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Data loss is a great threat to sensitive data. It becomes essential for every office to protect its data. Sometimes, the disk may fail due to various reasons like mechanical fault, or natural calamities. In such cases, the data present in the disk cannot be protected. However, if proper precautions are taken in the beginning, you can recover the data easily. There are various software for data recovery, disk imaging and data extracting. These tools have to be used to create duplicates from which the original data can be recovered.

The tools to prevent data loss are available as freeware as well as paid products. If you want to protect data in your home computer, you can go for the freeware software. On the other hand, if you have a sophisticated office, you should buy the paid ones for additional features.

Data recovery tools
The data recovery tools help you to recover the data you have lost accidentally. Even if you delete files from your computer, they will remain in the hard disk. You will not get access to deleted files because the pointers to those files will be lost. Using data recovery software, you can recover deleted data even if you have used shift + del to delete the file. Recuva, PC inspector file recovery, Panda recovery, Softperfect file recovery are some of the freeware recovery software. You can save dollars by using these tools to protect your data from mischievous kids and teens at home. Recover my files is an excellent software with great features to prevent data loss. You can recover compressed as well as encrypted files with this software. Other top products include Migo digital rescue, Handy recovery, Quick recovery, Getdatabook, and R studio.

Disk imaging tools
Disk imaging software creates disk images, which are stored in a separate device. The image can be used to recover all the data that was present in the failed disk. Norton Ghost is a popular disk-imaging tool used by many administrators. Though some people call it unstable, this software can effectively create disk images, which can be burnt in a CD or carried in a USB. Acronis true image, Paragon Drive backup, R drive image, 7 tools partition, and Mr Mirror are also widely used. Clone Maxx, Macrium reflect free, PING – Partimage is not ghost are a few open source disk imaging software.

Data extracting tools
Data extracting tools extract data from various hard drives. Such software is used extensively to extract data from various disks in a warehouse. This software can also be used to retrieve data from the disk image. To extract data from various sources, different data extraction tools are used. Some of them include Abetone, Dogears, Data pilot, and Intelliget. The data extraction tools are available as freeware too. The data extracting tools are generally expensive because they need to perform complex task apart from offering searching features.

When you search on the internet, you will find a lost of options for all the above tools. It is important to know your needs before buying any tool.

Data is the key behind any functioning system. With the use of hard disk drives, a large amount of data can be stored in a disk conveniently. As all data can be stored in a single HDD, the possibility of disk failure poses a new threat to the availability of data. A disk may fail due to various reasons. Mechanical failure is common in old disks. Other reasons include natural catastrophe like earthquakes, floods, etc. When sensitive information is stored in HDD, it becomes essential to reduce the possibility of data loss. This is achieved by storing the data redundantly. The process of duplicating the contents of a data storage device to another device is known as disk imaging.

What is disk imaging?
Disk imaging refers to the exact duplicate of the HDD, which contains sensitive information. All information present in the HDD is copied to a new storage medium. A clone of the HDD is created and the data can be easily recovered from the duplicate HDD. The only possibility to recover from data loss is creating redundancy and disk-imaging software helps the administrator to clone HDD containing valuable information.

How disk-imaging software works?
The disk imaging software creates a clone using the image of the disk. The software does not create a backup with the exact information present in HDD. If this has to be done by the software, then to create a backup of an 80GB hard drive, another 80GB hard drive would be needed. This is not a feasible option. Disk imaging does not deploy data mirroring technique. The software will create an image of the disk, which is much smaller. This image can be then used to retrieve the data using data retrieval software.

Benefits of disk imaging
Disk imaging is prominently used to create a back up for sensitive data. With the use of appropriate software, it is easy to create a disk image. If the normal HDD fails, data can be recovered from the image in simple steps. You can create an image of a single partition or the whole drive. It is possible to store the image of your operating system. Later, you can install this image at once if your operating system crashes.

The administrators prefer to keep the same configuration in all the computers in a network. To facilitate this without the use of disk imaging, you need to install the operating system, device drivers and other software in every single computer. In this scenario, you can take advantage of disk imaging to reduce the laborious work. Install all the required software including operating system in a single computer. Use a disk imaging software and create an image of this configured computer. In a single step, install this image in all the computers in the network to configure all the computers in the same way.

You can save the image of a disk in a small space. Many people use CDs to burn their disk image for later use. With the disk image, you have a restoration point to which the computer can be restored at any time.

This continue the video guide to data recovery with part four.