Who has not, through carelessness or omission, forgot to back up their photos before they format their disk drive? If hardware failure can be responsible for lost of data, human errors are the main source of lost files. In this article I’ll be providing some good info on data recovery software and how you can make amends for your errors.

Of course, if your HDD has experienced a drop of 5 floors, or perhaps if it is not recognized within the BIOS, reading this post won’t be very useful. However, if you just delete the photos that you’re certain to have saved on your hard disk, disk recovery software exists and should prove useful to you.

To begin, we will explain why it is possible to recover deleted files despite formatting or deleting the trash. Whenever you delete a file, you don’t actually erase the information but merely get rid of the reference made in the index. The latter then considers that the disk space can be accessed again. However it is quite possible to recoup lost files by evaluating the surface of the drive. To make things more concrete, it’s like finding part of a book devoid of the table of content. Although it may take longer it’s feasible.

This is why you should avoid adding files, moving any folder or make some other manipulation that might use clusters previously allocated to your deleted file. Also you shouldn’t install any new programs on your hard drive in order to avoid any modification to your hard drive. Nevertheless you can still install new software on another hard drive for example an external one.