost. Note down the number of the directory before proceeding on with the next step.

Ntfs Reader For Dos

To recover files using FINDNTFS, you need to use the 'copy' command. A limitation of the program
is that it will only save recovered files into the directory where the FINDNTFS executable is located, so make sure you have enough space available to hold your restored files.

Type 'FINDNTFS # (replace "#" with thr drive you are recovering from, as before) 1 1 1 copy #'. This is the directory number holding the files you wish to restore. You may enter up to 10 directory numbers. If you do not enter a number, the program will attempt to restore and copy all NTFS files on the selected disk.

FINDNTFS will copy the selected directories and files to the directory containing the FINDNTFS.exe file. Check the recovered files to make sure they are not corrupted.

Sadly, FINDNTFS has one major limitation. It cannot copy NTFS files onto DOS readable (FAT) partitions, and therefore is not able to recover files without an NTFS supporting operating
system running (Windows NT/2K/XP). Thus it is not possible to recover files directly with this program using a DOS boot disk.

NTFS reader for DOS Freeware

NTFS reader for DOS (available here ) can copy NTFS files onto DOS (FAT) partitions. In fact, that is the only thing it does, but what a useful thing... If your NTFS disk is unbootable, you can put this program on a floppy and copy files from the disk onto the floppy. Very good for rescuing essential documents that need to be completed.

The limitation of this program is that it cannot read from partitions that have damaged boot sectors, or from drives with damaged partition tables, as it needs to be able to see the NTFS partition before it copies data from it. The company that made this software, 'Active@ Data Recovery Service' (www.ntfs.com), offers a commercial version, 'Active@ Partition Recovery', which adds the ability to search the drive for lost partitions as well as copy data, making it a complete recovery tool.

Note that NTFS reader will also work under Windows 9x/ME but not on 2K or XP, due to restrictions these Operating systems place on accessing drives directly.

Steps to Data Recovery

The number one rule to follow when you have lost data is to not write anything more to the affected hard drive! This rule stands true for any situation...

If you have deleted a partition by accident, do not create another partition, just leave it blank.

If you have deleted files from the recycling bin that you realize you need, do not (if possible) save anything to the drive. The reason for this is that hard drives do not actually erase anything, not data or partitions. When you erase a file from the operating system, it is just marked on the drive as having been deleted. When the system needs to store more data on the drive, it will consider files on the drive marked 'deleted' as being empty space, and cheerfully copy over them. If that happens then you're in big trouble.

The same rule applies twice over for partitions; since partition information just presents the operating system with a way of addressing the space available on the drive. If you wipe out a partition everything from it will seem to be gone.

So if there is no partition information, no data can be read by the operating system. This does not mean that your data it is not there however, only that you can't see it. Data-recovery programs have no such handicap.

What I had done in my zeal was to allow FDISK to test the integrity of the drive, which it does by writing a pattern of data to certain areas. Of course, in my case, many of these areas contained partition information and/or critical system files. The result was one missing partition, due to a destroyed boot sector, and one unbootable (but still readable) XP installation. The good news? I got it (almost) all back.

Here's how.

The first, and best thing to do in a data-loss situation is to make sure no more data is written to the drive. Obviously, if you have just the one partition and it's fried, you can't boot normally to the operating system. The best option in this situation is to transfer the drive to another computer, preferably one using the same file-system as your damaged partition (i.e. the same operating system, or a newer version).

Transferring the HDD to another computer has the dual benefit of preventing the drive from being written to accidentally, and potentially allowing you to retrieve information from the disk just by using Windows Explorer to look through file structures.

If you have damaged or erased essential operating system files, but the partition information is still intact Windows will not boot. The HDD can still be read from a different operating system which is one way out of the doom and gloom.

This was the case with one of the two XP partitions on the disk I mangled, as I was able to fully access it after moving the hard disk physically to another computer.

Fixing Ntfs Partition

The first sector of NTFS partitions is reserved for the partition boot sector. This contains the information that allows the OS to read the partition. Without it, the partition cannot be accessed.

By its nature, NTFS keeps a backup copy of the boot sector on the last sector of the partition which can allow recovery programs to restore it. The FAT equivalent of this is also called the boot sector, and resides on the first sector of the partition. The difference is that FAT does not keep a backup
copy of this information, making recovery much more difficult...

The first file stored on an NTFS partition is the Master File Table(MFT) which is essentially a listing of the names, properties and locations of all the other files in the partition. This is referenced by the operating system to access individual files.

NTFS
stores a backup copy of this file. Data restoration software will attempt to access or restore
a copy of the MFT in order to access files on the partition.

FAT partitions use something similar, called predictably enough the File Allocation Table (FAT). The FAT is also backed up on the disk, and can be restored by software. The major disadvantage of the FAT as compared to the MFT is that it needs to be located on a specific area of the partition to function,
so if that area of the disk is damaged, recovery can be difficult.

When a
file is deleted (removed from the recycle bin within Windows), both file systems
simply mark the file as deleted. The data is not actually removed from the
drive, but rather the space it
takes up on the disk is now considered to be free. Consequently, if you delete a
file accidentally, you have an excellent chance of being able to restore it
provided you do not write more information to the disk.

In my situation, I had two NTFS partitions on the effected disk. When I ran FDISK, it wrote garbage information over certain areas of this disk, including areas of both partitions. As a result, the first partition (the one with my article on it) had lost its partition boot sector, meaning it could not be accessed normally by an operating system. The second partition had merely had crucial system files overwritten, and was unbootable, but still fully accessible once I transferred the disk to another computer.

Thankfully there is a way to fix all of this, and get the data back!

First, a small disclaimer: All the processes described from here on are strictly for resolving software issues with your data, like accidentally deleting partitions or files. If your hard drive has a physical problem, if it is making strange noises, shaking, rattling or smoking, nothing here will apply. Turn your
computer off, unplug the drive and call a data recovery service if your files are vital.

Attempting to self-service your hard drive it may only make things worse.

Primary Partition Gone?

The hard drive that suffered the data loss was a
17Gb Fujitsu drive with two 5Gb XP NTFS partitions (Home and Professional) and 6Gb of unused space. Both XP partition were unbootable after the incident.

After transferring the drive to a Windows 2000 computer so I could use disk manager, (to load disk manager on XP or 2000, right click 'my computer' select 'manage' then 'disk manager') this is what I saw.

The Primary partition where my 5000+ word article was saved, is seen as unformatted and cannot be read by the OS. The second XP partition could not be booted, but was seen as formatted and I could transfer files easily from it using explorer. Unfortunately, all the data I needed was on the first partition.

What to do? Well there are a few tricks you can use to get data back from the brink of an abyss like the one I've created for myself here. First though, we should understand exactly what a file system is, and how it controls access to your data on a computer.

An overview of file systems

A file system is a method an operating system uses to arrange data and free space on a hard drive or other storage device so it can be written to and read from. File systems create partitions which are areas of free space than can be addressed by the file system and seen as a logical drives(C: D: etc.) to be written to and read from.

The two file systems used by the various Windows operating systems are NTFS (NT File System)
and FAT (File Allocation Table). FAT is an earlier file system, used first in DOS as FAT-16, then later in Windows 9x/ME as FAT-32.

The only major difference between FAT-16 and -32 is in the amount of data they can address. FAT-16 can only use up to 2GB of space on each logical drive, and FAT-32 has no such limitation. Later Microsoft operating systems like Windows 2000 and XP are fully compatible with FAT, even if it is
not the default method they use to store files.

NTFS is used in Windows NT, 2000 and XP and provides a more secure and efficient method of file storage. In addition to allowing security to be implemented on individual files, NTFS also stores backup copies of essential disk information to aid in recovering from disaster.

Both file systems use the Master Boot Record (MBR) and partition table, found in the first sector of
each hard drive or storage device. The MBR and partition table determine which partition(s) on the disk are bootable, and locate and pass control to that partition to boot the operating system.

If the MBR or partition table are damaged, the drive will become unbootable, and may appear to be blank if the partition information has been erased.

Beginners Guides:Hard Drive Data Recovery

Killed a hard drive without backing up? Deleted your babies first photo and already emptied the recycling bin? Not to worry, you can probably recover your data with the help of this guide from PCSTATS. - Version 2.3.1

If you've been using computers for a decent amount of time there is a
good chance someone has told you that data stored on a hard drive
is not exactly safe. I'm here to assure you that this is indeed true.

Never mind the fact that unlike tapes or CDs or other methods of storage, hard drives are mechanical, active devices and are thus subject to comparatively rapid breakdown.

No, the real threat to hard drives are the people that use them, by which I mean you and me. Hard drives, being the dynamic storage devices that they are, are extremely easy to erase in any number of amusing and simple to achieve ways... as are USB hard drives and flash memory cards (recovery tips for that media is detailed here). Also recently added; How to fix a 1TB hard drive that suddenly changes to 0.0GB, or 32MB in size.

Working as a computer tech during the glory days of Windows XP, you get rather used to using FDISK and other hard drive utilities to prepare and repair customer's drives, which leads to a certain over confidence. That attitude can lead straight to disaster, sort of like giving a 12
year old boy the keys to an ATV.

Picture this if you will; there I was, two or three sentences and a screen shot away
from finishing a 5000+ word article on computer upgrades. All I had to do was fire
up FDISK on a dual boot Windows PC system and grab a few screen shots. I figured I'd write a little blurb
on how to partition a drive, making sure to tell the readers not to mess with
FDISK if they were not sure what they were doing…

Yes, there's
going to be some irony here.

So anyway, I wanted to get some more screen shots of the actual partitioning screen, but I did not have a blank hard drive handy. I figured I could use my NTFS formatted XP drive (which FDISK perceived as a blank drive) to start the "process," grab the screen shots and then cancel the partitioning.

No problem. Except for one little thing…

I had forgotten that FDISK, in the process of
checking the disk before it prompts you for the size of the partition,
writes information to certain areas of the hard drive. This data writes
over whatever might have been there before. Meanwhile, there I was, watching the '%complete' counter and wondering why a little red warning flag kept going off in my brain? I restarted WinXP and waited for it to boot, and waited... and waited... Oops.