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Learning Data Recovery

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April 11, 2011

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.

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Data Recovery and Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software.

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April 11, 2011

Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software is a program that loads when your hard drive is booted that allows the computer bios to see the entire size of the hard drive. Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) software is used on a computer where you have a hard drive installed that is bigger than the computer bios supports. If you are trying to perform data recovery on a computer with a hard drive that uses the Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software then it can come in handy if your data recovery software can access the hard drive at the hardware level instead of the bios level. The reason you should use a data recovery program that can access the hard drive at the hardware level instead of the bios level when the hard drive is using Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software is because any data recovery programs that access the hard drive at the bios level will only see the size of the hard drive the bios can access without the Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software loaded or will not be able to see that the hard drive is installed in the computer system without the Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software loaded. If this is the case then the data recovery program will not be able to recover you data. The bios will not be able to see the entire size of the hard drive without the Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software Loaded. The Dynamic Drive Overlay Software will not be loaded if you try to boot the computer from a floppy disk or cd that does not have the Dynamic Drive Overlay Software (DDO) on it. If your data recovery program can access the hard drive at the hardware level instead of the bios level then it does not matter if the Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) Software is loaded. You will be able to see and recover the full size of the hard drive as long as the data recovery program you are using can access the hard drive at the hardware level.

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Data Recovery Software Experiences

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April 6, 2011

Please tell us about the experiences you have had with any software that you have tried to use to recover your data. We have used the programs below and have had good experiences with them most of the time.

1.GetDataBack For NTFS

2.GetDataBack For FAT

3.Medial Tools Professional

Media tools Professional can bypass the bios and look at the hard drive at the hardware level. This can come in handy sometimes when no other data recovery program can see your data. Not all data recovery programs can bypass the bios.

If you are trying to use data recovery programs to recover your data we suggest that you try more than one data recovery program because not any one data recovery program can recover your data in every situation.

One data recover program might not see any data on the drive to recover and another might be able to recover all of your data.

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Shadow Image Data Recovery

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April 2, 2011

Welcome to the Shadow Image Data Recovery Blog. You can use the Shadow Image Data Recovery Blog to get answers to all of your data recovery questions.

If you have a data recovery question just post a comment to our data recovery blog to ask your question. One of our blog visitors should answer your question.

We also have 2 data recovery articles on our website to help answer some of your questions. We are also in the process of writing other data recovery articles for our website.

Please visit The Shadow Image Data Recovery website at http://www.sirecovery.com

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