Data recovery refers to the process of retrieving lost, deleted, corrupted, or inaccessible data from various storage devices such as hard drives, SSDs, USB flash drives, memory cards, and mobile phones. The goal of data recovery is to restore files and information that may have been lost due to hardware or software failures, accidental deletions, formatting issues, malware attacks, or physical damage to the device.

Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible. In enterprise IT, data recovery typically refers to the restoration of data to a desktop, laptop, server or external storage system from a backup.