Common scenarios that cause data loss are explained as follows:

• Accidental deletion of files from USB drive: When you delete files from USB drive or any other external storage device, they are not moved to Recycle Bin. Instead, they bypass the Recycle Bin. If you accidentally delete essential files from USB drive, then you cannot undelete files from Recycle Bin resulting in loss of files.

• Data loss due to corruption: USB drive may get corrupted due to virus attacks. In order to remove virus, updated antivirus program needs to be used. But, sometimes antivirus programs can also cause data loss. When you connect USB drive, each folder and file is automatically scanned by antivirus program. If it finds any virus then it may delete entire folder which is affected by viruses resulting in loss of files.

• Abruptly removal of USB drives:  Accidentally or abruptly removing USB drives from the computer may cause data loss. You need to use “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in order to properly disconnect USB drive from system. Because, even if you think that you have closed all the files on the USB drive, it is still possible that the USB drive is accessed by system in the background without any indication. Therefore, if you abruptly remove it from the system then it may corrupt the file system of USB drive resulting in loss of files.

• Data loss due to errors: When file system get corrupted, you may encounter error messages like “USB device not recognized” or “USB device attached to this computer has malfunctioned” etc. These error messages do not allow you to access files from USB drive resulting in loss of files. Generally, file system may get corrupted due to sudden power failure or abrupt system shut down while transferring files from USB drives to computer etc.

Although, the files are not permanently lost from the USB drive, you can easily restore lost data from USB drive by using reliable recovery software.

Precautions that are to be taken to avoid data loss are, always take backup, make use of “Safely Remove Hardware” icon to properly disconnect USB drive and while deleting files from USB drive make sure that you are deleting unwanted files. Remo Recover (Windows) Basic Edition quickly recovers lost files from USB drives. This software can recover different types of files like .doc, .xls, .xlsx, .png, .jpeg, .wav, .txt etc. SanDisk, Kingston, Sony etc are the different brands of USB drives supported by this software. This software can also recover deleted files from flash drive other than USB drives. This software performs signature search to locate lost files quickly. The software can undelete files from Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008

Follow below mentioned steps to recover lost or accidentally deleted files from USB drive ,

Step 1: Download and install Remo Recover (Windows) Basic Edition then launch it. Select “Recover files” option from the main window as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Main Window

Step 2: If you want to recover files that are accidentally deleted then select “Recover deleted files” option and if you want to recover files that are lost then select “Recover lost files” option. Select the USB drive from where you have lost or accidentally deleted the files then click on “Next” button as shown in Figure2.

Figure 2 : Select USB Drive

Step 3: The software scans entire USB drive. Once the scanning is completed, you can view recovered files as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3 : View Recovered Data

Step 4: Now, you can save scanned information using “Save Recovery Session” option as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 : Save Recovery Session

Common File loss Scenarios from Windows Recycle Bin:

• Human Error: By accidentally using Shift + Delete keys files are deleted without being moved to the Recycle bin i.e. they bypass the Recycle bin after deletion. Data can also be lost from Recycle bin while trying to free some disk space by emptying Recycle bin folder. Files deleted from compressed folders are also not stored in Recycle bin.
• Recycle bin Bypass: There are certain cases when the files themselves get deleted from Windows Recycle bin and hence cannot be accessed by user anymore. Those cases are called Recycle bin bypass. When Recycle bin is full Windows automatically creates enough space for most recently deleted files by clearing some previously deleted files. When a file deleted from Windows operating system is having size larger than that of the free space available in the Recycle bin, either the file bypasses the Recycle bin and gets deleted from Recycle bin automatically or the file is stored in the Recycle bin by deleting some previously deleted files. In both the cases some important files are deleted from Recycle bin.
• File Exceeding in size:  Each partition in Windows operating system has its own Recycle bin. Files deleted from each partition will get stored in its respective Recycle bin. When a file having size larger than that of the size of the Recycle bin is deleted it is not stored in the Recycle bin and it simply bypasses the Recycle bin.
• Using Command Prompt: Some of the important files may get deleted while using Windows command prompt like by using “del” command or by using cut and paste command.

To avoid file deletion from Recycle bin in all the above mentioned scenarios some precautions should be followed.

• Always maintain some free space in the Recycle bin so that if any important file gets deleted by chance it will not bypass the Recycle bin and can be undeleted back from Recycle bin.
• Check the Recycle bin at regular time interval. If any of the deleted file is not important, you can delete it from the Recycle Bin which will create some free space for further deleted files in Windows Recycle bin.
• If any files you have to delete is having larger size than that of the Recycle bin size you can delete it partially or by shifting it to any other partition whose Recycle bin has enough size to hold that file.

If you will follow all the above precautions the chances of files getting deleted from Windows Recycle bin will decrease.

In case you have already lost/deleted your important file you can undelete files from Recycle binusing Remo Recover (Windows) Basic Edition software.

The features of this software include recovery of files which are deleted accidentally using shift + delete key combination. The files which are deleted by bypassing the Recycle bin due to large size or lack of free space can also be undeleted using this software. Files deleted using command prompt or from compressed folders can also be undeleted by this software. The software helps to undelete files from Windows Vista, Windows 7, Win XP, Windows server 2003 and Windows server 2008. You can download the software to undelete all your important files from Recycle bin. The software can also undelete files from SD card and other flash drives.

Following are the steps undelete files from Windows 7, Vista and XP Recycle bin:

Step 1: Use any other partition for installation of the software other than the affected partition.

Step 2: After successful installation of the software, run the software. Choose “Recover Deleted Files” to undelete files from Windows Recycle bin as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 : Select Recover Deleted Files

Step 3: From the next window, select the logical drive from where you lost your files and then click “Next” as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Select Logical Drive

Step 4: The software starts scanning the selected drive. Once the scanning is completed, you can view all your deleted files both in file type view and data type view as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: View Recovered Data

Different scenarios, which lead to file loss from SD card are,

• Accidental deletion of files from SD card - When SD card is connected to the system using card reader then while deleting unwanted files from SD card if you delete useful files accidentally then those deleted files will not move to Recycle Bin. Hence, you cannot restore those deleted files from Recycle Bin.
• Accidental formatting of SD card- If you press format memory card option accidentally when SD card is used in digital camera, all files stored on the SD card will get deleted.
• File loss from SD card while file transfer process- While transferring files from SD card to computer if computer is turned off then you will lose some of the files from the SD card.

However, there is no need to be panic when any file loss occurs from SD card because when files are deleted from SD card, those files will not get deleted permanently. Content of those deleted files will remain in the SD card but the pointer that was pointing to those files will get deleted and therefore those deleted files cannot be accessed. However, it is possible to recover deleted files from SD card provided it is not overwritten by new data.

In order to avoid data loss from the SD card you should take some precautions. They are as follows,

This software helps you to undelete files from various storage devices like hard drives, flash memory cards, USB drives, external hard drives and FireWire drives. The software can recover deleted files from Windows Vista, 7 and Win XP OS. It allows you to Preview recovered files before saving. This software is a READ- ONLY application and does not involve any writing operating while recovering deleted files. You can download the demo version of the software to evaluate the recovery results.

Follow the few easy steps mentioned below to undelete files Windows 7 Operating system using Remo Recover (Windows) software.

Step 1: Download and install the software by selecting the icon from Windows Start->Menu->ALL Programs or by double clicking the shortcut present on the desktop. The main window of the software displays, as show in Figure 1. Select “Recover Deleted Files” option from the Main windows as shown in Image 1

Step 2: The window displays the logical and physical drives, select the logical drive from which you need to recover deleted files from Windows 7 as shown in Image 2 and click “Next”

Step 3: Once you click “Next”, the software starts scanning the drive to recover deleted or lost files from the hard disk drive. Once the scanning is completed you can view recovered data using “Data View” or “File Type View” as shown in Image 3

Step 4: The software has “Preview” option, which helps you to preview recovered files before saving it as shown Image in 4

Step 5: Using “Save Recovery Session” option you can save your scanned information. Later whenever you activate the full version of the software by using “Open Recovery session” option you can re-load the previously scanned data as shown in Image 5

The most common causes for data loss in NAS, or RAID Arrays are:

• Inaccessibility of drives and partitions
• Accidental reconfiguration of RAID drives
• Hard drive crashes
• Hard disk drive component failure
• Virus attack
• Accidental deletion of data
• RAID array/controller failure
• Intermittent drive failure resulting in configuration corruption
• Accidental replacement of media components
• Multiple drive failure
• Accidental reformatting of partitions

Remo Undelete can recover files deleted from two disk mirrored NAS, if any one of the drive in the array has healthy file system and the operating system is able to mount the partitions.

Follow the instructions below to recover deleted files using Remo Undelete

Step 1: Run Remo Undelete by double clicking on desktop shortcut or run it from the programs menu. Remo Undelete main application window is opened as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Program main window

Step 2: Select the logical drive which has deleted data and click “Next”. As you click Next button, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under Root folder as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Found files and folders

Step 3: After you find the deleted files you can preview them before recovery. To preview the file, double click on the file whose preview is to be seen. This will show the preview of the selected file as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Preview

Step 4: To save the recovered files, select the data you wish to recover or click Root folder to select, all the found data and click “Save”. A window to select destination location to restore recovered data is displayed as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Select destination location

Select the destination location and specify the file types you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving. If you want to save the recovered data in compressed form then enable the Compress Data option and click OK.

The program starts saving the data to selected destination location. All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX” in selected destination location. After the saving process is complete a message pops up intimating the same. You can now access your recovered data as before.

Chances of Recovery

The chances of recovering your entire .pst file depend on the level of disk fragmentation before corruption. Fragmentation is a common phenomenon, because data is never stored in contiguous fashion on the drive. However, if you have used file defragment tools just or some time before data loss, then chances of recovery is greater.

How are .pst files lost?

Most occurring and common instances of losing .pst files are:

• Accidental Deletion
• Formatting or Reformatting
• Unexpected system shutdown or Software failure
• Virus Attacks
• Disk Corruption
• Partition corruption or re-partitioning

Maintain a regular Backup

In order to overcome and reverse the unexpected scenarios, every outlook user should maintain a regular backup of the .pst file.

Traditional manual methods are time consuming, tedious and fail to take entire backup of an Outlook profile that includes not only e-mail archive but many other important attributes, for e.g. Registry settings, account settings, custom dictionaries, signatures etc. Such risk oriented incomplete manual methods to backup Outlook may not be a wise decision.

The best tool to use is Remo Outlook Backup, which is an advanced backup utility used to take complete backup of Outlook profiles. Designed to create backup archive of almost all outlook items, this software can restore complete e-mail client when disaster strikes or when outlook refuses to load.

Repair .pst file

Remo Undelete will certainly help you to recover the lost .pst file. But once recovered you need to repair the .pst file in order to access your emails. Use Remo Recover Outlook (pst) software which is mainly designed to repair corrupted .pst files.

Solution for recovering lost .pst file

Remo Undelete will easily and securely recover deleted files from hard drive, flash drive, USB external drive, ZIP, Firewire drives, digital camera card, and more. This simple to use yet most powerful recovery software can successfully recover your entire .pst file. Remo Undelete works with Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. It can recover data from both FAT and NTFS Windows file systems.

Special technical or data recovery skills are not required to work with the software. Software is read-only application does not affect the partition or drive that contains deleted data.

Follow the steps mentioned below to recover your lost .pst file using Remo Undelete

Step 1: Launch Remo Undelete Software either from program files or by double clicking on desktop shortcut. Main application window of Remo Undelete is as shown in figure a.

Figure a: Remo Undelete main window

Note: If the logical drive you are looking for is not displayed in the list of logical drives, then use Search lost partitions option to find your lost partition (logical drive) and proceed with recovery process.

Step 2: Select the logical drive from which the .pst file has to be recovered and click Next button. As soon as you click next, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under Root folder as shown in figure b.

Figure b: Found files and folders

Step 3: Once recovery is complete and tree structure is formed, the next and final step is to restore your found files and folders to a safe location.

Select the data you wish to recover or click Root folder to select all the found data and click Save as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select destination location

Select the destination location and specify the file types you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving. Also check if you want the data to be restored in compressed form and click Ok.

As you click OK button, the program starts saving the data to selected destination location. Once saving is complete a message pops up intimating the same.

All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX” in selected destination location.

The 11 folders included in the user profile are contacts, desktop, documents, downloads, favorites, links, music, pictures, saved games, searches and videos. However, in Windows Vista, Microsoft includes the ability to move user-specific data like Favorites, Contacts, Music, Pictures and others with simple drag and drop operation. The Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders are most likely to contain large amounts of data. Files accidentally/intentionally deleted from any of the user folders mentioned above can be easily recovered with Remo Undelete. Remo Undelete can recover accidentally deleted files, including files emptied from Recycle Bin, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key + Delete, and lost partitions provided it is used before the files are permanently overwritten by new data.

Tutorial on how to recover deleted files from user folders with Remo Undelete:

Step 1: Start Remo Undelete either from program files or by double clicking on desktop shortcut. Remo Undelete main application window is opened as shown in figure a.

Figure a: Program main window

Step 2: Select the logical drive which has deleted data and click “Next”. As you click Next button, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under Root folder as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Found Files and Folders

After the tree for found files and folders is found click on Show Deleted button, to view only deleted files. The application will now show all the deleted files with a red cross on it. This will help narrow down the files and make it much easier to find the delete file.

Step 3: The next and final step is to restore your found files and folders to a safe location. Click the file you wish to recover and click the “Save” button. As you click save button, a window to select destination location to restore recovered data is displayed as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select destination location

Select the destination location and specify the file types you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving. Check if you want the data to be restored in compressed form and click OK. As you click OK button, the program starts saving the data to selected destination location.

Once saving is complete a message pops up intimating the same. All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX” in selected destination location. You can now access your recovered data as before.

1. Close all the applications and Switch off the computer
2. Do not write anything to the flash drive
3. Do not download any application to the flash drive with deleted files
4. Try not to panic and as any adventurous behavior here may overwrite the recoverable data
5. Finally, connect the flash drive to another system (Windows 7, Vista, XP OS) and then install Remo Undelete to that same independent system. Then scan the drive for deleted files and their recovery.

Simple steps to recover deleted files from flash drive with Remo Undelete:

Step 1: Run Remo Undelete by double clicking on desktop shortcut or run it from the programs menu.

Start -> Programs ->Remo undelete

Remo Undelete main application window is opened as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Program main window

Step 2: The software will display a list of logical drives. Select the logical drive which has deleted data and click “Next”.

As you click Next button, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under Root folder as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Found files and folders

Step 3: After you find the deleted files you can preview them before recovery. To preview the file, double click on the file whose preview is to be seen. This will show the preview of the selected file as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Preview

Step 4: To save the recovered files, select the data you wish to recover or click Root folder to select, all the found data and click “Save”. A window to select destination location to restore recovered data is displayed as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Select destination location

Select the destination location and specify the file types you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving. If you want to save the recovered data in compressed form then enable the Compress Data option and click OK.

The program starts saving the data to selected destination location. All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX” in selected destination location. After the saving process is complete a message pops up intimating the same. You can now access your recovered data as before.

Remo Undelete as the professional deleted file recovery software, not only recovers files deleted from flash drive, but also enables you to recover files from SATA/IDE/USB/SCSI hard drives, SD, XD, MMC and other flash memory storages.

Recovering deleted files from Digital Cameras or iPods

You will be wondering, how is it possible to recover files that I have already deleted? Well to give a quick answer, digital camera’s storage device (usually use SD card) or iPods (usually use one of two types of storage; miniature hard drives or flash memory) are a lot like a computers hard disk.

Whether the file has been deleted from a digital camera or from an iPod as like a computers hard drive, the file does not get permanently erased; instead the file gets removed and its space gets listed as available, re-usable space. Therefore until that space is overwritten by new data, the deleted file still exists and can be recovered.

So if you thought that the files you accidentally deleted off your digital camera/iPod were gone for good, then think again as with Remo Undelete you can get all of your desired reminiscences back instantly.

Key for recovering deleted files

The solution for recovering your deleted files is to act instantly and you will be almost assured to have your files back.

In order to increase the chances of recovery do not save anymore files as soon as you realize that you have deleted an important file

Best tool for recovering deleted files

Remo Undelete will easily and securely recover deleted files from any type of digital card reader or storage media. Remo Undelete Quickly locates and restores deleted files that other undelete software could never find.

This undelete application provides many features superior to those found in other undelete programs which include saving recovered data in a compressed (ZIP) format, ignoring file types before saving and the ability to preview all files found for precise data recovery selection.

It does not require special technical or data recovery skills to work with the software. Its Intuitive Interface makes recovering deleted data effortless.
Steps to be followed to recover deleted files

Step 1: Launch Remo Undelete Software either from program files or by double clicking on desktop shortcut. Main application window of Remo Undelete is as shown in figure a.

Figure a: Remo Recover main window

Note: If the logical drive you are looking for is not displayed in the list of logical drives, then use Search lost partitions option to find your lost partition (logical drive) and proceed with recovery process.

Step 2: Select the logical drive which has the selected data and click Next button. As soon as you click next, the application scans the selected drive for deleted data and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format under Root folder as shown in figure b.

Figure b: Found files and folders

Step 3: Once recovery is complete and tree structure is formed, the next and final step is to restore your found files and folders to a safe location. You can also preview the files before it could be recovered

Select the data you wish to recover or click Root folder to select all the found data and click Save option as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select destination location

Select the destination location and specify the file types you wish to ignore (file filter) while saving. Also check if you want the data to be restored in compressed form and click OK.

As you click OK button, the program starts saving the data to selected destination location. Once saving is complete a message pops up intimating the same.

All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX” in selected destination location. You can now access your recovered data as before.