Find your lost data

The Cloud can be fallible. Don’t worry, here are a few tools that can help you get your data back

- SREYA DEB

AS WE RAPIDLY progress towards a reality where almost every piece of data and information we own is finding space on the cloud, a heretofore ‘storage facility’ without typical space or size constraints — we are just as quickly realising that the wonders of the Cloud are fallible.

Storage capacities that previously looked expansive, are now starting to feel limiting for users, and the loss of digitally stored content poses an even more inconsolable threat.

The buck no longer stops at uploading to the cloud or moving data to a hard drive, rather at learning data recovery failsafes so as to brace oneself for the dire possibility of data loss. Be it digital copies of identity documents, bank receipts, vacation pictures, insurance details or anything else — nearly everything is stored digitally or online.

Recovery from computer hard drives is often a challenge. One virus, or exceedingly heavy folder or programme, can potentially override previously saved files on your computer. While there are several recovery softwares for this purpose, a large majority of them only allow 500MB to 2GB worth of data recovery before one has to pay for the full version. These are free data recovery softwares that can work on 'undeleting' files, with or without being downloaded on the computer.