Types of Data Recovery
- Logical data recovery: The retrieval of information, which is considered logical involve the process of recovering data from various storage areas that have logical failure or destruction like partition table errors system file damages and software issues among others. These tools which are capable of recovery in terms of logically corrupting files may restore such media that would be thought useless due to some errors.
- Physical data recovery: Physical data recovery means that you can recover all your lost data after it has been damaged due to some reasons like broken hardware or memory.
- Optical recovery: Optical storage is referred to as CDs, DVDs, and other laser-written media. Using data recovery solutions that specialize in optical storage offers the best chance of recovering lost data from CDs and DVDs.
- Instant data recovery: Whenever data is lost in this data recovery methodology, the user is automatically directed to a backup server where they can quickly have a look at their workload while IT is taking care of the restorative process in the background.
- Formatted Drive Recovery: Data retrieval from hard disks that have been formatted or initialized would be achieved through formatted hard disk recovery process wherein the formatted hard disk is scanned for remnants of the original data and reconstructed to recover maximum information that might have been lost.
- Partition Recovery: Partition recovery is used for retrieving information from lost or disfigured disk sections. Lost sections may be as a result of erroneous partitioning, accidental removal of a partition or formatting errors. During a scan, partition recovery software can identify lost sections of the disk and recover both the data and the partitions on the lost sections.
- Forensic Data Recovery: Forensic data recovery techniques may involve extracting deleted files, analyzing file metadata and reconstructing digital artifacts to support investigations and legal proceedings in legal and investigative contexts, as involving the process of retrieving and analyzing digital evidence from storage devices.
What is Data Recovery ?
Data recovery is the process of retrieving or restoring lost, corrupted, deleted, or inaccessible data from storage devices such as hard drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), USB drives, memory cards, and other media.