File recovery is a process of recovering your lost files under accidental file deletion, file system corruption, virus infection, formatting of hard disk or due to any physical damage to the hard drive. All these scenarios of file loss are quite prevalent in our day to day computer activity, hence, file recovery software has a significant role in bringing back our lost data and saving us many bucks.

Hard drives, external hard drives and USB drives are the major storage media that store much of your valuable data in bulk. Any instance of data loss can be horrible as your precious data or even your whole business is on a stake.

Scenario:

You tried to save a file in your hard disk or to any of your external USB drive under Windows Vista operating system and end up getting an error message that didn’t let you save the file. The error message may read as follows:

“X:\Folder\FileName You don’t have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission. Would you like to save in the Documents folder instead?”

Or

“Access to X:\Folder\FileName was denied.”

Cause:

The hard disk or the USB device has been formatted with the previous version of Windows NTFS file system.

Resolution:

Follow the following steps in order to resolve the above issue of saving a file:

In My Computer, chose the drive, right-click on it and click Format.

If it asks for any administrative password, then, provide the same.

Then, you need to select the NTFS file system from the list.

Click on START to initiate the formatting process.

Finally, close the formatting dialog box.

In order to solve the issue, you have to format the drive with the latest version of Windows NTFS file system. Formatting the device will erase all the data from the drive and to recover them, you have to take the help of a good and effective file Recovery Software. These file recovery utilities come with powerful scanning algorithms to recover and restore all your lost data. Apart from this, these softwares are very general in terms of functionality and does not even demand any technical expertise.

Among many available products of file recovery, Stellar offers an advanced and efficient file recovery software in the name of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. The software supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems and can recover any lost, deleted or formatted file from Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 with ease.

Dushyant a student of Mass Communication doing research on Partition recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.partitionrecovery-software.com/window-ntfs-fat-recovery.php