Below is a list of books that you can use to learn data recovery and how the file system works and stores data at the lowest level on the disk. The information in the books below could be useful if you are a programmer and would like to make data recovery programs. The information could also be useful if you are having trouble with data recovery programs finding or recovering some of your data. With the information from these books you could use a disk sector editor and recover some of your files manually yourself. If you understand the file structures on the disk you could also make repairs to the file system on the disk if you cannot boot into windows anymore.  Making repairs would prevent you from having to recover all the files on the disk and reinstalling the operating system and your applications.

Title: File System Forensic Analysis [Paperback]
Author: Brian Carrier
Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional; 1 edition (March 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321268172
ISBN-13: 978-0321268174

Title: The Data Recovery Bible, Preventing and Surviving Computer Crashes/Book and Disk [Paperback]
Author: Pamela Kane, Andy Hopkins
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Brady; Pap/Dis edition (May 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1566860806
ISBN-13: 978-1566860802

Title: The Paul Mace Guide to Data Recovery [Paperback]
Author: Paul Mace
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Brady (December 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0136544274
ISBN-13: 978-0136544272

Title: Data Recovery with and without Programming [Paperback]
Author: T Tyagi
Paperback
Publisher: BPB Publications (November 15, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8176569224
ISBN-13: 978-8176569224

Website: Data Recovery with and without Programming

Title: Que’s Guide to Data Recovery [Paperback]
Author: Scott Mueller
Paperback: 820 pages
Publisher: Que Pub (September 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0880225416
ISBN-13: 978-0880225410

Title: Inside the Windows NT File System [Paperback]
Author: Helen Custer
Paperback: 91 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155615660X
ISBN-13: 978-1556156601

These books are some what dated but these are the books that I used to learn data recovery. There is a lot of information in these books about data recovery. If you are serious about learning data recovery and the structures of the file systems I recommend you get these books. If you know of any other good books to learn data recovery please let us know by leaving a comment.