Showing posts with label data recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data recovery. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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.

Windows Vista and data recovery

I just purchased a new computer for me. It is powered by windows Vista. Vista is a series of OS developed by Microsoft Corporation for use on PCs, including business and home desktops, laptops, media centers and Tablet PCs. Vista is the latest version of Windows operating system. It has several new features over the previous versions of Microsoft Windows, covering most aspects of the OS. These features includes improved sound quality, enhanced data security, improved firewall security, speech recognition, easy data recovery and windows recovery environment (WinRE).

I was very happy and using the enhanced features of windows Vista without any problem. Two days back I was working with my Vista and I feel that the look is not much bright; it is getting dark by and by. I wanted to create a bright finish of my computer so I launched the check disk utility (Chkdsk). I was waiting for this process to complete. After sometime I feel that it is taking too much time, so after a long period of time I decide to interrupt it and I halted it. I then restart my system and at the boot process it tried to start the check disk again. I cancel this auto check by using the option and unexpectedly it restart itself and then the troubles began. Then I used the booting processes as follows:

First Boot: - when I boot the system for the first time after this process, it showed an error message- Winload.exe is missing or corrupted. I restart it.

Second Boot: - I tried to recover it by using DVD, two attempts fail. Then I take my Bart-PE CD, start it and I can access to all my windows partition. I launched another check disk to confirm my disk, and I suddenly realized that all these conditions are caused due to check disk and I stopped it and restart my system with Bart-PE CD.

Now I found that my Vista partition was empty. But all other partitions were as it was. I decided to take a backup of all these remaining data. Then I attached an external hard drive to my computer and start tacking the backup of all my critical data. After the successful completion of backup process from my side, I decided to reinstall my Vista, and I reinstalled it. After reinstalling the Vista, my system is working properly then I decided to recover data using my backup.

But I was unlucky at this stage also, my backup get corrupted. Now I was much tensioned because I lost all my critical data that was stored on my hard drive. I thought that my data are lost permanently. I didn’t have any option to recover my lost data.

But I was wrong. I searched on the Internet for any data recovery solution for my problem and I found Stellar Information Systems Ltd, data recovery software and service Provider Company. I asked the experienced and technically expert support department of the company regarding to my problem. They told me that there is a software solution is available of your problem. You can use Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software to recover your lost data.

I just purchased the software from company’s site and installed and start it to recover my lost data. After starting this software, I selected my affected logical drives to recover from the list of drives presented in left hand side. Then I select standard scan option to search for my lost data. This software displayed the list of all the recoverable files in an easy to understand tree format. I selected the required file and saved them to my disk. In this way I recovered all my lost data. Thank you Stellar.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

R&D Companies and Data Loss

R&D (Research and Development) companies, as the name suggests, have to employ in a number of research. A very sophisticated research is required to come up with new inventions. Consequently, the researchers are apt to use a huge amount of data to test a wide range of outcomes and assumptions. Because of the limitations posed by the traditional methods of data storage, R&D companies are increasingly storing their precious data electronically.

Since the computers present the needed performance while doing research and analysis, almost all the researchers in the medical, electronics, aerospace, and biotechnology industries are likely to use computers. So, most of the companies tend to have an IT department. IT departments have technically sound staff to safeguard the data and to prevent the data loss.

Research and Development is a field that needs large amount of asset because of the utter nature of the industry. Additionally, it’s not a field that obtains immediate results. Research may take several months or years before a proper product, idea or equipment can be produced. So, while the investment is big, the result may not be obvious. Any kind of data loss can ruin the complete infrastructure and capital investment.

It is very important to prevent the R&D data as the nature of data. Most of the companies create centralized reporting systems so that data can be congregated comprehensively in one place. It minimizes the chances of data loss because the flow of data is restricted. The companies also use strong data backup techniques like CDP (Continuous Data Protection) or Automated Remote Backups.

But any system is not fail proof. Any system may failure either due to hardware or software failure. If all of the protection measures fail, it may lead to serious data loss. In case of R&D data, it is not the type of data that can be recreated again if once it lost. So, it is very critical situation for a company and in this case they need for data recovery solution. They need to get it back at any cost, because data recovery is not costly then the cost of lost data.

In this kind of data loss, the data recovery is possible with the help of advanced data recovery technologies, no matter what is the reason of data loss. if data loss is occurred due to hardware failure, the data recovery service can recover data and if it is due to software failure then the data can be recovered with the help of data recovery software.

In case of data recovery service, because the nature of the data is may be confidential, it will be best to make a confidential agreement with the service Provider Company. In addition, make sure that you hire the services of the best company because the cost of recreating your lost data can be much higher than the cost of recovering your data.

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Data Loss due to Registry Corruption and Recovery

Here is a reality that 92 percent of personal computers run on Windows operating system, and all 32-bit versions of Windows operating system has a storage area where settings and options are stored. This storage area is known as registry, and this is one of the busiest computer databases.

It keeps all the information about the installed programs and stored data. It instructs the computer what to do, how to do and when to do. As such, this is the most liable to corruption and breakage. There are many reasons that can lead damaged or corrupted computer registry. These reasons are:

  1. Incompatible software installation
  2. Spyware and Adware attack on your computer
  3. Virus attack that can create chaos in your computer
  4. Accidental deletion of registry file by user while repairing

Any of these conditions may cause registry corruption. Registry corruption may lead to lowered performance, inaccessible software program or data or operating system corruption. This is a very serious kind of system corruption that is very complicated to repair.

You need to maintain your registry. You can fix your computer registry regularly, but it is not as straightforward and easy as you think. Though there are some registry repair utilities available with windows operating system but it is very risky to use these tools. Because when you use these methods, you have to act directly on the registry files and it may possible that any file is deleted while working. It may cause further damage.

In these circumstances, if you fail to repair your computer registry, it may put you in dilemma. In this case you need to reinstall your operating system and in this process you may lost your important data. It is also possible that if you get success to repair your registry, then also you can loss data due to the related registry file corruption. This is a situation where you need to get back your data at any cost but you are not able to find any solution. The solution is possible to recover your lost data. It is data recovery software.

Data recovery softwares are the logical solution of recovering your lost data. Data recovery software can help you in getting back your data no matter your operating system and registry files are repaired or not. You can recover data with data recovery software without any prior technical knowledge. These are handy solution of data recovery.

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Data Recovery Software

For any computer user, data is a very important thing. It is very important to manage data and keep it in an organized manner. If you lose your data it can really be a nightmare for you. The importance of data can not always be measured in monetary terms. If you lose your graduation photos, your favorite music or movie files due to a data problem you will really feel frustrated and helpless. One of the easiest ways of managing data is to keep a backup of all your important files and documents. It can help you in case data loss takes place due to any reason.

It is not always possible to keep a backup of all the data you have. An ordinary computer user may not be vigilant enough to backup all the important data. Another problem is that these days we handle huge amounts of data and it is not practically possible to backup all the data. A computer user may face a software crash, virus attack, accidental data deletion problem at any time. Another important thing to be mentioned is that data recovery must never be attempted by an unqualified person. It should only be attempted by someone who understands the concept and is qualified to do it.

The process of recovering data after data loss has taken place is called Data Recovery. If you lose data due to any of the reasons mentioned above you would need the help of data recovery software to recover the lost data.

There are various ways in which data can be recovered with the help of data recovery software. It will help you recover your lost files and folders. It will also help you when data has been deleted from recycle bin or by using Shift+Delete key. The software will also help you recover various files including documents, spreadsheets, web contents and images. Additionally, it also helps recover data from severely corrupted file systems. It also helps data recovery from severely corrupted hard drives. It is also helpful in cases of missing and lost logical drives, formatted hard drives where operating system has been reinstalled. The software will also help you recover re-partitioned hard drives where the file system has been changed.