Can Increasing Storage Increase the Chances of Crash

Due to the advancement in the storing technology, it has become possible to store more data on your computer. Now you can get hard drives up to 1 TB to store you valuable data as much you want.

But have you ever thought about the other side of this increased storage capacity? Is it safe? This is the most important question for the IT Professionals. Increased storage capacity is not always beneficial. The most important disadvantage is that it decreases the accessing speed of your hard drive and ultimately decreases your computer performance.

High capacity storage media can cause your computer to hang or freeze and sometimes can lead to a failed or crashed hard drive and can lead to data loss.
The modern technology of high storage capacity is RAID (Redundant Array of Identical Disks). It is an array to repetitive disks that creates the copies of stored data on different drives attached in the array. It is treated as best and most reliable storage mechanism.

But these also are not completely fail proof and can get damaged and may cause data loss. As the storage capacity increases, the possibility of hard drive crash is also increases. When it is possible that RAID drives are also can fail, then nothing can be considered as a reliable storage media no matter what is the storage capacity of it.

When it comes to high storage media, you need for high performance computer if you want to decrease the hard drive crash and it is not possible for individual users to purchase such kind of systems.

But there is no need to worry about it. Every problem has solution. You can get your data back in this case also where your large hard drive or RAID has failed or crashed and you have lost all of your data stored on them. It is possible with the advanced technology of data recovery software and services.

It depends on the type of crash that what option you should use. If your drive is crashed logically like partition deletion, File Table corruption, and operating system failure, you need for data recovery software to recover the lost data. On the other hand, when you have lost the data due to physical damage to your storage media, you need for data recovery service.

Data recovery software are different depending upon the operating system and file system used in your computer. There are different data recovery software available in the market that provides recovery solutions from different operating systems. But in case of data recovery service, the process of data recovery is same for all operating systems and their file systems.

There is a wide range of companies that provides data recovery solutions. Some to them provides data recovery software, some other provides service and there are some companies that provides both software and service solutions. Stellar Information Systems Ltd is a trusted and most familiar company that provides both software and service solutions to recover your lost data.

Data Recovery after Disk Defragmentation

The operating system stores a file on hard drive on multiple locations by dividing it into several parts. It causes a file to become fragmented. It decreases the accessing speed of your computer as sequential reading or writing of data on the fragmented hard drive is slowed down because the time required for the drive head to go between fragments and waiting for the drive platter to spin into positions is increased.

To fix this problem, you need to “Defragment” your hard drive. Defragmenting is a process to arrange all the files in as much contiguous space as possible. You can perform this task with the help of inbuilt windows utility “Disk Defragmenter”.

Disk Defragmenter examines local drives and consolidates the fragmented files so that every file can occupy a single and contiguous space on the drive. It allows programs and data to run more quickly and efficiently because the OS doesn’t have to read or write files from or to multiple locations.

Though, disk defragmenting increase the accessing speed of your computer, but it’s not always beneficial. Sometimes it may create serious problems especially in case when you use disk defragmenting after data loss.

What happens when you use disk defragmenting after data loss?

In case when you have deleted a file accidentally or formatted your hard drive and you run disk defragmenting, the defragmenting shift the files on the cluster from which you have deleted file. In the process of defragmenting, the Defragmenter rearrange the clusters, in these situations, the path of your files may get changed.
When the path is changed, the general data recovery software can’t recognize or locate the lost data and may fail to recover your data. In these circumstances, you need for good data recovery software like Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. It might possible that disk defragmenting may overwrite the data, in these cases, software solutions for data recovery becomes very difficult or sometimes may be impossible.

7 Basic Steps to Perform Windows Data Recovery

In this computerized world, there are numerous horror stories when it comes to restoring the lost data. In many circumstances, when the data has been lost due to hard drive problems, it is most important to not run the hard drive.
In case of Windows, are there several people using windows data recovery software to recover lost data?

Several computer users who have used data recovery software to recover data and as it can take long time to complete, more damage can possible. In order to avoid this, here are 7 steps to perform windows data recovery:

1. Shut down the computer as soon as you come to know that data loss has occurred. Further use of the computer may overwrite the data and can cause further damage to data or can make them irretrievable.
2. Detach the affected hard drive from your computer and attach it to a healthy computer, as a slave, which is running windows operating system.
3. Try to access the slave drive. If you are able to access it and you can see the data on this drive, save them to healthy drive or store on removable storage media.
4. In case when data loss is occurred due to accidental deletion or hard drive formatting, you can see the data. In this case you need for Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. Download the demo version of the software from Stellar website.
5. Install the demo on healthy hard drive and launch it.
6. In the left panel, select the proper drive to which you want to scan. After completing the scanning process, it will show the result in tree format. Preview the files, but it doesn’t allow you to save them.
7. If you are satisfied with the result, purchase the activation key to activate the software and save the recovered files.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a powerful data recover tool. It can recover data in all possible cases of data loss. This data recovery software is very easy to use and no prior technical knowledge is required to use this software. you can recover data by following these steps:

1. Install the Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software and launch it.
2. In the left panel, the software displays the list of logical drives, select the drive from which you want to recover the data.
3. A window will pop-up with three scanning option: Standard Scan, Advanced Scan and Create Image File.
4. Select the scan option according to requirement. Standard scan can search the data in most of the cases, but if you don’t get the desired result, choose advanced scan option.
5. If you have bad sectors in your hard drive, you should select Create Image File option to create the image of the drive and then perform scanning on it.
6. After completing the scanning process, the data recovery software will display the result in easily understandable tree format. Select the “Recover all” option if you want to select all files otherwise select the required files and choose “Recover Selected” option.
7. It will open a new window with different save options, select the appropriate save option and click ok button.

In this way, you can recover all the lost data with the help of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software very easily.

Memory Card Data Recovery

Memory Cards are the most preferred ways of storing data these days. They are very small, convenient and easy to carry. It is very comfortable to carry your music, videos and images in a memory card. At the same time they can be easily connected to computers, laptops, printers, digital cameras for easy and fast data transfer. These cards come in various types as well as storage capacities. The various types of memory cards include Compact Flash, Secure Digital, Multi Media and XD cards. They also provide high re-record-ability; power-free storage and sturdy build which adds to their convenience.

But like any storage device a memory card can also be corrupted or damaged due to various reasons. The prominent reasons for memory card corruption are the following:

Damage due to power surge
Accidental Format
Physical damage
Defective component or hardware
Damage caused due to a virus or system corruption

If any kind of damage takes place due to these reasons, you will not be able to access your data. The data may still be there but has been corrupted or damaged due to one of the reasons stated above. When you try to access data on your memory card you may get any of these error messages:

Unknown Device
Status: Unreadable, Unknown Device
Device Not Recognized in Windows

If you face any of these error messages the memory card has been corrupted or damaged. You will need the help of digital photo recovery software to recover the corrupted and damaged data from your memory card.

Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery Software recovers corrupted, damaged, lost, deleted as well as formatted digital photos, images, audio and video files from memory cards. It is helpful in cases of accidental deletion, media format and data corruption.

The software offers data recovery in cases where digital files have been lost due to usage on various cameras and computers. It has an innovative scan feature which can help recover data lost due to various kinds of damage. Additionally, it helps recover BMP, PNG, WMA, 3GPP as well as MP3 files. Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery Software is the right solution to all your digital media related data problems.

Data Loss while upgrading from Windows ME to Windows XP

When you upgrade to Windows XP on a system running Windows ME or upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional, you may get any one of these error messages while the Windows XP Setup program is running and you are not able to successfully complete the upgrade process.

Cannot get main entry point for C:WINDOWSSYSTEMVIPERSTI.CPL. Error: 127 [ERROR=127 (7Fh)]
The signature for Windows XP edition Setup is invalid. The error code is fffffdf0.
The system cannot find message text for message number 0xfffffdf0 in the message file for Syssetup.dll.
Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error. The setup log files should contain more information.
Warning! Setup failed to remove the setup catalog ieexcep.cat
Warning! Setup failed to remove the setup catalog sp1.cat

While trying to upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional, you will be receiving the following error message:

setup failed to remove product catalog sp1.cat. Error Code FFFFFDD9

This problem occurs if the Setup program does not delete all the files in the WinDir\System32\Catroot2 folder while the removal of the earlier version of Windows.

To resolve this problem you need to rename the %WinDir%\System32\Catroot2 folder.
In order to rename the %WinDir%\System32\Catroot2 folder using command prompt and follow these steps:

1. When the Setup program is running, and the error message appears on the screen, you need to press SHIFT+F10 to start a command prompt.
2. When command prompt starts, type cd\windows\system32\, and then press ENTER.
3. Type rename catroot2 catold, press ENTER and then restart your computer.
4. Then try again to finish the upgrade process.

You will be able to resolve this problem by following the above mentioned steps. Sometimes while you are upgrading to Windows XP, you may lose your earlier operating system. You then discover that you have lost your data and will need the help of data recovery software to recover the lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is an efficient tool that helps you to search, locate and recover damaged or corrupted files. This software has a ‘Raw Recovery’ feature that can recognize more than 300 file types which includes documents, spreadsheets, web content and images. Additionally, it helps you recover data even after the operating system has been reinstalled. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is the perfect solution to all your Windows data related problems.

Remote Data Backup to Protect your Business Information

How would your business be exaggerated when there was a system failure that completely wiped your computer system? How much time would it take to recover? Data Backup, specially, online or remote backup is absolutely something that the intelligent businesses (large or small) should think and apply.

All of the critical information on your system like office documents, financial documents, customer files, contacts, accounting programs and more should be backed up or saved somewhere else. Remote or online backup is very important to consider if you really value the critical information stored on your computer.

Remote or online backup is the process of storing your critical information to any remote location on the server. It is the safest way of backup because the data is stored on the remote location and if any problem occurs in your computer it won’t affect the backup. If you have taken the backup on local machine then it might possible that your backup is also got affected when the data loss occurs.

You can use the backup whenever you require it to recover your data if any data loss occurs. The data may loss in a variety of way and for various reasons. Power surges are comestible of leading to data loss, especially for computers without UPS.

Unluckily, computers are susceptible to hard disk crashes, virus attacks; accidental deletion and natural disaster can wipe everything instantly.

You can take remote backup using different kind of backup software. These software save the selected data on the FTP server. The software requires being installed on the computer from which you want to backup the data. Whenever the data loss occurs, the data can be accessed from the FTP server and can be recovered.

There are numerous data recovery software are available that can be used to backup your data. Among these data backup software, Stellar Instabackup is powerful and robust data backup software. It has several backup options, that is useful to schedule the backup. You can take three types of backup using this software- Full, Increment and Differential. This software provides the facility of both local backup and remote backup.

Data Loss Due to Power Jack and Recovery

I just bought Zenith Presidio Laptop. It has Intel Pentium Dual Core processor with 100GB hard drive and 512 MD DDR2 RAM. It has Windows Vista Operating System. I use this laptop for my office work to store all my important office files. It was working well and fulfilling my work needs.

One day, I was getting ready for my office. My laptop was put on the table. Suddenly my pet climbed up the table and started playing with it. After sometime, I found my laptop fell on the floor; my pet dropped it from the table. I check the entire laptop, and I saw that it was physically not damaged.

I took my laptop and went to my office. At office, I try to start it, but I failed to do it. My laptop was not starting and it wasn’t charging also. I took it to my place and open it. I found that the power jack is damaged and it caused the short circuit when I tried to start the laptop. And the short circuit damaged the circuit board of my hard drive.

I went to the market and bought the power jack and hard drive circuit board of same model number. I replaced power jack as well as hard drive circuit board. After replacing, I screwed my hard drive and tried to start my laptop, but it didn’t start.
I thought my operating system gets corrupted and I planned to backup my data. In order to take a backup, I unscrewed my hard drive and attached with my desktop computer. But I shocked to see that all the logical drives were empty. There was no data to backup.

I was much tensioned as I lost all of my important data stored on my laptop. All of my critical office data were stored on my laptop and it was totally formatted. I started searching on Internet regarding to any solution of my problem. Finally I came to know that data recovery is possible in my case. I can recover data using data recovery software.

I downloaded the demo version of data recovery software and installed it. After installation, I ran the software and search for the lost data. The demo version of the software, displayed all the recoverable files in the tree format and I checked for my files and found that all critical files were recoverable. I tried to save the data but I displayed a message showing that I have to purchase the serial key. I opened again the same website and purchase the serial key of the software and activated it. After activation software allowed me to save the data.