Virtual Data Recovery From Damaged Hard Drive
Why You Shouldn't Repair A Damaged Partition Or Drive For Data Recovery.
You don't have to repair your damaged hard drive as you can make use of Virtual Data Recovery. It is dicey to repair a damaged partition. You risk losing your files and data if you venture to repair the damaged partition, even if you use a quality set of tools and you are certain about the process of repairing it. There's is high probability that things might go wrong.
You can't reverse whatever changes you've made to the damaged partition: as it may be easy to make changes to system structure that holds essential Information about your disk, data, and files. Although, it is right to back up your vital information before performing data recovery.
But should this be the best method to go about data recovery?
How Virtual Data Recovery works
The good news is that, there is a safer method to perform data recovery. This is completely different from the normal methods. You don't have to backup and restore your information while you perform data recovery.
What you have to do is take a binary snapshot of the partition you want to repair, it is on this snapshot you will use different settings to perform data recovery not the disk. This prevent you to create a backup of corrupted data.
In this method of data recovery, you use a tool which allows you to recover a virtual image of damaged hard drive instead of the hard drive to be repaired directly. With the tool, you will be able to create a virtual image of the damaged hard drive. It is the virtual image you work with not the hard drive.
The technology of virtual image creation is somehow related to creation of .iso image. Just like how .iso image is stored in a hard disk, CD, or DVD, so also the virtual image but on a virtual hard drive. There are many tools that allow virtual image creation, but SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor allows partitions or the whole disks.
However, the copy of the hard drive is stored virtually and whatever you saved from the copied drive is genuine.
As this kind of tool will allow you to recover your documents, files, and other kind of data that you have stored on the virtual image and move into a good drive. When you are through, you can decide to repair the damaged structure of the corrupted drive at no risk. Further corrections can be done on the created virtual image easily.
Reason To Choose This Method
Now that you have known about another method to recover your Data from damaged hard drive, do not be in haste whenever you want to perform data recovery. Just create a virtual image of the drive you want to repair using tools like SoftAmbulance Partition Doctor or any other tools that perform this, and work on the image. This process saves you the stress to get at the corrupted drive.
No doubt, the recovery procedure keeps your data safe and ensures high degree of safety.
Nothing to worry, as most of these data recovery tools support 32 & 64 bits version of Windows operating system, and recover data from flash and drives, memory cards, FAT & NFTS formatted hard disk, CD and DVD media.