What is mean by partition table? How data recovery softwares get information about our deleted items?
Posted in Deleted Data Recovery on December 29th, 2010 by Andrew – Be the first to comment
Question by Sajith R: What is mean by partition table? How data recovery softwares get information about our deleted items?
What is mean by partition table? How data recovery softwares get information about our deleted items? From where do they find them?
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Answer by gijoe1701
Information is written all over the disk. The partition table is a list for displaying the lay out of which parts of the table are reserved for file systems. An example is one partition for Windows and another seperate partition for Linux.
When a file is deleted, the reference to where the data is located is removed, but the data is still written on the disk. A data recovery service/software can examine the whole disk and identify all data on the disk to include that which has no reference in allocation tables.
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