Data Recovery Guide

• Data recovery plan overview
• Mechanical vs. software problems
• Common data recovery scenarios
• Types of data recovery
• Hardware and disk space
• Performing a data recovery
• Using boot CDs
• Various aspects

Data recovery

Most likely you are reading this document because you need to recover a file, several files, or maybe an entire disk full of files. Pick the most interesting topic from the list below, or just read the entire collection starting with first actions. Just remember not to write anything on the disk which contains the lost data.

Once the data loss is discovered

• First actions.
• Hardware damage vs. software corruption.

Planning and preparations

• Common data recovery scenarios.
• In-place repairs (fixing) vs. read-only data recovery (data extraction).
• Hardware and disk space considerations.

Recovering the data

• The recovery run.
• Using bootable CD tools, such as BartPE.
• Various aspects of the data recovery.

Continue to Data recovery plan overview.