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Would it surprise you to learn that the same tools used to rescue millions of files from huge corporate data centers can be used to locate and recover songs from your iPod? For the most part this is actually the case as the process of data recovery is somewhat universal. When we need to recover data we must scan through whatever media or digital storage device holds that data and reconstruct the original files from the underlying binary information and then send that information to a new storage location. These three steps are universal whether or not we are attempting file recovery on an iPod or the largest mainframe.

Another similarity is the cause of lost files resulting in the need for data recovery. Files are lost in two ways. Either we, through human error, accidentally delete them as when we empty our Windows recycle bin without looking twice at its contents, or files can be lost when our mechanical devices suffer a system crash. Once again the process to recover data remains the same. That is to scan, reconstruct, and save.