If you have been dealing with laptops for an adequate time duration there is a distinct chance a person has informed you that files kept on a laptop hard drive isn't actually secure. I am here to tell you that it is quite true.The real fact that compared to magnetic tapes or compact disc or other forms of computer storage, laptop hard drives are mechanically active gadgets and are thus vulnerable to relatively rapid equipment failure.
No, the big menace to laptop hard drives are the individuals that employ them, by which I imply you and me. Laptop hard drives, as the dynamic memory devices that they're, are very simple to delete in a few fun and easy to accomplish methods... as are USB laptop hard drives and USB sticks
Dealing with a laptop technology during the glory moments of Windows XP, you get kind of accustomed with utilizing FDISK and any hard drive utility programs in fixing customer's laptop hard drives, which leads to cocksureness. That mental attitude can contribute directly to catastrophe, kind of like handing a twelve year old kid the keys to your ATV.
Imagine this if you'll; there I was, 2 or 3 sentences and an LCD screen shot away from completing a 5000 words article on laptop upgrades. All I need to do was run FDISK at the dual-boot Windows PC systems and get a couple of screenshots. I reckoned I would compose a bit endorsement on the way to partition a laptop hard drive, making a point to inform this blog readers not to touch the nasty FDISK if they are not certain what they are doing…
Yes, there is going to be a certain irony here.
So in any case, I needed to get a few more screenshots of the real partitioning interface, but I didn't have a empty laptop hard drive available. I visualized I could employ the NTFS formatted XP laptop hard drive (which FDISK detected as one blank hard drive) to begin the "procedure," get the screenshots and then call off the partitioning process.
It's OK. Except for one tiny little matter…
I had disregarded the fact that FDISK, in the actual procedure of disk checking before it informs me for the amount of the hard drive partition, writes data to specific portions of the laptop hard drive. The data overwrites whatever could already there before. In the meantime, there I was, gazing the '%complete' percentage counter and curious about the reason why the small red warning flags kept on waving in my brain? I restarted Windows XP and nervously waited for the laptop to boot, and waited... 5 minutes....10 minutes... Oops.
I guess this case study can become a lesson for you about danger of FDISK in laptop hard drive recovery.
