How can I make my own data recovery software in c++ ?

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How can I make my  own data recovery software in c++ ?

Posted 7-Dec-15 21:44pm

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Updated 20-Jan-23 7:18am

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Jochen Arndt 8-Dec-15 4:50am

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This can't be answered without defining 'data'. That is just everything that is stored somewhere on computers.

Griff gave you examples of questions that might get answers:
How to undelete files on NTFS file systems?
How to restore deleted rows in MySQL database files?

As you can see there is a specific recovery operation (undelete file, undelete row) with a specific item (file, DB file) of a specific type (file system, file type).

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-12-07T21:49:00

To be honest, if you have to ask, you probably shouldn't try - it's very likely that you will make things worse, not better.

Data recovery is a wide topic, and covers such things as restoring from a backup, through restoring deleted files, deleted DB rows, right up to restoring data from corrupted hard drives.

At the "restore from backup" end, it's mostly simple (depending on what software wrote the backup in the first place); at the corrupt hard drive end it gets extremely technical, and it's very, very easy to damage things further unless you really, really know what you are doing.

And we have no idea of your skill levels or experience, so we can't even begin to suggest where you start.

Sit down, work out exactly what you are trying to achieve, and it should be clearer what you need to start researching at least.