But, if it’s about sensitive data recovery – which is worth something, you need to consult a professional to help you recover the data. Well, for experimental purpose, you can try it yourself with the help of the resources available online. However, in such cases, I wouldn’t recommend you to try recovering the data on your own. Physical Damage: Physical damage might also lead to data loss.In this case, it’s highly uncertain whether you’ll be able to recover the data or not.
Suppose, you had NTFS as the type of partition – you will have good chances to recover data.Īlso, not just the file system, even your operating system depends on how efficient or easy the data recovery process will be. It depends on what file system it utilized before erasing the data and what kind of data you transferred in after formatting the drive. System Format: Recovery isn’t a 100% after formatting a partition or drive. It’s easy to recover in this case – but given the condition of the state of the storage device after data loss (no new data should be written to it) Causes of Data LossĪccidentally deleting the files: It is the most common type of data loss – on which we’re focusing here in our article. I know you must be angry if you didn’t have a backup – but it should be your last time doing that.Īlways take a backup of your files (cloud backup and an external backup drive). So, let us take a look at some of the interesting facts and various causes of data loss. You need to be sure what caused the data loss before even trying to recover the files – unless you want to spend a lot of money without having a faint idea whether there’s hope for recovery or not. Of course, the cause of data loss matters. But, technically, the data recovery methods might differ depending on what caused the data loss in the first place. But, they can be easily overwritten by any piece of information written to the storage drive after data loss. They still have a logical address which can be found using complex algorithms (here – using recovery tools). The files deleted still reside in your storage drive, you just lose access to the file. Yes, we mentioned that your deleted files are still recoverable unless you’ve written any kind of new information to the storage drive after data loss. However, we’ll get into more details (with some technical jargons) to let you know how it really works. I’ll recommend you to recap what you read in the intro of our article. Fret not, if you’re curious about it, we’ll explain it to you how that happens along with some interesting facts about data recovery in general.