Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Use Recovery CD to recover data and recreate lost partitions

A Recovery CD or disk is a general term for media containing a backup of the original factory settings or condition of a computer as configured by an Original Equipment Manufacturer or end-user. These days computers are usually shipped with Recovery Disk which allows the user to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system and pre-loaded software to its original condition.

A Recovery CD will also be of great help in many cases. Some of the most common instances where a Recovery CD can help you are the following:

Hard Drive Crash
Virus Attack
Malware Attack
Driver Corruption
Accidental Data Deletion
Operating System Problems
Data Corruption

CD data Recovery will help you in all these cases and help you recover your lost or inaccessible data. These discs boot from a separate CD-ROM, DVD, or hard drive partition and start the data recovery process. It starts the recovery process by reformatting the hard drive and starts copying operating system and software files. Most of the Recovery CDs use special software for data recovery and some use Windows Imaging Format based image on a partition along with a tool launched from the Windows Recovery Environment’s command prompt.

Another method of recovering data is to utilize the hard drive partitions to restore and recover data. It is a faster method of data recovery than a Recovery CD as the data is stored directly on the hard drive. But in case the drive crashes or is reformatted the partitions on the hard drive will be lost. In that case it will be essential to use a Recovery CD to recover data and recreate lost partitions.

Other cases where a Recovery CD is helpful is where the hardware configuration of a system changes, drivers and support for the additional hardware will not be present on the recovery image which will require you to reinstall the drivers. A Recovery CD is a very useful tool which can help you in a lot of cases and helps restore your data as well as peace of mind.