Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media formats such as hard disk drive, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, and other electronics. This can be due to physical d amage to the storage device or logical damage to the that prevents it from being mounted by the host . Although there is some confusion as to the term, data recovery can also be the process of retrieving and securing deleted information from a storage media for purposes or spying.
Recovering data after physical damage
1]Recovery techniques
2]Hardware repair
3]Disk imaging
4]Recovering data after logical damage
5]Preventing logical damage
6]Consistency checking
7]Zero-knowledge analysis
8]Recovering overwritten data
9]Boot media
10]Specialized software
11]Consistency checkers
12]File recovery tools
13]Forensic toolkits
14]Imaging tools
