By Stas Ermolov
 
Files can disappear from the hard drive in many different ways. Files deleted by an accident, emptied Windows Recycle Bin, formatted flash cards and corrupted hard drives are just a few common issues to name. In most cases, however, information is not lost forever. Methods and tools to recover lost and deleted data have existed for many years. However, only in the last few years these tools became not only available to ordinary computer users, but actually usable.
In general, data recovery tools rely on the fact that information does not disappear without a trace. Deleted files are not wiped off the disk, and space on the hard drive they used to take is not filled with zeros when they are erased. Instead, Windows simply marks that disk space as available, and puts the "deleted" attribute to the record in the file system. This, in turn, has allowed utilities such as "undelete" to reverse the operation and undelete the original file.
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