Recovering NTFS Drive Data in Los Angeles

Recovery of compressed and encrypted NTFS partitions with the help of Hetman Software products in Los Angeles.

Comparing the Two File Systems: ReFS (Resilient File System) and NTFS

In this article, let’s have a look at the opportunities offered by ReFS and what makes it better than the good old NTFS system. Recovering data from ReFS storage space. The new file system ReFS by Microsoft was initially introduced in Windows Server 2012. It is also available in Windows 10 as a component within the Storage Space tool. ReFS can be used for a group of disks known as storage pool. With the issue of Windows Server 2016, the file system was improved and soon it will be available in the new version of Windows 10.

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How to Encrypt Files and Folders with EFS in Windows 10, 8 or 7

Read about EFS in Windows 10, how to enable and use it, and how to back up the EFS encryption key. The Encrypting File System (EFS) was first introduced in Windows 2000 and is still available in all versions of Windows 10, 8 or 7 except for Home version. EFS is similar to encryption by Bitlocker, and it allows encrypting separate files and folders while Bitlocker works with the entire disk. EFS is not a full-fledged file system, but an add-on based on NTFS and allowing to encrypt particular files on the fly.

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How To Format The Hard Disk?

Read about the difference between quick and full formatting, and how to use Windows standard disk format tool. Any hard disk has to be formatted before even a single file is written to it, and this is an obligatory condition! In fact, hard disks are formatted in many cases: not only at the beginning, when it is brand new, but also as a common step in reinstallation of your OS, when you need to quickly delete all files from the disk, when you want to change the file system and so on.

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Inside NTFS: File Recovery Algorithm

Read about data recovery procedure for NTFS disks and the algorithm used by file recovery apps. Now when we covered most of the theory, we can proceed to actually recovering files. As you may remember from our previous article, FAT was never designed with data recovery in mind. As a result, FAT was very inconvenient to work with when it came to recovering lost information.

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