Restoring files from flash drive after deletion or formatting
Sometimes it is impossible to format a USB flash drive or SD card, transfer or write data to it. The Windows system displays an error message saying, "The drive is write-protected. Remove the protection or use a different drive". In this article, we will analyze the causes and solutions to this problem.
What happens to files I delete from a smartphone? Is there a chance to get them back after full factory reset? And when are you finally writing a data tool for my smartphone? With massive proliferation of smartphones, we are getting more and more of these questions every week. So we decided to write the definite article to (hopefully) answer most of these questions.
As manufacturers of data recovery software, we have dozens customers contacting us every day requesting assistance recovering lost information. While in most cases we are able to help, some situations are just hopeless. In this article, we’ll talk about how to avoid finding yourself in one of those situations where you can do nothing about your lost data.
Answering calls on our hotline, I deal with all types of issues related to data loss. Deleted files, inaccessible SD cards, virus attacks, empty USB drives… experiments with alternative operating systems that went wrong. These, and the many other issues are what we try to address with our range of data recovery tools.
Today’s data recovery tools have no problem recovering your data from a recently formatted hard drive or memory card. If you are following our publications, you may already know how they do it (and if you don’t, you’re welcome to read “Content Aware Recovery and Data Carving Explained” we published two weeks ago). But why exactly is this possible? Isn’t the very purpose of formatting the disk destroying everything on it? Well, not quire. Let’s have a look at what actually happens when you format (or “initialize”) a disk volume.
With the many data recovery products offering to undelete your deleted files in a matter of minutes, have you ever wondered just how exactly it works, and why it’s at all possible? In this article, we’ll have a look at what Windows does when deleting a file, and what those tools do to reverse it.
There are three simple rules to avoid data loss on removable storage media.
- Use Unmount or Safe Remove to safely eject the device - Do not remove the storage device while in use - Disable write cache for removable storage devices
A file system is used to index and organize files on the disk. Records in the file system point to exact location(s) on the disk containing information that belongs to a certain file. Different file systems organize files differently. This article discusses the recovery of FAT (File Allocation Table) file systems, which includes the original FAT, FAT16 and FAT32.
