Open Source Data Recovery Tools – They Will Be Your Hard Time Rescuers

Most of us think that the Open Source Data Recovery Tools are just another "sidekick" tools, which only wasting your time for the installing will purpose. Ok, if you're one of the people that have the same thought like this, and then think twice...

Go figure, in a sunny and refreshing morning, you're busy with the final report, which you need to submit it before the deadline. Ok, everything is going fine here, until the you're noticed the screen hanging around and won't boot automatically...Oh my god, you've just lost all the important documents and you didn't have any backup for the lost files (I'm one of the victim of this unexpected disaster before, and believe me this isn't funny at all!).

For eliminated the above matter, you've to always equipped yourself with an up-to-date data lost recovery techniques. That's why this Open Source Data Recovery Tools will be the loyal on time rescuers to help you out of the data lost miserable condition. In addition, you're not binding yourself with proprietary products costs or licensing agreements with the Open Source Data Recovery Tools, as the definition for "Open Source" is allows everyone to make or modify a new version of software and share it with other users.

Today, you are going to learn and explore the various ways, which how you can fully benefit from using the open source solutions to recover data, bring the hang system back to life (And calm down your panic attack as well). Most of the solutions here are described in the run cross-platform, which means it is compatible with the Linux, Window, and Mac.

You need to pay attention, as below here are the four data recovery methods that will effectively recover the lost data:

Simple Recovery

The common problem: You're accidentally deleted the important files and you can't even refresh them in the recycle bin.

The solution: You have to scan the volume in question (and you'd better do this task offline) with an open source recovery tool to look for, and then recover the specific types of files. Lastly, pick up the pieces that you've found and you're done with it!

Complex Recovery

The common problem: You're facing the trouble, where the whole partitions or boot loaders were missing, along with everything on that partition.

The solution: There are two basic approaches for you to choose with: recover whatever data you can find from the partition, by without trying to reconstruct the partition information, or you can attempt to reconstruct the partition's Meta data and remount the partition normally. Well, the second option seems much easier and will give you more complete recovery, but it's depend on how much of the actual volume data is intact in the partition!

Removable Storage or Optical Media

The common problem: You've had mountains of CDs or DVDs, where most of them end up unreadable because of the damage or ageing.

The solution: You can create images using different drives, by simply access to more than one CD/DVD drive. Beside that, you also might find out that one has better error connection than the others, and can recover data that other drives might be skipped over it.

 Encrypted Media Recovery

The common problem: It's the hardest task here, especially if you're using the extremely weak encryption algorithm for the recovery purpose.

The solution: You should be treated the encrypted volumes with double the care of standard volumes, which mean you have to back up the volume headers and keep them in a safer place. Also, don't forget with the encrypted step as well!

Finally, before you're starting any data recovery tasks, you have to ensure that the media you're going to recover from is mounted as read-only. In addition, is better for you to make an image file from the media, store it on another back up drive, and then work from the image.

It is wise to make the prevention than losing it again! [source]