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NTFS File Recovery Tips

Since Windows 2000 was released, Microsoft has recommended using NTFS file system. And Windows XP can not get its optimized performance unless it uses this file system. However, there appears a problem how to recover mistakenly deleted file from NTFS partition as NTFS is widely used. After hearing this problem, many digiteers will sniff. They think it is so easy to recover deleted data from NTFS partition. Indeed, it is so easy for digiteers to recover deleted NTFS data, because deleted NTFS file does not disappear from the computer, and they are marked with a deletion mark. At this time, digiteers can recover them by performing a certain modification with some software like Winhex. Nevertheless, this method is only suitable for digiteers. For common users, this method may lead to destructive data damage, let lone accomplish NTFS file recovery. Therefore, common users are advised to employ an easy method. MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of excellent data recovery software, is a good choice. 

Just now, we said it is troublesome and mistakable to recover mistakenly deleted file from NFTS partition with Winhex or other similar software, so some users may doubt whether it is difficult to operate MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Actually, they do not need to worry about it, and NTFS file recovery can be accomplished only by clicking mouse several times. In order to make users know how easy it is to operate this data recovery software, now, let me demonstrate how to perform NTFS file recovery with it. 

Before using this free data recovery software to recover mistakenly deleted file from NTFS partition, users should download it from its official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com. Then, install it on the computer. Next, run this free data recovery software to get the following interface: 

 

This is the main interface of this free data recovery software. To recover mistakenly deleted file from NTFS partition, we need to select "Undelete Recovery" functional module. Then, the following interface appears. 

 

In this interface, select the partition where lost files are, and then click "Recover" to enter the recovery interface. 

 

Then, check files needing to be recovered. Next, click "Save Files" to save these files in a safe place according to prompts. Then, we are successful to accomplish NTFS file recovery. 

How to Recover Lost Digital Media Picture Files

With wider and wider application of computer, computer users like to save their pictures taken by digital camera or DV to computers. Although it is convenient for users to get these pictures saving in the computer, there is still a potential problem that pictures will lose because of various reasons, such as accidental operations, virus attack, and malicious attack. 

As you know that these situations of picture loss are caused by soft failure, we can use data recovery software to perform pictures recovery easily. Of course, an excellent data recovery software can help users recover lost data easily, but it is not easy to find a suitable one because there are too many kinds of software with bad quality. They even may cause second damage to data so that pictures recovery will be much more difficult. Here, I will give you some suggestions when you choose data recovery software: 
1. User-friendly interface: as many computer users are not familiar with data recovery knowledge, a piece of software with user-friendly interfaces is more convenient for them. 
2. Comprehensive functions: a software with comprehensive data recovery functions can help users solve numerous kinds of data loss problems. 
3. Advanced filtering function: as there are too many files saved in the disk, advanced filtering function helps us filter useless files so that we can save a lot of time. 
These are my suggestions of choosing data recovery software. I recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery which has really good reputation among users. 

Firstly, download MiniTool Power Data Recovery from its official website for free:http://www.powerdatarecovery.com. Launch it after installing: 

 

This is the main interface of MiniTool Power Data Recovery. To recover lost pictures, click "Digital Media Recovery" functional module which is specially designed for recovering media files. When you put mouse on the functional module, the software will show you detailed instruction about it. 

 

In this interface, we can see all partitions in the computer. Select the partition where lost pictures were, and then click "Full Scan" button to scan the whole partition: 

 

This interface shows a list of all lost files. Check the ones you need to recover, and then click "Save Files" button. According to the prompts, save recovered pictures to a safe location, and then all work of pictures recovery is successfully finished. 

Manage GPT Disk on Windows 8 with Partition Wizard

As a new boot method of operating system which is likely to replace BIOS, UEFI has been admitted by many computer users in virtue of its high system boot speed and the default disk type of GPT which supports hard disk larger than 3 TB. However, after you install Windows 8 with UEFI, do you feel annoyed about how to manage GPT disk? If you do, the following content will be helpful. You can know a method which will manage GPT disk well.

Windows 8 built-in disk management tool has many defects, so it can not meet users' demands for GPT disk partition management. If you want to do well partition management on Windows 8 installed through UEFI, Windows partition magic will be the best choice. And here, we suggest MiniTool Partition Wizard. This free partition magic is fully in support of UEFI and GPT and has comprehensive functions. Users can use it to manage Windows partition well.

Please visit the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to download MiniTool Partition Wizard. Then install and launch it. We'll see its main interface, as follows.



Select any GPT disk partition and users will see corresponding partition management functions shown under "Operations" column, for example, Format Partition, Delete Partition, and Move/Resize Partition, Extend Partition, Merge Partition, Split Partition, Copy Partition, and change cluster size without damaging partition data. Besides, this free partition magic also provides functions to copy and wipe disk. It can meet users' almost all demands for GPT disk partition management. Seen from this, as professional partition magic, MiniTool Partition Wizard is undeniably the best choice for partition management on Windows 8.

Although there is a lot of partition magic software in the software market, it is not easy to find a piece which supports UEFI and GPT disk at the same time. If you also want to do fine partition management to GPT disk on Windows 8 and haven't found suitable partition magic, please try MiniTool Partition Wizard.

CD DVD Recovery Software Choices

Maybe, many users have recovered hard disk data with data recovery software. Users who understand hard disk data recovery should know deleting data under Windows is just to mark a deletion mark on data rather than delete data thoroughly. In other words, the real data still exist on hard disk. Therefore, data recovery becomes possible. However, it is not easy to accomplish CD DVD recovery, because the storage pattern of CD DVD is different from hard disk drive. So, common data recovery software doesn't function on CD DVD recovery. Well, is there data recovery software which can recover lost CD DVD data? Here, I will tell you a piece of good news. The CD DVD recovery software MiniTool Power Data Recovery developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. completely supports CD DVD recovery. In addition to numerous data recovery functions for hard disk drive and memory card, this CD DVD recovery software is specially equipped with CD DVD recovery module. It is worth being called one of best CD DVD recovery software. 

Many users may mistakenly think it is safer to store data on CD DVD than on hard disk drive or U disk. Actually, they are wrong, and CD DVD data are easy to lose, too. CD DVD adopts optical storage means to store data, which is quite different from magnetic storage medium. CD DVD storage means is far more stable than that of magnetic medium and its structure is much simpler. Furthermore, CD DVD is easier to take and keep. However, since there is no strict protecting measure for CD DVD whose surface is exposed totally, CD DVD data may fail to be read, which is caused by physical scratch or squeezing. As a result, CD DVD data are lost. To avoid CD DVD data loss, we can resort to the CD DVD recovery software MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover CD DVD data. 

The unique CD DVD recovery module of MiniTool Power Data Recovery is specially designed to quickly recover lost CD DVD data. Moreover, it can also recover lost data from hard disk drive, U disk, memory card, SSD, and other storage media. As to compatibility, it perfectly supports all popular Windows operating systems and almost all fashionable file systems, and the file system used in CD DVD is not an exception. Next, let's see how this CD DVD recovery software recovers lost CD DVD data. 
First, run it.

 

Then, we can see different recovery modules from its main interface. To perform CD DVD recovery, we need to select "CD/DVD Recovery" module. 

 

In the above interface, select the optical disk drive which needs recovering, and then click "Full Scan" to scan the optical disk. After the scan is finished, this CD DVD recovery software will skip to the next interface automatically. 

 

In this interface, find and check files needing to be recovered, and then click "Save Files" button. Next, save these files according to prompts. After that, CD DVD recovery is finished. 

How to Divide Disk for Free

Divide disk free with the powerful partition magic software - MiniTool Partition Wizard. "Divide disk" and "Divide partition" are hot keywords searched by computer users on many search engines, which suggests that many users are faced with these problems and hope to find a proper solution to these problems. Why do users want to divide disk or divide partition? Most likely, users gradually found that the disk partition modes are unreasonable and need adjustment by "Divide disk" and "Divide partition". However, when turning to the operating system built-in disk management tool, they are always disappointed as the disk management tool can not offer such functions. Therefore, searching for third-party partition magic software which could divide disk or divide partition becomes the very solution. Speaking of partition magic software which helps divide disk and divide partition, I would like to recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of powerful partition magic software with various disk management functions in addition to divide disk and divide partition. What's more, MiniTool Partition Wizard is totally free for home and personal users.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. with all-round disk management functions, user-friendly interfaces and small size. Furthermore, MiniTool Partition Wizard is with high compatibility to perfectly run under 32/64 bit MBR and GUID operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 2008, etc. Most importantly, MiniTool Partition Wizard is able to finish all those operations such as divide disk, divide partition, increase partition, extend partition,wipe partition, resize partition, merge partition, create partition, delete partition, format partition, convert partition format, copy partition, hide partition, explore partition, change drive letter, etc.

To divide partition, please first download MiniTool Partition Wizard at MiniTool Partition Wizard Download Center free.
Then install MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it to meet the following interface: 



Now we are to create an allocated space near G:, then we should select G: and click "Move/Resize" at the toolbar in this main interface.



Entering this window, please drag the left-oriented arrow to the right to spare an allocated space and then click "OK" after successful setting.



Now an allocated space could be clearly seen between F: and G:, select this unallocated space and click "Create" to create a new partition.



Specify all information for the new partition and then click "OK".



Last, click "Apply" to realize all pending operation. After that, the "Divide disk" or "Divide Partition" operation would be successfully performed.

How to Split NTFS Partition on Windows 7

In the process of using Windows 7, it is hard to avoid this or that kind of problem related to partition management. Although Microsoft has improved the built-in disk management tool in Windows 7, for example, adding Extend Volume and Shrink Volume functions, it still can not meet users' demands for partition management. For instance, the built-in disk management tool can not split partition on Windows 7.

The situation where partition space is too much is common on Windows 7, which will greatly decrease use ratio of disk space. But splitting partition can solve the problem easily. Since the built-in disk management tool can not split partition, it is not easy to finish the operations for common users.

If the partition is NTFS partition on Windows 7, users could firstly use the disk management tool to shrink partition and then create a new partition with the unallocated space, thereby splitting partition. This operation is a little complicated. Actually, professional partition magic is able to split NTFS partition easily on Windows. And MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good choice.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is compatible with common Windows operating systems, for example Windows XP/Vista/7/8 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. It also has simple operations and safe partition splitting function. Therefore, users can use it to split NTFS partition on Windows 7 trustingly. Main procedures are following.
1. Please visit the official website to download MiniTool Partition Wizard and then install it to the computer.
2. Please launch the partition magic and then select the partition that will be split in the main interface. Then click "Split Partition" function.
3. Resize the two new partitions.
4. Click "Apply" to finish all operations.



The above is the screenshot of the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard. Seen from "Operations" area, besides splitting partition, this partition magic is also able to format partition, delete partition, move/resize partition, extend partition, merge partitions, copy partition and so on. Therefore, users can use it to maintain better partition management.

If users want to split NTFS partition on Windows 7 and realize other common partition management operations, MiniTool Partition Wizard will be the best choice.

Recover Lost Data When Computer Fails to Boot

When computer runs normally, users can adopt data recovery software to recover lost data if computer data rare deleted or lost by accident. But if the computer can not boot, what should users do?

Most of the data recovery software in the software market is unable to recover lost data from crashed operating system. But the professional software development company MiniTool Solution Ltd. has released MiniTool Power Data Recovery Boot Disk, professional Windows data recovery boot disk that is able to recover lost data even if the computer can not boot.

When the computer fails to boot because of the abnormal operating system, MiniTool Power Data Recovery Boot Disk is able to boot the computer without operating system and then recover lost data from the hard disk, which can not be realized by the other data recovery software. It is equipped with four data recovery function modules, including "Undelete Recovery", "Damaged Partition Recovery", "Lost Partition Recovery" and "Digital Media Recovery" which are able to recover lost data in different situations. And this Windows partition data recovery software boot disk also supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and HFS+ and diverse storage devices. Of comprehensive functions and concise operating interfaces, it is appreciated by many users; users can use it trustingly to recover lost data.




The above is the screenshot of boot edition of MiniTool Power Data Recovery and four data recovery function modules are displayed. And users could choose suitable modules according to practical demands. Take "Damaged Partition Recovery" module for example. Click it and the following interface will be shown.



In this interface, select the logically damaged partition and then click "Open". The following interface will be shown.



Find and check the lost files and then click "Save Files" to store them, finishing recovering lost data from crashed operating system.

Power Data Recovery Licenses Giveway

I gotta say MiniTool is a really nice and generous company cause MiniTool is giving away licenses again. How many time I got giveaway news from them? Wow, they are just so good. So here is the news from their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483

They are celebrating Civic Holiday so licenses are the holiday gifts.  "Happy Civic Holiday, everyone! Here comes the long weekend in Canada. Enjoy your lovely weekend and enjoy MiniTool Licenses Giveaway again! As long as you share this “MiniTool Civic Holiday Giveaway” post, you can get a MiniTool Power Data Recovery Personal license for free! Share it now!

After you share this post, please send us your email address via facebook message or via mail: facebook@minitool.com, we will send you the license as soon as possible."

 

Power Data Recovery Licenses Giveway

I gotta say MiniTool is a really nice and generous company cause MiniTool is giving away licenses again. How many time I got giveaway news from them? Wow, they are just so good. So here is the news from their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/MiniTool/230388176998483

They are celebrating Civic Holiday so licenses are the holiday gifts.  "Happy Civic Holiday, everyone! Here comes the long weekend in Canada. Enjoy your lovely weekend and enjoy MiniTool Licenses Giveaway again! As long as you share this “MiniTool Civic Holiday Giveaway” post, you can get a MiniTool Power Data Recovery Personal license for free! Share it now!

After you share this post, please send us your email address via facebook message or via mail: facebook@minitool.com, we will send you the license as soon as possible."

 

Great Mac Disk Recovery Program Recommendation

Data loss is a terrible disaster for every Mac user. It brings numerous losses to us. At this time, a Mac data recovery program can provide you with data security guarantee. With the growing popularity of Mac, more and more Mac disk recovery programs are emerging in the market. Too many choices make Mac users feel bewildered to find a suitable Mac data recovery program. For that, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is recommended. As the most popular Mac data recovery program, its marvelous performance will certainly surprise you. 

The reason why MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is so outstanding among those Mac disk recovery programs is owing to its unique techniques. Various factors will cause data loss. Therefore, not everyMac disk recovery program is able to solve all these data loss problems. As a multi-functional Mac data recovery program, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery can help you solve almost all kinds of data loss problems. 

 

1. "Undelete Recovery": this functional module aims at the most common accidentally deleted data recovery. If you delete some data accidentally, it will help you recover lost data. 
2. "Damaged Partition Recovery": this functional module aims at recovering lost data from damaged partition. You can use this functional module before you format the damaged partition. 
3. "Lost Partition Recovery": when you found partition was lost in your disk, this functional module would be able to find lost partition back and recover lost data easily. 
4. "Digital Media Recovery": with this functional module, once your important external storage devices like USB Flash Memory, iPod, digital camera, mobile HD, etc, encounter data loss, you can recover them easily. 

Every Mac data recovery program can only work under certain environment. Of course, not like large size software, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery requires simple configurations that every Mac can satisfy. For CPU, MiniTool Mac Data Recovery requires Intel Pentium 1000MHz at least. For operating system, it requires at least 10.5. And for hard disk, it requires at least 1G. These hardware requirements are easy for every kind of Mac.