How Data Recovery Works?
Data recovery may sound like magic to most people because it does look like magic when you get your lost files or pictures back out of a broken hard drive or USB drive. Where are they from? Aren’t they supposed to be gone already? If this magic is so powerful, does it work under any circumstances? This article is to help you unveil the magic. First of all, when a file appears lost where does it go? Contrary to what most people think, delete doesn’t mean gone and the file doesn’t disappear off of the hard drive forever. It’s best to think of the computer file as a page in a book. When the file is deleted, that page is not destroyed like it was torn out and put through a shredder. Instead, the table of contents that points out the location of that page is erased. The part that gets erased on your computer is the tiny bit of information that points to the location of the file on the hard drive. Eventually, the hard drive will write new data over the area where the old file is located. The
