Windows Data Recovery Techniques (Computer Repair Professionals)

Learn to perform data recovery jobs for your clients. Many common situations are covered with step by step instructions. Topics include recovering deleted files and partitions, recovering data from damaged partitions and file systems, recover and repair damaged files and repairing drives that suddenly want to be formatted even though they have data on them.
Learn how to assess a data recovery job so that you can apply the safest and most successful techniques. What questions to ask your client as well as techniques for diagnosing the root causes of the data loss are discussed.
Includes explanations of the S.M.A.R.T. data stored on hard disk drives and descriptions of the MBR, partition table and VBR are given with instructions for analyzing and repairing them.
Included is an examination of how hard disk drives work and the structures that file systems use to organize and access the data on them.
All examples are based on real recovery jobs that have successfully saved the data of many of my own clients.