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This article describes four effective ways to enable remote desktop access and to restore deleted files remotely if necessary.

Many PC users have experienced data loss due to Windows Defender deleting important files due to false positive threat detection or because of a document containing malware. How can you restore files deleted by Windows Defender, and how can you reduce the number of future incidents?

SSD drive recovery is a hot topic. There are many myths and misconceptions surrounding SSD drives in general. Users become confused, not knowing whether they’ll be able to recover files from an SSD drive. We’ll try to address these concerns and clear the confusion. But first let’s look at how different SSD drives are compared to traditional mechanical storage devices.

Recovering files and folders can be more or less difficult when dealing with healthy or even corrupted partitions. In general, such partitions are still accessible via the OS, or at least they appear as drive letters in the file manager and in data recovery tools. However, there is a special case where one may not be able to see the drive letter at all. If this happens to a partition, then most probably it’s either corrupted beyond repair, features no file system at all (e.g. after repartitioning the disk) or is formatted with a foreign file system (e.g. you attempt to access an ext3 volume in Windows).

Such partitions generally appear as “raw”, or simply appear as unallocated disk space in the Windows Disk Management console.

As you may have already noticed, we have recently updated the entire range of our data recovery products including Starus Partition Recovery, File Recovery and Photo Recovery. The tools gained some weight, becoming more than twice as large compared to the earlier version. Why is that? Are we just bloating our tools with bells and whistles just for the fun of it? Read along to find out!

In Windows world, there are two major file systems: FAT and NTFS. A file system is used to format storage media such as hard drives, memory cards, USB flash drives and other types of storage.

Memory cards get bigger and bigger every day. The increased capacity is great when you need fitting thousands of high-megapixel pictures onto as few memory cards as possible. However, high-capacity cards can mean you’d be losing a lot of images in case of an accident.

The data recovery industry has come a long way since the first undelete tool was introduced by Microsoft back in 1991. Back in the 1990’s, all a data recovery tool would do was tripping the “deleted” flag back into the “undeleted” state, with no safety checks and iffy results at best.