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Written By Edwin Stark
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Updated on November 22nd, 2024
How long have you been using a computer? Have you heard about the file system? It’s highly important in computing. The primary objective of a file system is to control how data is stored and retrieved. If there were no file system, no one can where one piece of information stops, and the next begins. A file system separates the stored data into pieces and gives each piece a name so that the information is easily isolated and identified.
If you’re a Windows user, you must be familiar with FAT and NTFS. These are two popular file systems used by Microsoft Windows. FAT, aka File Allocation Table, is an old file system, although some computer users still use it. On the other hand, as the name suggests, NTFS, aka New Technology File System, is a new file system. Nowadays, almost every single storage media device supports this file system format, be it a system hard disk or any external storage media. Since the NTFS file system is commonly used these days, data loss often occurs in it.
I’ve already stated earlier in this post that the two most common reasons for data loss are accidental deletion and data corruption.
Accidental deletion means you delete some of your files accidentally. If you delete some unwanted files from your system, it’s not accidental deletion. Therefore, no data loss is caused to you. But if you accidentally delete your files, this will cause data loss. You can restore your data from the Recycle Bin if you use temporary deletion. But unfortunately, if you use deletion permanently, i.e. by using Shift + Delete + Enter keys, you can’t restore anything from the recycle bin. This will result in data loss if you don’t have a valid backup.
Data corruption makes the data unreadable or files inaccessible. You can’t open a corrupt file. Sometimes corruption can also remove the files from your system. There are numerous reasons which cause corruption. The most common reasons are virus attacks, abruptly system shutdown, forced cancellation of any running application, software malfunction, hard disk or storage media failure, and sometimes human errors. Though sometimes, corrupt files are still available on your system, you can’t access or open them.
Backup is strongly recommended to every single computer user. Being a smart computer user, you must take backup of your data regularly. This will help you restore your maximum possible data at the time of data loss due to any reason, be it accidental deletion or data corruption. A backup file contains copies of your data which you can restore at any time.
Important note: Don’t forget to take backup of your computer regularly. You can take the help of NT-Backup utility & Backup and Restore; both are freeware backup utilities provided by Microsoft Windows. Also, you can try a commercial ware tool like Backup Exec provided by Symantec.
How would you restore your data from backup if it’s corrupt? Even you can’t restore complete data if your backup file is not updated. What would you do in such a situation? The only thing you can do here is recover data by using NTFS Recovery Tool.
About The Author:
Edwin Stark is a Technical Content Writer who specializes in writing about databases, e-mail recovery, and e-mail migration solutions. He loves researching and developing content that helps database administrators, organizations and novices to fix multiple problems.
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