Data Recovery

Hard Drive Recovery after Head Crash

2009-07-21T04:38:00.000-07:00

Head crash is a major problem with modern hard drives that could occur at any point of time. It results as the inaccessibility of your most critical data stored on disk platters. A damaged head can not read/write data from or to disk platters. It causes serious data loss situations and lead to Hard Drive Recovery.

The head crash is a type of hard drive failure that occurs when read/write head of your hard drive touches the disk platters. The platters are the components with magnetic surface where the data gets stored. Head crash results into damage to disk platters and cause serious data loss situations.

The read/write head generally rides upon a thin layer of moving air ensnared on the platter surface (some hard drive used thin liquid film instead). The uppermost layer of disk platter is made of Teflon-like material, which works like lubricant. Beneath this is a film of sputtered carbon. Both these layers are helpful in protecting magnetic layer from most head crash situations.

The head crash might be initiated by just a single minute dust particle or other accumulations that could cause the read/write head to rebound against the hard drive platters, destroying thin magnetic coating of the disk surface.

The hard drive read/write head is made with the help of thin layer technology, which includes materials that are hard enough for scratching protective layer. The head crash might also take place when the hard drive or hard drive equipped device gets dropped accidentally.

Since most of the modern hard drives spin at speeds between 5,400 RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) and 15,000 RPM, the possibilities and extent of damage to the disk platters become really high. Due to high speed, the read/write head over the platter surface overheats and makes the hard drive or some of its parts unusable until it cools down.

Although, head crash causes serious data loss situations but you should not panic in such cases as Data Recovery is possible to get your precious data back. To overcome such data loss situations, you can take help from experienced recovery professionals that provide drive recovery service.

The Hard Drive Recovery service is personalized help offered by recovery specialists to repair or replace the damaged read/write head and other affected components of your hard drive. They work through safe and controlled environments of Clean Rooms (special lab environments) implementing advanced and suitable result oriented techniques. Such techniques are finalized after analyzing the cause of crash.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the most trustworthy and leading Data Recovery company. It delivers sophisticated recovery service in State Of The Art Class 100 Clean Rooms. The service is available for various models and types of hard drives as SCSI, SATA, EIDE and IDE plus modern SSDs (Solid State Drives), generally SATA.

File Open Not Found or"Xlquery.xla Could Not Be Found" Error Opening File-Excel Error

2009-07-16T03:17:00.000-07:00

Excel errors that plague Excel users and impede work functionality are many but the ones that temper with the opening of important files and folders containing important and sensitive data in them are the ones that come to limelight rather often and on a regular basis.

One such common excel error goes like this:-

'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\Msquery\Xlquery.xla' could not be found. Check the spelling of the file name, and verify that the file location is correct.

One gets to see this particular error message when one opens a file in Microsoft Excel 97

The occurrence of this error message can be traced back to two probable causes:-

· When a Xlquery.xla file is moved from its original folder to another folder

· Opening a file containing a macro referencing the Xlquery.xla add-in

The first thing that needs to be ascertained in this case is that whether the file has been renamed, moved, deleted or whether the file is in a trusted location. One can check this by trying to open the file from the list of most recently used files on the File menu.

Provided below are a few workarounds that one can possibly adopt to avoid this:-

· Select the Xlquery.xla Add-In

· Move the Xlquery.xla Add-In to Its Original Location

To go about the first troubleshooting method click on Add-Ins on the Tools menu in Excel and then click to select the MS Query add-in check box. Just in case if you do not find the MS Query add-in listed in there, click browse to search for the Xlquery.xla file which in most cases in located in the following folder by default: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\MSQuery

If you are still encountering the error message or you are unable to find the Xlquery.xla file, then try your hands at moving the Xlquery.xla add-in to its original location. Follow the procedures as stated below.

Click on Start then point to Programs and then click on Windows Explorer.

In the Windows Explorer, point to Find on the Tools menu and then click Files or Folders.
In the Named box, type Xlquery.xla
In the Look In list, click and select the disk drive that contains the add-in file. Once this is done click on Find Now.
If the search returns no files, repeat the forth step to search any other disk drives that might be having the add-in file.
When the search window returns the file, right-click on the Xlquery.xla file icon, and click on copy on the shortcut menu
In Windows Explorer, click to open the MSQuery folder which by default is located in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\MSQuery (the MSQuery folder may be located in a different path depending on where your Excel is installed)
In Windows Explorer, click on Paste on the Edit Menu

This should solve the problem and the error message should ideally not show up after this but if the problem and the complications associated with it continues, bank on Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a market leader in data recovery and data protection service and solutions for assistance.

If you are not being able to locate the file that contained the all important data in it, it would surely be a matter of concern for you. Stellar values the time and effort that you might have put in to locate the file but tempering with the system to retrieve the file might have reverse effects on the data contained in it. Many a times gross corruption of the file or nascent virus attacks spell this kind of behavior.

Data Recovery Software-High Peace of Mind

2009-07-14T21:52:00.000-07:00

If you owe even a small but important amount of data, then being aware to the data recovery solutions is the part of the relevant contingency plan. No matter how secure your internet connection is or how prudently you step forward your any step while dealing with the data, the systems always remain to the prone to data loss incidents. Out of the two data recovery solutions, viz. data recovery software and data recovery services, the ‘Do It Yourself’ utilities play the major role, the reason for the same being the high rate of the logical data loss incidents.

These data loss incidents should not be considered for the matter of sinking feeling which comes with the realization that all your bookkeeping records, customer invoices, highly relevant word processor documents have become out of your reach. As these data recovery software, available through different sources, are carefully crafted to tackle all the logical data loss incidents and recover all kind of files. All you need to do is to choose the one which is best suited to your needs.
Looking For the Data Recovery Software

Well the procedure is quite easy but needs the careful steps. Just open your search engine and start searching with some keywords, suitable as per your requirements. When you get the stack of the data recovery software, just go for short listing them on the basis of the qualities and features you need.

Actually the main criteria of the selection are based on the operating system and file systems which have been used by the user. Next comes the incidents in which the data recovery software is applicable and then the user interface and efficiency of the software. However this may appear quite time consuming but you need to check carefully all the details, if the perfect data recovery is required.

Precautions while Choosing

The data recovery software are developed and marketed by the range of companies. Most often these are developed as narrow-focused programs which may leave some aspects of data recovery. Some of them may not been designed read-only and hence can demolish your data, unrecoverable by any means.

You may become tempted towards either of them due to the ton of money spent on the advertising and not on the quality. Hence you need to be persistent.
Stellar Information Systems Limited, the grand of the data recovery software provider, offers you the most well developed and in-demand data recovery software by the geek engineers of data recovery industry. The software have the extended ability to examine the hard drive for the lost data and to drag out it with the maximum efficiency.

The software are available for the operating systems like Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX and Novell. Applicable for each possible case of logical data loss, the demo versions of these data recovery software are available on Stellar’s website which will let you check the efficiency of these software.

Inability to access the CD or DVD drive

2009-07-04T00:17:00.000-07:00

Your computer had been working just fine but the sudden helplessness that has set in due to the inability to access the CD or DVD drive has put you off. As far as you remotely remember, you had done everything right starting from a proper shut down of the system to checking its drivers not to forget installing the best anti-virus software too. Then what went wrong?

Immediately after having removed a program from the computer, have you started encountering this problem. You are no longer being able to access the CD or the DVD drive using My Computer and to top it off you have an error message flashing across the screen that reads thus: "error code 31". All you can remember is having removed a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in your Windows XP.

Thank God cause you are not the only person who has ever suffered a similar fate, there have been loads of people before you who have complained about a similar error. This is a typical behavior that gets replicated when you try to view the CD drive or the DVD drive in the Device Manager. In this case the errors that you are likely to confront are as follows:

1. The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (Code 31).

2. A driver for this device was not required, and has been disabled (Code 32 or Code 31).

3. Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)

4. "error code 39" error message.

You are likely to find this in the notification area:-

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

There is no troubleshooting available if your registry is corrupted. The only way to workaround this is by modifying the registry which is in itself a risky ordeal cause one discrepancy caused while implementing this task can cost you a lifetime worth of data.

These error messages are all case in pointers to the fact that your registry needs modification leaving you with no other option but to attempt this task. If you are a beginner and not too sure, don’t attempt it cause it will wreak more damage than you can ever imagine. Get a veteran to help you out if need be cause one wrong step in handling the registry editor can lead you to reinstall the operating system deleting all the important data if it has been stored in the primary partition along with the Operating system.

Under the given circumstances the above faults can only be tended to if the Upper Filters and the Lower Filters registry entries are removed through effective registry modification. It is advisable to uninstall all CD recording or CD writing programs before embarking on the task. These can be reinstalled after the resolution has come by. Once this is successfully carried out, restart the computer and you can be rest assured that your problem would vanish into thin air but if you have messed up in between and lamenting over your hastiness and the ensuing fault it has caused, Stellar Information Systems Ltd shows you a ray of hope.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a pioneer data recovery software company has come up with a comprehensive software that is a one-step solution for data recovery from Windows whatever might be the data loss situation that has wrought the havoc. If you have lost your precious data and a reinstallation of the Operating Systems is bothering you, install Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery to recover every bit of your lost data that has suffered deletion.

Its powerful algorithms enable the software to perform search, locate and recover functions for recovering lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted data from Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and older operating system hard drives. It caters to both File Allocation Table (FAT) and New Technology File System (NTFS) file systems.

This is a Non destructive and read-only utility that offers Raw File Recovery’ feature, advanced search, File preview and Live updates. Try the demo version of the software to access the performance of the software

What is the Contribution of a Clean Room towards effective Data Recovery?

2009-06-25T02:36:00.000-07:00

In a highly competitive world where one hard drive crash can wipe out an entire company from business, express precaution is taken to safeguard one’s data from leakage and theft.

This has more so become the rule in today’s world where a single data loss situation can wreak irreparable damage that can in no way be reimbursed in terms of finances and the destruction caused. This has prompted most of the data recovery companies to build up an infrastructure that can effectively and efficiently retrieve the lost data that has suffered deletion or mutilation. It is in this regard that Clean Rooms come into play.

The very concept of a Clean Room came into being in the early 60s, when the aeronautics industry started developing its high precision technology. Later on this idea spilt over to the other industries that required a similar environment for experimenting and preserving their finds and inventions.

A Clean Room is a specially designed working area where the environmental parameters like the quality of air, humidity, temperature and moisture are technically regulated and manipulated so as to protect the sensitive equipments, samples, apparatus and gadgets from getting contaminated by outside influence.

The size and expanse of the Clean Room depends on the requirement of the industry in question and can vary from an office cubicle to a relatively spacious room but its uniqueness lies in the fact that they can be permanent, modular or portable whichever suits the company.

Clean rooms have now made a niche for themselves in the industries that deal in bio-technology, nano-fabrication, space satellites, sterile medical devices, computer hardware, optics, silicon chips and microprocessors.

Clean rooms were first classified in the US in 1963 and from then on six categories have emerged ranging from Class 1 to Class 100,000. The classification is done on the basis of the number and size of particles allowed per unit volume of air inside the Clean Room. Closely tailing behind USA, UK came out with the British Standard 5295 in 1999 while the first ISO standard called ISO 14644-I was published in 1999. Ideally a Class 100 clean room contains not more than 100 particles of 0.5 microns or more per cubic foot of air and the calculations go likewise.

The technology that goes into preserving the Clean Room is tedious and complex but it’s every penny worth the effort. Every Clean room needs to maintain a laminar air flow so as to avoid turbulence and specially designed commodities, stationery, furniture and gadgets of specified quality are used. The trained and specialized professionals who work inside a clean room wear special gloves, face masks, head covers and bunny suits to prevent contamination.

The environment is kept dust-free and well-controlled by following an effective contamination control program which entails repeated filtering of the air using sets of special filters that remove particulate impurities that can cause any sort of harm. Specially designed filters called the HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters are used to filter particles that may be as small as 0.3 microns.

Every data recovery software company with a reasonable market standing has a Clean Room as this is an essential infrastructure which no data recovery company can do without. Since the Clean Rooms are used for the express purpose of dissecting the hard drive and physical servicing of the hard drive components even a small dust particle settling between the platters and the read/ write head can cause the disk to crash. Thus the clean room maintains an ideal environment for opening, operating and repairing such electronic devices.

If your hard drive has crashed and other hardware components in your computer are ill functioning, bank on Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a pioneer data recovery company specializing in data recovery and data protection services for assistance.

Equipped with trained and expert data recovery professionals and an excellent Clean room facility, Stellar can effectively retrieve your data from such situations by applying top-notch proprietary tools and techniques.

The procedure they follow is simple yet result yielding. The hard drive is dissected and the nonfunctional components are replaced and made operational again. A thorough hard drive scan is conducted and the recoverable data is effectively and efficiently extracted with maximum efforts exercised to maintain the original format.

How can students maximize the benefits that they draw from their laptops

2009-06-23T02:42:00.000-07:00

Laptops have become a quintessential part of every student’s life. Managing data in laptops is far easier than it is in a paper notebook. With ample storage and multitude of facilities, laptops are a boon that has only made scholastic exercise more interesting and enjoyable.

However, instances of data loss are far higher in case of a laptop than it is in case of a notebook, reason being data once lost from the laptop is generally difficult to retrieve whereas data can hardly get lost from notebooks unless they are stolen which is also a case that cannot be completely ruled out in case of a laptop.

Laptops provide certain facilities like locking mechanisms and passwords that enables only the user to access the data that is stored in it thereby reducing the chances of the data being stolen even in occasions when the laptop gets stolen.

Provided below are a few maintenance tips that can be of considerable help to a student dealing in Laptops

Handling of the laptop:-

Laptops are portable and lightweight devices but they are not meant for rugged handling.

Keep them in a dry, cool, clean and dust-free environment. Place them in a low-traffic area to protect it from shocks and bumps. Keep them in well padded and water tight bags away from dust and grime.

Keep the virus away:-

Virus can eat into your system rendering all your data defunct and unreadable. Assume control over your own data. Installing a reliable anti-virus software is a must as it tests the computer for sequences of code unique to each known computer virus and eliminates them before they can wreak any damage. Surfing and downloads are often required for reference purposes so it’s important to install a spyware program to eliminate them from bugging the system.

These save you from impending disasters:-

• Regularly backing up your precious data is a must. This saves your data from being lost/missing if any sort of data disaster strikes. Its advisable to backup your data at least once a week in CD, DVD, USB flash drives or Internet backup facilities.

• Use Auto-Save features – Most of the modern software are equipped with Auto-Save features that save the particular document you are working on at preset intervals. This is a very useful utility and can save your data from getting lost or deleted if the electric supply is irregular and erratic.

Know your battery capacity

Some laptops shut down quickly when a specific low battery level is reached and this results in loss of precious data that you might be working on. For the safety and security of your data and yourself, always have a secure electrical outlet to plug into, not to leave out a UPS which will enable you to save your data safely once the electrical power supply gets disconnected for some reason or the other.

Feel for your laptop:-

• Be observant and aware of what is bugging your laptop. Recurrent error messages, which are hindering normal functioning of your laptop, and stalling the process of data save and store are dangerous indications and should be catered to at the earliest.

• Your laptop might require servicing if it is generating strange sounds. as they often emanate from damages that might have been caused due to physical destruction of the components of the hard drive. These are pointers to the fact that your laptop requires immediate attention. Stop working on the media and contact a data recovery company immediately.

• Do not try your hand at data recovery yourself. You might end up losing the data that is still present in your hard drive in an unrecoverable form. Entrust the job to s data recovery professional who is specialized in this given field.
If you have already lost substantial portion of your important data and don’t know how to go about recovering it, bank on Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a pioneer data recovery software company for help. Stellar has a host of software that can recover data from a variety of data loss situations. Stellar is a specialist when it comes to data recovery and has emerged as the market leader as far as data recovery and data protection services and solutions are concerned. You are free to log on to our site to access the software and services we provide.

What is Windows Data Recovery ?

2009-06-22T04:41:00.000-07:00

Encountering data loss problem from your Windows PC? You have help at hand. Stellar Data Recovery Inc., a pioneer data recovery service provider specializing in data recovery services can be of considerable help to you. Crucial data is important to all of us, loss of which can create havoc in our lives.

Most common deterrents that disrupt the functioning in Windows Operating Systems are as follows:-

• System failures
• Hard drive crashes
• “missing OS” error
• Deletion of root directory
• Virus attack on the boot sector
• Spy ware menace
• Windows xp Registry problem

Contrary to what is majorly believed, software applications do not apply unanimously on all faults. Graver versions of the realizable faults require services to set the computer functioning back again. These faults should not be dealt with lightly and tempering with the system that has suffered data loss due to onslaught of these aforesaid menace can aggravate the complications and render data retrieval impossible even by data recovery professionals.

Equipped with trained and expert data recovery professionals, advanced and latest inventories and an excellent Clean room facility, Stellar can effectively retrieve your lost data by applying top-notch proprietary tools and techniques whatever the data loss scenario might be.

Stellar has devised ingenious techniques to troubleshoot complications relating to the more advanced Windows Vista who’s advanced and upgraded features require special handling and refined services.

Stellar Data Recovery Inc. is a trusted name in the industry and their services have hardly failed to impress ever.

How to recover the Word 2007 .docx file

2009-06-17T04:10:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Word Documents (.DOCX) created in Word 2007 are the most widely used document format as they take lesser space and offer more features. Few impressive features of every .docx file include new XML-based file format, a redesigned interface with ribbon and an integrated equation editor. We can use these documents with older versions of MS Office like 2003 using free Microsoft utilities that convert the document (.docx to .doc) from XML compression format to the standard one. Any sort of corruption in these files may cause information loss, formatting issue or complete inaccessibility. In such situations, if no recent document backup is available, you need an efficient file recovery software.

The situations in which these documents (.docx) can be lost are:

Power failure while working on the document
Occurrence of an error message can result in document (.docx) loss

If the .docx file is lost due to any of the above reasons, then the user first needs to search for the .docx file in Windows. If the user can find the document by using the Search option available in Windows operating system. If the search results do not show the .docx file, then the user needs recover the lost Word document. He can do that by using a third party application known as file recovery software to successfully recover the lost .docx file.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most powerful and reliable File Recovery application. This file recovery utility recovers .docx files by incorporating influential scanning methods. This File Recovery Software is read only in nature for safe and non destructive recovery. It is designed with highly graphical and interactive user interface. It is compatible with FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. This File Recovery application supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It supports more than 300 file types. This File Recovery utility supports storage media such as hard drives (internal and external), USB Flash drives (also known as pen drives or thumb drives) and memory cards. The demo version of this File Recovery application is available on Stellar’s website.

What is Data Loss ?

2008-04-09T06:23:00.000-07:00

DATA LOSS

Data loss refers to unexpected loss of data or information stored on any storage device. This can happen either through data transformations or conversions where original data gets lost on which you may be working from a long time or years. There may be several reasons behind the same and virus attack is one of them which accounts for 7% of total data loss.

A computer virus is a self-replicating program that makes copies if it and infects our system by developing its own code. It may cause a severe damage to system which may results into either loss of our data or into infection of our saved data. These may come either through the network or the external storage mediums attached.
There are several symptoms which show a virus-attack like appearance of blank screen, unexpected behavior of system, flashing of error messages on screen etc.

RESULTS
If the infected code of virus gets installed to your files, they get corrupted and some of your important data may get lost which could trouble you a lot.

WHAT IS DATA RECOVERY
In the present system of our life style where each and everything is computer based, we have to store our relevant and the most important data on systems.
We have to rely completely on computer’s storage devices and systems to ensure our data in safe and reliable hands. Here today where we all runs and make our business related projects only with the help of computers a sudden data loss could be a traumatic experience. This could even take an individual to a unhealthy condition.
But actually there is nothing to be panic about. Because the fact is that data loss by virus attack, can be recovered. Data Recovery algorithms and techniques is the key to it. Data recovery refers to retrieving the original content that has been lost.

IT CAN BE RETRIEVED
When we store data at storage devices like hard disk, floppy etc, deleting a file or getting corrupt is not the end. There always lies existence of it. Data lies in the form of clusters of which reference lies in the part of storage device and at the time of deletion or corruption only the reference gets infected but not the actual data. So data recovery software allows you to access that undeleted part of your use. These software are available in various languages and support a variety of operating systems and file systems. Even files can be of any origin either .txt, jpg, pdf etc.

The best key is to use these software and to get avoid of these panics forever. ‘Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery Software’ is the best among these, which provides the most interactive user interface and all the best features of recovering data conveniently and fast.

Six Steps For a Successful Data Recovery

2008-03-31T06:11:00.000-07:00

Increasing demand of storing data on computers has become a common practice in today’s fast growing economic world. We often store our data on hard drive of computers which is the main storage media. It’s a common belief that natural disasters account for most of the data lost in today’s corporate world. Disasters such as floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes, however, only account for 1% of all data loss in today’s businesses. But the biggest cause of data loss in today’s businesses is equipment—both hardware crashes and software corruption. System failure accounts for 78% of all data loss while software corruption accounts for 7%.

When this vital data is suddenly not available, the business suffers. Data can become corrupted because of various reasons, including: Hardware & system failure, Human error, Computer viruses, Backup tools and techniques are not implemented. Data loss is well known fact to occur due to the above mentioned reasons.

Now the good news is that you can recover your data but in order to get your data back, you must first take action, it's vital that you follow these steps given below for a successful recovery of your data.

1. Immediately shutdown your PC, if you find something wrong with your PC don’t continue to power up because it may do more damage.
2. If you have accidentally reformatted your hard drive or deleted a file or folder, you must not write any new information onto your drive. The files you have deleted are still intact somewhere on the drive. Deleting a file simply means removing the location tag for that file, allowing that area of the drive to be over-written. If you add any new data it is possible that it will over-write your data effectively losing it forever.
3. Don’t try to format the drive yourself.
4. Don’t attempt to recover data yourself on severely traumatized drives.
5. The most important way to recover your 100% data is backup. Data backup will help greatly in the event when original file becomes corrupted or missing.
7. Call a Data Recovery Expert. Your most data is recoverable and always use a recommended Data Recovery Software

The data Recovery Software can help you get your valuable data back. This Software Recovers deleted or inaccessible data stored on damaged media like magnetic disks and computer hard drives, optical devices, Data Recovery Software is good to use which will benefit and surely recover your data without any loss. Data Recovery Software provides efficient, fast and affordable solution that has a new revolution in the field of software development. The new improved technology for data recovery has increased the value for such Data Recovery Software’s. So it is better to use Data Recovery software rather than to loss data or files.

Data Backup Helps in recovering lost data

2008-03-28T02:07:00.000-07:00

Computers are the basic need of today’s life. Over the last several years, the computer has grown on all of us, making our lives so much easier. The main effect of computers has come in the form of reliable data storage. We can store a lot of data on hard drive which is a storage media in computers. They offer a wide range of storage capacity. The provides the reliable and permanent data storing techniques. Different users use computers for storing their different kind of data. We store our precious data to prevent them from loss.

But the data stored on computers are not always safe. The data can also loss from computers. There is wide range of reasons that can lead to the loss of our precious data. These reasons include hardware failure, software malfunction, accidental deletion and virus attack.

Keeping in the mind the disastrous situations of data loss we always keep backup of our data. Data backup is a process of keeping your files in a separate place so that on some accidental situations you can recover or can restore your lost data. Data Backup should be at the top of your computer maintenance list, right next to Virus Protection. Data Backup has helped millions of users recover from data loss and disasters. Your data will be saved to any type of storage media: HDD, network drives, CD or DVD, USB Flash. You can backup to remote FTP, or you can transfer backups via e-mail. You can simplify your backup archiving by keeping all the files that will need to be archived on a single drive on your computer. Another way you can back up your data, programs, and files, is to burn them directly to a data CD or DVD. This way, you can select which files or folders you want to keep.

Data protection is crucial for protecting your business's continuity. If your data backup is on a computer and the hard disk fails or is damaged by a power surge, your business data is gone. You backup your data now to disk or tape, you may not remember to do it every day and after some time your will find your data loss. The computers on which we save our backup files may face situations like system failure, corruption, and deletion of files or system crash or we forget to backup our data for a longer time.Somtimes you don't have a proper data backup solution in place to help you handle disasters. Each piece of data you store upon your computer is in danger of a variety of threats. Because of this, regular computer users have integrated recovery of data directly into the knowledge of data recovery Experts.

Data Recovery process is flexible and simple, recovered your lost data. The software has a simple graphical user interface, requires no technical knowledge and is a comprehensive data protection solution for all Windows File Systems. The protection of your system, applications and their settings is the first priority of Data Recovery Software to keep your data safe and recover your PC or laptop even after system crash or backup failure. When you keep a backup of your data this software will brings your data upon 100% recovered. You can easily and quickly restore any piece of information with data recovery software. This is easy to use and robust recovery software that provides different scanning and recovery options to completely recover your lost data One of the key benefits of data recovery is the fact that information can also be retrieved from the recycle bin as well even information that has been lost somewhere on the disk can be retrieved also by Data Recovery Software.

Data Loss Delima

2008-03-25T05:40:00.000-07:00

Hard drive is the most important data storage media. It can store information ranging from 1MB to several GBs. Hard Drive offer permanent and secure storage for our data. The data stored on hard drive is non-volatile that means when the power supply goes off it remains intact. The data stored on hard disk is basically arranged on magnetic plates in the form of layers. Magnetic heads 'float' between the platters, moving information back and forth without making physical contact. The information that looks so real on a monitor is, in fact, delicate electrical impulses on a metal plate. The contamination of dust or moisture, or a slight change in power can cause damaging head contact.

People presume that the valuable data they store in their computers will always be there, but certain unexpected factors may come that may cause data loss Once people in an organization know how hard drive works they came to know how easy it is for data to be lost. Information can be lost at a rapid pace and the time to recover the lost data requires extreme efficiency. There are many causes of data loss, and it is a frequent occurrence on many home and business PCs. when you lost your data due to a computer crash, power malfunction, physically damaged media, Virus Infection, hard disk component Failure, accidental deletion of data. A data loss situation is usually characterized by the sudden inability to access data involving a previously functioning computer system or backup or the accidental erasure of data or overwriting of data structures. The loss of business productivity, time, and hard work spent on documents and reports is staggering, when data loss happens, users are frustrated and angry, business operations may grind to a halt, and daily revenue may be severely impacted.

In a data loss scenario the most important question arises: Are the data still recoverable?
You will be happy to know that you can recover your lost data through a recovering hard drive recovery Software. The technique of retrieving data from damaged or inoperable disk drives is known as Hard Drive Recovery. This software aims to recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, and unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

Hard drive recovery is easiest when the fault is with the hard drive itself and the error is a damaged physical part of the hard drive because in this case, the data hasn't been touched so the hard drive recovery process will simply put it back in its original place. Hard drive recovery involves replacing failed components such as read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets and drive motors in a clean environment. It can recover files from disks that are damaged, or made unreadable because of boot sector, partition table or file system corruption. Using highly sophisticated techniques and proprietary equipment and software, Hard Drive Recovery is able to fix and recover data from raw images of all operating systems. Hard Drive Recovery works with Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and can recover data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. If you are extremely security conscious Hard Drive Recovery is the ultimate solution for your data recovery.

10 Tips for Data security

2008-03-25T05:33:00.000-07:00

The data is a set of information which is mainly stored on media, such as CDs, Tapes, hard disks, etc. Data is the most powerful object that we store in our computers. Data can be stored in the form of Text documents, financial records, contact records, address books, email messages and database on your computer or servers. In the event of a hard disk crash or system malfunction we lost data which makes us panic and ultimately increases the risk of data loss. Its occurrence can be disastrous as data from office documents, images, vital business records and accounts appears nowhere to be found. To recover data from these situations requires a lot of effort, but a few simple precautions given below can help make sure your data is safe.

# The best and secure practice is to always backup your data regularly to avoid data loss.
# Shutdown your computer immediately if you find something wrong with your computer don’t continue to power up because it may do more damage.
# Don’t not try to open the hard drive after data loss, as the dust particles will further damage it.
# Never tries to change the partitions or format the drive.
# Don’t expose the hard drive on extreme temperature.
# Avoid actions that further degrade the situation of your data loss.
# Do not install any new software after data loss.
# Do not attempt to recover data yourself on severely traumatized drives.
# always Scan all incoming data for viruses, including packaged software.
# Never assumes that data is unrecoverable consult a recommended Data recovery Company.
# Use recommended Data Recovery Software.

Data recovery Software is a program that allows you to recover your lost files. It involves recovering your lost and damaged files by reconstruction of the data which is rebuilt and placed back into the original format so you are able to read it as before. It can bring back files that were accidentally delete from your recycle bin; it works with damaged volumes as well as with entire hard drives. Data Recovery Software support data recovery from all cases of data deletion, restore files, folders and even entire drives from disks that have been formatted or repartitioned. Lastly the important thing is that no matter which data recovery software you choose, you act quickly no further damage occurs.

Invalid partition Table and Recovery

2008-03-18T05:28:00.000-07:00

Today data loss has become very common problem for computer user. It can happen due to a number of reasons including logical crash, physical crash and human error. If data loss happens due to any of these situations, you need data recovery solutions, either data recovery software or data recovery service, to recover your lost data. Following is an example of data loss and recovery method:

Sometimes when you power up your windows system, your system may stuck in boot window with an error message showing:

“Invalid Partition Table”

In this situation, your system stops booting and become inaccessible.
Cause

When you start your computer, it examines the master partition table to decide which volume to use for booting the operating system. This message occurs when more than one hard drive partitions are set “active” or bootable. In this situation, the system detects invalid information within it. This error occurs due to missing or incorrect active partition. This error message may also occur due to possible corruption or deletion of master partition table.
Resolution

you can resolve this issue by considering the following steps:

1. Boot your system with Windows Bootable disk and select “correct boot up device”.
2. In the DOS command prompt, type “fdisk”
3. it will display the option to change active drive

This method works in most of the cases where you have set the invalid active partition but in case where the master partition table is corrupted, it won’t work. In this situation, you need to reinstall the operating system to fix the problem.

Reinstalling is never safe as it requires formatting the drive and may lead to possible data loss if you have stored your critical data on primary partition or you haven’t partitioned your hard drive. In these circumstances, your critical information may loss and can create serious problems for you.

To resolve this data loss problem, you need to recover your lost data that is possible with the help of data recovery software. In this particular case, you can recover your data with the help of Windows data recovery software.

Windows data recovery software are specially designed data recovery tools that can help you in getting your precious data back in almost all possible cases of data loss. These software are able to retrieve your critical information back in their original format and original location.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a powerful software to recover lost data in all windows partition volume of your hard drive. This software is helpful in recovering data lost due to boot sector corruption, partition table deletion, formatted hard drive and accidentally deleted files. It is a fast and easy to use data recovery software with very attractive GUI (Graphical User Interface). This software is capable to recover data from FAT and NTFS partitions of Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista operating systems.

Data Recovery Software Help

2008-03-18T04:11:00.000-07:00

Data recovery software is the most popular and widely used data recovery solution in case when the data loss is occurred due to logical reasons including operating system corruption, virus attack and accidental deletion. But the selection of the software is not such an easy thing, and if you are not more familiar with them, then you need for data recovery software help.

When seeking for data recovery software, the first suggestion that is always given is to check out that the particular software you are going to purchase is able to fulfill your data recovery needs. You can find the characteristics of the software on the user manual provided with the software. In case if you are purchasing the software through internet, you can find the features of the software in more details.

It is always good to register for the software. Registering the software has several benefits. Some benefits include technical support from the support team of the software provider company. The right selection of data recovery software is very important because if you use improper software then it may lead to further damage.

The main thing that you should consider about the data recovery software that is the company providing technical support or not and if it is providing then what is the level of expertise of their technical support guy. The most common and most important suggestion about data recovery software is that the software should be a trusted brand.

The user interface and ease of use is also plays an important role, in case of data recovery software, because it is not necessary that the person using the particular software is technically sound.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd is the leading and well-known data recovery software provider company that offers data recovery, file recovery and email recovery software for all popular operating systems and application software. These software have cool user interface that provides GUI environment to their users and provides easy recovery.

The technical support of the company is also very good. All data recovery software of the Stellar has automatic update option. As soon as the new version of the software released, the software will be updated automatically free of cost.

Hard Drive Data Recovery

2008-03-18T04:06:00.000-07:00

Hard drive is the most important component of a computer system .it is the primary storage location where data is permanently stored. It is one of the most widely used storage media devices for personal computers. Hard drive offers permanent and secure storage for our data it is a non-volatile data storage device that stores electronic data on a magnetic surface layered onto hard disk platters. Hard drives today come in many different shapes, sizes and speeds it can store from 10 to more than 100 gigabytes, whereas most floppies have a maximum storage capacity of 1.4 megabytes and in addition it is more efficient and fast storage media. Hard drive is widely used as network attached storage for large volume data.

All hard drives operate a particular File System. File Systems are a method whereby the installed operating system is able to organize data and free space so that it can be easily read from and written to. Many partitions can be created from each physical disk, each one appearing as a separate drives e.g. C, D: etc.

Most of the computer users use hard drive for their data backup purposes. Yes it’s a good technique but hard drive is a device which can be stuck by any mishap at any time. Your hard disk certainly contains a lot of personal data - financial data, names, addresses, and telephone numbers, bank account information, photographs and much more. Sometimes if you are not able to access files and folders or applications that are unable to run or load data from your hard disk it is the indication of your data loss.

There are many causes of data loss; one of the main causes of data loss is accidental deletion of data, which can cause many hours of work to be lost like reports, sensitive information, and customer databases. Another frequent cause of data loss is database corruption, deleted or dropped tables and corrupt database files.

Other common causes are:

# Physical Damage Media
# Virus Attack
# Hard Disk Component Failure
# Accidental Reformatting Of Drives
# Hard Drive Crash
# Corrupted Data
# Inaccessible Drives and Partitions

Can you protect your hard drive against these data corruption? Yes you can
hard drive recovery is the solution for you damaged data to be recovered. It involves recovering your lost files and folders by reconstruction of the data which is placed back into the original format. It can bring back files that you accidentally delete from your recycle bin. Hard Drive Recovery can recover your files which are infected by virus using advanced recovery program. Hard drive recovery usually include creating an image file or copy of the data you have lost. The copy is what the hard drive recovery experts work on, thus your drive safe and your Data recovery.

Partition recovery software recovers lost partition

2008-03-17T04:33:00.000-07:00

Hard Drives are the memories of our computers. Hard Drives store our precious data, documents, voice recordings and even entire movies. They are so spacious and efficient that they offer permanent and secure storage for our data. You can store big amount of data on it and can manage the data and space very easily. For the storage of data more efficiently we divide the hard disk into several partitions called Logical partitions. This logical partition maximizes the space and helps to prevent the data loss situations in windows crash. The advantage of creating these partitions provides easy installation of the operating system to the primary partition and user can save data on the other partition.

FAT and NTFS are the two most common partition types used on windows operating system. FAT stands for File Allocation Table. It is a table that operating system maintains on the hard drive that provides a map of clusters. When you create a new file on hard drive, it is stored in one or more clusters depending on the size of the file.

NTFS stands for New Technology File System. It is one of the most efficient and successful file systems. It is proprietary to Microsoft, and is supported in vista, XP, 2000, 2003 & NT Windows. It supports file compression, file-level security, auditing and powerful storage solution.

FAT and NTFS partitions can get damaged or corrupted due to logical or physical damages to the hard disk the partitions may also get damaged if they are incorrectly formatted. Power supply or turning of your computer improperly can also result in partition damage.

Data loss is a major issue for anybody who relies on computers. Mostly partitions are deleted accidentally by the user. Sometimes partition is lost due to virus attack, hard drive crash and file system corruption. If these situations happen various questions arise in our minds. Is lost partition recoverable?

Yes the lost partition can be recovered along with the crucial data. Lost partition can be easily recovered using Partition Recovery Software. The key to successful partition recovery is knowing the exact size and locations of the missing volumes. The first step to successful partition recovery is the identification of the exact cause that is what Partition Recovery Software do. The Partition Recovery Software will help you recover and repair lost Partition.

Data recovery software utilizes powerful algorithms to analyze and perform a complete scan of hard disk to recover as much data as possible. Partition Software is specially designed to not delete any data and restores even severely damaged files. Partition Recovery Software will help you if non-system partition is lost--you can boot Windows, install and run the software from under Windows Operating System to recover deleted or damaged partitions located on data volumes (D:, E:),the Partition recovery experts use latest and advanced technology to recovery your data without any damage to original data.

File recovery - Solution to the lost files

2008-03-14T04:25:00.000-07:00

A file is a collection of related data or information that has a specified name and format. The data is stored in the files on storage media like hard drive. Files are used by many business organizations to store their important records. Sometimes you may find your computer in a situation where it cannot find or access the specified folders or files where you have stored your precious data on your hard drive. This situation may occur when your file has been deleted and the operating system cannot find the right access path

When file loss happens business process may come to a halt, and daily routine work may be severely impacted.

The loss of business productivity, time, and hard work spent on documents, files, spreadsheets, presentations, database files, bookkeeping files, graphics, photos, music files.

There are various reasons by which a file may be deleted like:-

#. Deleted with the combination of Shift+Del keys.

#. Recycle bin has been emptied.

#. Malfunctions of software

#. Power supply failure

#. Disk corruption

#. Virus attack

#. Improperly shutdown

In this situation you may find yourself in a big problem but these deleted files are available on your hard drive only your operating system cannot access these file because the address of the file has been deleted from the file system. Therefore it is possible that your lost data can be recovered.

File Recovery is the ultimate solution for your data recovery. It is simply the process of retrieving the deleted files or inaccessible files from your storage media like hard drive. File recovery is nearly possible it can recover documents, photos, mp3 and zip files, word files, folders and all kind of damaged disks. File Recovery provides recovery of deleted files and folders even after contents from the Recycle Bin have been emptied or Shift + Delete key has been used to delete data. You can recover your files very easily with file recovery software which is user friendly and most efficient supporting software. This software does not need any technical knowledge and allows you to recover your files logically, no matter what is the reason of deletion. File Recovery focuses on performance and reliability. It is a one stop solution to your file deletion problem. The biggest obstacle so for is time the longer you wait the more chances of your file deletion so it is better to use file recovery software rather than to loss data or files.

Data Recovery from Different Storage Media

2008-03-14T04:23:00.000-07:00

Data is the lifeblood of an organization as well as an individual computer user. It is very important to save your data on reliable and safe storage media in order to prevent data loss. In computers, storage media is a technique used to keep, place and retrieve data.
There are different kinds of storage media are available based on different storing techniques such as magnetic, optical and flash.

There are two main categories of storage media know as Fix storage media and Removable storage media. Internal computer hard drive is the example of Fix storage media and in removable storage media there is wide range of storage devices including external hard drive, flash drive, USB drive, CD, DVD, and memory cards.

These different kinds of storage media are used to store the critical data of user. You can store various file format’s data on these storage media and can use on any system. Removable storage media can also be used to transfer data from one computer to another or for taking data backup.
All these storage media use advanced storing technologies and have more storage capacity with improved reliability. These storage media can hold data for long-long time. Though these are very reliable, but sometimes these may create problem and your data may become inaccessible form these storage media and can lead to data loss.

These problems generally occur due to possible corruption in storage media or saved data. In these cases, you may face the serious problem and sometimes the catastrophic data loss that can result in worst scenarios and sometimes even can destroy your business. In these circumstances, it becomes very necessary to recover your data to save your business and yourself.
In order to recover your data, you need for data recovery solutions that are available according to the type of your storage media. You can perform this task with the help of data recovery software that are the logical options of data recovery. These software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the lost data and recover them. Before purchasing the data recovery software, you should make sure that the particular software you are going to purchase will be able to recover data from your storage media or not.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is the most powerful and widely used data recovery software that can recover lost data from all kind of storage media. This is an easy to use and robust data recovery software that provides different scanning and recovery options to completely recover your lost data. if your are unable to find your data with general searching methods: Standard and Advanced, you can use Raw Data Recovery to completely scan and recover your data in case when your hard drive is badly damaged.

You can try the demo version of the software to see how much your lost data are recoverable. The demo version is free and works in same way as the original software works but it doesn’t allows you to save the recovered data. If you are satisfied with the searching result of demo version, you can purchase the software activation keys to save the recovered data.

“Data Recovery First Aid: 3 Tips to increase your chances of Success”

2008-03-13T05:30:00.000-07:00

One of the most important things for any computer user is to manage and keep his data properly. It is very essential to realize the importance of data and also to keep a backup of all the important data. But it is not always possible to do so. Sometimes when you get a movie you see it first and then if you like it only then you copy it. Similarly when you have clicked photos of your loved ones the first thing you do is to see them and then copy them. If you lose these photos due to any reason you will really feel cross and helpless. You will know about the 3 most important things to follow in case you have lost data due to any reason.

You need to make sure to use your computer as less as possible. The more you use your computer it increases the probability of overwriting on the lost data. You should also not copy any new data on the hard drive containing the lost data. You should also try to limit internet as it can increase the chances of a virus attack on your computer. You also need to be careful not to use your hard disk for any unnecessary programs.

The second step is to free up some space on your hard disk. The more free space your system has it reduces the chances of accidentally overwriting any lost files with the new files. You can also delete old files which are simply lying in your system which you do not use now. If there is something valuable save it on a CD, DVD or a USB drive. You can also empty your Recycle Bin but be sure not to keep any important files there.

The third but the most important thing to remember is to install data recovery software even before any data is lost. In case you have not installed any data recovery software on your system choose reliable and effective data recovery software from a well known organization.

Stellar Windows Data Recovery Software can help you to recover your lost data in various scenarios. This software can help recover data lost due to reasons such as data corruption, accidental format, virus attack, software malfunction or an unexpected system shutdown. Additionally, the software helps recover documents, spreadsheets, web contents as well as images. You need not be a geek to use this software as it is very easy to use. Use this software and forget all your data related problems.

How Data Get Lost and means to recover

2008-03-13T05:08:00.000-07:00

The two main factors which lead to data loss are hardware failure or system malfunctions and human error. With these two factors they contribute almost 75 percent of all incidents. Software failure, computer virus attacks and physical disaster make up the rest of loss. There are three major trends in data loss today, representing industry-wide shifts in technology and market rules and behavior.
We store data in hard disks .In the event of a hard disk crash or system malfunction we lost data which makes us panic. The Devices that Stores data is fragile, whether it is hard drive; disk or tape even hard surfaces like CDs are used. The internal or mechanical component in a hard drive must work with greater precision. The range between the read/write head and the platter where data is stored is steadily decreasing which nearly causes a head crash.

The second possible loss of data is that users store their critical and personal data like tax records, business files, and bank account records on their hard drives or networks. The loss of these valuable data leads to various business processes to a halt which is the worst case indeed.
The third possible reason of data loss is weak backup which plays the major role.. The backup technology and practices some times fails to protect data adequately. Most users rely on backup and redundant storage technologies which may not protect the lost data. Now the important question arises in our mind that when the data lost has occurred which technology or remedies has to follow to recover the lost data.

Here the answer "Data Recovery software" which is the solution to all data loss problems. The data recovery software recovers your lost data without any damage to your original data. It is last resource when everything else, including commercial software, fails. Data recovery utilizes latest technology and equipments to handle all sorts of recovery cases involving Head Disk Assembly failures, Platter failures, and Firmware modules Corruption, Data recovery software easily recovers deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus, unexpected system malfunctions or software failure.

Data recovery software is designed for any one to use. Using the data recovery software you simply choose what you want to do, and the software does the work, with no technical knowledge required at all. Data Recovery Software provides efficient, fast and affordable solution that has a new revolution in the field of software development industry. It is very likely that you will be able to recover your data as fast as you act quickly and make your data in a very safe and secure side.

Data loss and recovery through data recovery software

2008-03-12T03:37:00.000-07:00

In reality the value of data is realize when data loss happens. Some times it occurs accidentally or naturally. Most of us assume that the data which we store in our computers will always be safe and secure but certain unexpected incidents cause’s data loss. Data loss may occur be due to various factors like physical factors or logical, either in the form of some unwanted virus attacks or accidental deletion of files and their components leads us panic state.

The data loss may lead to various disastrous as data from documents, files, images, programming errors, media device failure, natural disaster, important business records valuable documents and accounts appears to be nowhere found. This occurs especially when users are highly dependant on their computers for their daily work and business activities.

This is where the data recovery technology plays a vital role in recovering data with out any loss or damage to data. Data recovery is the recovery of lost data from hard drive or media that has been damaged without damaging the original data on disk. The recovery of data requires proper education and technology or sufficient knowledge and experience which may be quite difficult for users so data recovery professionals remains the wiser option for safe and secure recovery of data. Data Recovery process is equipped with high technology to handle data recovery from all sorts of data loss or damages done. Data recovery uses latest and modern technology to handle all types of recovery cases which involve data corruption, file system corruption, excel files, word and non functioning controller boards etc.

Data recovery technicians have the ability and modern technology which helps them to recover data from hard drives or media without any damage to our valuable data. Data recovery provides the fastest and most convenient and low cost solution to users who have faced the loss of data situation. A good data recovery program can recover all files and folders that may have lost by some accidental ways, file or folder deletion, software malfunction or some external damage to hard drives.

The most important thing regarding data loss is that we should always keep a backup for our data. It involves the saving of data which ultimately helps in recovering our data. You should also keep in mind which Data Recovery Software is good to use which will benefit and surely recover your data without any loss. There are various software companies which provide data recovery software’s at a very reasonable cost and the pricing approach is very honest and simple. At last I can say that lost data may be recovered and make sure that you don’t do any thing to erase it forever! Choose a good data recovery software and then follow the instructions, you will more than likely live to see your data return.

Data recovery - Process of recovering lost data

2008-03-11T02:39:00.000-07:00

Data recovery is the phenomena of recovering and restoring information or data from a storage device commonly called Hard Disk Drive. Hard Drive is a magnetic disk on which we can store our data .When the data is physically overwritten on a hard disk it is generally assumed that the previous data is no longer possible to recover. In other words data recovery is the process of retrieving computer data which has been deleted or missing by some accidental ways.

Data gets damaged or missing in a variety of ways from virus attacks which results in a loss of most important data on your hard drives. These viruses have an inborn capacity to duplicate and destroy data and files. Data is a very important resource that is the life-line of modern age. All informative data information resides on a variety of storage devices such as hard disks and tape drives.

When we loss data it becomes very difficult for a computer user who is all dependent of computer for his daily work. In most times we fail to take precautions or backup to our computers which ultimately results in the loss of our data at a large extend.

Two types of data loss is possible one is physical damage and other is logical damage. The physically damaged includes CD-ROMs, head crashes, electric failure, and tapes. This type of damage relies on physical phenomena or physical impact. And the logical damage includes File system which is most common possible damage and which cannot be repaired by end user. Logical errors are often occurred when the disk accidentally fails while writing important information to the disk. The logical errors are the important or difficult errors to deal with when data is recovered. Logical errors occurred when files become corrupted or inaccessible, there is a delay in starting up the computer, and all programs do not run in proper manner.

Now a day we are able to recover our data without any panic, thanks to data recovery software. If you've accidentally deleted or had your important files inaccessible, damaged or lost due to mistake, business espionage, faulty hardware or software or any other reason; the good news is that your lost data is probably recoverable. The data recovery software efficiently restores and recovers your missing or deleted data with out any damage to your data. There are some companies which provide you with customer services. you can call or talk with them about the loss of your data they will provide you comfortable data recovery software When you find one that you feel comfortable with, give them a chance to serve you. The new improved technology for data recovery has increased the value for such software’s.

Data Loss from the dual boot system

2008-03-09T23:10:00.000-07:00

Dual Boot or Dual Booting is the process of installing more than one operating system on a single computer, and being able to select which one to boot from when switching on the power. Dual booting becomes possible with a program known as Boot Loader.

Dual booting is helpful in several circumstances, like those where many piece of application programs need for different operating system and can’t be run on single computer. The dual boot method will allow you to use all of these application programs on single machine. Dual boot is also useful in case when you want to test the new operating system without completely switching to new one. Due boot allows you to get to know the system. It is very helpful for the software developer who requires more than one software for developing and testing purposes.

Sometimes different operating systems may create problems with your system and compatibility issues may come up with them. One operating system may not be able to place the file system of other operating system and therefore may try to format it to its local file system by erasing existing data. This happens generally when the file systems are on the separate partitions on one hard drive. Sometimes a system administrator must configure one operating system manually to ignore the other partition to allow multiple file systems.
Vista Issues with Dual Booting

on a system with both Windows Vista and either Linux or Unix installed, Linux or Unix deletes any existing points of System Restore related to Windows Vista during boot process. This issue is confirmed with the operating system but it can’t be changed due to the fundamental functioning of the software.

In these situations of dual booting where one operating system deletes the data or file system of other operating system, the operating system or file system corruption may occur and your computer may become inaccessible. These conditions can lead to catastrophic scenarios of data loss.

In these critical situations, you need for data recovery solutions in order to recover your lost data from damaged operating system or file system. You can recover these data with the help of data recovery software. Data recovery software are the special recovery tools designed to recover data lost due to logical reasons. In this particular case, you need to choose windows data recovery software as your data has been deleted from Windows partition.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most powerful and easy to use data recovery software. Along with windows Vista, the software can also recover data from other versions of windows like 2000, XP and 2003. This data recovery software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the lost data on windows based systems and restore them in their original format. This is a safe and non destructive data recovery software.

How to Resolve System32 Corrupt or Missing Error in XP

2008-03-07T05:06:00.000-08:00

Sometimes you may face that your XP operating system stops booting with an error message:
“System32 Corrupt or Missing”

This error may be the possible reason of corruption in “System32”. It may corrupt due to some changes in software or hardware configuration.

System32 is the most important part of your computer. It’s like the heart and brain of the operating system without which the computer wouldn’t be working at all. Its generally located in the “C: Windowssystem32” and is generally hidden in order to avoid any accidental alterations by the user.

You can resolve this problem manually without any professional help in two ways:

1. Reboot your computer and press F8 until you get into the menu. Choose “Boot Using Last Known Good Configuration”. Your computer will now try to start using a configuration that has worked last time when it started.
2. If you are still facing the same error, insert XP recovery CD and reboot you computer. Select the recovery console. You need to be more careful while using this step because you have to write some specified commands here and if you type incorrectly, your system may severely damage.

You can try to solve your problem using these steps but these are neither safe nor comfortable. Any kind of minor mistake may lead to big system problems. In case when you fail to resolve this problem using these methods, your system may become completely inaccessible and may lead to data loss.

In these situations, your can’t access your system in normal way as your operating system is corrupted and you need to reinstall it in order to access your system. When you reinstall the operating system, you have to format a drive and it can permanently delete the data. To access the data from this formatted hard drive, you need for data recovery solution. In this case, as the problem arose due to software malfunction, you need to use Windows Data Recovery software.
Windows data recovery are special recovery tools designed to retrieve the lost data from windows based computers. These are easy to use and powerful data recovery programs. These software uses advanced scanning methods to search and locate the lost data from formatted hard drive. These software can also recover data in other situations of data loss like accidental deletion, operating system corruption, and virus attack.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is well known data recovery software for windows users. This is a read only and non destructive data recovery software that recover the data from windows hard drive without changing the original contents. The software can recover data in almost all possible cases of data loss. Windows data recovery software provides several recovery options for FAT and NTFS file systems from all versions of windows operating system including Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

Data Recovery through Freezing Technique

2008-03-07T04:24:00.000-08:00

Today data recovery becomes the necessity for computer user due to the increasing threats of data loss. There are several manual and automatic methods of data recovery available. In the manual data recovery, Freezing is the mostly used method. In some cases it is possible to recover the data from hard drive by freezing it.

In the process of Freezing, you need to place the hard drive in Ziploc bag and seal it. Put the affected hard drive in freezer for almost two hours. The freezing method is most suitable in case when your drive is not spinning. In most of the cases the drive runs smoothly after freezing. This is very easy method that can be used in data recovery but it will only fix the hard drive for some time.

Freezing the hard drive for data recovery is not a good idea. It goes back to early days of data recovery. It can work in case of old hard drives where the spinal is not working due to the increased temperature of the drive. In most of the cases, freezing make adverse effects to the hard drive and can make the data irretrievable. It may happen because the water may enter into the hard drive if it’s not packed properly and can lead to permanent data loss. Freezers have electronics, condensation, and water do not exactly go fine together.

In these situations, where the water has entered into the hard drive, the platters of the drive can be damaged and your data may become inaccessible event through the automatic data recovery methods and can lead to the worst scenario of data loss. In these critical circumstances of data loss, data recovery software can’t help you any more in recovering your significant data.

In this scenario of data loss, you need for data recovery service to recover your lost data. Data recovery service are the special companies that provides data recovery service to recover the lost data from physically damaged hard drive. These companies have special recovery labs called “Clean Rooms” to repair the damaged hard drive. The service is done by the data recovery experts who have sound technical knowledge.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd, leader of data recovery industry, provides the best data recovery service for their customers. The company has the first Class 100 Clean Room of Asia. The expert and experienced data recovery associates of Stellar can recover data in all cases of physical damage to the drive.

Deletion of Files in Windows

2008-03-05T21:19:00.000-08:00

Sometimes we feel that some files on our computer are unusable and we delete the file to free the disk space. When we delete a file simply using “Delete” button, it goes to Recycle Bin. It is the temporary type of file deletion. In case when we need for the deleted file, we can restore it from recycle bin. But, when we delete a file using “Shift + Delete” key combination, the file bypass the recycle bin. It can also happen when we delete a file from recycle bin. This is the permanent file deletion. It can happen intentionally or accidentally. In instance of permanent file deletion, user doesn’t have any tool to restore the file.

When a file is deleted permanently we my think that the file is lost forever. Even the Windows recommends while deletion a file using Shift + Delete or by emptying the recycle bin “Are you sure to delete the file”. In fact files never deleted permanently. The operating system has an index of all stored files. In the index table, every file has a flag, whenever a flag is on, the file is visible and when the flag goes off the file become hide or invisible. In case of permanent deletion, the OS put off the flag of particular file and the area occupied by the file is then marked as available and now operating system can write on this area. An entry of stored file is also exists on File system and it remain still even if we delete the file permanently. In case of permanent deletion, the OS system can’t find the path of that particular file and can’t access it.

But there is still hope that the delete file can be recovered. You can perform this task with the help of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software. This is a destructive and read only data recovery software that uses advanced scanning algorithms to search and locate the deleted files and then recovery them. The software can also recover data from failed, damaged, corrupted or inaccessible hard drives.

How to Recover Lost Data after Reinstalling Windows XP

2008-03-04T22:44:00.000-08:00

Operating system corruption is one of the most common problems in Windows operating systems. It may happen due to numerous reasons including file system corruption or deletion, virus attack, accidental system shut down or registry corruption. In these situations where your operating system gets corrupted, you can’t access the data stored on your computer hard drive and you need to repair or reinstall the operating system.

In case of repairing, it might possible that your problem doesn’t fix or it may stick in repairing process. In these critical circumstances, you need to reinstall the operating system and reinstalling the operating system requires to format the hard drive's primary partition (the partition on which you have installed your operating system) and you may loss your data stored on primary partition.

This problem becomes very critical in case if you are using branded computer because in most of the branded computers the hard drive doesn’t contain partitions and operating system and data stores on same partition. In this case, when you reinstall the operating system, it completely formats your entire hard drive and lead to data loss. It completely wipes the data stored on drive.

After reinstalling the operating system, you will find that your drive is empty. This is the worst scenario of data loss as you have lost all the data stored on your computer hard drive. In these critical circumstances, you need for data recovery solutions to recover your lost data. In this particular case, you can recover your lost data using windows data recovery software.

Windows Data Recovery software are the tools to recover and restore the lost data from windows based computers. These software uses enhanced scanning algorithms to search the lost data from your hard drive and display them in easy to understand tree format. Windows Data Recovery software can recover the lost data from your hard drive in almost all possible cases of data loss including accidental formatting, accidental deletion, file system deletion or logical partition deletion.

Stellar Phoenix Window Data Recovery is amazing data recovery software that helps you in search, locate and recover the lost data. This software works in both NTFS and FAT file systems of windows operating system. This software has three different scanning options that can be used according to your need. The software also provides recovery from hard drive that contains bad sectors with its unique “Create Image File” option. You can download the demo version of the software and can preview the image files and office documents. If you are satisfied with the result, you can purchase the activation key to save the recovered data.

6 Dangers of Data Loss in Laptop

2008-03-04T01:02:00.001-08:00

Data is the most important thing for a computer user either he/she is a professional user or individual home user. You store the data on computer which is most significant for your business or for individual use.

Sometimes, unfortunately some disaster can occur and can crash your computer and may lead to data loss. There are 6 common dangers for your data and you should aware of them. There dangers are:

System or hardware failure
Human error (unintentional formatting or deletion)
Data damage (during software installation or upgrades)
Accidental drop down
Virus or spywares attack
Natural disasters (flood, earthquakes, inundation or fire)

These disasters can happen anytime in any form, so you should aware of them. The best way to prevent these disasters and data loss is to regularly backup your data. This is the simplest and cheapest way of data prevention that anyone can use and can prevent data loss. You can use backup software to back your data up.

But, sometimes users don’t backup their data, either due to busy schedule or due to over confidence on their computer system. In these situations, if data loss occurs, he/she may face a big problem. In some circumstances, these data loss may destroy your business. So, it becomes more necessary for you to recover your lost data in order to save your business or to save yourself.

Data recovery solutions can help you in data recovery in these critical situations. There are two categories of data recovery solutions that can be selected according to reason and type of data loss. These solutions are:

Data Recovery Software

Data recovery software are specially designed recovery tools that can help you in recovering and restoring your lost data. These tools are helpful in case where the data loss occurred due to logical failure like system software corruption, file deletion or virus attack. This is the best data recovery software that can be used without any prior technical knowledge.

Data Recovery Service

Data recovery services are the companies that provide solution for recovering data from physical damaged storage media. These companies replace the damaged part of the media inside the special data recovery labs called Data Recovery Clean Rooms.
There are several data recovery solution provider companies. Some of them provide data recovery software and some other provides data recovery services. Stellar Information Systems Ltd is a leading data recovery solution provider company that provides both data recovery solutions: Data Recovery Software and Data Recovery Service. Stellar provides recovery service for all kind of storage media including hard drive, tape drive and zip drive. Under software solution, company provides data recovery software for all operating systems and their special application programs.

Data Recovery Resources

2008-03-04T01:02:00.000-08:00

In today’s world, Computers are becoming more significant every day. On computers, people store personal information, business information, budgets and many other important data that they can not afford to loss. No one wish to loss these data due to unfortunate crash to their computer. These unfortunate crashes include software corruption, hardware malfunction or virus attack.

If any such kind of situation occurs, it may very serious for you. Sometimes it may destroy your business. But these data don’t loss forever. Still there is a hope to recover your lost data. There are several methods to get your lost data back:

Professional Data Recovery Service

The first method of data recovery is to take help of professional data recovery services. This is mostly useful in case of physical crash to storage media. This is probably the most expensive method to pursue. If you are not much familiar with computers, this might be the best option for you. Do the research and take it to the best data recovery service provider company. Stellar Information system is the best and leading data recovery service and software provider company.

Data Recovery Utilities

There are many good data recovery utilities are available to recover and restore your lost data. Utilities can save your time and money. These are very powerful and easy to use tools that can absolutely reduce your grief.

Data Recovery Software

There are some data recovery software available that are different from application to application or operating system to operating system. This is the cheapest way to get your data back in case of logical damage like operating system corruption, virus attack or accidental deletion. Stellar Information System Ltd is the well known company that provides data recovery software for all operating system and for their application software.

Additional Hardware

You can buy additional hardware components to help you in retrieving your lost data. This is the relatively cheap way of data recovery. In case if you aren’t contented with this way, it may cause more harm than good.

As you be able to see, there are many methods available for you to recover your lost data. The selection of data recovery method is depends on how important the information is for you. Sometimes these methods may cause further damage if you commit any mistake in recovery process. So before starting recovery using any method, you should backup your data or should create an image of your hard drive.

Corrupted hard drive recovery

2008-03-03T04:08:00.000-08:00

I am an MBA student or final semester. I have an eighty GB external hard drive of Maxtor Company. I used this hard drive to store all my important notes and presentations. The hard drive is three years old and it was working fine. The file system of the drive is FAT.

One day, I backed up all the data on this drive and formatted my internal hard drive. Here I committed a mistake that I hadn’t detached the external hard drive while formatting. After formatting when I tried to access the backup, I shocked to see that the drive had formatted and there was no data.

I opened the drive in Windows explorer. It shown me that the drive is formatted in RAW with 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free disk space. It also didn’t do anything when I tried to do error checking from properties menu. The drive only even becomes visible in explorer when I clicked on the “Safety Remover Hardware” icon.

After all, I tried to check the drive using CHKDSK utility. But it also didn’t work and displayed an error message “Cannot open the volume for direct access.” I decided to recover my data using hard drive recovery software, but unfortunately I failed here also. I’ve tried a number of data recovery software with the results below. Every option returns with not being able to see the disk or not being able to access it. The error message of these data recovery software is:

Couldn’t find drive
Couldn't find the drive (even when it was set to do a RAW Recovery)
Third software could actually see that I had the drive attached, but then told me I had 0 KB worth of 0 files on it.

I was really much tensioned as I lost all of the important notes and presentation. I told my friend about the entire case and he recommended me to try Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. I was not sure that it will work so I decided to consult the technical support team first.

I called the technical support team of Stellar and told them about my case. I got a shy of relief when the asked me that their software can recover data in this case and suggested me to use the demo version.

I just installed the demo and scanned through it. It is really powerful software and it displayed all the files after scanning process. I was satisfied with the result so I purchased the serial key of the software as it is necessary in order to activate the software and to save the recovered data.