Recovering and Repairing Files (Part 1)

If you had to recover a bunch of files, chances are one or more of them won’t open correctly. Some files will always come out corrupted or incomplete, no matter how good a recovery tool you were using. In order to be able to view, edit, or otherwise use these files, you will need to repair the files first.

Recovering and Repairing Files (Part 1)

The Difference Between File Recovery and File Repair

Are you recovering or repairing your files? The two words sound similar to the point the terms become interchangeable. However, the recovery and repair operations are completely different, employ different techniques and require the use of different tools. They are just as similar (or as different) as “buying” a house and “building” one. Let’s see what the differences are.

File Recovery

You will “recover” files if they go missing. You can recover deleted files (by using an operation commonly called “undelete”), and you can recover files stored on a formatted, repartitioned or inaccessible hard drive, corrupted memory card or unreadable USB pen drive. In other words, you “recover” what’s inaccessible.

In order to recover files, you’ll need specialized file recovery tools such as RS File Recovery (for undeleting deleted files) or RS Partition Recovery (for recovering file stored on formatted volumes, repartitioned hard drives or corrupted partitions). Generally speaking, these tools will look through the whole disk or partition looking for any files that are still recoverable.

A number of specialized tools will help you deal with certain types of files such as pictures (RS Photo Recovery), office documents (RS Office Recovery). There are tools that are even more specialized than that, only allowing to recover Excel spreadsheets (RS Excel Recovery) or Word documents (RS Word Recovery).

Why would you want to choose a dedicated tool over a general-use file recovery software? There are two reasons: price and convenience. Price-wise, specialized data recovery tools are often less expensive than all-in-one solutions while sharing most of their algorithms (just limiting them to a certain subset of file types). As long as convenience goes, specialized recovery tools often offer perks not available in general file recovery tools. As an example, RS Office Recovery implements an automated pre-recovery integrity check to ensure that only healthy, 100% complete documents and spreadsheets make it into the list of recoverable files. This guarantees that any file recovered with RS Office Recovery will be immediately usable, and can be opened with Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.

Recovering and Repairing Files (Part 2)

Recovering and Repairing Files (Part 3)

Frequently Asked Questions

Files that can be recovered and repaired include documents, images, audio files, videos, emails, and other types of data. RS Partition Recovery can also be used to recover and repair lost or deleted partitions.
There are several methods that can be used to recover and repair files. These include restoring from a backup, using data recovery software, using a data recovery service, and using a partition recovery tool such as RS Partition Recovery.
Using a file recovery and repair tool, such as RS Partition Recovery, can help you to recover and repair lost, deleted, or corrupted files. It can also help you to restore data from damaged or formatted storage media, such as hard drives, USB drives, and memory cards. Additionally, it can help you to recover data from deleted or lost partitions, and can even help you to repair corrupted file systems.
To ensure your files are safe from accidental deletion or corruption, you should back up your data regularly and use a reliable data recovery program such as RS Partition Recovery. Additionally, you should use a reliable antivirus program to protect your computer from malicious software that could corrupt your files.
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