Disclosure
How our guides are made — and who answers for them
Nobody writes more than 2,000 guides by hand. This page sets out how they are actually produced, what is checked along the way and where the limits of the approach lie.
The short answer
The texts are written with language models from fixed building blocks. A person is responsible for them.
Each guide covers one specific situation: a storage medium, a symptom, a file format. The texts are written with language models — that is, with AI — and assembled by a program according to a fixed structure. Automated checks run before every publication. Markus Nick sets the structure, the rules and the checks, and is responsible for the result.
01 / Starting point
One page for one specific situation
People who have lost footage rarely search for “data recovery”. They search for their own situation: an SD card the camera suddenly refuses to read, deleted 4K clips, a WAV file that breaks off after copying. A general article answers none of these precisely enough.
That is why many such situations have a page of their own. Each follows the same structure: work out what probably happened, protect the remaining data, choose a suitable method, check the result. The order is deliberately identical everywhere — the safe procedure should not depend on which page someone happens to find first.
02 / Production
Language models, building blocks and a fixed structure
The guides are written with language models and assembled by a program. The basis is an overview of situations, each with its medium, symptom, cause and the safe steps that apply. One page is produced per situation.
Part of every guide is written specifically for that one situation: the short answer at the top, the assessment, the immediate steps and how to recognise a usable recovery. Other paragraphs are building blocks that read the same on several pages — for example the note on which storage media the software can read directly.
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Define the situation: medium, symptom, file format and the typical cause.
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Write the case-specific text: short answer, assessment, steps and verification — with language models, separately for each page.
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Insert building blocks: recurring notes on method, limits and backups.
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Attach sources: the technical documentation and specifications the statements rely on.
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Check and publish: automated checks, then a comparison with the live page.
03 / Reasoning
Why we do it this way
File Recovery Hero is a small company. Employing a specialist editorial team for every one of these situations is not possible — without automation, most of these pages simply would not exist. Language models make it possible to answer rare cases too, the ones nobody otherwise takes the time for.
The cost is a risk we are aware of: pages built from building blocks resemble each other. So we are gradually replacing standard paragraphs with text that applies to one case only. A check counts the pages that still carry standard paragraphs, and that number is only allowed to go down.
04 / Checks
What is checked before every publication
No page goes out unchecked. Before each publication, automated checks run across the entire collection; if one fails, nothing is published. In addition, samples are read in full and laid side by side to find pages that resemble their neighbours too closely.
- Product statements: anything a guide says about File Recovery Hero must be covered by an internal register of documented statements. Supported media, limits and price are recorded there with their source.
- Language: no broken sentence fragments and no duplicate paragraphs on the same page.
- Linking: every page can be reached from several others; no guide stands alone.
- Translations: every language version is complete and points correctly to the others.
- Delivery: after publication, the live page is fetched and compared with the checked version.
05 / Languages
English written directly, French and Spanish translated
The English guides are written directly in English rather than translated from German. Some of them therefore carry different titles and do not always cover exactly the same situations as the German ones.
The French and Spanish guides are machine-translated from German. Individual sections — including the short answers and the specifically written assessments — exist in their own French and Spanish versions. Machine translations that have clearly gone wrong are rejected automatically and produced again.
06 / Responsibility
Who answers for them
Every guide names Markus Nick as its author. That does not mean he wrote every sentence himself; it means he is responsible for the content. He decides what the pages may say, the rules they are produced by and what is checked before publication. Who he is can be found on the About page.
Below the heading you will see when the page was last updated. The date is set automatically whenever the published page changes. If you find a mistake, write to info@file-recovery-hero.com. Corrections are made at the source, so they reach every affected page at the same time.
They state no success rates and no invented test results, and they do not replace a data recovery lab. With physical damage, clicking noises or a medium that cannot be read reliably, a lab is the safe choice.
Sources and technical references
Common questions
Does a person write these guides?
Not sentence by sentence. The texts are written with language models and assembled from fixed building blocks. Markus Nick sets the structure, the rules and the checks, and is responsible for the result.
Why do some guides read alike?
Because some paragraphs are building blocks that read the same on several pages. We are gradually replacing them with text that applies to one case only; the number of pages with standard paragraphs may only go down.
What does “Updated” mean?
It is the day the published page last changed. The date is set automatically and matches the date search engines receive.
Are my scans or files used for the guides?
No. Scanning and recovery run entirely on your computer; file names, result lists and recovered files never leave your device. The guides are produced without any user data.
I found a mistake. What happens next?
Write to info@file-recovery-hero.com. The mistake is corrected at the source, so it disappears from every page that uses the same building block.