Computers: Recover Deleted Data Easily

Recover Deleted Data Easily

Written by Brad Triggs

With such a multitude of disk recovery software available, both in computer stores and on repparttar

internet for downloading, there is a good chance that you can recover deleted data. If you've accidentally erased files that you need for whatever reason, you can recover them by running recovery software, or by hiring a professional to look at your drive and assess repparttar 107423

damage. If you decide to hire a professional or a company that specializes in repparttar 107424

recovery of deleted files, you'll need to weigh repparttar 107425

costs of

service against how much repparttar 107427

data is worth to you to decide whether or not it is worth repparttar 107428

expense and time required to retrieve repparttar 107429

information.

You can recover accidentally deleted files regardless of how they became erased in repparttar 107430 first place. Many times, it is user error. There's really no explaining how you hit delete when you meant to save, but it happens a lot more often than you might think! Other causes of unintentional data deletion come from system malfunctions, mechanical trouble, power failures, and virus attacks.

Partitioning, Formatting and Reinstalling in Windows 98

Written by Ashish Jain

Formatting and reinstalling windows 98 is very easy if you have repparttar

right know-how.

This article will discuss how to format, partition and reinstall windows 98 on your PC.

Before going ahead and doing this, it is important to be comfortable with repparttar 107421 terms format, partition and file systems.

Formatting creates magnetic markers, which define sectors where repparttar 107422 data is stored.

Basically you might want to format your hard drive if you are experiencing constant problems with your operating system. Another reason could be to clean out repparttar 107423 registry, which gets clogged up over time by installing programs (and spy ware and third party software which get installed without your knowledge).

It's also a good idea to format your hard drive if you are upgrading to a new operating system.

Partitioning is repparttar 107424 process of dividing repparttar 107425 space available on repparttar 107426 hard disk into blocks. One reason for partitioning is that it helps in organising repparttar 107427 data.

I.e. lets say you have an 80 GB hard disk drive. You can partition it to organize data into various categories like a drive for your Windows and system files and for your personal work. You can then have another separate drive for storing repparttar 107428 rest of your programs.

You can even have one more for storing all your multimedia files, and maybe even one for storing backups of all your important files.

Before going ahead and partitioning a drive it is important to understand how partitions actually work.

There are two kinds of partitions: primary DOS and extended DOS, and you can create logical DOS partitions within repparttar 107429 extended partitions.

The primary partition is your active partition and this is from where your computer boots, sort of like a system partition.

The extended partition is a placeholder where you can create all repparttar 107430 other logical partitions.

File System is basically repparttar 107431 way that files are stored on your computer. Windows 98 supports two kinds of file systems: File Allocation Table 16 (FAT 16) and file Allocation Table (FAT 32).

FAT 16 can support a drive of maximum 2 GB in size. For example, if you have an 8 GB hard disk, then you can have 4 drives of 2 GB each.

FAT 32 on repparttar 107432 other hand can support a drive of up to 2 Terabytes in size.

Before actually going ahead and doing repparttar 107433 reinstall it is advisable to back up any and all of your data and device drivers as a format will wipe out all your data on repparttar 107434 drive.

There are two ways of backing up your data and device drivers:

* Save them in a storage media like floppy drivers, CD's, zip disks etc.

* If you have a partitioned hard disk and you do not plan to format a particular drive then back up all your data there.

After performing your backups it's time to get down to formatting and partitioning (if you want to do that as well) your hard drive.

First you need to decide on a few things:

* Do you wish to partition you hard drive or change repparttar 107435 way it is partitioned currently? * The file system you want to use. Windows 98 support two file systems FAT 16 and FAT 32.

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