Computers require a way to store data permanently. Earlier, different types of storage devices have been used for storing the data like punched paper ribbons and cards, magnetic tape reels and catridges and so on. But today, magnetic hard drives are used to store large amount of data. Hard drives use different standards and interfaces. There are two different standards i.e. IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) and ATA. SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is another standard that is mainly used for high-end workstations and file server systems. Data is recorded onto the platters in a series of magnetic rings called as tracks. Each platter consists of tracks on the top and bottom surfaces. A stack of these tracks are called as cylinders. Hard drive reads or writes the data using heads. A single platter needs two heads i.e. one for top and other for bottom surface. Each track in turn have a number of sectors. Each sectors stores 512 bytes of data. The hard drive needs to be configured with a partition and a file system before the data can be stored. Formatting the hard drive assigns a file system to organise the data. If your hard drive already contains data then it deletes and creates new file system to store new data. Sometimes, you may accidentally format the hard drive resulting in data loss. But, no need to worry because hard drive recovery can be easily done by using relevant hard drive recovery tool.
Data loss may also occur due to corrupting partition information caused while trying to make multi or dual Operating System installation. Partitioning a hard drive is necessary because, it increases the system performance. Instead of saving all data, applications, Operating System on a single hard drive, you can divide and save it on different partitions of single hard drive. You can also install more than one Operating system on a single hard drive. If you want to install multiple partitions on a single hard drive then you need to partition and format that partition with suitble file system. If you accidentally formatt the partition that contain usefull data instead of other partition then the new file system is created to install other OS, by deleting all the data over that partition. This may result in data loss.
Therefore, before installing multiple Operating Systems on a single hard drive, take backup of essential data to avoid data loss. Once you find that, you have lost the data then stop copying or saving new data to avoid permanent data loss. Make use of relevant data recovery tool in order to recover lost data from the hard drive.
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