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Data Recovery Programs: Repair Files and Data from Damaged NTFS Formatted Drives

Loss of data can occur for a number of reasons even on modern and reliable hard drives. The loss of data might occur because of software crashes, spyware and virus activities, power blackouts, or lots of other reasons. Most modern hard disks bear the NTFS file system. One of the most secure, reliable and recoverable file systems on the market, NTFS can be often repaired right away by the end user. But what if traditional data recovery programs such as chkdsk.exe fail because of heavy corruption of the file system? Until recently, sending the damaged drive to a professional data service was the only option for most of us.

But not anymore!

NTFS recovery has become easy with the recent appearance of automatic NTFS data recovery programs. If you were uncomfortable about recovering an NTFS disk yourself with data recovery programs, it is time to rethink that. Using 1st NTFS Recovery, an NTFS data recovery program, to recover corrupted NTFS partitions has never been easier. Simply starting the data recovery program, choosing the corrupted hard drive and waiting for a few moments produces an Explorer-like window that shows all recoverable files grouped by their respective directories. Click a file, and you'll instantly see the contents of the file in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get fashion. You'll see your family photo album as series of photos and office files as formatted documents. Audio files will be played back in the background, and movies will be displayed as videos, including the original sound track. It's just as easy as it sounds!

The live preview technology does miracles by displaying erased, corrupted and even partially overwritten documents almost instantly. The technology reads the disk to recover a file into computer's operating memory, repairs the document if it's corrupted or if a part of it is unrecoverable, and outputs its contents in a form of a live preview. The technology works in both free and full versions of the product.

Do-it-yourself style NTFS recovery is a reality with data recovery programs. Today's NTFS data recovery program such as 1st NTFS Recovery combine unprecedented ease of use that was unimaginable just a few years ago with professional recovery algorithms. Those are the same algorithms that many professional data recovery companies are using. Making a long story short, 1st NTFS Recovery is among the first few NTFS data recovery programs that stopped relying on the file system for getting information about data being recovered.

The file system can get damaged severely, or even completely overwritten with new data if the disk gets reformatted accidentally. Instead of counting on the file system alone, 1st NTFS Recovery combines information from the file system with data it collects from the hard drive by directly scanning and analyzing its entire surface. Being aware of a wide variety of file formats such as spreadsheets, digital images, a variety of sound formats, ZIP and RAR archives, email messages and databases, 1st NTFS Recovery can repair them easily. If necessary, the data recovery program will repair partially overwritten files. This happens completely automatically with no user interaction. No need to change settings or check anything to make use of this powerful recovery method. Just click to scan the damaged hard drive, and 1st NTFS Recovery will apply all methods and algorithms in order to recover as much of your data as theoretically possible.

1st NTFS Recovery is available for evaluation download at no charge. You can ensure that 1st NTFS Recovery can truly fix your disk and your data by performing the disk scan and previewing the files that it finds. Live Preview works even in the evaluation version of 1st NTFS Recovery, so if you see a preview of a file, you are guaranteed to get it restored by the full version. It's just as simple. Download your free evaluation edition of 1st NTFS Recovery at http://ntfs-recovery.com/

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