The overwritten sectors can’t be rolled back to their previous states. Our engineers refer to this kind of corruption as hard corruption. If a data storage device has been in use since files were deleted from it, the likelihood of some of the deleted files becoming corrupted increases. Our engineers can restore these deleted files and assess them for file corruption. HOMBRE’s relational database helps them sort through all of the data on the device to turn up deleted files. To recover deleted files, our technicians analyze the entire device. It can’t find those files on its own anymore. This is mainly because it doesn’t actually know where the deleted data lives. Your filesystem isn’t going to freely tell us where all the data on the drive lives. Our engineers have to make an exact duplicate of your hard drive, all the way down to the binary level.
The process for deleted data recovery starts with a full write-blocked forensic image of your data storage device. HOMBRE has been developed by our data recovery engineers, exclusively for our data recovery engineers.
Most software tools also lack the robust suite of analytical tools our own software has.
If you install a data recovery program, you’re already risking the integrity of your lost data. There’s a lot of danger involved in trying to recover deleted files on your own. We use HOMBRE, our own in-house software, for deleted data recovery. There are a lot of software data recovery programs out there that say they can help you if a critical file has been deleted.
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Deleted data recovery from Linux systems can be more difficult work than deleted data recovery from Mac or Windows systems. Sometimes this can be undone using the filesystem’s journaling capabilities. When a file is deleted from an Ext4 partition, the extents pointing to the file’s location are erased. Some Linux filesystems, such as Ext4, handle deleted files a little differently. Eventually, the spot gets bulldozed and a new building gets put up in its place. No one is allowed in, but the building is still there. It’s more like putting a big “CONDEMNED” sign on the front door. Deleting a file isn’t the same as knocking a building down. Think of your hard drive as a city and each file as a building. This can partially overwrite or even completely destroy your deleted file. If you keep creating or modifying files after you’ve deleted something, you could end up writing data to that space. When you delete data, there’s suddenly a convenient new bit of “unused” space where your deleted file is. It’s important to avoid using your data storage device after file deletion has occurred. The allocation table keeps a record of what parts of the hard drive are in use. Files are defined by the catalog and extents overflow files. The same principle is at work in HFS+ filesystems, although the underlying mechanisms are a little different.
It has only flagged them as unused in the bitmap. The filesystem hasn’t changed the sectors containing the deleted file. When a file is deleted, the bitmap updates itself and says that the space occupied by that file is empty.
The bitmap keeps a little record of which spaces on the drive are being used and which are not. The NTFS filesystem also has a feature called the bitmap. It’s constantly being updated and rewritten as files are created and deleted. In the NTFS filesystem, the master file table identifies and points to the physical locations of every file on your data storage device.