Guidelines to recover deleted files from hard drive

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is a secondary data storage device, which is commonly used in desktop and laptop computers. HDD is a non-volatile and magnetic data storage device that stores the user data in digital form. Nowadays HDD operate on high-speed serial interfaces such as Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) or Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). The files saved on the hard drive may get loss or delete due to various scenarios. Even after deletion or loss of files, it is possible to recover deleted files from hard drive. By the use of good file recovery software, you can easily recover deleted files from hard drive.

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is available in different storage capacities ranges from 500 MB to 1 TB and more. Popular manufacturers of HDD are Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi GST, Toshiba, Samsung. For Microsoft Windows operating systems, the hard drive can be formatted with various file formats such as FAT 16, FAT 32, Ext FAT, NTFS or NTFS5. Loss of files on the hard drive may take place due to various scenarios such as accidental deletion of wrong files, unintentionally detaching the portable device during file transfer from it, unexpected shutdown of the system while cutting and pasting the files from one place to another, files deleted using Shift + Delete key combination and emptying the Recycle Bin, etc. Let us briefly explain few important case scenarios in which loss of files on the hard drive can be occurred.

  • Improper system shutdown: Sometimes you are arranging the files by creating new folders on the hard disk drive and moving them into newly created folders. Commonly people use cut and paste command while moving files from one place to another on the hard disk drive. While file transmission process is in progress, if the system gets shutdown unexpectedly due to power outage then there may be chances to loss of files on the hard disk drive.
  • Emptied Recycle Bin: Suppose you have moved few files into Recycle Bin to make free space on the drive and keeping in mind that you can restore them when you needed. Sometimes if you accidentally empty the Recycle Bin then all the files stored in the it gets deleted. This type of a situation may lead to loss of files on the hard disk drive.
  • Over sized Recycle Bin: Deleting a file even after the Recycle Bin exceeds its maximum size limit may also cause the loss of files on the hard disk drive. Deleted or lost file can be recovered until a new data is overwritten on it. Let us see how you can recover deleted or lost file from the hard disk drive.

The best solution to perform deleted file recovery from hard drive is to make use of good file recovery software. Remo Recover (Windows) – Basic Edition software is the best file recovery software, which can effectively recover deleted files from hard drive. Download this software and install it on your computer in which you need to recover deleted files. You can use this software to recover deleted or lost files from the SATA, SCSI or IDE interfaced hard disk drive. For Microsoft Windows operating systems, you can recover deleted or lost files from the FAT 16, FAT 32, Ext FAT, NTFS or NTFS5 formatted hard disk drive.