Hard Drive Data Recovery Tools

Handy Steps to Keep Away from Data loss Situations

2012-02-09T09:32:00.003+05:30

Data loss is the most common & one of the biggest problems in the computer world. Every 3rd person is suffering from it; even you may also face this trouble anytime. Data play an important role in any business, organization etc. It’s really a nightmare when somehow you lost or delete your crucial data which can cause serious harm to your work or business.

Let’s have a look on some of the major data loss situations:-

Physical damage of the hard drive like burned hdd, broken hdd etc.
Virus or malware attack which leads to inaccessibility of your hard disk
While installing the newer versions of OS, sometime results to accidentally formatted partition which is containing the valuable data
Backup files get accidentally deleted or misplaced
Data get unintentionally deleted

Effective methods to stay away from these kind of data loss situations:-

Create the backup of important data and write the backup copy onto the CD-DVD's or external hard drive
Try to use antivirus software for your machine to minimize the malware threat
Use system utilities such as chkdsk /r on a regular basis to fix minor faults from the hard drive
Create restore point randomly
Updating system driver and OS programs from authority websites

Taking regular data backup can be a solution of the problem. But, with growing threats and malicious programs, taking only back up or basic precautions is not sufficient as far as the data safety is concerned. Virus can easily damage the backup files and sometime deletes it permanently from the hard disk. People are having misconception that the data deleted from the recycle bin or hard drive will results in permanent data loss, but it's not true at all. An identical copy of the deleted data are keep alive somewhere in the drive until the space is overwritten with the some other data, all you need to know is how to find it. To locate or recover the deleted data from the hard disk, you need to download the right data recovery software from the trusted source like Stellar Phoenix.

5 Resolving Steps to Fix MSDaRT.DLL Errors

2012-01-23T12:38:00.000+05:30

Windows users are facing different type of dll errors in these days and I had already written different articles separately to resolve. This time I'm going to write article about a dll error that I have found recently. So, if you are searching for the resolution steps of msdart.dll and related errors, you can find one here.

If you see the messages like this:

msdart.dll file not found        or
msdar.dll file is missing          or
can't able to locate the msdart.dll file, reinstalling the application may fix this problem    or
error code 0x1292            or
cannot find [path]\msdart.dll        or
Component is missing: msdart.dll, please reinstall the fresh copy

That means your Windows got infected by some malicious programs (Trojan, spyware, worms etc.) or there is any problem with your registry. This error could lead to the serious damaging of your hardware or frequent system crash and you will lose access to some or all the important files and folders contained in the hard drive. These errors will continue to appear whenever the user wants’ to access or install any programs or even while installing windows, and doesn't remove completely unless and until any resolution steps are not performed.

There might be several Causes:

The best way to resolve this error is by knowing the exact causes of it. By which, you can perform the needy steps. Here is the list of common causes:

msdart.dll file got mistakenly deleted
msdart.dll are modified
path of the msdart.dll file is modified
Registry corruption could also lead to the msdart.dll errors
Malware programs were infected the msdart.dll file

Steps to resolve it:

After finding the exact causes of msdart.dll errors, follow any of the below mentioned steps which best suited to the cause of your msdart.dll errors:

#1 Restoring the deleted msdart.dll files

If your msdart.dll files got deleted accidently or intentionally, try to look at recycle bin folder and restore it if you have found one. However, if the mdart.dll file is permanently deleted (shift + delete) and there is no such way to restore it, switch to any well known file recovery software which recovers the deleted or formatted files. Download the file recovery software, if you need one.
Restoring the deleted msdart.dll files will fix this issue and your system will start to work as before.

#2 Scan the system with any antivirus program

Sometime, users are facing this type of error due to of virus infections in which the malicious program got access to system and will damage or change the attribute of msdart.dll files. Scanning the system with any well known antivirus program will remove the malicious programs associated with msdart.dl files and will fix the issue in short time.

#3 Restore the system to any previously working condition

If someone had modified the msdart.dll files, then restoring the system to any previously working state will fix the issue. Changing the configuration or mode of the system could also cause the msdart.dll errors in which you have to do the same (system restore).

#4 Install & Run a free registry cleaner software

If msdart.dll files are corrupted due to of registry corruption, then it can be easily recovered by registry cleaner software. Registry cleaner software will find and fix the corrupted registry and so as your corrupted msdart.dll files.

#5 Installing windows Updates

Windows are containing an important program called windows updates in which windows will automatically update to any scheduled time (internet connection is required to perform this). Updating the system will replaces large number of Dll files and so as your corrupted msdart.dll files.

Above are the top 5 ways to recover from msdart.dll errors and if you suspect that none of these methods could resolve your issue, then just contact your hardware manufacturer to avoid any further damage. But before performing any of the steps, you have to take backup of all your important data to any secure place so you will never lose the important data.

Revolutionary iPhones :Galaxy Nexus vs. iPhone 4S

2011-12-07T14:04:00.009+05:30

Battle Begins to become best in the Mobile Industry

Thousands of apps, excellent tools to discover the latest information in someone's niches, become in touch any time with your friends, share documents e.g., PDF file, word or excel documents, images , audio & Video, latest processor, excellent voice recognition system and lot more. You can find all this in these two latest iphones 4S or Google's Galaxy Nexus.

A question will arise in everyone's mind that what could be the best, either Galaxy Nexus or iPhone 4S, and what are the different features they are having.Don't get hesitate to read further for more information because I'm going to tell you some of the major enhancements that are carried out with each one to help you in deciding the best.

Galaxy Nexus: Barometer

Samsung launched this phone with Google's newest Android mobile operating system version Android 4.0 few days ago. It's having the same thickness as iPhone 4S but the difference is in body shapes. Barometer is inbuilt feature in Galaxy nexus which can help people's to find the information about weather or can make GPS lockons faster for more accurate information just like GPS and that's why Galaxy Nexus also having the name of weather forecaster, For more information, visit here: Andriod engineer Dan Morrill.
Instead of this it's slim size, Android 4.0(latest processor from Google also know as Ice Cream Sandwich), app store with HD super AMOLED showcase, improved Gmail, talk, calendar, third party app compatibility and more will makes you shocked.

Overall, Many changes were carried out by the both Samsung and Google on software and hardware which results to a great Galaxy Nexus with improved performance and great user hands on experience.

Top Reasons to Buy: Google Android 4.0(Ice Cream Sandwich) let you enable faster downloading and uploading speed, latest great set of apps e.g., Google +,twitter etc, and high performance. Several other admirable features would compelled you to put your money on the desk.

Why not to Buy: Camera quality is average-Sometime good but mostly bad, screen issue.

Average Customer Rating: *******

Average Price: Around $ 300 (in US)

IPhone 4S:Data Recovery Methods and Tools

4S is just an improved versions of its predecessor 4. You will find 8 MP Camera, just double storage form the previous one. So if you are already having the iPhone 4 or any previous versions, you can easily find the changes made in this one.
However below discussed points were some of the major enhancements exist in the apple 4s.

Hardware:

4S is having a total weight of 140 gm(4.94 ounces) due to upgrades in its processor A5 same as iPod 2, which can give you an improved performance and higher downloading and uploading speed. User can switch between exterior antennas while talking, 3.5 inches upfront screen and 960*640 retina display. Unfortunately, Its RAM is same 512 MB , no 4G and running at 800 MHz(down from 4 that is running at 1 GHz).
One major change took place in its hardware is the maximum storage capacity, that is increased to 64 GB. So, you can store hundreds of movies, more than thousand of songs and million of documents.

Software:

Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS5 embedded in 4S will give you the pleasant new look and the changed fundamentals of all it's apps, instructor and navigation.

Siri is the latest voice recognition system can be found only in apples iPhone 4s. So if you were trying to find the weather report, hotels and restaurants around your vicinity, live cricket updates, send an email and more, all you have to do is to speak and siri will give you all. Say you want to send a message to your friend to say good night from the bed. You can just say”tell my friend Good night”, siri will send a text to your friend saying”Good night”, but before that, you have to tell siri about your friend. That means, you can command your whole day schedule by just speaking out your mind once and siri will remember it, once and for all, however you can change your command anytime.

Instead of hardware and software features, you will find the 8 hours of battery backup on an active 3G connection as Apple promise to give.Sadly, the standby time is downgraded from 300 hours on the 4 to 200 hours in the iPhone 4s.

Top Reasons to Buy: Larger storage capacity, Siri: The great voice recognition system, outstanding look & Feel.

Why not to Buy: NO 4G, Reduced standby time, Not any major modification from its predecessor.

Average Customer Rating: ******

Average Price: 16GB- $199, 32GB - $299, 64GB - $399

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Frequently Asked Questions by Data Recovery Users

2011-11-24T11:55:00.000+05:30

My mail box get full with some of my blog readers questions, Some of get solved by replied mail, some are in my research list… let’s see “How much I can solve..I decided to drop the answers of those questions in my new blog post because these issues are common & most of the users suffer with these issues.

Most Common Question- asked by Rozer: How to choose best data recovery software?

Don’t go for fake advertisements just try to brain stormed and find out your solution. Some of them I will let you know remaining are your choice. First of all see all the features of the software & check it fulfill all your requirements or not. Most of the companies offer demo version which is absolutely free of cost, try this opportunity. After that if you found lots of choices, check extra features of the software & price to take better decision.
After choosing utility according to above features, try to see the user reviews of that particular software and company which helps you more to choosing the best one.

Nice One- asked by Eileen: I am currently trying to recover files from external hard drive. The original data loss scenario involved connecting the hard drive to my computer, saving files to the hard drive, stopping and removing the hard drive from the computer, reconnecting it to another computer and message pop up “it must be formatted”. I did not proceed with the format, and nothing has been done to the drive since.

This can be happen in two conditions:

file structure has been damaged
file structure has been badly damaged

Both the lines have different meaning. If your file structure gets damaged, you should try hard drive data recovery software.

If your files get badly damaged, the data recovery software is not able to recover your data. The software showed the data but not all of the files. In this case you should send your drive to professional data Recovery Company to retrieve data manually.

Tough to answer- asked by Golvin: I have accidentally formatted C partition, after that I reinstalled windows on my system!! Before formatting I transferred all files in external drive but One of my frnd formatted the drive at 2 times...In this case, CAN I Recover My Data??

First of all data recovery from your bootable drive i.e. C in your case is not possible in anyhow, because OS cannot be recovered by any data recovery software. But from external drive you can easily recover your data with any of good data recovery software. Remember one thing don’t overwrite the drive from where you want to recover data otherwise data recovery will not possible. In your case you have formatted the drive twice doesn’t matter but don’t try to overwrite on it, try data recovery software and get your data with ease.

A fast finish: Now I have to finish this post which becomes too longer. I will try to cover other issues in my next post. If you found your answers from here in this post or you have any query regarding data recovery software just shoot your comment.

I Goofed! Ooooops! Can I recover my data??

2011-11-18T17:02:00.000+05:30

I decided to write an article but not find any topic. As all my readers knows I always love to write article on data corruption errors SO I decided to search topic on forums. I read a post on a forum..

Post: All these three words come from my mouth”I Goofed! Ooooops!” at the time when I opened my PC & a BSOD come in front of my eyes..All the data was wash out from the drive... I don't know what get wrong with my PC. Even I don’t update backup.. All the readers who read this post will think I’m a duffer, how can I do it?? I admitted it :(...How can I recover my data??

So what will be the next step?

For many of us, data recovery from your hard drive by ourselves is hard, especially for novice user. Usually you have inbuilt utilities to accomplish data recovery task but at the same time you have to know each and every limitations before using these utilities.

As many users thinks that heavy use of the drive cause of data lost but Google engineers kicks off his advice that "there is no relation b/w heavy use and hard drive failure. While some people have technical knowledge or we can say have technical circle who gave proper guidance on this issue, those who are less knowledge about it, can learn the knack after reading this article.

I covers quite a few images of hard drives & which are worth for checking to analyze how data get save in hard drive & the exact situation of hard drive failure & data lost . here is a couple of highlights:

New hard drive closer look

Old hard drive closer look

Laptop Hard Drive

External Hard Drive

Hard drive used to save data either used by single user or in any big organization, the purpose is all same, only the difference is type of hard drive. In what situations hard drive get failed: Head Crash, BSOD, Read & Write Errors, logical & physical failure, any error message pop up on the PC screen & many more..

Follow Goldilocks to recover data:

I suggest him this answer- To find the solution; you should delve on Google about the error. As per my experience the errors pops up when partition get deleted. Due to the error, you lost your data but you can easily recover it by using hard drive data recovery software. In Data Recovery company, there are lots of proclaimed “experts” blowing advice like a hurricane and actually impacting data recovery more like a small thunderstorm...So decide very wisely!!

This post is a long yet covered informative tips intended to be bookmarked as a guide for data recovery. I have provided some valuable stuff… Respectively. Enjoy!

‘For any kind of data loss there’s Stellar Phoenix for safe data recovery’

2011-11-04T14:44:00.000+05:30

Have you lost your data?? Don’t fret Stellar Phoenix will help you!!!

All About 'Stellar Phoenix'

What is Stellar Phoenix exactly? Well, it is a data recovery company which provides variety of data recovery software to recover data from various platforms like systems, CD/DVD & other storage media.

Stellar's data recovery software is available for users in two versions - demo & full version [registered/ license version]. They only need to install these versions to compatible platforms if they want to use it. However for those who already have install demo version yet don't have full version, they can purchase full version from the official website. Stellar has more than 1,000,000 clients all over the world.

Uncountable Reasons to Choose Stellar Phoenix

Stellar provides ultimate features to become a first choice of every user with full satisfaction. Maximum users come back to use its software & services repeatedly also they recommend it to their friends to use Stellar Data Recovery Software. Stellar provides a free trial version for users satisfaction before purchasing of full version. This demo version is very helpful for user to understand about the feature of software before they purchase.

There are another more features available like life time license!! Stellar softwares are available in three license version type as per user requirement.

For Single User
For Corporate Sector
Educational Purpose

The software can be installed on single machine as well as multiple machines at multiples times as you want. All these features depend on license type.

Another feature is 30 days money back guarantee. This feature used very rare because in most of the cases Stellar recovered the data. If the software is not available to recover your data, Stellar has a refund policy for it. You can check the full refund policy which is available on site in pdf format.

All information regarding software usage & installation is available in help file which you can find easily from the site or in free demo version. So nontechnical users can also use the software easily.

This is all that necessary for the users to make first choice to Stellar...Or you want to check more information about the Stellar, you can check it easily from its official site.

Some Useful Guides:

As we all read very famous phrase 'time is of the essence' so when you suffer with data loss, you should follow this phrase. Because if you did not take a step to recover data in a reasonable amount of time, there are higher chances that you may loose your data permanently.
To choosing the data recovery software, first you should do online research like check data recovery software advertisements, read reviews about the software, before purchasing take trial of free version, check all the feature of the software etc..

If you found any issue in Stellar's Software. Please feel free to suggest us,

We will work on it and hope to overcome those issues one-by-one. Do you have something more to say about Stellar? We appreciate your views and welcome your suggestions.

How to Resolve “A kernel file is missing from the disk” Error and Recover Essential Hard Disk Data

2011-11-01T14:42:00.000+05:30

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The Kernel is most essential part of a Windows operating system based computer as it works as a bridge between software applications and hardware components. The major responsibilities of kernel include memory management, task and process management, and disk management. Thus, if kernel or any of its crucial files get damaged then your Windows operating system can become unbootable. In this situation, the data stored on the hard disk of your computer becomes inaccessible and hence causing severe data loss. However, you can always recover your data from an updated backup but in the absence of proper backup, third-party hard disk recovery software can do the needful.

Consider a practical situation in which, when you try to boot your Windows NT based computer, your computer hangs after the Power On Set Test (POST), and you may receive the below mentioned error message:

“A kernel file is missing from the disk.
Insert a system disk and restart the system.”

After this unexpected error message, your computer fails to boot resulting which you encounter inaccessibility of your valuable data. However, to resolve the issue, you must know the grounds of this problem. Let us discuss them in brief:

Cause:

When the NTFS disk structure data contained in the Master File Table (MFT) is either damaged or fragmented then it prevents Windows NT boot loader (Ntldr) from being read or located. And thus, causes the issue.

Resolution:

To fix the issue, you may try out below mentioned resolution methods:

Through Fdisk utility, verify whether the system partition is active or not. If this method fails to resolve the issue then continue with next step.
Try to repair the Ntldr file by using Microsoft Windows Recovery Console through the Boot CD of Windows NT operating system. If this too does not resolve the issue then continue with the next solution.
Through powerful and updated anti-virus software, detect and remove boot sector viruses from your computer system. If this too fails to fix the problem then continue with next step.
If possible then try to access your Windows partition through Windows NT boot disk and create the backup of your essential data files. Then format your Windows NT based hard disk and reinstall Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

Note: If you are unable to access the system partition even by using Windows NT boot disk then NTFS MFT of your computer may be severely damaged and in that case your Windows NT based computer need to be reformatted. In case, if you have not previously backed up your data then condition of severe data loss occurs.

Thus, in this case of data loss only third-party disk recovery software works as boon. These software can recover lost, deleted, or inaccessible data from Windows Operating System based hard disk and other storage media. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one such software which can recover lost or deleted data and also data which is lost due to hard disk corruption or formatting. This efficient software is compatible with Windows NT (SP6), 2000, XP, Server2003, Vista, and Windows 7.

Boot Sector Virus and Hard Disk Recovery

2011-10-25T10:24:00.000+05:30

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A boot sector virus is a computer virus which attacks on the first sector i.e. boot sector of the hard disk and infects it. Since, the boot sector is responsible for successful start up of computer system therefore it is the main target of the virus programs. Some of these viruses replace the actual boot sector code with their own codes while other moves the boot sector from its original location to another and thus, in this way they corrupt the hard drive of your computer and necessitates you to go for hard disk recovery.

Some of the symptoms which ensure that the boot sector of your computer has viral infection are:

Symptoms:

The common symptoms of boot sector infection are:

One of the dangerous symptoms of boot sector virus infection is when this virus causes variety of boot on the system.
In some cases the entire stored data disappears from the partition/s.
Your computer suddenly becomes unstable.
One of the most general problems which occur due to boot sector infection is your computer fails to startup or fails to find the hard drive.

Causes:

The reasons of boot sector virus infection are:

These viruses make way from the network through downloaded files and email attachments.
Another reason could be any disk which resides in the drive when the computer boots up or shuts down may cause boot infection.

Resolution:

The best way to protect your computer against boot sector virus is good anti-virus software which has definitions for latest viruses. A good and updated anti-virus scans and removes the viruses. However, at times the boot sector viruses are difficult to remove and even the strongest anti-virus program fails to clean it. And thus, the only way to remove these viruses is formatting of your hard drive. As we know formatting deletes all the data but if you have an updated backup of all your crucial files then you can very easily restore all of them. But in the absence of updated backup the only way left to restore all your valuable data and files is disk recovery software. One such software is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. This software scans your hard drive and locates all the folders and files which are deleted by the viruses or hard drive formatting. The software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000, and NT and supports recovery of more than 185 different file types.

How to resolve “Invalid Media Type” hard drive failure error message

2011-10-19T11:51:00.000+05:30

The system hard drive can endure for various several years, but the hard drive failure and system data decline remains an undesired truth. Each and every System user ought to realize that the hard drive failing is a really actual chance. The major trigger of hard drive failure is software malfunctioning, consumer faults and rising quantity of malicious courses. So the tough hard drives get ruined and render your important data inaccessible. The hard drive failure is usually indicated by numerous symptoms such as the odd noise from hard drive this sort of as clicking, scrapping and grinding, associated error messages etc.

Here I am explaining an annoying hard disk failure error message which fail to boot your system & you come across with this error message a couple of times:

””””””””””””””””””“Invalid Media Type””””””””””””””””””””””””

What might have triggered this error message?

Such error message pop up when your PC fails to locate the desired media type descriptor. Apart from this reasons, some other common reasons are:

1. Physical damage to the drive
2. Inaccurate drive format
3. Hard drive partitioned but not formatted

To resolve this error problem you need to follow these steps:

1. Boot the hard drive using another storage media such as bootable floppy disk followed by executing fdisk/mbr and sys C: command.
2. After using above steps if error still persists then disk format is considered to be the solution.
3. Even after booting if the error message still persists then error problem is due to damage to the drive.

If first solution could not solve the error then you are recommended to use second & third solutions. Second solution is to be format the hard disk in order to fix the error problem . Once you will format the hard drive though the error message gets resolve but all the previously stored data from the disk gets erased. Second solution handle with backup file that can be a medium through which you can restore all your data to resolve drive damage. But the situation turns to be critical when there is no backup available.

In both situations third party hard drive recovery can become the ultimate source to recover the lost data. The software designed with advance scanning technique which capable enough to restore data even from formatted hard drive.

How to resolve hard disk error message “Unmountable Boot Volume”

2011-10-12T14:24:00.001+05:30

Sometimes when we start our PC, it fails to boot and an error message is popping on the screen “Unmountable Boot Volume”. The error message will not allow you to open the windows in safe mode or any other mode & you are not able to access your data from the PC.

This error message is a sign of that Microsoft Windows XP is incapable to boot because of some internal issue in the system. This is the most critical issue related to hard drive, which can make you worried about your personal data & it’s not easy even for an expert to fix this issue. If you want to fix this issue, first you need to identify the source of the problem. Here is the list of reasons due to this error message arises:

1. First most common reason is the file system gets crashed.
2. When swapped the drive and the interface cable is placed on wrong place then the same massage “Unmountable Boot Volume” will popped up on your screen.
3. This issue can also be caused by a bad hard disk drive.
4. Boot.ini file is the file which is responsible for booting process may be get corrupted or missing.

To solve this issue, follow one of the troubleshooting step which suites you most:

1. Check the proper connection of interface cable.
2. Repair your operating system using Bootable disk or system image file.
3. Run the Windows XP setup>>delete all partitions>>recreate the partitions>>>format the hard disk drive>> reinstall Windows XP.
4. Use Disk Recovery Application. These application resolved this message as well as recover your data from the hard disk.

After performing all following steps, still issue is there then you have to take help of experts to get accessibility to your personal data.

Possibility of recovering data from a crashed hard drive

2011-09-30T15:32:00.000+05:30

Possibility of data recovery depends on hard drive failure such as the aforementioned head crash, external trauma, power surges, and so forth. There is countless other equipment glitches that can cause of hard drive failure. Let’s see in which hard drive failure conditions, we can recover our data & in which we cannot

Head Crash- A head crash means that the head of the hard drive has scratched or hard disk get burned or dust particles come between head and the hard disk. Due to head crashed, you can lose much of the data on the hard disk. In this case, you will need to replace both the head and the disk. If you want your data back send your drive to professional data Recovery Services.

Read & write errors- You can repair read & write errors by using inbuilt utility scanDisk on the hard drive. If the same issues continue, it is recommended that you replace the hard disk drive or send your drive to professional data Recovery Services.

Bad Sectors- CHKDSK repairs errors related to the bad sectors. Do not attempt to "repair" bad sectors by inbuilt utility. Doing so will either overwrite your precious data or result in severe data loss. In this case you can try hard drive data recovery software. The cardinal rule of data recovery software is that don't run data recovery software on same drive/folder in which you have corrupted data.

Hard Drive Failure- Unfortunately, hard drive failure is inevitable. With either method, it's possible that your failed hard drive will show up on your PC in this case your hard drive is probably fine, but your OS needs to be reinstalled. If hard drive will not show up on your PC then you should take an initial attempt at data recovery software to retrieve data before sending the drive to a professional data recovery services. I have no idea what kind of voodoo magic goes on behind the data recovery software but it allows you to access and recover data from damaged hard drives.

The hard drive has failed electronically- This message is indicate by an error message during the computer boot cycle. In this case, Not much can be done other then replace the hard drive. Don't invest your money in data recovery because in electronically failure there is no guarantee of the money and time you invest will produce any results whatsoever.

Hard drive Input/output Errors- First try to hook it up to another other computers and backup your data. If still it shows same error then try data recovery software. No inbuilt utility will work in this case.

Logical file system errors- In logical file system error, the process is a bit simpler only need to run CHKDSK command. The CHKDSK specially made to fix logical file system errors.

Directory errors- Use ‘CHKDSK’ to fix directory errors.

Diagnosis: After reading whole article you will know the scenario of data recovery that for which conditions data are recoverable or not & help you to understand in which conditions we should use inbuilt utility, data recovery software & data recovery services. Many companies offers demo version of data recovery software that will scan your drive so first download demo version & check what might be salvageable before you lay down money to buy their software. Hard Drive Data Recovery software tailored for the windows & Mac OS.

Unused space on hard drives can be recovered?

2011-09-21T14:11:00.000+05:30

When we delete a file, it does not mean that the actual data of the file get erased. The actual file becomes invisible to the OS. Eventually, the hard drive will write new data over the space where the old file is located. This space is marked as an unused space & we can save any new file on this space. This means that the data is still available on the drive as an unused space and there is a possibility of data recovery from unused space.

The step by step instructions below are posted according to different situations such as “how files are deleted” & “chances of recovery” from unused space. Please choose whichever is more appropriate and convenient in your case:

Simply Delete a File: When we accidently delete a file, it moved in to the recycle bin. In this case, recovery chances is 100% only need to use restore file from recycle bin.

SHIFT + DELETE: If files are deleted by the function shift + deleted that means your files are gone even from the Recycle Bin. In this case, as sooner you try to recover your deleted files, the chances of successful file recovery will be high. For that purpose you require good hdd recovery software which is specially designed to recover deleted files/folders which are lost even from recycle bin.

Note: Whenever you delete or lost your files or folder, don’t save anything on that drive from which data has been lost, otherwise recovery of that data will be next to impossible.

Rules of data recovery software

One of the important rules of data recovery is that you must never write to the hard disk that contains the files you want to restore.
All data recovery software recommends to save recovered data to a different location.
Don't run software on same location from where you want to restore the file.

Follow all above steps & data recovery will become very easy.

Hard Disk suddenly stopped working & Got Error message “hard disk error”

2011-09-14T17:00:00.000+05:30

When you connect your hard disk to the system, have you got "hard disk error" message at boot screen? If yes then please read the full article, if not then you must have to read the article to avoid these errors in future. Whenever you found “Hard Disk Error” usually in this case system detects the hard disk in the bios but the capacity shown is zero. It is often because the BIOS cannot find the hard disk's boot sectors and master boot record on the drive. The error message indicates that there is error due to either bad sectors or physical damage on the hard disk.

To resolve the error message, Use Chkdsk command which can repair problems related to bad sectors & damage on the hard disk.

Run Chkdsk command from My Computer:

Open My Computer then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.

Click Properties after that click Tools.

Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box will appear which shows the following three Check disk options:

1. If you want to run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click on Start button.
2. If you want to repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click on Start button.
3. If you want to repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click on start button.

Choose one of the appropriate options from above mentioned procedures.
When Chkdsk has finished, it reported following table lists with the exit codes:

0- No errors found.
1- Errors found and fixed.
2- Cleanup was not performed because /f was not specified.
3- Could not check the disk, errors could not be fixed.

The error codes 0, 1 means the error is solved. If Error code 2, 3 is reported, it means the error will not solved by Chkdsk command. In that case your drive must be severely damaged or your hard disk must be crashed. There is also two cases whether your data can be recoverable with the help of hard disk recovery software or you need to go for any data recovery services company to recover it.

In first case it might be possible that your hard disk not physically crashed in that case any hard disk recovery software will easily recover your data but your need to pay something for it but very cheaper in comparison of data recovery services.

In second case if your hard disk is physically crashed then there is no data recovery software available to recover your data you have to send your drive to any good data recovery services Company and it’s quite expensive.

How to tackle with external hard drive failure errors

2011-09-02T17:39:00.000+05:30

Now a day’s computer is a basic need of every human being whether you are working or not. While working on your PC/Laptops most of the time happens that we stuck in the situation like:

hard drive does not detected
hard drive detected but can't access data of the hard drive
coming any unusual sounds from your hard drive etc

These errors don’t mean that the hard drive gets crashed or there is any failure in the hard drive. To understand more about hard drive failure, take a closer look of hard drive structure which will help you to diagnose the problem.

A hard drive is the device used to store large amounts of digital information in computers & consists of a motor, spindle, platters, read/write heads, actuator and electronics.

Basically there are two types of HDD failure found:

1-Physical failure
2-Logical failure

A physical failure means there is an electronic malfunction or internal hardware failure in the drive. If you hear any unusual sounds coming from your drive, shut down your system and used it to another system. In most cases, hard drive gets work but if again same unusual sounds coming don’t attempt to use it again. It indicates that hard drive head may get damaged. This can cause a complete and permanent data loss. The only way to recover from a physical failure is to either replace the drive or send it to a recovery center if you want back your data.

While logical failure is just vice-versa of physical failure. Logical failures occur as a result of bad sectors in hard drives or data corruption from another source such as destroyed file table, file system get crashed. In this case, hard drive gets detected but you do not see any data inside. Data may sometimes in this case shows as 0 bytes. In this case data recovery software helps to recover inaccessible data.

Conclusion: If you get any type of error with your hard drive, first shutdown your PC & connect hard drive to another system, if error persists again replace the drive. If you want your data back go for recovery center if physical failure persists otherwise go for hard drive recovery software.

drive : folder is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.

2011-08-25T13:16:00.000+05:30

The folder, drive, file, directory of a computer is the place where data is stored and we can access when we needed. Here I am describing the error which is related to these factors & very important because we used these factors on daily basis to store our important data. I am sharing my knowledge on the below error message as much I have:

</drive>:<folder> is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.

If you have any other views on this error or have any experience with this error. Please share it in the comments.

This error message occurs due to several reasons such as a poor data cable connection, the file, folder or file system index (Master File Table [MFT] get corrupt or File Allocation Table [FAT]) is damaged or the data on the hard disk is corrupted.

First make sure that the data cable is plugged in all the way at all connectors and that there is no gap between the cable and connectors.

Run the Chkdsk utility. Chkdsk utility is fairly simple and requires only 3 simple steps from your side to repair the damaged file, folder or file system index :

1. First Click on Start, and then click Run.

2. In the box, type chkdsk /f <drive>:, where <drive> is the letter of the drive on which the damaged file, folder or file system index exists.

3. After that Click OK button.

WARNING: Before running Chkdsk you should have a full backup of your hard disk because when Chkdsk attempts to repair the damage, data loss can occur. Microsoft does not recommend running Chkdsk unless you have full backup of your hard disk.

If your hard disk is physically okay, then the problem is only that the data on the hard disk get corrupted. Only Third party hard disk recovery tools might be able to help with that if you need to try to recover data from it. Stellar Hard Disk Recovery software is really good & worth to be used at first place, it does not require any backup copy to recover corrupt data & takes a very little time as compare to any other hard disk recovery software. It supports all Os platforms such as Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, Novell etc & supports all latest versions of all Os as well.

How to fix system CRC error message issue

2011-08-18T17:51:00.001+05:30

Have you got “CRC" error message, you’ve come to the right place, because I am going to show you how to get rid of it CRC refers to Cyclic Redundancy Check error. The CRC error reported by the hard drive when it has bad sectors. You can repair bad sectors but all depends on what causes it. This can be for a variety of reasons such as:

1. Poor cabling
2. Magnetic anomalies
3. Mechanical & Electronic related issues
4. Hard disk microprogram corruption

Poor cabling is easy to handle only you need to replace IDE's data cable with a new one. About 50% of bad sectors are due to magnetic anomalies and can be fixed easily. But mechanical or electronic issue for a sector is clearly impossible to fix it or you have to pay a specialized corporate to retrieve your data.

If CRC error arises due to Hard disk microprogram corruption then you can run Checkdisk to clean up the Hard disk problem. But After running this command , you will lose all your corrupt data. If your corrupt data is not value for you , perform following steps:

For Using Checkdisk perform these steps:

Click Start>>select Run>>In the box, type cmd>>Click Ok>>type chkdsk D: /r

System may report after completing this process. To overcome from this situation, system needs to reboot to perform full clean process, and it may take quite a while to complete.

If you want to recover all your corrupt data then hard drive data recovery software is the right tool for you. Hard drive recovery software are easy to use & retrieve corrupt data form external & internal hard drives. It saves all recovered data on user-defined location.

Note: If you want to get rid of CRC error, run CHKDSK regularly, make back up of the data. Don't wait till CRC error reported otherwise you will regret.

Hard Drive Data Loss Causes and How to Recover Lost Data

2011-07-26T13:02:00.000+05:30

Recovering hard drive data can be a difficult issue for many new computer users. No one wants their data to be lost, and most people have no idea how to retrieve it. Fortunately, there is data recovery software available that can help you with the daunting task that means to recover your lost data. This article is intended to help you learn more about hard drive data recovery and how you can learn more.

Hard Disk is a "non-volatile" storage space designed to store data. Data is stored on a magnetic surface is which is called a hard disk platter. There are many reasons why you cannot recover hard drive data, including mechanics and external problems. Most hard drives today have several moving parts that must be carefully synchronized in order to maintain a constant speed, called RPM, inside your computer.

Modern hard disks adopt "SMART" technology, which means "self-monitoring technology, analysis and reporting." All it means is that the team is able to diagnose and solve most problems, and also corrects motors and fans as needed inside the computer, and allows you to deal with the in use computer to avoid problems with recovering data after hard drive.

To understand how to recover hard drive data, it is essential for you to understand how data is lost on a hard disk. Let us define the loss of data as an unforeseen loss of data or information previously stored on your hard drive. You can lose data in case of power outage, you can also lose data due to disk failure, also can be due to an accident in the machinery of the hard disk itself

The software you are using may fail on your computer, especially if you are using Microsoft products, and could lead corrupt hard drive data. Viruses or other malicious software can corrupt data and is one of the main reasons for data loss. Fortunately, technology now offers good hard drive recovery tools for recovering data from your hard drive.

The best thing to do is look in the phone book or Internet for hard drive data recovery software. These software can help you in recovering lost data and can be your best rescuer, especially in an emergency situation. The price charged is generally smaller usually the alternative of losing your data forever.

System inaccessibility due to missing Boot.ini file and guidelines for Hard drive data recovery

2011-03-22T17:41:00.003+05:30

NTLDR is the boot loader program used in Windows XP. This critical file is responsible for displaying the startup menu and loading the Windows operating system. The ‘Boot.ini’ file is also an essential system file that contains configuration settings for the boot menu. If the file is missing, NTLDR will load the Windows present on the first partition of your first hard drive. But sometimes, the computer hangs in the middle of the boot process due to a damaged Boot.ini file. As a consequence, you may lose all the valuable data stored in your system. To overcome the problem, you need to go for hard drive recovery through a reliable third-party utility.

Let’s consider a real time scenario wherein you use a Windows XP-based computer. Someday, when you try to start the system, you may encounter the following error message on your screen:

“Invalid Boot.ini”

OR

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

Windows\System32\Hal.dll”

Cause:
The above error occurred due to the corrupt or missing Boot.ini file. The file may also have some incorrect entries.

This would prevent you from accessing the data you saved on your system hard drive. You may use a backup to perform hard drive data recovery. However, if the backup is missing, follow the below mentioned resolution steps.

Resolution:
Try the following procedure to fix the problem-

Configure the BIOS to boot the system from the Windows XP installation disc.
Insert the Windows XP bootable disc and restart the system.
When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message appears, press a key to boot the system from the Windows installation CD/DVD.
At the “Welcome to Setup” screen, press R to enter the recovery console.
Choose the Windows installation for which you want to rebuild the Boot.ini file.
Give the administrative password, if prompted.
Run ‘bootcfg/list” command at the command prompt and press ‘Enter’ key. The Boot.ini file entries will be displayed on the screen.
Now, run ‘bootcfg/rebuild’ command at the command prompt and press the ‘Enter’ key again.
Now, enter bootcfg /rebuild and press the Enter key to scan hard disk and rebuild the Boot.ini file.
Follow the instructions as they appear.
Quit the Recovery Console by typing ‘exit’ at the command prompt. The computer will restart.

If the problem still persists, you should free download data recovery software of a reputed company having expertise in the field of data recovery. These software comprehensible and easy-to-use. They facilitate an efficient Windows hdd recovery by using advanced scanning algorithms to recover all the lost hard drive data.

Resolving MBR corruption in Windows 7 and performing Windows HDD recovery

2011-03-18T11:34:00.002+05:30

MBR or (Master Boot Record) is the first sector of a hard disk which contains the main partition table and the boot loader program. It also stores information about the disk's manufacturer, serial number, number of clusters, number of sectors per cluster etc. The BIOS uses this sector to recognize the disk.
As this sector is the most critical part of the disk, it is a common target for various viruses and other malicious software. Other reasons for MBR corruption include improper system shutdown, power surge, human errors etc. This halts the booting process of the computer and results in system inaccessibility. To overcome the problem and recover all the lost data, you need to go for hard drive recovery through a reliable hard drive utility.

For instance, while starting your Windows 7-based computer, you may come across anyone of the following error messages:
“Missing Operating System”
OR
“Error Loading Operating System”

When you run startup repair tool to fix MBR corruption, it detects no problems.

Cause:
The above errors occur due to corruption of the Master Boot Record.

Moreover, you may have inserted a USB drive in your computer. The computer hardware recognizes this as the system partition. When you run the startup repair tool, it examines this drive in place of the actual system partition. The tool reports no problems as no MBR is detected.

This would make your system unbootable and prevent you from accessing the valuable hard drive data. You may use a backup to perform hard drive data recovery. However, if the backup is unavailable, follow the below mentioned resolution steps.

Resolution:
Try these steps to fix the problem and perform Windows hdd recovery-
First, remove the USB flash drive from the system.
Insert the Windows 7 bootable DVD in the CD/DVD ROM and restart the computer.
Press any key to boot from the DVD.
Choose language, time, currency, keyboard etc. and click 'Next'.
Select 'Repair your computer' option.
Choose the operating system you need to repair and click 'Next'.
Select ‘Command prompt’ in the ‘System Recovery Options’ dialog box.
At the command prompt, type ‘Bootrec.exe’ and press Enter.

If the problem still persists, you should free download data recovery software of a reputed company having expertise in the field of data recovery. These software offer a smart and safe solution to recover all the lost or deleted files, documents, folders, emails, databases etc. form your system.

Hard drive inaccessibility due to System Errors and guidelines for an efficient Hard Drive Data Recovery

2011-03-15T14:39:00.002+05:30

Windows, like other operating systems, has always been subject to various System errors. There primary cause is either a software or hardware malfunction. Many times, these errors halt the booting process of your computer and result in system inaccessibility. As all the user data is stored on the system hard drive, you may face severe data loss if any such incident takes place. Sometimes a partition of the hard drive becomes corrupt, making you lose all the vital information stored therein. In all such scenarios, you need to go for hard drive recovery through a reliable third-party utility to recover back all your lost and invaluable data.

For instance, when you start your Windows 2000-based computer, you may come across one or more of the following error messages on your screen:

*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
*** The system has halted ***
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
NMI: Channel Check / IOCHK
NMI: Fail-safe timer
NMI: Bus Timeout

Cause:
The following reasons are responsible for the above behavior-
A hardware or software malfunction
The primary data structures of the operating system hard drive are damaged.
Some of the system drivers are corrupt or incompatible with the operating system.

Due to these errors, the system hangs on every reboot and becomes unresponsive. This would prevent you from accessing the data stored on your hard drive. You may use a backup to perform hard drive data recovery. However, if the backup is missing, try following the below mentioned resolution steps.

Resolution:
These steps may help you sort the issue-
Delete and reinstall the software that might be creating the problem.
Remove the malfunctioned hardware.
Use the Chkdsk utility to perform an integrity check on the hard drive. It can also fix several file system errors.

If the above steps are unable to resolve the problem, you should use a free download data recovery software of any reputed data recovery solutions provider. These software make use of efficient scanning algorithms and embed significant features to perform a safe and reliable Windows hard drive data recovery. They perform selective recovery of files based on the file types.

Boost your system speed with an Safe & Secure Hard Drive

2011-03-07T15:36:00.003+05:30

What is a Hard Drive?
A hard drive also known as hard disk drive or HDD, is a non-volatile device, normally located inside your computer, usually in C, which writes and reads information stored inside either a computer or a disk. Hard drive is used for storing large amounts of data for a computer that persist while the computer is turned off. Hard drive is a rapidly increasing storage medium, can be used in laptop, desktop, video recorders, portable players and many more . Based upon the physical size, there are different kinds of hard disk drives are available in the market.
If HAL.dll file is missing in your hard drive, then you will lose all the data stored on your PC hard drive.

What is a HAL.dll file?
HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is a means or a technology through which the Windows operating system communicates with your computer’s hardware. It efficiently manages the control of PC’s system memory, CPU, and hardware devices among various applications that directly try to access these resources. This also prevents several device conflicts or crashes. After running the Windows XP setup, you can choose from a number of HAL option listed in the Device Manager while updating your system drivers. If an incorrect HAL is selected, you will not be able to start your PC. As your system becomes unbootable, you will lose all the data stored on your system hard drive. To overcome this situation, you should go for hard drive recovery through a reliable third-party utility.

For instance, when you start your Windows XP-based computer, you may encounter the following message on your screen:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.
Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Cause:
The following reasons may be responsible for the above error message-
The ‘boot.ini’ file is corrupt
You are trying to dual boot your computer

All these reasons may prevent you from accessing the precious hard drive data. Here, you can use a backup to perform hard drive data recovery. If the backup is not present, you should follow the below mentioned resolution steps.

Resolution:
These steps may help you solve the problem-
Use your Windows installation disc to verify that the ‘boot.ini’ file is present in the system and verify that it points to the correct operating system.
Go to MS-DOS "C:\>" prompt and type ‘dir hal.dll /s’ to verify that the system has ‘hal.dll’ file.
If the ‘hal.dll’ file is missing recover this file using the "Restore", "Repair", or "Recover" option. You need to type the following command at the command prompt:
‘expand x:\i386\hal.dl_ y:\windows\system32\’
Here, ‘x’ is the CD ROM drive letter and ‘y’ is the drive letter on which the operating system is installed.

If the above resolution steps are unable to fix the problem, you should use the free download data recovery software of a renowned company having expertise in the field of data recovery. These software efficiently perform windows hard drive data recovery by recovering all the lost or inaccessible hard drive data. Their highly interactive interface makes the recovery procedure an easy task for the end users.

Choose Best & Effective Way to Recover NTFS File System

2011-03-01T11:06:00.003+05:30

NTFS stands for new technology file system, developed by microsoft corporation, is the main file system in windows operating system. NTFS plays a vital role in all the versions of windows operating system, which allows you to store and accomplish data in a synchronized way on your PC's hard disk. If the NTFS file system gets corrupted or deleted due to some reason, then all of the stored hard disk data becomes unreachable. Inaccessibility of data may create a serious problem for you. Numerous factors can be occurs behind the unapproachability of data, containing:

Due to damage of windows operating system
NTFS file system corrupted
Deleted NTFS based hard disk partition and many more.

Hence, NTFS data recovery software is required to recover NTFS file system. The NTFS file system can be corrupted due to any one of the following reasons:

Virus attacks
Direct system shut down
File system damage
Master boot record corrupted
System malfunction
Files get corrupted, which is needed to load the operating system
Accidental deletion of NTFS file system

NTFS data recovery software is a complete solution to recover formatted hard drives, and lost/deleted data from windows systems, based on NTFS/NTFS5 file systems. Data can be recovered, based on the condition of data loss.

Quick Data Recovery From Problem Hard Drives

2011-02-10T14:45:00.002+05:30

Your Business critical data can be lost due to hard drive error or crash. Early hard drive recovery for any instance of data loss is possible only if one is able to diagnose the problem early. There are some common troubleshooting methods which anyone can implement but they are not always the fastest way of fixing the problem. Another fairly swift way to recover your data involves the use of hard drive recovery software. In case the other methods fail, it is undoubtedly a quicker way compared to taking your computer to repair center.

Can You Recover Data from Corrupted Hard Drive by Hard Drive Recovery Software?

2011-02-04T17:12:00.001+05:30

Hard drive is the primary storage device in the computer system. All the data including the operating system is saved on the hard drive. But in certain conditions, hard drive fails to respond due to the corruption occured in it and you fall into a condition to urgently recover hard drive data. The coruption in the hard drive may occur due to several reasons.

Two reasons that results in the corruption of the hard drive are physical damage and logical damage. A physical damage can however be handled by replacing the damaged part with a new one or submitting the damaged part in the data recovery center for recovery of the data. However, a logical damage is the major reason for data loss. The data in a hard drive is saved on its different sectors in an organized manner. When there is a logical damage, the data from the sectors is lost. However, if you have an updated backup of your hard drive, you can recover the data. But, in case you donot have a proper backup, you can get back your data by using hard drive recovery software.

Actually when the hard drive gets corrupt, it is formatted to bring it back to the working condition. Formating and reinstalling the operating system of course sets the hard drive in to working condition. But reinstallation of Windows wipes out the data so that it is no more accessible. It creates new file system causing inaccessibility of the data saved on the hard drive.

However, the data remains intact in the hard drive untill the hard drive is fed with new data. Once the data is fed to the formatted hard drive, it overwrites the older data and thereby the older data is no longer recovered back. It is therefore, recommended before going for data recovery, one should not perform any write operation on the hard drive. Afet the formatting go for an efficient Windows hard drive recovery software to get back all your data.

Stellar Phoenix Wondows Data Recovery Software is one such tool that can recovers lost and formatted files and folders from the hard drive. It recovers deleted Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access files. It is also instrumental in to recover data from lost, formatted FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. The software comes for both the Home as well as Professional users.

Hard Drive Recovery from “KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR”

2011-01-18T12:18:00.001+05:30

When working with Windows PC, at times you get an error message on a blue screen. It can make you flustered as you might have had some unsaved data which was the result of hours of work. Moreover, you also get apprehensive about the safety of the other crucial data stored in your PC and whether the files would be intact or not. You can follow some procedures of hard drive recovery to fix this problem. Following these methods is likely to restore your system to its normal configuration. If it does not, you can atleast get your crucial data back by using a hard drive recovery software.

Symptom:
While using your Windows installed PC, at times you suddenly get a blue screen with the following message:-
"Stop 0x00000077"
or
"KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR"
This problem is a sign that the operating system cannot access a page and is unable to do so on account of some hardware or software problems.

Cause
The following can be the causes of this error:

1.The Master Boot Record (MBR) of your PC's operating system has a virus infection
2.Problems in the paging file that reads the kernel data into the hard disk memory.
3.Incompatibility with a recently installed software or hardware.

Resolution

You should follow some steps to fix this problem. Given below are the procudures that take into consideration all the possible causes for the resolution:-
1.Run a disk scanner like the Chkdsk utility inbuilt into the operating system.
2.Install the latest Windows updates
3.Run a virus check program. You need to make sure that your anti-virus has its database updated.
4.Insert your hard disk into an external case and extract all the important data into another PC.

The steps given above have been known to fix this error many times but certainly not all the times. The most foolproof way to recover hard drive is to get a hard drive recovery software for it. There are many companies who provide good software for Windows hard drive recovery.

How to Get Back Your Lost Data from Hard Drive due to BIOS Error?

2011-01-18T09:59:00.003+05:30

Nowadays, as you know hard drives that are main source of storage in your computer. Sometimes these hard drives are subject to be data loss and corruption. In such type of causes you need to use hard drive recovery tools to recover your data back. Suppose, you switch on your computer and it reboot automatically and gives error messages. It happen when computer gets hanged middle of the booting process and showing no error message. This is probably a BIOS error that appears something like:

"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

“CMOS Battery State Low”

“CMOS Checksum Failure”

“K/B Interface Error”

BIOS(Basic Input Output System) is like a software that able to managing the basic function in computer system like keyboard control, booting, configuration of hardware components. It instructs your hardware to function and is not dependent on any OS. It plays a important role in your system and error may be the reasons of major system crash or corrupted hard drive. Than need to for hard drive recovery utility program.

Causes:

Misconfiguration BIOS.
Loose connections inside your computer.
Hardware installed is not compatible with your OS.
Power supply not working properly.

All above mention causes would lead to loss your all the data that stored in your hard drive. To handle this situation we need to follow some serious of steps. It may be possible none of the tricks work, we will use a advance software to recover data from hard drive.

Resolution steps:

These are the various resolution steps that you can follow to fix the problem-

See the error message and then try to find a solution to that cause.
Clear the CMOS and reset the BIOS settings.
Test your power supply because it can be the major cause of the problem.
Reestablish every connection inside you computer.
Check the hardware installed on your computer and see whether it is compatible with your OS.

If the issue is not resolve even after using above steps than you need to take help most reliable or advance hard drive recovery software in case the problem still as it is same and data can not be recovered. There is several free download software available on Internet which download absolutely free or some of them cost some amount of money and recover your lost data from hard drive.

Hard Drive Data Recovery from File System Error-6535

2010-12-20T11:19:00.002+05:30

Image via Wikipedia'Hard drive recovery' holds mere significance to all pc users as whether it is your personal lappy or your office desktop, the hard drive of the pc stores all of your information initially. May be you're taking backup, but what if any instance of information loss happens before taking your scheduled backup for the day! somebody can encounter such a tragic information loss situation & i am definite, plenty of people have already witnessed the same. These are the accidental information loss situations, for which one may seldom can stay prepared & hence, very impossible to prevent the occurrence. However, the nice news is that recovery options in the kind of advanced hard drive recovery program are available & you always have a chance to retrieve back your precious information from the troubled hard drive.

You started your Windows machine & everytime you're trying to open any application or trying to put in any program, you're encountering a mistake message. Moreover, your desktop icons along with some file/folders are missing & the system is exceptionally slow, though there is ample disk space available. Even, sometimes you may encounter a black login screen & issues in walking programs as administrator. The error message that you have encountered can be read as below:

'File System Error (65535)'

The error message that you get clearly indicates a feasible corruption to the file system of the pc, for which some files, folders & applications have already been inaccessible & if you would not take any measures to repair the same, the situation can be worse leaving all of your valuable information stuck in the hard drive.

In order to resolve the issue & recover hard drive data, you can run the 'chkdsk' from the command mode. The 'chkdsk' is a specially developed instrument to check the integrity of the disk & repairs, if it finds any kind of corruption/damage. If the 'chkdsk' fails to resolve the issue, then you can follow the below steps to get the issue fixed:

Go to Windows safe mode by pressing F8 at the system start-up.
Run the command prompt as the administrator by Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories – make a right click & select Run as administrator.
Then, type sfc /scannow. Note that there has to be a space in between sfc & /.

Note: This is the 'system file checker' instrument, which is meant to check all the Windows files for any instance of corruption.

If all the above measures fail, then there is one way left, that is to run any Windows hard drive recovery utility to recover back your seemingly lost information.

Recovering partition data from NTFS file system when the MFT gets fragmented

2010-12-02T17:09:00.002+05:30

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The MFT (Master File Table) is a repository in the NTFS file system that keeps the record of all the file data including file name, creation date, access permissions, and contents, etc. To view any type of information related to the files, you can refer to the MFT. However, at times the MFT itself gets corrupt due to too many files. Because of this, you may not be able to even start your system. You can use the 'Bcupdate.exe' utility to get rid of this problem. If that tool is unable to recover partition data, then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to overcome this situation.

Let us consider a situation in which you are using Windows XP and are unable to start it after the boot process gets over. In this case, the following error is displayed:

“NTLDR is missing

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart.”

Cause:

Such problem can occur if the MFT root folder is severely fragmented because of too many files. If the folder contains several files, then the MFT becomes so fragmented that an additional allocation index is created. As the files are now mapped alphabetically in the allocation indexes, the NTLDR file may get pushed to the second allocation index. Because of this, the NTLDR is not found during the boot process and the given error is displayed.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should use the Bcupdate2.exe utility. For this, the following steps are required:

Contact Microsoft Support to obtain the Bcupdate2.exe utility.
Create a Boot disk so that you can start the system in recovery mode.
Run the following command to extract the Bcupdate2.exe utility from the software update.

Expand drive_letter:\bcupdate2.ex_ drive_letter:\bcupdate2.exe

Run the following command to update the boot code of the NTFS boot sector:

Bcupdate2.exe C: /F

Press Y when you are prompted to update the volume. After it is done successfully, you will receive the following confirmatory message:

The boot code was updated successfully.

However, if the provided solution does not solve the purpose then you should use a third-party partition recovery utility to retrieve all the inaccessible Windows files. Such data recovery tools are capable of recovering all types of data using non-destructive scanning algorithms.

How to Handle Data Loss Situations

2010-11-30T12:09:00.003+05:30

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Loss of data and information is something that could be very stressing. Whether it is with critical business files and documents or with your personal data, pictures, songs and videos, losing data could be a quite traumatic situation. You are have not ever experienced grave situations of hard drive failure and data loss, it could indeed be the situation where you would find yourself working how to recover lost data. At this point, Data Recovery solutions come into picture to help you retrieve lost data.

No matter what happens to your data, you should not take stress or let the situation become worse. Though, computer systems are good to have and the hard drives work well for huge data storage, but they both are mechanical devices and tend to fail at some point of time. Nevertheless of how sophisticated the hard disk drives get, they would never be capable of avoiding failures and crashes completely.

It is not worth to panic in case of data loss as recovery is possible in most of the data loss situations. Whenever you suspect that your hard drive failing or you have lost your stored data, you should immediately stop using it. Further use of the drive may cause more damage and permanent data loss.

If the hard drive is making strange clicking or grinding sounds and it could not be detected by your operating system, the the problem may be caused by physical damage to the drive. It might occur due to read/write head crash, PCB (Printed Circuit Board) damage, damaged spindle motor, natural disasters and so forth.

Such situations need Hard Drive Recovery Services to be handled. Recovery professionals completely analyze the hard drive and find out exact cause of failure. Then they replace damaged disk components and make it functional. Then they care image of the drive and apply recovery solutions on it.

If problem is caused by virus infection, accidental formatting, file system corruption and similar reasons, Data Recovery Software are required to handle the situations. The applications use high-end scanning techniques to methodically scan entire hard drive and extract all of the lost data from it. Data Recovery Software have simple and rich graphical user interface and thus let you carry out easy recovery in most of the cases.

Hard Disk Recovery Is Possible Even After Formatting The System

2010-11-26T12:33:00.006+05:30

Image via WikipediaNo matter which operating system you use, all the storage devices (including internal and external hard disk drives, zip drives, CDs, DVDs, pen drives, and many more) are prone to errors and data loss. This could happen due to any reason, like, unintentional or intentional drive formatting, unexpected power off leading to sudden closure of the operating system, accidental deletion of important system files, partition or its file system corruption, operating system error, some bugs, corruption or damage to the storage media, read/write error messages, and many more. But handling all these problems is fairly easy, if you have a backup of the data. But in case you don't have it, hard disk recovery software can aid you in your endeavor for it.

Consider, you formatted the system. Now, this might be a need of the hour, or an accidental incident, or sabotage of your system. Though formatting is a process that is used to prepare a hard disk drive for saving data by installing a file system. This process readies the hard drive for storing fresh data by deleting the earlier saved data. It was believed by people earlier that this phenomenon led to deletion of the data, but now it is possible to recover almost all of it. So, whether you formatted the system to get rid of the viruses, or to remove the nasty error message, or you were preparing to get rid of your hard drive, keep in mind that every single file that wa previously saved in your system may be recovered.

With the help of a good hard drive recovery software, you may be able to access your data. Just make sure that the software you rely upon is not a virus or malware. Some free software may not be reliable. Rely on a software that is backed by a trusted company with experience in disk recovery. A number of software even have simple graphical user interface, with read-only and non-destructive conduct.

Also make sure that you do not install the software on the affected drive, as for all you know, the recovery software might just overwrite the data that had to be recovered. In such a case, you will not be able to extract all the data.

Stellar data recovery , is a pioneer in data recovery and has a plethora of dedicated software that are compatible with different operating systems (like, Windows, Mac, Linux), and are designed to perform specific recovery tasks.

Hard Disk Data Recovery After c_1252.nls File Gets Corrupt or Missing

2010-11-22T17:42:00.002+05:30

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Every computer user depends on some or the other operating system to communicate with their hard disks. But what happens if due to some reason the operating system doesn't function properly. For example, if the operating system gets infected by viruses, encounters file system corruption, the system files become corrupt or missing, then the system stops functioning properly. At times, it stops functioning altogether.

In such cases, our communication with the disk gets hampered leading to inaccessibility of all the data saved therein. In such dire circumstances, we have to opt for appropriate disk recovery measures to get hold of our data.

Consider, one fine day, when you start your NTFS formatted Windows XP system, you get following error message:

The file C:\windows\system32\c_1252.nls is missing or corrupt

Reason: As stated in the message, the mentioned file is corrupt or unavailable.

Troubleshooting: following methods should help solve the problem:

1st Method: Run chkdsk on the hard disk to check for errors:

1. Insert the CD in the drive and restart computer.
2. When prompted, select appropriate option to start XP from the CD.
3. When Setup starts, follow the directions, and press R to repair or recover.
4. Enter the Administrator password, when prompted.
5. On the command prompt, type (followed by Enter):
chkdsk /r
6. After this, type exit to quit the Console.
7. Restart computer.

2nd Method: Replace Missing Files using following steps:

1.Enter the command prompt, using steps 1 to steps 4, as done in 1st method.

2.In the command prompt, type below mentioned commands (each followed by Enter):

cd system32
ren c_1252.nls c_1252.old
expand drive:\i386\c_1252.nl_ c:\windows\system32

where drive, refers to CD drive.

3.After this, type exit to quit the Console.

4.Restart computer.

3rd Method: If the above methods do not work, you will need to perform an in-place upgrade for Windows XP.

4th Method: Though the above three methods work in most of the case, but if they don't, you will need to reinstall MS Windows XP. However, be wary of the fact that reinstalling Windows leads to loss of all the data, and calls for hard disk recovery using an updated backup. However if you do not have a backup, then you will have to perform disk recovery using the most suited third-party software for this task.

Partition Recovery Software is one of the most suited software for performing the stated recovery task. With compatibility for most of the versions of Windows operating systems, including, Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000, and support for NTFS, NTFS5, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, and exFAT file formats, this hard disk recovery tool has an intuitive interface, and is simple to use.

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2010-11-22T12:30:00.001+05:30

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Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery Software v4.0 is Now Officially Launched

2010-11-19T16:44:00.006+05:30

Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery is designed to recover corrupted Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX) files.This software scans all selected Word documents and uses an advanced algorithm to restore Word files back to their original state. The recovered files can either be saved to their original location on the hard disk, or to any user-specified location.

Key Features of Stellar Phoenix Word Recovery

• Recovers text, font(color, size, name), hyperlinks and preserves formatting of original document

• Recovers tables, embedded images, and other attributes of Word files

• Restores header and footer

• Search documents (.doc, .docx) from a folder or a drive

• Preview of files available in demo version and full version

• Log report for further analysis

• Supports Word 2000, XP(2002), 2003, 2007 and 2010

• Compatible with Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/Windows 7

Minimum System Requirements

Processor : Pentium Class

Operating System: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7

Memory : 256 MB (512 MB recommended)

Hard Disk : 50 MB of free space

MS Office: 2000 / 2002 (XP) / 2003 / 2007 / 2010

Feature Word Recovery 3.1 Word Recovery 4.0

Support For Office 2010 Not Supported Supported

Support For Windows 7 Not Supported Supported

Stellar File Wipe Software V 4.0 is Officially Launched

2010-11-19T16:36:00.005+05:30

A data eraser software that wipes files, slack space, system traces, temporary files, Internet activities, etc to remove redundant data from hard drive and speed up system performance.

Feature List

Wipes Unused and Slack space to secure privacy and optimize use of memory
Wipes system activity traces to ensure privacy and improved system speed
Wipes installed application traces and Internet activity traces
Supports all the popular applications and Internet browsers
Supports recognized standard overwriting algorithms for wiping
Wiping can be scheduled at a preset date and time
A log report is maintained in the application to review the process in future

Minimum System Requirements

Processor: Pentium Class

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7

Memory: Minimum 256 MB

Hard Disc: 20 MB of Free Space

How to Recover Hard Drive Data When the ntfs.sys File is Missing in Windows

2010-11-18T14:28:00.002+05:30

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A hard drive is the primary storage device in the computer systems, which helps you to store valuable data. Apart for this, the important system files that are required to run the system are stored in the hard drive. Lot many times, these files get missing or damaged during an update, thereby disabling you from starting the computer. In such cases, you should try to copy these files from the CD of the operating system. If that does not solve the issue, then you should use a third-partyhard drive data recovery software to recover the trapped data.

You can consider a situation where in you are unable to start your Windows XP Service Pack 2 system. The following error message is displayed on a black screen:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing:

\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys”

Cause:

This problem can happen if you have performed the following steps:

You have installed Windows XP SP 2.
You have installed the Windows XP SP1 rollup.
Once you installed the Windows XP SP1 rollup, you also enabled hyper-threading, or have added a second processor to the system.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should replace the necessary startup files using the Windows XP Setup CD. To do this, the following steps are required:

Insert the Windows XP Setup CD in the CD-ROM drive and start the computer.
Press R to enter the Recovery Console when the 'Welcome to Setup' screen appears.
At the Recovery Console command prompt, enter the following commands to copy the required files in your computer. Press ENTER after every command:

cd system32

ren ntkrnlpa.exe ntkrnlpa.old

ren ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.old

cd "c:\windows\driver cache\i386"

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrpamp.exe c:\windows\system32

expand sp2.cab -F:ntkrnlmp.exe c:\windows\system32

cd c:\windows\system32

ren ntkrpamp.exe ntkrnlpa.exe

ren ntkrnlmp.exe ntoskrnl.exe

Type 'exit' and press Enter to quit the Recovery Console.
Restart the computer.

If you are still facing similar error message after performing these steps, then you should look to reinstall the operating system. However, that would require taking the backup of the valuable data from the hard drive that can be done using a third-party hard drive recovery software. Such tools are read-only in nature that do not damage the existing files during the Windows recovery.

The most reliable hard drive recovery software that recovers lost, formatted, or deleted files from different types of storage devices is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. Able to recover more than 185 different file types, this hard drive data recovery software recovers deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express as well. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, and NT4(SP6).

Your Windows Partition is Corrupted. How Can the Data be Recovered?

2010-11-16T14:37:00.000+05:30

Your Windows Partition is Corrupted. How Can the Data be Recovered?

Among all the available operating systems of the current time, Windows operating system has gained tremendous usage by a variety of computer users. Apart from the advanced features, functionalities, most of the users rely on Windows OS because of its user friendly garaphical user interface and robustness against serious system problems. However, being exposed to a wide range of potentially damaging agents such as viruses, malware, unsystematic system shut down, power serge, software/hardware conflicts etc., sometimes, the Windows based hard drive partitions get corrupted or damaged. Under such situations of data loss or inaccessibility, partition recovery technology can help you recover all your valuable data.

Which is the Best Hard Disk Data Recovery Software?

2010-11-16T14:33:00.000+05:30

Which is the Best Hard Disk Data Recovery Software?

Hard disks are relatively simple storage devices, broadly organized into data storage areas and tables to store all the important information. Some parts of the hard disk are also dedicated to the operating system, and store procedures used to boot the system. However, hard disks are susceptible to logical corruption due to a variety of reasons, resulting in data getting lost or corrupted.

How Can I Get Back Deleted Files?

2010-11-15T17:40:00.000+05:30

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There’s nothing as traumatic as losing valuable data. The worst is, when you accidentally delete the data yourself! It is also possible that files get accidentally deleted when performing a Move or Copy operation in Windows. After all, although software is made to be perfect, bugs do creep in. Various other data loss situations include accidental deletion, virus attack, file system damage, partition deletion, MFT (Master File Table) corruption, and MBR (Master Boot Record) damage. These situations call for data recovery utilities, and fortunately, a lot of them are available.

To begin with, we must understand that deleted files are not really deleted. The link that points to them is reset, and the memory space occupied by the file is made available for overwriting. As long as we reestablish the link before the file gets overwritten, the file can be recovered.

A number of such methods are available. For software geeks, it’s good fun to actually access the physical memory, recognize the file header or locate the file address from the File Allocation Table, and then read all the bytes till the entire length of the file is covered. Unfortunately, this is not something that everyone can do. The good news is that this is not something that everyone needs to do. Software are utilities, and a utility, by definition, is something to be used. If all your time goes in maintaining it, the utility is fairly useless.

The best way to get back your deleted files would be to use a third-party recovery partition recovery tools A number of such utilities are available in the market, and a good utility can get back your data in exactly the same format as it was when you lost it. These utilities work on a copy of your original data; hence the original data remains intact in case the recovery process halts abruptly, due to power outages, etc. Good recovery tools support recovery from USB flash drives, internal and external hard drives, memory cards, and iPods.

One popular utility is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery that comes in handy every time you face a data deletion situation including deletion of audios, videos, graphics, presentations or databases. The utility scans your disk for deleted files and generates a preview of the files before attempting to restore them. The tool supports recovery of 185 different file types from Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems.
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Windows Partition Loss Due to Missing System Files and Bad Boot Record

2010-11-10T17:38:00.000+05:30

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Are you unable to boot your Microsoft Windows XP SP2 computer? Are the system files from your Windows XP hard drive missing? This behavior of Windows operating system renders your computer unbootable and unresponsive. In such circumstances, you can not access your system or the data stored in the hard drive. It leads to critical data loss situations and calls for FAT Recovery to get your valuable data back.

In a practical scenario, you may come across the below error message when you start your Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 computer:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.
Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

After the above error message, boot process is halted. The same issue occurs everytime you reboot the system.

Cause

You may encounter this problem if any of the below conditions are true:

The partition or boot record of your Windows computer is bad.
Disk corruption or file system corruption has damaged the Hal.dll file, the Ntoskrnl.exe file, or primary boot record of Windows XP.
The Ntoskrnl.exe and the Hal.dll files are mismatched.

All the above problems lead to data loss and need FAT Data Recovery to get sorted.

Resolution

The solution of the above problem may vary, depending upon the cause of the problem:

To fix bad partition or boot record problem, repair boot record using fixmbr command from Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console. It helps you to write a new boot record on system partition.
Start your computer in Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console and run chkdsk /r command.
Boot your computer using Microsoft Windows XP bootable CD and start Recovery Console. Use Bootcfg.exe utility for rebuilding Boot.ini file.

However, if none of the above methods work, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP operating system. Although, it resolves all your problems, it also removes the files, directories, hard drive partitions, and installed applications.

To retrieve lost data in such cases, FAT Recovery software come to your rescue. Most of these applications are specifically designed to systematically scan entire Windows hard drive and retrieve lost contents.

Stellar Phoenix FAT Data Recovery is an advanced and comprehensive tool to ensure absolute recovery of your valuable data. This software ensures safe and easy FAT partition Recovery owing to its read-only conduct and self-explanatory user interface. It is a non-destructive recovery software that recovers data from FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. The software works well with Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems.

Data Recovery MAC from Mac Hard Drive Partitions

2010-11-09T15:43:00.000+05:30

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MAC Disk Utility is a data recovery tool created on the hard disk-related activities to perform, and it comes with Mac OS X. The functions used to mount the hard disk, checking the integrity of your Mac computer hard disk, floppy disk formatting and partitioning, or disable journaling and the development of floppy disks. Mac Disk Utility is undoubtedly a useful tool, but in some versions of Mac OS X, it can not function properly.

Only in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Disk Utility shows unexpected behavior when attempting to alter or remove formatting a hard disk volume. This problem might lead to Mac data recovery solutions. If you wish to correct or delete a format Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard volume testing, you have the following error message: "File system formatter failed" This problem typically occurs when you try to check a specific Mac OS X changing device. The problem may be because:

This problem could be incompatible with Mac OS X Leopard Disk Utility with splitting scheme was used by Leopard. If partition table is damaged, Disk Utility will not change or format the Mac OS X volume.

The whole behavior of Mac OS X makes your hard disk volumes and critical data are available, and leads to severe data loss situations. This situation requires you to make Mac Recovery.

Solution

Around this problem, Mac OS X re-partitioned hard disk with Disk Utility. For partitioning a hard disk with Disk Utility, that the given steps: open

Disk Utility, select the drive you want to partition and the partition tab. From the drop-down list, choose the number of partitions. The Options button, select partition type. Desired size of the partition and click Partition.

Although this set of techniques are able to find the best solution of this problem, but repartitioning erases all hard disk volumes and data stored on them. In such cases, you perform data recovery mac for all your important data back. Data Recovery is possible with the help of third party mac data recovery software. The stellar phoenix software is able to systematically scan the entire Mac OS X hard disk and displays all data. This software is easy to use and carry safe recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most advanced tool to recover lost or inaccessible Mac OS X partitions and very useful for mac ipod recovery . This software easily recovers data from all HFS, HFS +, HFSX, FAT and HFS Wrapper file system volumes. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9.

Linux Data Recovery | Ubuntu Data Loss

2010-11-02T10:26:00.000+05:30

Kernel Vulnerabilities and Data Loss in Ubuntu Linux

Kernel is the key component of Linux operating system, which works as a bridge between applications and data processing performed at hardware level. Its responsibilities include managing resources of the system (communication between hardware components and hardware). The Linux kernel provides lowest-level abstraction for the resources, which must be controlled by applications, to carry out their operations. However, in case of kernel panic or kernel corruption, Linux may not boot properly. In such circumstances, you can not access data from Linux hard drive and come across data loss situations. At this point, Linux Data Recovery becomes need of the hour to get your data back.

What is Kernel Panic or Kernel Vulnerabilities?

In Linux operating system, kernel panic is a step taken by the operating system after detecting internal fatal error by which it can not recover safely. The Linux kernel routines, which handle panics, are usually designed so as to output an error to console, wait for system reboot, or initiate the automatic system reboot. Kernel panic may occur due to various reasons, such as faulty kernel, missing/damaged Linux data structures, operating system malfunction, file system corruption, and missing system files.

Vulnerability in Ubuntu Linux:

In Ubuntu 5.10 operating system, there is a flaw in the counting of module reference for netfilter's loadable protocol modules. By doing specific socket operations, local attacker can exploit it to crash Linux kernel.

You may notice a race condition in add_key(), keyctl(), and request_key() functions. By changing the length of the string arguments, a local attacker can either read random parts of Linux kernel memory or crash Linux kernel.

Kernel crash may also crash your Linux computer and may make it unbootable. In such cases, the system can not find a healthy kernel to load the boot files into memory and start the operating system boot process.

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How Do I Back Up My Data ?

2010-10-28T11:23:00.000+05:30

Imagine if you lost every file on your computer in 10 minutes. Would you be able to recover your data from a backup, or would you spend the next several days trying to track down all of the information that you had stored on your hard drive? Windows Vista and Windows 7 make it easy to schedule backup sessions that will create copies of your most important data and transfer it to a secure place.

Before You Start

Select which files are most important. Certain things, such as computer games and applications, don't usually need to be backed up. You can easily reinstall these files from the original source in the event of a system failure. The most important documents to back up are items that you have created, like documents and photos.

Consider creating multiple backups. Having one backup may seem like enough, but a problem that you were unaware of could be present on a backup copy. In this event, recovering your data without experiencing the same problem may be impossible. Maintaining a cycle of two or three different backups is usually a good policy.

Decide how often you want to back up your files. If you use your computer daily for business, a daily backup of important files is a good idea. If you are a more casual user, a weekly backup may suffice.

Step by Step: Using Windows or a Backup Program

Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.

From the Classic View, open Backup and Restore Center. Using the new control panel, click Back up your computer under the 'System and Maintenance' heading.

Click the Back up files button from the Backup and Restore Center menu.

Select where to store the backed up files. The first drop-down menu allows you to choose from local drives such as a second hard drive, a DVD, or a recovery partition on your current hard drive. The second drop-down menu lets you select a location that you can connect to via a network. If you do not see your desired backup destination, try selecting the Refresh option from the drop-down menu.

Click the Next button after selecting your desired location.

Select which types of files to back up, and then click the Next button to proceed.

Assign a schedule to your backup so that Windows will know how often to create a new backup of your files. Click Save settings and start backup when you are ready to create your backup.

Step by Step: Manual Backups

Open Windows Explorer.

Select the files to back up, and copy them to the Clipboard by right-clicking them and selecting Copy, or by pressing . You can also drag and drop folders.

Open the destination folder where you wish to back up the data. This folder should be on an external hard drive or on a DVD. This method is less precise than using a program like Windows Backup and Restore, but it will allow you to select exactly which files to back up

If your all data is lost and if you don't have updated backup try this trusted hard drive data recovery software to recover lost data from your windows or MAC OS.

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How to recover Boot Sector corruption because of Disk Probe utility in FAT system

2010-10-27T10:06:00.000+05:30

The Dskprobe utility is a sector editor that helps you to read and modify the sectors on the hard disk. It helps you to prepare for any disk-related errors by allowing you to save critical disk structures. However, this tool can pose some problems like corruption in the boot sector you run the chkdsk utility to scan the hard disk in the system. You should rewrite the boot sector using this utility. However, if that fails and you are unable to access the system, then you should use a third-party FAT Data recovery software to recover the data.

Consider a scenario in which you are using a FAT-based Windows 2000 system. In this system, when you use the 'chkdsk' utility, it fails to run properly and displays few error messages similar to the ones listed here:

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Stellar Phoenix CD/DVD Data Recovery v4.0 Officially Launched

2010-10-26T08:57:00.000+05:30

Stellar Phoenix CD DVD Data Recovery is an optical media data recovery application for CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD. It can effectively recover and restore lost, deleted or inaccessible data from physically damaged or incorrectly burnt optical discs. The software is capable of finding data from missing sessions and ensures complete extraction of fragmented data. It supports all CD / DVD / BD / HD DVD formats and all common file systems such as ISO 9660, Joliet, UDF file systems. The software is embedded with advanced features, like Create Image, File Filter, File Mask, Resume Recovery, Event Log, and Save Scan.

What's new in version 4.0

Support for Blu-ray Disc (BD) media type.
Support for UDF (Universal Disk Format) file system.
Ensures recovery of data from optical discs written by Packet Writing technique.
Efficiently recovers old and missing sessions from optical disc.
Recovers IFO / VOB / BUP files from Audio/Video DVD.

Key Features

Supports following File Systems:

ISO 9660, Joliet, ISO 9660:1999, UDF (Physical: 1.02, 1.50, 2.00, 2.01, 2.50, 2.60 and Virtual: 1.50, 2.00, 2.01, 2.50, 2.60), UDF Packet Writing and IFO/VOB Video.

Recovers data from optical media burnt on all Windows, Linux, UNIX and Macintosh (only ISO 9660, Joliet and UDF file systems) operating systems.
Supports recovery from Multi-session, Bootable disc, LightScribe disc, Mixed Mode disc, Audio and Video disc.
Ensures recovery of data from physically damaged optical media.
Finds and retrieves data from missing sessions.
Supports both Big-endian (Motorola) and Little-endian (Intel).
Search and find lost files and folders from all optical discs written by Packet Writing software (Drag and Drop methods) like InCD, Drag To Disk, Direct CD, DLA etc.
Image file helps to speed up the process of scanning and recovery.
Preview of files available before actual recovery of data.
File Filter allows selective recovery
File Mask helps to view only desired file types in the tree view.
Update wizard helps to check the latest versions.
Compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008 and Windows 7

Minimum System Requirement

Processor: Pentium Class or above Memory: 256 MB RAM Hard Disk: 256 MB of Free Space Operating Systems: Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP/ Vista/ Windows 7

Optical Media : CD / DVD / Blu-ray Disc Media and Drives

How to Recover Lost Data from Inaccessible Hard Drive

2010-10-19T13:55:00.000+05:30

Hard Drive is the brain of the computer. Every single byte of our work is stored in this brain of the computer. Normally it works fine but sometimes it faced the unwanted situations of hard drive failure, Hard drive is crashed, formatted or hard drive becomes inaccessible. There are many reasons behind this. First of all we have to understand the some basic things about hard drive which must every computer user should know about these features of computer hard drive.

For this read this article in which everything is explained about system hard disk Things You Must Know About Your Computer Hard Drive.

IF this Blue Screen is comes on your computer monitor “the hard drive can't be accessible” it means your system now infected with some problem then from here your hard work starts because this is very irritated situation and everybody wants to remove this error as soon as possible and get out from this unwanted situation.

What are the reasons for inaccessible Hard Drive ?

Hard drive is a mechanical device and any error can anytime in the system if something is not according to operating system. We have to diagnose our hard drive to check and make free from any virus, trojan or any malware suspected program. You installed any new software firstly removed that program. In this situation generally you do reboot the system. May be from hard drive corruption .

Solution

Run CHKDSK/F this command check your all hard drive corruption and rectify after that you can Restart the system. Your computer hard drive can get into the normal situation.

Normally most of people format the hard drive when every step or method is not proved. This result of all data lost which is stored in hard drive. And this point of time you need some trusted hard drive data recovery software which is able to recover your all lost data from formatted drive. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the trusted name in the hard drive recovery from the last 17 years in world. This hard drive recovery software supports windows7, XP, professional, 2000 , & moreover more than 185 file formats.

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Hard Drive Data Recovery After Receiving Stop Error 0x0000C1F5

2010-09-27T17:35:00.000+05:30

No matter how sturdy your hard drive is, it is prone to failure and data loss. In fact, it is not necessary that after its failure, a user loses data. It is also possible that accidental deletion, intentional or unintentional formatting, system error, software bug, operating system error or even virus attack, can cause havoc to your system, leading to complete hard drive data loss. In such grave situations, a user has to opt for recovery using backup, or using hard drive recovery software.

Consider, on trying to start you Vista, you receive the BSOD (blue screen of death) with the following Stop error message flashing on it :

'0x0000C1F5'

And, if that isn't all, Vista refuses to start, until the problem disk is repaired or removed.

Reason for the Stated Stop Error:

Every time the $TxfLog system file becomes corrupt, such messages flash. In such a case, the common log file system driver, i.e. the Clfs.sys driver, doesn't fix the corruption of the $TxfLog file.

How to Resolve the Stop Error message:

Get hold of the Windows 7 installation disk, or Windows 7 Beta disk.
Insert this disk into the disk drive and boot from it.
After the boot process is complete, when prompted to perform Windows 7 setup, cancel the same. You don't have to install Windows 7 to sort out the problem.
After the system boots successfully, remove the installation disk, and restart the computer. If the system boots properly, rest assured, your problem is resolved.
However, if it doesn't, then you'll have to reinstall the operating system.

Needless to mention, reinstallation means data loss. In such a case, you will need to opt for using specialized software and tools. These third party software perform sophisticated algorithms to the hard drive to read the data that has been lost and to perform recovery of the same. With detailed context sensitive help manual, and easy to understand interface, these tools can perform complete hard drive recovery.

Windows Data Recovery is one of the most user-friendly utility that is compatible with all Windows installation, including, Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. With the ability to perform

hard drive data recovery, without overwriting the already stored data, and support for more than 185 different file formats, this tool is highly reliant for all recovery needs. This tool supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT , NTFS and NTFS5 file systems, and provides the users with many customized recovery options.

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Seagate's 1.5TB GoFlex Portable Drive Packs Monster Storage Into a Small Space

2010-09-24T15:44:00.000+05:30

Seagate has clearly had a busy year with the launch of its GoFlex storage line. The latest entry in that line is the FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB portable drive, which packs half a terabyte more than the competition offers in a 2.5-inch design. The $250 drive (price as of September 23, 2010) comes with a USB 3.0 connector, too, which means that you don't have to foot the $30 bill for a cable (as you do with other models in the FreeAgent GoFlex series).

Seagate achieved the drive's notable total capacity by increasing the capacity of the platters--375GB per platter, instead of 333GB per platter--and by adding a fourth platter inside the drive. The new FreeAgent GoFlex spins at 5400 rpm, which should result in a slower speed than what we saw from the 7200-rpm, 500GB FreeAgent GoFlex Pro we've tested previously over USB 3.0.

I say "should" for a reason: In PCWorld Labs tests, the 1.5TB drive yielded mixed results--some strong, one not quite so.

The 1.5TB drive virtually tied, or bested, the Pro model in four of our six tests. For example, it required 59 seconds to read 2GB of files and folders, compared with 63 seconds for the Pro. It also took 31 seconds to read a large 2GB file, versus the Pro's 34 seconds; and it took 27 seconds to write a large 2GB file, the same as the Pro.

The big discrepancy occurred on our test for writing 2GB of files and folders. Here, the 1.5TB drive came in dead last among USB 3.0 portable drives, its performance more on a par with that of USB 2.0 drives we've tested. The FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB required 142 seconds to complete the task, falling short of the Pro drive, which took 105 seconds. Other USB 3.0 portable hard drives we've evaluated performed even better--the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive took 92 seconds and the LaCie Rugged SuperSpeed took just 63 seconds. When we asked Seagate about the slow speed result, a representative indicated that the drive's four-platter design could have slowed it down.

This drive's massive capacity is a head-turner; after all, that's an awful lot of storage for a portable drive. Seagate claims that it can hold up to 60 high-definition movies, 750 video games, thousands of photos, or tens of thousands of hours of digital music. At this point, when it comes to photos and music, the numbers are getting so high with such examples that it's almost like stating the quantity of hamburgers sold at McDonald's, which now simply boasts "billions and billions served."

I'm still not a fan of Seagate's GoFlex connector arrangement--but as an avid consumer of storage, I relish the idea of a high-capacity portable drive. I have to give Seagate props for being first out of the gate with a portable drive of this size. If you buy this drive, however, keep in mind its sluggish write speed and its connector system.

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First, Read This When Upgrading from XP home Edition to Professional?

2010-09-23T14:39:00.000+05:30

Windows XP, one of the most popular operating system, comes in Home edition and Professional edition. Users have the option to choose the edition they want. But, laptops come preloaded with the Windows edition which the computer manufacturers choose to install. However, users can always install another edition of Windows. But what if all the data that had been stored on your hard drive gets lost when you change the edition of your favorite Windows operating system. Well, you will have to opt for Windows Data Recovery using the most updated backup. But if the backup is unavailable, don't worry, you can use partition recovery software.

Consider you buy a new laptop that came pre-installed with Windows XP Home Edition. After a few months, you find it necessary to upgrade the operating system with the retail version of Windows XP professional. After successful upgrade, when you start working on your system, you find that the Start Menu shortcuts are unavailable. What's more, all the files in the Shared Documents folder are missing. Further, the default program templates and setting stored in the Default and All users folder too are not there. And you wonder, what could possibly be wrong?

While upgrading all these files have been deleted by the upgrade wizard.

Technical Specifications

There is a file in the System32 folder of the Windows XP computer. This file was created by the computer manufacturer's Out-of-box Experience Wizard that runs immediately after starting any computer that was pre-installed with Windows XP. Actually this file should only be used by GUI-mode setup when the setup restarts. After creation of this file by the wizard, when upgrade is performed by the setup, it checks this file and analyzes that it needs to restart the setup as well. Owing to this, it deletes the above mentioned files.

Resolution:

Sorting this problem is easy with the backups in place. Just restore the missing data and program shortcuts. However, if you do not have a backup, then it is a cause of concern, as you will need to look for Windows recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a robust software for recovering lost , deleted or formatted files from any storage media, including, USB flash drives, external hard drives, memory cards, and so on. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000, this hard drive data recovery software supports recovery of more than 185 different file formats from different file systems including FAT, exFAT, and NTFS.

Stellar Phoenix Archive Password Recovery

2010-09-16T11:21:00.000+05:30

Stellar Phoenix Archive Password Recovery applies extensive brute force attack to recover password set on zipped files. Moreover, it has various masking options to optimize the character set used for making combinations of words for brute force attack. Application also shows the running process that displays required time, start time and process speed. Supports all versions of Archived documents, Gives various options to optimize password recovery. Uses brute force attack that recovers passwords with 100% guarantee Displays a process summary at end to evaluate the effectiveness of the process

Stellar Phoenix Archive Password Recovery Software Feature List

1. Recovers passwords of WinZip documents(8.x-14.x)

2. Easy to use interface and single step process.

3. Uses Efficient and Fast algorithms to recover password.

4. User can Set minimum and maximum possible range of password between which the application will try to recover the password.

5. User can mask initial characters of the password that are remembered or only some of the characters of password which are not remembered.

6. 'Character set' option lets you define the character sets that will be considered for building various combinations of characters for password recovery.

7. Automatically uses dictionary search and in case password is not found, it uses brute force attack that recovers passwords with 100% guarantee.

How Hard Disk Read and Write Head Works

2010-09-14T12:52:00.001+05:30

To know more about how read and write head works first of all we have to know about what is this components of hard drive and what is the structure of these parts. Hard disk is consists of some parts like platter and read and write head. Read and write head revolves on the hard disk platter’s. And now why these parts moves on the disk platter’s. When disk platter’s produces magnetic field they convert into electric current to read the disk and when platter of disk generates electric current it converts into magnetic field to write the head. The Hard Disk head pass through the many changes over the last decades.

Head in hard disk ‘fly’ platter’s surface with the distance of 3 nanometer (nanometer is a equal to the one billionth part of a meter and nanometer is the length’s unit of the metric system). To create the higher areal density in hard disk “flying height” is constantly decrease. In this process “flying height” of the head is the most important thing. Is there any slightly disturbance in this “flying height” can cause problem. Here the design of air-bearing etched above the disk-facing surface of the slider controls the “flying height” of the head. Air bearing plays an important role to maintain the right “flying height” results the head moves constantly on the above of the disk surface. Now problems arises when if there by any chance the head touches or hits the disk’s surface produces the catastrophic head crash.

When read-write head crash it can results permanent or fatal damage to magnetic media of the hard disk’s platter surface. There are two layers on the platter’s surface where above on these read-write head moves. These layers are made from Teflon like material this is the upper layer and another one is beneath (a film) and made of substance sputtered carbon. These layers helps on the smooth functioning of read-write head on the hard disk.

When head crash happened it can create the frustrating situation of data loss. Head crash increases the data loss circumstances and I am sure that no computer user wants to see the painful situation. But you don’t need to panic because in data recovery experts made some reliable and accurate hard drive data recovery software.

With the help of these hard disk recovery tools we can recover our lost files and lost data from them. Now I want to share some good hard drive recovery software with you. When I searched the Google for hard disk recovery and hard drive recovery I found that stellar phoenix data recovery software is top on the search results. I download this software and use I found very accurate results.

To get the know more about your computer hard drive. Read this article “Things You Must Know about Your Computer Hard Drive”

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Software - A Must have in case of Backup Unavailability

2010-09-06T14:11:00.000+05:30

Buying a brand new laptop for the first time is such a wonderful feeling. We start loading and using various applications and games. Not only that the innumerable downloads are something we cannot prevent ourselves from doing. Though we are very careful about using the thing with clean hands, and ensure that other people (especially the kids) do not scratch the surface, and so on, we do forget that it is a machine, and the more software and applications we load, the slower the system becomes. To avoid that, we should also be careful about what we add to the system. Apart from that, we should be keeping backups of all the important files and data, lest....

Of course, to handle such situations, there are various hard drive recovery tools, but they should be the last resort, when all other methods for data recovery fail!

But what other methods can a person resort to?

The first and the foremost method is of taking backups. Backups are the most vital tools that can aid the user in saving data that he had collected so painstakingly, and compiled over a long period of time. But, these backups can help only when taken on a timely basis.

But if a user has already met data loss, due to the hard drive not loading (and doesn't have adequate backup), then you must attach the hard drive to another working computer as slave hard drive, and extract all the data from the non loading drive.

However, if your hard drive is accessible, but the data seems to be lost, then you have little to bank upon, but a reliable hard drive data recovery tool. These are third party hard drive recovery tools that extract data from any hard drive, irrespective of which operating system is loaded on the system. These software apply extensive recovery algorithms to extract unreadable data from your hard drive, after any logical damage condition of the hard drive.

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How to Recover Windows Files From Hard Disk Drive Failure

2010-09-04T13:09:00.000+05:30

Have you encountered a problem with your Windows XP based hard drive? And, are facing data loss due to flashing of some error messages? Well, no system or hard drive is fool proof! That is why you have been recommended from time to time, to backup all your vital data! Now yo can use that backup to recover your data. What? You ignored those warnings to backup, and have lost your data? Then don't panic, use reliable Windows data recovery options to revive your system and to recover your data. If all else fails, there is still a possibility to recover Windows files.

While booting your Windows XP operating system, consider, you encounter following error:

Hard disk drive failure

After this if you boot your system with the startup disk of Windows 98, and then try to get information regarding the partition with the Fdisk.exe tool of MS DOS, you encounter another error message stating.

No fixed disk present

This causes inaccessibility of your system, and all the data stored in it. To get rid of these problems and to reclaim your data, one has to understand the cause of the problem first.

Causes:

Incorrect installation of the hard disk
Incorrect configuration of the hard disk in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output device) of the computer
Corruption or damage of the hard disk
Damage to the file system of the active partition

Read The Full Article Here Hard Disk Drive Failures

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery now offers support for Exchange 2010

2010-09-03T12:14:00.000+05:30

Stellar Information Systems Ltd a leading name in data recovery industry, today declares the launch of Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery 4.0, a more robust software which repairs corrupt EDB files of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in addition to 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 versions.

Developed specifically to address the needs of affected MS Exchange Server administrators, this powerful Exchange recovery application offers to repair corrupt or inaccessible mailboxes and recovers them as individual PSTs. The newly-revived software now incorporates the capability of recovering selective mailboxes.

MS Exchange Server administrators can bank upon this application to derive accurate results in all failure scenarios including corrupt database header, improper database backups, hardware issues, dirty shutdown and others. The free Demo version of the EDB recovery software now has the provision of providing preview of the recoverable mailboxes.

"Version 4.0 of Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery software comprises unparalleled recovery capabilities with added support for MS Exchange Server 2010. The Mailbox Exchange Recovery upgrade provides tremendous power in the hands of Exchange database administrators with its ability to recover mailboxes in almost all EDB database corruption instances, " said Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Information Systems Ltd.

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Stellar Phoenix Mail Password Recovery v1.0 is Now Officially Launched

2010-09-03T10:06:00.000+05:30

Stellar Phoenix Mail Password Recovery is a user friendly application to recover the mail client
password saved at local machine. It supports a number of popular and latest mail clients available. Users can recover user name and password of any of the supported mail clients in a
single mouse button click.

Features

• Supports all the latest and popular mail clients.

• Recovers user name password of mail clients.

• Gives an option to save recovered user name and password in a text file.

1) Recovers Domain Name, User Name & password for following mail clients

a) Microsoft Outlook (2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)

b) Outlook express

c) Windows mail

d) Windows live mail

e) Incredimail (5.x, 6.x)

f) Eudora (4x, 5x, 6x, 7x)

g) Mozilla Thunderbird (2x, 3x)

h) Netscape Communicator (7x)

i) The Bat (4x)

j) Becky-Internet Mail (2x)

k) Fox Mail (5x, 6x)

l) Poco Mail (4x)

m) Pegasus Mail (4x)

n) MailThem Pro

2) Recover to File: User can save the password in a text file.

Minimum System Requirements

• Processor: Pentium Class

• Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7

• Memory: Minimum 256 MB

• Hard Disc: 20 MB of Free Space

• MS Office:2000/2003/XP

Mac Hard Drive Recovery Software to Resolve Disk Errors in Mac OS X

2010-08-30T17:46:00.000+05:30

Hard Drive is the main memory of your computer with Mac OS X you have installed the operating system and applications. This nonvolatile storage medium that stores also their mission-critical data and valuable information on moving plates. Under certain circumstances, the drive Mac OS X drives fail, and all stored data can not be accessed, leading to severe data loss situations.

In these cases, you are forced to perform hard disk recovery Mac to get your mission critical data when it is present a valid backup and current.

Can Mac disk is completely inaccessible, if your critical data structures are damaged. The damage to the hard disk is generally of the errors when accessing data from the hard disk is specified or during consideration of the consistency of the hard disk using Disk Utility. Errors may be similar to the following:

Verify and Repair volume “disk1s3″ Checking Journaled HFS + volume. Invalid node structure Invalid B-tree node size Invalid node structure Invalid B-tree node size volume failed. Error: Filesystem verify or repair.

The hard disk is unreadable: Do you want to start now?

The errors on the hard disk may be due to many reasons including the following:

File System Corruption File System is an integral part of Mac OS X that organizes all data stored on your hard drive. If damaged, the operating system can not find and access files from the disk.

virus-infected virus are malicious programs that affect their data structures of the hard disk or the data can. You can not access the data from the infected computer with viruses and encounter data loss situations.

Disk Format-If your Mac OS X hard disk is formatted, whether intentionally or not, all data is removed from the disk.

The list of reasons for disk failure and data loss ever. You can clarify these situations and perform hard disk recovery by restoring critical data from the last backup.

If there is no backup, are Mac disk recovery software for your salvation. The applications are designed to remove completely scan your hard drive and all data available. These tools Mac disk recovery are completely safe and easy to read-only track and interactive graphical user interface.

MAC Data Recovery an advanced and efficient tool for back offer guaranteed in all situations, loss of data. The software can be used with Mac OS X 10 6 Snow Leopard, 10 5 Leopard Tiger April 10 and 10 Third 9 Panther. Promotes the regeneration of HFS, HFS +, HFSX, HFS Wrapper file system and FAT volumes.

How to Handle the situation When Data Loss from Hard Drive

2010-08-27T17:24:00.000+05:30

Every computer, whether a desktop, or a server, contains one or more hard disk drives. And every mainframe computer and supercomputer is connected to a large number of these hard disk drives. A large number of manufacturers make hard disk drives, including Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Samsung, Fujitsu, and many more.

These huge number of hard drives have one thing in common, they store a huge amount of data, including digital data in a relatively simple manner. They are the heart and soul of the computer, and enable it to the efficient machine that a computer has become today. That is why they need to be safeguarded, otherwise, a user has to opt for hard drive data recovery methods.

A hard drive is the storage area of the system and stores all programs and applications. It may have any interface, or any operating system, but nothing can prevent data loss from it when a problem comes.

These problems include, but are not limited to, corruption of file system, cross linking of files, improper shut down of the system, corruption of the master boot sector, and corruption of boot sector. In such situations the only thing that can save the work of a user is a valid and updated backup.

A backup can be taken on any device, including, tapes, USB drives, external devices, or even in the same hard drive. It is also possible to keep a backup online. A backup can be used to recover hard drive data, irrespective of the reason of data loss. But for all those who have either not maintained a backup, or have a backup, which is not valid or updated, there is still some help available.

With the advancement of technology, it has become possible to perform hard drive recovery after data loss owing to the above mentioned reasons. It is also possible to recover data that has been lost due to different reasons, including, files lost due to emptying of recycle bin or due to pressing of the ‘Delete’ button while ‘Shift’ key was pressed, data lost due to formatting or resizing of a particular drive, or due to formatting of the whole disk. There are reliable third party hard drive recovery software that are available in the market today.

Data Recovery Software For All Kinds of Hard Drives

2010-08-20T15:52:00.000+05:30

Ten years back, people were very careful about what they stored on their system. This was because they had limited storage space and hard disks were very highly priced. It was like keeping things in their closet, which when reached the brink of being completely loaded, meant certain things had to shoved off, to make space for storing new things. But, today, it is not the case. With the revolution that has engulfed the digital storage world, storage space has become very cheap, as compared to what its price was, ten years back. That is why, the thought of data backup has taken a strong hold of any computer user. This ensures data safety and prevents its loss. But even then, data loss does occur. So what should be done in such situations? The answer to this question is very simple. Look for hard drive recovery software.

These are simple recovery tools that have made the job of hard drive data recovery a simple task, which can be carried on by any non technical user. With all the complex algorithms that need to be applied, completely integrated into the tool, it has become a simple task for even first time users of the software. Designed to carry out detailed recovery algorithms for recovering not just the data that has been deleted or lost, but even partitions that have been deleted from the hard drives.

These data recovery tools work on a simple principal that when data is said to be lost or deleted, it is only the information that is pointing to the storage space, which gets modified, to mark the space as unoccupied. So, until and unless that place is written over by other files, the data that was previously stored can be recovered by applying recovery algorithms. This method of recovery varies from one operating system platform to another, even though the fundamental strategy is the same. These hard drive recovery software are capable of recovering data after any kind of data loss scenarios.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd., is one of the leading provider of read-only hard drive data recovery software that boast of simple graphical user interface, a number of recovery options, and a detailed documentation. Various software available for Mac, Novell, Windows and Linux operating system are capable of recovering not just the documents, spreadsheets, presentations, audios, videos, photos, but also hard drive partitions and emails of various email clients.

Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery Software V2.0 Now Officially Launched

2010-08-19T12:58:00.000+05:30

Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery software recovers corrupted databases that are created by using Oracle 9i/10g/11g. Oracle 9i/10g/11g should be installed on a computer in which Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery software needs to be installed. This software repairs a corrupted database and inserts recovered data in a new database created by user before initiating recovery process, without making any changes in the corrupted database. Oracle stores a database at the location specified during the configuration of the database.

After scanning process Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery software shows the original contents of the selected database. You can also select and recover corrupted databases manually by using the Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery software.

Feature List of Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery

Support for Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g
Preview of contents of databases.
Recovers tablespace, table, views.
Recovers clusters, cluster table.
Recovers triggers, schemas, sequences, synonyms, roles, indexes.
Recovers primary and foreign key associated with tables.
Recovers user-defined functions and stored procedures.
Recovers packages and package bodies.
Manual selection of database.

Recover digital photos from corrupt memory cards on Mac computer

2010-08-18T16:42:00.000+05:30

I Decided to post some different and interesting information rather than only on hard drive so I am posting a article on MAC Photo Recovery. Might be it is useful for you.

Are you worried about losing photos owing to a corrupt memory card? Have no idea how to recover them on your Mac computer? No need to get annoyed! Photo recovery from a corrupt memory card is possible provided you take appropriate steps like stop using the memory card immediately and more. This way you give a boost to the chances of successful recovery of photos. You can recover lost photos from a corrupt memory card by using a data recovery application. Sounds too unconvincing? Well, the innovations in data recovery technology has now made it possible to recover photos from any corrupt or damaged storage media without putting in a lot of efforts and time. There are tools available which help you recover photos even if you do not possess a valid and clean backup. You just have to format the corrupt memory card and connect it to your Mac computer and use a reliable Mac Photo Recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you have a memory card packed with several photos of your family enjoying in Hawaii. You return home and connect the card to your Mac computer in order to download photos. The transfer process starts and after 2-3 minutes, your system hangs. When you restart your Mac machine and try to restart the transfer process, you find the photos have all become inaccessible. When you insert the memory card in your camera to view photos, you receive the following error message:

"Memory card error"

Cause

The reason behind above error message is memory card corruption. In the above-mentioned case, the memory card might have become corrupt when the computer stopped responding in the middle of a transfer process. Due to this interruption in write process, the file system of the memory card might have got damaged.

Resolution

In order to perform recovery of photos, you must consider the following workarounds:

Restore the lost or inaccessible photos from a backup

Connect your memory card to another Mac machine and see if it is possible to access photos

If none of the above works, then format the memory card and download a third-party Mac Photo Recovery Software

Such recovery applications have been designed to employ improved scanning algorithms and recover photos from formatted memory cards on Mac machines instantly. You just have to take care that your selected Photo Recovery application is read-only in nature.

One of the appropriate and powerful software for recovering lost or deleted photos on Mac computers is Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery. This application recovers photos and other multimedia files from multiple storage media including USB, hard drives, memory sticks etc. Moreover, being easy-to-use, this Mac photo recovery application can be used by both tech-savvy and non-tech savvy users.

How To Recover Lost Photos From Formatted Memory Card?

2010-08-13T17:27:00.000+05:30

Memory card is a popular flash memory storage media, which is used in a number of digital cameras, mobile phones, PDAs, and other handheld devices to store data. Various memory card types include Secure Digital Cards, Multimedia Cards, Compact Flash Cards, Memory Sticks and many more. These are used to store and transfer photos, songs, videos, and graphic files, between a variety of devices. They are considered to be more stable than storage devices that have moving internal components. However, in some cases, you need to format these memory cards to remove viruses or other logical errors. Formatting deletes all the files from media and causes complete data loss. In such critical situations, you need to go for an Photo Recovery Software to get your lost files recovered.

Memory card formatting is the perfect way for removing viruses from the media. It also helps you to replace damaged data structures, system files, and the file system of the card. You can format a memory card in Mac OS X operating system easily:

Insert your memory card into the card reader that is attached to a Mac computer.
On the 'Finder' screen, click 'Applications' in the 'Side-Bar' and scroll down to find 'Utilities' folder.
Locate 'Disk Utilities' in 'Utilities' folder and double-click 'Disk Utility' to launch it.
In Disk Utility, select the memory card and then click on the 'Erase' button. Select a format that you want to use for formatting your memory card on 'Volume Format' button. Use 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' option.
A dialog box appears for confirmation about 'Erase' process. Confirm the process by clicking 'Erase' button.
After completion of formatting, the memory card mounts on your Mac OS X computer just like other removable devices.

Formatting deletes all the files from your memory card. However, you should know that the files are not deleted permanently from memory card after formatting. Only the index of the photos is deleted and thus these photos can not be accessed. The photos can however be recovered using Digital Photo Recovery applications.

These are powerful and advanced third-party tools, which carry out in-depth scan of entire memory card using efficient scanning techniques. They perform absolute Picture Recovery in all cases of file loss, and enable you to carry out Mac Photo Recovery on your own.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Mac) software recovers lost, deleted, inaccessible, and missing photos from all types of memory cards. The software has a simple graphical user interface, and is designed for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.

How to fix -48 error when syncing iPod with iTunes for Mac

2010-08-12T11:32:00.000+05:30

iTunes makes it quite easier for you to sync media from your Mac computer to your Mac iPod, and the other way around. You can update song, videos, podcasts and other content on your iPod without much hassle. It is because of this unique feature that an iPod has soared the popularity charts. Though, at times you may face some problems while syncing your iPod to Mac machine. This behavior can be seen in many instances including corrupt iPod software or a possible iPod disk corruption. In both the events, you would be required to restore your iPod, followed by quick recovery of lost data from an updated backup copy. However, in absence of a backup, you must try using a Mac iPod recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you connect iPod to your Mac machine in order to sync new songs and videos, and instead receive the following error:

"Attempting to copy to the disk "Customer's iPod" failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)"

As a result of the above error message, you cannot add any new content to your iPod. At other occasions, you could also get subject to data loss from iPod.

Cause

The above error could surface in the following scenarios:

If your iPod has a corrupt software
Or if your iPod's disk is corrupt or damaged

Resolution

The issues with the iPod and iTunes can be resolved completely by restoring the iPod using the latest version of the iTunes for Mac. You can download the latest version of iTunes from the Internet and connect your iPod to your Mac machine via USB port in order to restore it.

Restoring brings an iPod back to default factory settings and hence, all the data from it gets completely wiped off. In order to recover data, you must either use an updated backup or an Mac iPod data recovery software.

Such tools employ effective scanning algorithms and extract data from a restored iPod in an efficient manner. Moreover, these ipod data recovery mac software, being read-only, do not even modify the original data.

Recovery is a user-friendly yet powerful application which recovers lost, deleted or formatted iPod data - songs, videos, audio books, podcasts, photos - from both Classic and Shuffle models. This Mac iPod data recovery application recovers all audio(MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG, RPS, M4P, AU, WMA, MP3, WAV), video(MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG, RPS, M4P, AU, WMA, MP3, WAV) and photo(JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RAW, JPG, NFF, CD5, PNG, PGM, PNM, Exif ) formats.

Is There Any Way to Recover Lost Partitions After Hard Drive Formatting?

2010-08-09T17:35:00.000+05:30

Disk formatting or hard drive formatting is a process of initializing the hard drive to prepare it for storing data. It sets up a new and empty file system on your hard drive that helps the operating system to store, organize, and manipulate data on the disk. You can setup multiple file systems while formatting the disk. In Microsoft Windows operating system based computer, you can form the disk during Setup or by using Fdisk utility. Formatting can also be done for a hard drive that is currently in use for storing data. This process is usually called reformatting, which removes all the disk partitions and stored data, leading to critical partition loss situations. This problem requires partition recovery software to be fixed, if there is no valid backup in place.

The disk formatting is broadly categorized in the following two categories:

Low-level Formatting- This type of formatting is generally done on older hard drives. It is pretty slow and time-consuming process. The process checks all the sectors of hard drive and verify them.
High-level Formatting- It is the process to set up a new file system on your hard drive and install boot sector. The process is pretty fast. You can optionally scan the hard drive for defects in this process.

Hard Drive Reformatting:

This is a high-level disk formatting process, sometimes applied on working hard drives for erasing the contents of the drive. It is usually done in case of file system corruption, operating system malfunction, disk metadata structure corruption, and to get rid of a deadly virus. The process generally carries an implication that operating system and all applications needs to be reinstalled after reformatting the drive.

Although, reformatting may not absolutely erase all the data from your hard drive, it removes critical system data structures, like partition table, file system, and boot sector. It gives an appearance of empty hard drive to operating system, rendering existing data inaccessible by general methods. To recover lost data in such situations, you need to recover partition using third-party applications.

The partition recovery software are highly-advanced and efficient commercial tools that perform in-depth scan of whole hard drive using efficient scanning methods. The Windows data recovery software recover lost partitions safely with read-only and non-destructive conduct.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a powerful, yet easy to use utility to successfully handle all partition loss situations. The software recovers exFAT, NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is usable with MS Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems.

How to Recover Lost or Deleted Partitions?

2010-08-06T10:59:00.000+05:30

Hard drive is a widely-used and reliable storage media, which can be divided into several partitions. Microsoft Windows enables you to create maximum of four primary partitions that have a unique entry in the partition table. This entry is used by the operating system to identify, locate, and access these partition. Every Windows hard drive partition works as an individual hard drive, which is separate from all other partitions. In some cases, system crash and hard drive failure like situations may cause partition corruption and lead to partition loss. At this point, partition recovery software becomes need of hour, if you do not have a clean and current backup in place.

When partition loss occurs, all your precious data stored on the particular Windows partition become inaccessible and leads to severe data loss. You may run across the partition loss issues due to any of the following reasons:

Hard Drive Formatting- Hard drive formatting is the process of removing all the content stored on hard drive and reinstalling the operating system. It is required to get rid of errors and some deadly viruses, which can not be removed using a third-party anti-virus application.

Accidental Deletion- It is a common user mistake, which can be made by any computer user. You may unintentionally delete a Windows hard drive partition while managing the hard drive using Disk Management snap-in.

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Fixing the problem when the Hal.dll file is damaged in Windows XP system

2010-08-05T12:45:00.000+05:30

In the Windows NT and later systems, the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) file acts as the layer between the various software drivers that communicate with the hardware components. In addition, this file is needed when the system is to be booted. However, when this file gets corrupt the system does not boot. In such cases, you should try to rebuild its partition using restorative methods. If any of the methods is unable to fix the problem, then the best way to address the situation is by using a third-party partition recovery software to recover partition and start the system.

Let's take an instance where you are unable to start your Windows XP Service Pack 2 system. An error message is displayed in this situation, which is similar to the following message:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

Windows root\system32\hal.dll.

Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Cause:

This erroneous situation can happen because of the following circumstances:

The Hal.dll file or the Ntoskrnl.exe files are not matched.
Some corruption of file system and/or disk has occurred in the primary boot record. Because of this, either or both of the Hal.dll and the Ntoskrnl.exe file have become corrupt.
The partition or the boot record has corrupted.

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What to Do When You Are Facing System Restart After Hibernation

2010-07-27T14:55:00.000+05:30

In the Windows systems, the Hibernation and the Standby features are extensively used to save the power consumption used by the computer. The hibernation features creates an image of the open programs, so that these are opened in the same state when the power is turned on. On the other hand, Standby stops the power supply to the hardware components but provides power to the memory so that the data is not lost. However, sometimes due to problems with the hard disk these features do contribute more to it. The hard disk can get corrupted due to various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, file system corruption, etc. In such cases, you should try to find out the cause and the appropriate resolution for the problem. If you are not able to fix the problem, then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery software to recover important data.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a Windows XP system that has an ATAPI hard disk. In your system, you are having either of the following problems:

The computer restarts when you want to resume from hibernation.
The computer exhibits signs of hard disk corruption when the computer enter either standby or hibernation.
The computer displays hard disk corruption when it writes a memory dump file because of an unrecoverable STOP error.

Cause:

There could be the following causes of this erroneous situation:
The ATAPI driver for Windows XP is incompatible to be used with the 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (LBA) while writing memory dump files or hibernation files.
The flush cache command does not get issued to the hard disk that has 48-bit enabled when Windows XP enters the standby or hibernation state.

Resolution:

To resolve this situation, you should perform download and install the latest hotfix for Windows XP. Restart the system after installing the hotfix. The problem would be resolved if it is an LBA-related problem.

However, if the hard disk is getting corrupt then this might not prove fruitful in long run. In such cases, you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery software to recover the inaccessible data. Such hard drive recovery tools use fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms that ensure safe and secure recovery of hard disk data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive data recovery software that recovers deleted, inaccessible, lost, or formatted files from various storage media such hard drives, external hard disks, iPods, pen drives, etc. It is able to recover more than 185 different file types from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. In addition, this hard drive recovery utility restores deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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Is There any Alternative of Hard Drive Data Recovery?

2010-07-22T13:11:00.000+05:30

In modern computers, hard drive is a widely used storage media. It is known for its permanent data storage and reliability to store data. Hard drive is a non-volatile magnetic storage media, which stores data on rotating platters. The mass storage media comprises of various logical components, such as file system, boot loader, Master Boot Record (MBR), and partition table to effectively store and manage data. There are some situations, where these data structures may corrupt and you come across severe data loss situations. In order to recover lost data, hard drive data recovery software becomes need of hour.

You may lose your precious data from a computer hard drive due to logical failure. There are some of the most frequent reasons of logical hard drive failure:

File system corruption- It is a critical data structure of hard drive that organizes files and directories of the disk. If it corrupts, operating system can not locate and access data from hard drive.

Virus infection- Viruses are malicious computer programs that are very destructive in nature. They may damage the significant metadata structures on hard drive.

Partition table corruption- It keeps record and entries of all the hard drive partitions/volumes. If it gets damaged, partitions/volumes cannot be accessed.

MBR and boot loader corruption- Both these system components are responsible for booting the system. When they face corruption, system cannot boot up and thus you cannot access data from hard drive.
How to recover lost data?

Following are the two most common hard drive recovery alternatives that can help you to recover lost data:

Restore from backup- You should regularly backup your data to ensure complete data safety. When your hard drive fails, you can easily restore data from backup and bring it back to working state. Backup should always be done on a reliable media and tested for validity. Backup media failure can cause grave situations.

Recovery software- If you think that your storage media is extremely reliable and it will never fail, then you are wrong. Storage media may fail at any point of time and cause severe data loss situations. In such cases, hard disk recovery tools help you to get your data recovered.

The hard drive data recovery tools are designed to completely scan the hard drive and extract all lost data. They offer safe and easy recovery.

How to Recover FAT32-based Windows 2000 system from boot sector corruption

2010-07-16T14:46:00.001+05:30

Is your FAT32-based system is has become inaccessible lately? Are you unable to run chkdsk command to repair the boot sector? If your answers are in YES, then chances are that the file system has corrupted and you need to look for FAT recovery options. For this, you can use the in-built Dskprobe tool to repair the corrupted boot sector. If you are not able to recover the FAT system, then you should use a third-party FAT data recovery software to do the needful.

Consider a scenario wherein you are using Windows 2000 having FAT32 partitions on two volumes. One of its volume (not the system drive) gets corrupt and you attempt to run chkdsk on that volume using command-line arguments. However, the tool quits without performing any repairs. An error message is displayed, that is:

“The type of the file system is FAT32.

Volume Serial Number is C408-2213

Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.”

Cause:

Such unusual behavior has occurred as the FAT32 partition stores a backup copy of the boot sector. The chkdsk command causes the error message while trying to read the corrupted volume. It does not uses the backup FAT32 boot sector until it is not physically located in a bad sector.

Resolution:

To recover the corrupted primary boot sector, you should use Dskprobe tool. To do this, you should perform the following steps:

Find and run the Dskprobe.exe tool in the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM.
Click Logical Drive in the Drives menu, and then double-click DriveLetter.
Clear the selected Read-only check box, click set active, and click OK.
Click Read in the Sectors menu, and modify the default Starting sector (except the Number of Sectors=1 value).
Click Write in the Sectors menu.
While ensuring that the active handle is the logical drive letter of the volume, modify the starting Sector to write the data value.
Click Write it, and click Yes to confirm that you want to overwrite sector 0 in the DriveLetter device.
Exit Dskprobe.exe.
Run chkdsk again for the repaired volume using the chkdsk DriveLetter: command. It should run fine now.

However, if you are still facing the similar symptoms while accessing that FAT32 volume then you should use a third-party FAT data recovery software. Such FAT recovery tools are able to restore trapped data from various storage devices using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

FAT data recovery software that recovers deleted, formatted, or lost data from corrupt or inaccessible FAT partitions. It performs FAT recovery for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and VFAT file system partitions. This FAT data recovery utility is able to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media. In addition, this FAT recovery tool monitors the hard drive status and informs about the SMART attributes. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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How the Data Loss is increasing from Human Errors

2010-07-08T11:15:00.000+05:30

Modern computing and storage solutions have become extremely advance and reliable. Organizations use storage array like RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) to ensure maximum availability of server and high data security. They replicate your significant data over various drives of the array and ensure data availability even if one drive fails. Although, advanced mass storage solutions offer organizations improved storage optimization, they are still controlled and instructed by the human processes. However, some faults in these human processes can cause system failure and severe data loss. In such critical situations, you are required to opt for data recovery solutions to salvage lost data.

The most frequent examples of human errors, which cause serious data loss, are as given below:

Accidental deletion- Files, directories, hard drive volumes, and even the virtual machines is deleted unintentionally and you do not have a complete, valid, and updated backup. It is the most common reason of data loss.

Formatting the hard drive- You have accidentally formatted a wrong hard drive during system optimization or while migrating a server. The disk formatting can also be done for removing some errors, without creating a complete backup.

Restoring invalid or incomplete backup- If you have deleted a hard drive volume or entire server disk, containing significant data and then restores it from a damaged, invalid or incomplete backup. It may replace the existing data with damaged ones.

Accidentally removing wrong hard drive- When you try to replace or damaged hard drive in RAID array or server, a working disk is removed accidentally. It may damage entire RAID array.
Rebuilding a faulty RAID array- After a multiple hard drive failure in RAID array, any attempt to rebuilding the array configuration and bringing the failed disks back online forcefully, may cause further damage.

All such situations can cause severe data loss and require different data recovery solutions, as per the cause. If failure is caused by logical reasons, like accidental deletion and hard drive formatting, you can retrieve your lost data using third-party applications, called data recovery software.

On the other hand, if problem is caused by physical damage to the storage media, recovery process becomes complex. In such circumstances, you need to take help from RAID data recovery experts. They perfectly recover your business-critical data by repairing the disks in Clean Room environment.

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How to Recover FAT32 Partition Corrupted in Dual-Boot?

2010-07-06T16:30:00.000+05:30

Dual-boot configuration between Windows and Mac OS X extends the flexibility of running applications of two different platforms on the same computer. This requires an Intel-based machine and Apple's Boot Camp to create a Windows partition. The setup, though popular as it allows booting into Windows or Mac OS X as per user's choice, can also endure certain data loss problems. A user may sometimes encounter issues that may render his Windows FAT partition inaccessible. In such circumstances, if backup doesn't restore data, a FAT Data Recovery utility can rescue.

To elucidate such probable issues of Windows in dual-boot configuration with Mac OS X, let's take an example. Consider you use a dual-boot setup with Mac OS X, in which Windows partition is formatted to FAT32 file system. You run into an issue with Mac OS X and decide to reformat the Mac partition. Next, you choose the desired partition in Disk Utility and click to format it, but suddenly the process ceases. Mac OS X freezes and crashes.

At next reboot of computer, Mac OS X partition works fine, but not FAT32 partition in Windows. The FAT32 partition is not visible in Mac OS X. Trying to access it in Windows shows the partition, but when you try to open it, the following error appears:

“The drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?”

Consequently, the data of FAT32 partition is not accessible.

Cause

The error indicates that FAT32 partition is corrupted due to interrupted reformatting of Mac OS X partition.

Solution

In order to solve the given problem:

Delete the corrupted Windows FAT32 partition and restore data from last available backup
Use a FAT Recovery utility to scan and restore lost data from corrupted partition

A FAT Data Recovery software is designed to run effective scanning algorithms that extract inaccessible data, irrespective of the cause of corruption. Additionally, its user-friendly design makes it a perfect choice for professional as well as amateurs.

Stellar Phoenix FAT Data Recovery is a high-end solution to scan and recover data from corrupted, reformatted, and inaccessible FAT32, VFAT, FAT12, and FAT16 file system drives. This simple FAT Recovery software includes advanced features like, determining disk status, creating disk image, cloning disks, and more. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

How to recover Windows 7 when it is unable to start

2010-06-28T17:31:00.000+05:30

The RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) disks is the outcome of the new-age technology using which you can achieve high levels of storage dependability. These are economical and used mainly in large organizations. In this, the data is stored in multiple places. That ways, if some data gets corrupted on a particular server then it can be recovered from another server. However, sometimes you are unable to start a Windows system making the system inaccessible. This can happen due to various issues such as incompatible hardware components, virus infections, etc. To recover hard drive, you should perform in-place methods. If you are not able to solve the problem, then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to recover hard drive.

Consider a scenario wherein you are unable to start your Windows 7 system that has a RAID disk attached to it. An error message is displayed on a blue screen, that is:

“STOP 0×0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE”

Cause:

The root cause of this error is that the RAID driver is disabled in Windows 7, by default. The RAID driver should be enabled before changing the SATA controller mode is changed.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, you should remove the RAID disks and update the RAID driver in the registry settings, and finally attach the RAID disk again. To do this, you should perform the following steps:

* Close all programs.
* Open Registry Editor.
* Select the following registry subkey, assuming Iastorv.sys is the RAID driver.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Iastorv

* In the Details pane, right-click Start and click Modify.
* Type 0 in the Value Data text box, and click OK.
* Close Registry Editor.
* Install the RAID driver from the installation media CD.
* Shut down the system.
* Attach the RAID disk back to the system.
* Start the computer. The problem would be resolved now.

However, one must be careful while performing these steps as it may damage the system to a greater extent. And it may happen that you are unable to access the system even after using these steps. In such cases, you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software to perform hard driver recovery. Such Windows hard drive data recovery tools are able to recover hard drive using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Data Recovery is a Windows hard drive recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, or formatted data from inaccessible hard drives. It is able to recover hard drive from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. This hard drive recovery software is capable of recovering more than 185 different file types. In addition, this hard drive recovery tool recovers deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

What Is- Storage System Failure and Hard Drive Recovery?

2010-06-21T17:41:00.000+05:30

The storage systems is a complex and distinct field and can have different meaning for different users. Storage systems are actually high-performance and high-capacity hardware, which store large amounts of data. Storage system is an array of hard drives that are inside the server where data is located. It can be SAN (Storage Area Network) cabinet, which is full of the hard drives and disk space is sliced-and-diced various ways to offer performance and redundancy. In some situations, your storage system may fail and cause serious data loss situations. In order to retrieve data in such cases, Hard Drive Recovery come for your rescue.

Advanced Storage System Technology

Modern storage technology covers all types of data storage media. In past few years NAS (Network Attached Storage) and SAN (Storage Area Network) storage systems have delivered excellent reliability.

* NAS units are the self-contained building blocks, which have their own file system, operating system, and organize their connected hard drives. Such units are available in all types of varying sizes to meet most requirements and work as the file servers.

* SAN units are monolithic cabinets, having hundreds of hard drives. Such large storage systems do more than just proving hundreds of hard drives. They are fantastically powerful data warehouses, which have various software tools behind them for managing multiple storage arrays, versatile storehouse architecture configurations, and offer constant system supervising.

How to Avoid Storage System Failure?

Although, storage systems are extremely reliable and stable, but in some cases due to hardware failure, power outages, mechanical issues, and natural disasters, they may encounter failure and data loss occurs. You can avoid such situations by following the underwritten steps:

* Elaborate the file system snapshots and backup processes, which provide checkpoints to restore.
* Create multiple layers of the restoration pathways.
* Add redundancy to the primary storage system. Duplicate the identical servers and storage systems.

If you do not take the above precautions or encounter severe storage system failure, data loss may occur. In such circumstances, Hard Drive Data Recovery service come for your help.

The Hard Drive Recovery experts know all ins and outs of the storage systems and can recover lost data in all cases of failure. They work through safe and sterile environment ofClean Rooms and perform Hard Drive Data Recovery tools from all storage systems.

Data Loss In FAT File System If FAT Table Is Not Updated Regularly

2010-06-18T13:16:00.000+05:30

Are you unable to find or access the files stored on your FAT file system partition? Is you FAT file system partition of Windows computer is damaged and inaccessible? This behavior may occur due to file system corruption, partition table damage, and other similar situations. In such circumstances, you come across partition loss and data loss situations. To get your mission critical and valuable data back, Windows Data Recovery becomes need ofhour, if the backup is either not updated or unavailable.

FAT is so far the most simplistic of Windows file systems. The FAT is characterized by FAT (File Allocation Table) table. It is actually a table, which resides at very top of FAT file system volume. In order to protect the Windows volume/partition, two copies of FAT table are kept if one gets damaged. Along with this, the root directory and the FAT tables must be stored at a fixed storage location so that boot files of your system can be located correctly.

A hard drive formatted with the FAT file system is allocated in the clusters. The size of clusters is determined by size of Windows partition. When you create a file on FAT partition, an entry in the directory is created and first cluster number having data is demonstrated. The entry in FAT file system table either points to next cluster or indicates that it is the ending cluster of file.

It is quite essential as well as a time consuming process to update the file allocation table. If you do not regularly update the FAT table, it may lead to critical file system issues and data loss. It is a time consuming process because the hard drive read head needs to be repositioned to logical track zero of the hard drive every time when you update the FAT table.

There is no management of FAT directory structure and the files that are given first open storage location on hard drive. Along with this, FAT file system supports only hidden, read-only, archive, and system file attributes.

In case of data loss, Partition Recovery Tools to help you to retrieve lost, missing and inaccessible data. The applications are powerful enough to Recover inaccessible Partition in most of the partition loss situations, through high-end scanning techniques. With simple user-interface and non-destructive conduct, they enable easy and safe recovery.

Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced application that ensure absolute Windows Data Recovery in all cases of data loss. The software recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is usable with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

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Things You Must Know About Your Computer Hard Drive

2010-06-14T14:24:00.000+05:30

What is a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) might be every computer user knows the answer but many new computer users having some less information about this most important component of PC. Hard drive is a non-volatile storage device for data. In Hard drive a metal case motor driven spindle having some rotating rigid platters which can be more than one depends on various hard drives. What we read or write in our computer the data is stored in hard drive. We can classified the computer into two things in software and hardware. Hard drive is a hardware part of computer.

How Data is Read and Write on Hard Disk Drive

Hard Disk Drive having small parts named is disk read/write head which moves above the disk platter and due to electric current and magnetic field data is write and read on the disk. When disk platters magnetic field is converted into electric current this results read the disk and when electric current transformed into magnetic field results write the head.

All Hard Drives having some storage capacity which is classifieds in two different sections named is gigabytes ( 109bytes )and terabytes ( 1012 bytes). First one Terabyte Hard drive is made by Hitachi in 2007 which is now upgraded to 2 Terabyte hard drive by Western Digital in 2009. And in coming years 3 TB and 4 TB hard drives also expected.

Hard drive stored the digital data in the forms of Zeros ( 0 ) & ones ( 1 ) referred as bits and bytes

A Bit is smallest thing in computer memory. One byte is equal to 8 bytes like eg: 00100110 = 1 byte

Hard drive is divided into drives having main function to store the all data of computer in their drive. In which C drive is by default comes in all hard disk because all operating systems and software files is stored in this by default. Each drive is allotted a definite space 20 GB to C drive or 40 GB to D drive this all depends of total size of hard drive. Drives names and size is can be changed according to user at the time of Operating system installation.

The first ever Hard Disk is invented by Team of IBM lead by Reynold B. Johnson ( known as a father of Hard Drive) in 1956 . Another name of Hard Disk Drivers is sometimes know as Winchester drives because it is the name of first ever most popular hard disk drives technologies in 1973

Why computer Hard Drive is one of the most important part of the PC because it stored the all important data of user which he needs in future for various purposes. These fies can be anything wedding or tours photographs, MS word files or important business presentations anything is saved in PC is stored in the Brain of the computer named as hard drive.

If we loose our data then this is a really serious and frustrating situation for us. How lost data is get back a big question for user who lost his important information. The second most thing searched in Google after hard drive is hard drive recovery .

But why this is hard drive recovery is most needed after hard drive because when any problem encounters in our hard drive then there is always a possibility of getting a data loss and in world millions of users are using this hard drive recovery software to get the lost data back.

Hard Drive Data Recovery Software is boon for all persons who ever faced this unhappy situation of data loss to recover the lost data back from our computer hard drive.

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How to Recover data when boot.ini file is missing in Windows XP

2010-06-11T12:10:00.000+05:30

When a Windows XP system is started, the boot.ini file is one of the files that is executed first. It is a plain text file that is stored in the system root. This file also includes entries that provide various boot options such as Safe Mode or the Recovery Console. Hence, it can be rightly inferred that it is a very critical system file that is made both read-only and hidden, so that it is well protected from any mishap. However, there are times when this file gets missing or damaged, which makes the system from getting started. This behavior can appear because of various reasons such as virus infections, power outages, abrupt system shutdown, damaged file system, etc. You should use certain corrective measures to rectify this situation. In case you are not able to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software to do the needful.

Consider a scenario wherein you switch on your Windows XP system but it fails to start. An error message is displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Windows\System32\Hal.dll”

Cause:

The root cause of this error message is that the boot.ini file is either corrupted, missing, or contains incorrect entries.

Resolution:

To resolve the issue, you need to rebuild the boot.ini file using the bootcfg.exe tool. To do this, you should perform the following steps:
Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM in the disc drive and restart the computer.
When you encounter the “Press any key to boot from CD” screen, press a key to boot the computer from the CD-ROM.
Press R to enter the Recovery Console.
At the command prompt, enter bootcfg /list and press Enter to display the current boot,ini settings.
At the command prompt, enter bootcfg /rebuild and press Enter to scan the hard disks.
Follow the instructions as they appear on the screen.
Type Exit and restart the system. The problem should be resolved.
However, if you still are not able to start your system then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery tools to recover the inaccessible data. Such read-only tools perform hard drive recovery without overwriting the original data.

Stellar Data Recovery Software is a hard drive recovery tool that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or inaccessible data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. It is able to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external HDDs, pen drives, iPods, etc. In addition, this hard drive recovery utility recovers deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.

How to Recover Inaccessible Partitions in External HDD

2010-06-09T16:53:00.001+05:30

Partitioning in a hard disk refers to the segregation of the storage media into logical spaces, called a partition. This process helps you in keeping similar type of data in a single partition. For example, if you have an external hard disk then you can make two partitions in which you can keep software dumps in one of the partitions and games or movies in the other partition. So, partitioning is a very effective practice that enables you to keep your hard disks healthy for a longer duration. However, sometimes the partitions may get corrupt and inaccessible due to various reasons such as human errors, virus infections, power outages, etc. In such cases, you should employ appropriate measures to rectify the issue. But, if you are not able to sort the problem then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to recover the trapped data.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a 160 GB external hard disk. In this, you have created two partitions for data storage in your system. One day, when you try to access the drive you are unable to do so. An error message is displayed, which could be either of the following messages:

The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?

The disk in drive X: is not formatted.

There was an error accessing drive X:. The disk is not formatted.

In addition, when you try to run CHKDSK for the mentioned drive, you are unable to do that as well. An error is displayed, that is:

“The type of the filesystem is RAW.

CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”

Cause:

The root cause for the aforementioned error messages is that the file system has corrupted. The possible reasons behind this situation are:

Damaged records in Master File Table (MFT) and MFT
mirror.

Corruption in partition table, LDM database, or the volume boot sector.

Resolution:

To resolve this situation, you should format the volume as suggested in the error message. However, by doing this you would lose all your data. Also, sometimes even after formatting the volume you are not able to access the partition. In such cases, you use a third-party partition recovery tools to recover partition. Such read-only tools are able to recover trapped data from the inaccessible partitions without overwriting the original content by using sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Windows Data Recovery is a partition recovery software that recovers lost, formatted, or deleted data from FAT and NTFS file systems. It is capable of recovering more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard drives, external hard disks, pen drives, iPods, etc. In addition, this Windows data recovery tool is able to recover deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.

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Stop Error Message Interrupts Windows Partition Extending Process

2010-06-05T16:38:00.000+05:30

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server is a popular and advanced server operating system by Microsoft Windows. It includes a wide range of features, which make it more reliable, stable, and business-oriented. One such feature is to facilitate partition extending. The operating system enables you to extend a hard drive partition as per your storage requirements. You can extend a Windows hard drive partition using either Disk Management Snap-in or any third-party application. However, in some cases, the partition extending process gets interrupted and the hard drive data becomes totally inaccessible. This behavior leads to significant data loss and you need hard drive recovery to get your valuable data back.

In a practical scenario, you may come across an error message similar to the following one, when you attempt to extend a Windows hard drive partition using any third-party application:

“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this message appears again, follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti virus , disc defragmentation or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Technical Information
Stop 0x00000024 (0x0019033c, 0xf016e7a0, 0xf016e49c, 0xe061dcdc)”

The partition resizing process gets halted after the above error message. In this case, Windows can not recognize such partition and it become inaccessible. To get your valuable data back from affected hard drive, you have to fix this problem using hard drive data recovery solutions.

Cause

This behavior might occur if application uses following FSCTLS and IOCTLS control codes for extending a partition:

FSCTL_EXTEND_VOLUME
IOCTL_DISK_UPDATE_PROPERTIES
IOCTL_DISK_GROW_PARTITION

Resolution

You can try out the below methods to sort out this problem:

Obtain the latest service pack of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server operating system.
Delete and recreate Windows hard drive partitions. However, it causes critical data loss from hard drive.
Use third-party hard drive recovery software to get your data back.

The hard drive data recovery applications are specifically invented to scan entire hard drive using high-end scanning techniques and extract all lost data from it. They come equipped with interactive and rich graphical user interface to offer easy recovery in all data loss situations.

Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to retrieve lost data from hard drive and other Windows-supported storage media. The software is usable with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems. It supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery v4.2 is now Officialy Launched

2010-06-03T15:57:00.000+05:30

A Windows Data Recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, and formatted data from NTFS, FAT, and exFAT file system based computers. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a useful data recovery software to recover your lost, deleted, formatted MS Office documents, such as Word, Excel, Power Point files. The tools recovers lost files, photos, audio and video files, emails, database files and saves them into a new file in a user-defined location.

The software is available with a BOOT CD that enables you to recover your vital data in case your computer system is unbootable in the Professional and above licenses. This Windows data recovery application works on various storage media, such as hard drives, iPods, memory cards, external hard drives, pen drives.

The Windows recovery software is available in two special editions: 'Home' and 'Professional’

Key Features of Windows Data Recovery(Home):

Recovery of deleted data.
Recovery of data from formatted volumes.
Supports FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems.
Recovery of data from volumes that no longer exist in hard disk.
Recovery of data from removable media such as pen drive.
Categorizing of recovered files in audio, video, documents and photos sections.
Search option to find files fitting specified criteria.

Key Features of Windows Data Recovery(Professional):

Recovery of deleted data
Recovery of data from formatted volumes
Recovery of data from volumes that no longer exist in hard disk
Recovery of data from removable media such as pen drive
Restart recovery at any time
Recovery of e-mail, which are supported by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express
Cloning of hard disk
Image creation of hard disk or volume, in addition, image of selected region of hard disk or volume
Statistics of hard disk

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