Computer forensics has recently gained significant popularity with many local law enforcement agencies. It is currently employed in fraud, theft, drug enforcement and almost every other enforcement activity. The research paper includes the types of attempts to destroy or tamper the files by the culprits and unleashes various recovery techniques, and their significance in different situations from those attempts, which destroy files or inflict physical damage to the computer. The paper also presents the nature and immediate need of enhancing the existing automated forensics tools. The paper gives a quick glance of various methods used by culprits to destroy the information in the electronic storage media and their corresponding forensic approach done by the computer forensic experts in the perspective of recovery.

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