Microsoft KB Archive/934975

= How to increase the probability of data recovery before you use the tools in Administrator's Pak to restore data =

Article ID: 934975

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Winternals Administrator's Pak 4.2
 * Winternals Administrator's Pak 5.0

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Introduction
Generally, it is difficult to restore the data that you delete. However, you can help to increase the probability of data recovery before you use the tools in Administrator’s Pak to restore data.



MORE INFORMATION
 Do not write data to the partition where data has been deleted.

If you write data to the partition where data has been deleted, you may overwrite the data that you want to recover. The following sources may write data to the partition:  The installation of a new product The startup or shutdown of the operating system A network user

We recommend that you prevent these sources from writing data to the partition. Do not perform defragmentation on the partition.

If you perform defragmentation on the partition, the clusters that contain the data that you delete may be replaced and the data may be lost. Restore data to a different storage location.

You must restore the data to a location that differs from where the data was deleted. If you restore the data to its original location, the data that you want to recover may be overwritten in the same restoration operation.</li></ul>

Additional query words: Winternals KB#: 30076 and 30075, data, factors, FileRestore, Disk Commander

Keywords: kbtshoot kbexpertiseinter KB934975

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