Whether you are a professional computer user or a home user, you must know the value of a file. That file can be either a document, excel sheet, PowerPoint presentation, Image, Video, MP3, etc. Let us imagine a situation that you are working on an important project, which is about to be completed. You have to deliver the file in coming 24 hours. Suddenly power has gone due to which your system goes down. When you restart the system, you find that the file on which you have been working is not at the location where it should be.

Where the file has gone? The file might have been deleted. What you will do now? How you will recover the lost file back? Remember that you have to deliver the project within coming 24 hours. Think once again can you recreate the file within coming 24 hours; if yes, then nothing can be good than this. If you have potential to recreate the file once again within the available time then you are at the safe end otherwise your job is in danger. You have to save your job but how.

Do not worry because Kernel for Windows – one of the best file recovery software is there to help you. You just need to download the software, browse the location where the file has been saved before deletion, and rest of the work the software do itself. After specifying the location let the software do its work and you just need to sit peacefully and wait until the software works.

Within few minutes, you see a list of the files recovered. From those files, you have to select the one you have been working on. Select the file and save it on your computer system. We suggest you to also backup the file. Kernel for Windows file recovery software can be installed on any version of Windows operating systems to recover the permanently deleted files.

Hard disk drive is a critical component of your Windows installed computer for storing important data and software installation. You can store large amount of data on your hard disk drive and easily manage the same. For easy and effective management of your precious data on that hard disk drive, you can divide your hard disk into number of partitions. Creating partitions will let you prevent situations resulting in severe data loss, when your operating system crashes.

However, in certain situations the NTFS data partitions might also get damaged due to number of reasons such as virus infection, dirty system shutdown, file system corruption etc. At this point in time, you might face severe partition loss situations and need professional recovery software to resolve the issue. Mentioned below are some of the chief reasons that might result in NTFS partition corruption:

Virus Infection- Virus attacks are difficult to divert; these are malicious applications that damage the entire file system and other system data structures.

File system corruption- File system is a quite important part of a computer system that keeps a record of all its files on NTFS partitions. When the file system gets damaged, partitions become RAW and operating system is unable to locate the stored files.

Corruption in Partition table- Partition Table is an imperative data structure that keeps information about the number of NTFS partition. When the partition table gets damaged, the partitions become inaccessible or lost.

Formatting- Formatting is the process of erasing all data as well as partitions from the hard disk drive. Accidental hard disk drive formatting can result in partition loss.

In cases like these always switch to recovery software; these tools are specifically devised to recover lost Windows partitions. When any loss occurs to the partition or the data in it, only the partition entries from partition table are deleted. The partitions remain physically intact on the affected drive, and therefore it can be easily retrieved using advanced and efficient recovery software.

There are some limitations of FAT32 file system with Windows Operating Systems. So whenever these limitations are crossed your system gets corrupt and you need recovery software to get it recovered. Following are some of the limitations existing in FAT32 file system.

• Clusters cannot be 64 KB or larger. If clusters were 64 KB or larger, some programs (such as Setup programs) might calculate disk space incorrectly.

• A volume must contain at least 65,527 clusters to use the FAT32 file system. You cannot increase the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that it ends up with less than 65,527 clusters.

• The maximum possible number of clusters on a volume using the FAT32 file system is 268,435,445. With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for the file allocation table (FAT), this equates to a maximum disk size of approximately 8 terabytes (TB).

• The Scandisk tool included with Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98 is a 16-bit program. Such programs have a single memory block maximum allocation size of 16 MB less 64 KB. Therefore, The Windows 95 or Windows 98 ScanDisk tool cannot process volumes using the FAT32 file system that have a FAT larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size. A FAT entry on a volume using the FAT32 file system uses 4 bytes, so ScanDisk cannot process the FAT on a volume using the FAT32 file system that defines more than 4,177,920 clusters (including the two reserved clusters).

• You cannot decrease the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that the FAT ends up larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size.

• You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000.

In case your system gets corrupt and FAT32 file system gets damaged Kernel for Windows recovery software helps in recovering the lost, inaccessible, deleted data.

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I have seen many people asking the question on various forums that “my hard disk has been accidently formatted. What can do to recover my data now?”. Accidental formatting of hard disk can leave every user in trouble, as this issue is concerned with major data loss. The user can lose all files, folders and program stored on the accidently formatted hard disk.

Well this blog is not just to discuss the issue but is more concerned about providing such people with a sustainable solution. So here is the solution and i.e. use data recovery software to get back all your data. Even files and folders that have been permanently deleted can also be recovered using such software. However, making the right selection is essential, as choosing any software without having the proper knowledge can disappoint you.

Kernel for Fat and NTFS is one such recovery software that can fulfill all your data recovery requirements. This recovery software recovers all available files and folders from the selected partition and enables you to save them at the desired location. You will be surprised to know that files and folders that have been permanently deleted can also be recovered. So isn’t it wonderful to get back deleted files and folders when you are striving hard to recover data lost due to accidental formatting of hard disk.