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Many PC users are of the false belief, that when we delete a file from our PC, the data in it, is permanently erased from the hard drive, and that, the file cannot be recovered. This article lets PC users understand the real facts behind file deletion.
What happens when a file is deleted?
When a file [...]
I think everyone who has every had a email mailbox has at some point or other in their computing experience deleted a file or email they had wanted to keep. It seems we all exhibit a little brain fade from time to time when looking at emails. Somehow we read a message and either hit [...]
A clicking sound coming from a frozen hard drive doesn’t always mean that the drive is physically broken. Often that sound indicates that the partition on the drive that the disk’s head is searching for is damaged and registering as missing. Your drives control board and your computer’s operating system will endlessly search for the [...]
There are many companies purporting to offer powerful and effective file recovery software. While these programs may be useful for such simple processes as locating a missing document file, they are totally ill equipped for deep scanning of files baring obscure extensions. Moreover, they are in no way developed so as to handle complicated data [...]
The file allocation table or FAT system was the prevelant use of hard drive partitioning in Microsoft Windows versions existing prior to Windows 2000 and XP. As FAT systems primarily exist on older computers, they are exceptionally likely to have problems and lose data due to a logic crash. And, even though the data stored [...]
If you are using an older computer that has a 40 GB or smaller hard drive, there is a great likelihood that your computer is using a FAT 16 or FAT 32 data partitioning system. If such is the case, you will be pleased to note that leading data recovery experts Disk Doctors make available [...]
It is generally agreed that Microsoft Outlook is the best email client program available. But, the one GB file size limitation on the .PST files used by Microsoft Outlook can create problems. Imagine what would happen if you had grains of sand on a beach and each of them was arranged in an exact order. [...]
Most major digital camera manufacturers such as Canon, Nikon, and Minolta use a proprietary coding language for storage of their files. These RAW files, as they are called, are stored either on your camera’s internal memory or a flash memory card. In either case, until the files are downloaded to your computer, they remain in [...]
There are plenty of ways to lose an important file on your personal or office computer. A file can be corrupted during download or compression, files can be deleted as part of a program uninstall and of course, there’s always the possibility of human error, whereby you or I simply choose the option “Delete” instead [...]