Analysis of that file information on the disk. There are two methods that all file recovery software uses:ġ. No program or commercially available data recovery method can recover it. But if any data on the disk is overwritten, then the old data is gone.

So, if even such file information is gone, there are chances that the file data still remains on the disk.

When an OS manipulates files, it usually make changes to the information about the files and leaves file data unchanged until it needs that disk space for something, such as storing new file data. Modern OS in the Windows family, like Windows XP, 7, 8/8.1, 10 use disks with the NTFS file system, where such information about files and folders is kept in the Master File Table (MFT). (If you need more information about that, please refer to our article File Recovery Basics which discuss this subject more thoroughly.) We need this information to understand what can be recovered and how that can be done.Īlmost all modern operating systems, (including Windows, MacOS, and Linux), store information about files and folders, like file names, sizes, time stamps, and exact physical locations of the file data, separately from the file data itself. We begin with some brief information about how Windows stores files on a disk and what happens with them when someone makes a fresh Windows install on that disk. This article will explain in detail how to do that. Well, this task can be solved using special data recovery programs such as R-Studio.

Moreover, that particular disk contained very important files that are accessible no more and getting those files back becomes now the most urgent task. Mysteriously, Windows appears freshly installed on some other logical disk than the one that was actually planned.

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