Note that these can be devices such as IDE/ATA CDROMS, Compact Flash to IDE converters, and some special floppy drives (although they tend to appear mainly in laptops). IDE/ATA drives are labelled as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd (since a PC's IDE interfaces can only handle 4 devices at a time). Hard drives are kept in /dev and have different names depending on what type of drive they are. The most common thing to be mounted is a hard drive partition. These system filesystems are all automatically set up, but it is creating custom filesystems and using removable media which allow for some interesting uses of mounting. In fact, it is "fake" since it shows various files containing useful pieces of information to do with your system, however none of these files actually exist until they are opened, in which case the system does a quick check to find the required information, displays it and pretends that it was there all along. For example the folder "/proc" does not actually contain any data. Also, the "fake" filesystems can make it much easier to administer and run a Linux system. For example, users' files are often kept on a separate hard drive partition and mounted on /home. However, it is very useful to keep some directories inside / separate. A Linux system needs only one "physical" (real) filesystem, which is that of /.
This top-level volume is kept in RAM, but the files themselves are stored on various drives (some real and some fake) (also, files may be kept in the RAM before they are written to disc for reasons which I will explain further down). It too has a root, but since there is only one top-level volume there is no point giving it a label (as there is nothing to distinguish it from) which means that all files in a Linux system are accessed via simply "/". Linux only has one top-level volume which is kept in the system's RAM.
(remember, Windows uses back slashes instead of the more common forward slashes you find in Linux) and the files inside these filesystems are accessed inside each volume's root such as "C:\", "D:\", "E:\", etc. For example in Windows there is no distinction made between a device and the filesystem on it, and the user is restricted to mounting a device's filesystem in a top-level volume which is automatically assigned a letter such as C:, D:, etc.
In other systems this is done differently. These directories are called the "mount points" of a filesystem. Accessing such filesystems is called "mounting" them, and in Linux (like any UNIX system) you can mount filesystems into any directory, that is, make the files stored in that filesystem accessible when you go into a certain directory. Data is not actually stored on a device so you cannot access this data by going into /dev, this is because it is stored inside the filesystem on the device so you need to access these filesystems somehow. The way these are stored on a device and their structure is called the "filesystem".
In closing, Partition Recovery comes in handy for users who need to recover damaged partitions and move data to a new media device.Data on a computer, as you may know, is stored in binary as a series of 1s and 0s.
What’s more, Partition Recovery enables you to recover data from raw, compressed and VMWare Disk images, restore deleted HFS+, UFS and NTFS file systems, filter detected partitions by recoverability status, as well as correct volume boot sectors automatically. After that, you can select the drive you are interested in, access the ‘Create Disk Image’ option from the File menu and wait while drive’s contents are copied to a new location. If you want to create a new copy of your entire drive, you need to make sure that you have enough space on another partition. This way, you will get back your important files and move them to another media device. In this case, you can use the second option that helps you to copy all data to a new safe location. Still, there might be situations when all your data is overwritten and your operating system might not recognize the recovered volume anymore. Using this option, you are able to access your files immediately. The first one, which is also known as a in-place recovery, works very well when the volume was just deleted or the data and the file system have not been severely damaged. When it comes to restoring a deleted or corrupted partition detected by the application, you are able to choose between two options. By using the ‘QuickScan’ feature you can search for drives that have just been deleted while the ‘SuperScan’ option processes the whole hard drive and detects all possible deleted data. Partition Recovery is a straightforward and reliable utility that helps you to recover deleted and damaged partitions, as well as restore data from corrupted drives and copy them to another media device.Īfter you launch the application for the first time, you are able to view all the detected partitions.