Jul 15 2010
How to recover hard-deleted files and folders from Windows XP
In Windows XP, the System32 is a system-defined folder, which is very vital for the proper functioning of the operating system. It is placed in the active partition and contains various system files that are very important to start some in-built applications, which makes its loss extremely vulnerable. However, sometimes these files can be deleted permanently either due to human errors, virus infections, power outages, corrupt operating system, etc. In such cases, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover the deleted files and folders.
Consider a scenario wherein you are working on your Windows XP system. You are removing useless files from your system to clean up the data as well as to speed up the system performance. However, you did not realize that you also hard-deleted the System32 folder. When you restart the system next time, you find that few in-built applications such as Internet Explorer, Control Panel, etc are not running. You have no idea how these files got deleted or how these files can be recovered, if at all.
When you delete a file or folder, first of all its pointer is removed from the database of the file system while the file itself remains in the hard disk. Following which, a notification is send to the operating system suggesting that empty space is now available for new files. The deleted file may, however, remain there as long as a new file is not created or an existing file is not moved. So, you should ensure that you do not create a new file after accidentally hard-deleting files. One more thing that you can do with important files is to mark them as Read-only so that you will be prompted twice while deleting such files.
Regardless of the fact that these deleted files can be recovered from the hard disk, there is no in-built feature that recovers deleted files or folders. So, to perform file recovery of the deleted files you should use a third-party file recovery software. Such file recovery tools are extremely safe to use as they employ fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms to recover the deleted data.
Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus is a file recovery software that recovers deleted, lost, or formatted files from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, external hard disks, etc. It is able to recover more than 200 file types. In addition, this file recovery utility restores the deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.
