File Recovery Projects
General tips to recover files deleted using command prompt
Usually all computer user make use of the Delete key to delete unwanted file. When you delete a file, the system sends this deleted file into the Recycle Bin. If you want you can recover from that Recycle Bin using “Restore” option. This Restore option restores that deleted file to its original location. Though this [...]
Differentiating partitions and hard drives
Invariably people confuse a computer partition and a computer hard drive. They are under the impression that these two things are one and the same. While they are often terms used synonymously a partition and a hard drive differ in that the partition is simply a section of a component located on a drive. Consider [...]
Photo recovery performed on the Mac OS
As with any application saved or loaded onto a Mac computer photo recovery tools must be designed to support that particular OS. Simply put, don’t try to find deleted digital photos on a Mac with a tool built for Windows. Now as obvious as this may sound it might surprise you to learn two things. [...]
Scanning small digital storage drives for data recovery
Whether you need help with memory card recovery to find lost digital photographs on a reformatted SD card or whether you are searching for an MP3 that mysteriously disappeared from your iPod the data recovery utility that you will use to accomplish these tasks is the same. Actually many of these unique and specific data [...]
The viability of generic data recovery tools for digital photo retrieval
If you think that you can recover deleted photos using a general purpose data recovery program you are sadly mistaken. Those programs which are very effective for scanning and recovery of digital image file types such as jpegs are of no use when attempting to recover digital photos that have been stored in the original [...]
How our need to recover lost data can come about
The need to recover lost data arises for several reasons. The foremost of these is human error in the form of accidentally deleting files. Very often we simply click on delete instead of save and data is lost. Other times we might momentarily think we wish to delete a file only to remember later on [...]
Basic situations requiring deleted file recovery on PCs
The need to recover deleted files arises in quite a few different ways. The most frequent of these occurs due to common human error. People simply sometimes delete files they meant to save. Of course we are not always aware we are deleting files. For example if we place a file in a folder and [...]
Vulnerabilities found in Mac computers similar to Windows PCs
Most Mac users love their computers and swear by the notion that Mac computers are impervious to virus attacks, hardware freezing and data loss. This belief is ridiculous because a Mac computer is just as susceptible to file loss and data corruption during startup or shutdown as any Windows based personal computer. And the solutions [...]
Differences in MS Outlook and Outlook Express
I think the greatest difference between Microsoft Outlook Express and the larger e-mail client Microsoft Outlook is that when messages are lost using Microsoft Outlook Express the cause tends to be human error. When emails and other information is lost from the Microsoft Outlook application the root cause traces itself back to problems with the [...]
A common problem with PC and Mac file deletion
Whether your choice of computer is a PC or a Mac, there is one dilemma shared by users of both. Mac computers use the Mac OS X operating system. Windows based PCs use any of the current versions of Windows OS such as XP, Vista or Windows 7. Both of these share a system of [...]