Data Recovery Methods & Tools

Hard Drive Data Recovery Giveaways to Recover Deleted or Formatted Data

2012-01-30T12:12:00.003+05:30

A good news for the people who are suffering from data loss due to accidentally or unintentionally formatting or permanently deleting their important data from the hard drive or external storage media. The idea to write this article is surely prove out to be beneficial to help you analyze the exact causes of hard drive corruption and recovering the complete data. All you need is to read the article carefully and pay attention on the various points of hard disk failure reasons you are confronting. To perform the desired steps, there is a minimal level of knowledge and efforts are required and even computer novices can perform some or all the steps.

Most hard drive become eventually fails or become inaccessible without giving any information or warning messages. In majority of cases, users often fail to back up their data, did you? Various equipment glitches or unethical activities like power surges, virus or malware programs causes the boot failure after which you would lose access to the whole data.

These are the moments when you become well-known about your hard-worked data and treasured memories are really worth to you, and you could pay any cost to recover those. Depending on how much your drive is damaged, the cost to recover the data can vary from hundred dollars to thousand dollars. Moreover, after spending much amount of money and time, there is no guarantee that these investments could produce any good results. A good news to ensures that unless and until you hadn't written your hard disk with any other data, the formatted or permanently deleted data are recoverable through various data recovery software. After deleting or formatting the data, it still existed in the hard drive and occupies very low space. But users wouldn’t able to find and restore them. There are mainly two types of hard disk failure (Logical and Physical) and both can leads to severe data loss or heavily damaged hard drive. In logical failures, the hard drive is not damaged but due to accidentally modifying or deleting the system registries or file systems, the hard drive wouldn't be able to locate its own data and fails to start the windows. Recent configuration changes, virus programs, software malfunction or updating the system driver could also causes the logical failure of the hard drive. Instead of performing any system utilities or chkdsk command, you should use any well known data recovery software to recover the available data.

In mechanical or physical failure, failed inner equipments (like head or spindle motor) prevent to perform the requested operation. As a result, your hard drive would become crashed or burned and you have to send your hard drive to any data recovery lab where data recovery specialists use Class 100 clean room to recover the data. Clicking noise, drive not recognized by the BIOS or operating system is the most common symptoms of physical or mechanical failure. If you heard some clicking noise (due to head crash) from the hard drive, then stop using it immediately and call to any data recovery experts to prevent any further damaging of the hard drive.

Simplest way to resolve boot loader problem in Windows

2012-01-23T13:38:00.008+05:30

Different Windows OS are containing great set of features and operations to perform but the user has to operate separately to become well known about all the features on different Windows. You may find some or many of the great & advanced features in the newer versions of Windows such as Window 7, Vista etc. It's obvious to install and run the two or more operating system on any single system so the user can taste the benefits of all the operating system. Windows boot loader will become handy in these type of situation when user are having two or more operating system installed on a single system. For ex: If user are having the system with Windows XP already installed on it and install a fresh copy of Windows 7. What happens next is that user will don't get the option to choose the operating system either the previous one or the newer one, it simply starts with Windows 7 and user will lose the access on their windows XP files and folders. Main reason behind this is simple to find and that is the newer operating system will knows the kind and versions of older operating system but older operating systems are don't having any idea about newer operating system, so the boot loader just got confused about which operating system to choose to restart and thus it fails to start. The same could happen in the case of Linux or Unix.

Boot loader problem is a computer program that loads the main operating system or run time environment and provides the user a choice to start the system with any of the operating system versions installed on the PC. The operating system requires a program which is having any information about the booting sequence, and so as boot loader is developed. Boot loader was first developed by IBM in 1950's and widely used in mainframe computers, minicomputers, personal computers, consumer electronics etc.

Without fixing the boot loader, users are don't having any option to deal with. The only thing, which can help the user to get out of this, is EasyBCD. It is specially created to work's well in these types of problems without affecting any of the computer programs and anyone can easily perform the required action with the help of EasyBCD. The needful step is to download and install EasyBCD, after which it sets up and configure the dual boot between Windows XP, Window 7, Vista, Linux, Ubuntu etc.

Download EasyBCD for limited and non commercial use after entering the name and Email ID and get the great benefits such as repair your boot loader, change the boot drive, change booting sequence, hide unwanted boot drive, change BCD timeout, create custom boot sequence etc.

3 Easy Steps to Recover from XUL.dll Errors

2012-01-17T09:04:00.010+05:30

Computer novices are facing a bunch of errors in these days related to PC hardware failure, inaccessibility of application programs, Software malfunctioned etc. But this time, I'm going to explain about a recently introduced error which causes Mozilla browser to crash on runtime or unwanted system shutdown's in some cases. This error can also leads to the serious damaging of the system hardware such as Blue screen of death (BSOD). So, in order to keep the system safe, continue to read this article further. If this condition already happens with someone and would already lost their valuable data then using data recovery software is the only hope for them to recover the deleted or lost data.

About XUL.DLL
XUL.dll in an important file in Mozilla browser that enhances its web surfing speed and security. XUL.DLL files are required to run Mozilla either in Windows XP or 7 and allows the system dynamic link library files to communicate and exchange data when required.

Causes of XUL.Dll Errors:
XUL.DLL errors can be corrupted or misplaced due to off several reasons, few
of them are mentioned below:

Faulty downloaded file to install Mozilla Browsers.
Harmful Virus programs damage the dynamic link library file of Mozilla.
Firewall Restrictions.
Corrupted registry which alters the parameters of XUL.DLL Files etc.

The following messages are associated with XUL.DLL errors and signify that you need to perform troubleshooting steps ASAP to get rid of and to prevent any further damage:

Unable to locate XUL.Dll, Search for Specific Files and Folders.
Destination Path is Unspecified.
The application has failed to start because XUL.DLL is not found; reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
XUL.Dll is not valid without reinstall.
Firefox.exe Bad Image etc.

Steps to overcome from XUL.DLL Errors

#1. Remove the previous with latest Mozilla browser

Sometimes this error can be easily fixed by reinstalling the Mozilla browser. The steps are mentioned below:

Uninstall the Mozilla by going to start>control panel>add or remove programs> then click on remove option under the Firefox browser program. But doing this will erases all the important internet files, bookmark and other things permanently.
Download the latest copy of Mozilla browser from Mozilla official site.
Double Click on downloaded exe icon and follow the display options to install Mozilla Successfully.
Restart the PC
Run error free Mozilla.

Doing this will remove any old files that cause improper startup and fix any temporary issue associated with Mozilla Browser.

#2. Download and replace the new XUL.DLL in program files

This step has contains the minimum risk to lose data and very effective ways
to overcome from this error.

Download the latest version of XUL.Dll files from any well known standard source of Dll files.
Go to program files folder and search for Mozilla installed files where the user could locate XUL.Dll files and then rename it with XUL2.DLL.
Copy and paste the downloaded XUL.DLL files in the program files > Mozilla installation folder.
Restart the system and then Mozilla.

Sometimes the user may find this step of no use due to compatibility issue. So don't panic if this steps don't work and switch to the third step.

#3) Get help with any Registry cleaner software

Windows Registry is the large list of reference of all the Dll Files which searches and allocates the required Dll files to the required programs. But in some cases, it makes mistakes as like other machines while storing the registry parameters which leads to corrupted Dll files and program needs to be reinstalled. The most essential ways to recover from this failure is to use any well known registry cleaner software which can find and fix the corrupted registries.

So, Users are required to search and download the standard registry cleaner software. After successful installation, run the application. This procedure will fix the dll errors and remove any corrupted registries as well.

Instead of the above mentioned 3 steps, it is also advisable to use any standard antivirus program and removing the firewall restrictions will sometime helps to fix this error as well.

About NTFS File System Stop Error 0x000000024 and Measures to Overcome

2011-12-27T10:03:00.008+05:30

NTFS is an abbreviated form of new technology file system and popularly used in many windows based operating systems such as Windows NT, XP, Server 2003, 7 etc. It is designed to overcome from the FAT file system bugs and to provide the user a great level of file security, encryption and a large volume of space to store the data. NTFS has a splendid features called transaction log, which help's to recover automatically from disk failure. If the disk is formatted with NTFS file system, User can set permissions to the desired files and folders according to their needs and can share over the large or local network.

In these days, Blue screen error 0x000000024 or NTFS_File_System error are the most frustrating error and can happen any times while using the windows operating systems and user will lose all the important data suddenly. To Resolve Blue screen of death error 0x000000024, user have to use third party NTFS data recovery software which helps to recover the deleted/formatted data back.

User have no choice when this happens except to see a blue screen of death which is an indication of something going wrong with the NTFS system driver called ntfs.sys and system needs to boot to stop any further damage. All the windows operating systems use the common ntfs.sys driver that allows any external programs to read and write the data in NTFS format. All the read/write permission was regulated by ntfs.sys and if it finds any unexpected things in its operation, ntfs.sys would suddenly stop every running program. These issues can also cause if the hard disk is corrupted or having bad sectors, damaged SCSI or IDE drivers.

Whenever this happens, user will get this message 'Stop error 0x000000024' or 'NTFS_File_System error' and have to restart it manually. If the system runs normally as before, it means the file system has recovered the error automatically and user don't have to do any modification or changes anywhere, but if it fails to restart or not responding at all then read this article further to know the troubleshooting steps.

User can try to recover from this error by following some simple steps such as disabling any antivirus programs, defragmentation tools or any other system recovery tools which constantly running in background and monitoring your hard drive. Registry cleaner could also help sometime to recover from this error. But if these steps fail to recover perform the below operation:

Running chkdsk /r from the command prompt will find the errors and can try to repair the disk volume, but may take some time.
This can be performed manually too by going to the desired volume properties>click on tools>check disk for errors.

If none of the above mentioned steps could able to solve the issue, the only available option is to format the drive and then the system will start to function properly as before. But this may format the important data after which user have to use any standard ntfs data recovery software to get their data back.

Limitations of Hard Disk Recovery & Steps to Improve its Performance

2011-12-19T09:17:00.018+05:30

As the storing device technologies continue progressing, Users have more option and capacity

to store their valuable data. In the past time, Users have only 50 MB to 1 GB of hard disk to
store the data, but now they can store up to thousands GB(Tera Byte) of data that can contains
millions of photo or thousands of songs and many more.

Users are so worried about storing their data to a better place because no one can guarantee
about their hard disk durability and at what moment the HDD will become corrupted or
malfunctioned. As a result, User would have no longer any access to their memorable images
or songs. These kinds of situations are so weird and pain full. But thanks to hard drive recovery
technologies, which recovers all the important data from the hard disk in some most extreme
situations.

So, if someone is having any hard disk that is corrupted or the important data in HDD get
permanently deleted i.e., accidentally users pressed shift + Delete while deleting any important
data, please read further to known exactly about how to improve the performance of your
HDD and what steps can be taken to recover your data completely. Its strongly recommended
to avoid doing experiments on the HDD such as freezing it, riding car over your HDD,
hampering it etc. to test disk recovery limitation because every hard disk is having its own
recovery limitation, in which after crossing the specified limit, there is no possibility of
rescuing your important data at any how.


Infrastructure:

Platter
It's a circular tape created by using aluminum and fixed with spindle motor. Responsible for
storing the data.

Base Casting
It's made up of aluminum and surfaced to hard disk which protects the hard drive from
external dust.

Spindle Motor
Spindle motor is small, fixed with platter and causes it to move circular. It's main aim to
provide long lasting consistent power supply for continuous use.

Logic Board
Logic board is the main source of read/write operation on the hard disk and connected to
read/write head by a ribbon cable.

Read/Write Head
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This is the most important part of the HDD that enables the logical data which in the form of
bits, to be written over platter in the form of magnetic pulses and vice versa. While reading
the data from the platter. R/W Head can perform both the operation concurrently in some
modern hard disks.

Tracks and Sectors
Each platter is the combination of thousands of concentric circles, called tracks and each tracks
are broken into thousands of pieces, called sectors. Each sector can contain upto 512 bytes of
data. Often the combination of sectors is known as clusters in the hard disk.

Ways to Improve Hard Disk Performance

Each hard disk becomes older as the time pasts and start to respond slowly and can even fail
completely. Well known reason behind the hard disk failure is mentioned below:

Due to of bad sectors and blocks,
Heated to peak point for using maximum resources that cause hard disk to crash,
Failure of spindle motor which causes platter to spin and
System shut down accidentally while the disk operation is in process.

So, its necessary to take some basic precautions to keep the hard drive free from any failures.
Instead of this, User will also need to follow some guidelines that greatly helps to improve hard disk performance and speed as well. Such as:

Never turn of the PC for a longer period of time as its platter become stuck if not uses frequently.
Don't format the hard drive unless and until its really needy.
Always prefer to use a standard source of power supply.
Using system utilities on a daily basis will keep the hard drive more reliable and speedy i.e., Defragment, Disk Cleanup etc.

Above mentioned steps are some of the common phenomena or ways to keep away hard disk healthy and free from any failure or crash.

Limitations of Hard Disk Recovery

Sometimes after taking all the precautions, the hard disk will become crashed or corrupted
due to off taking it from bad manufacturers. So it's always wise to take regular backup of
all the data, but if not, there is still a chance to recover the data with 100% accuracy. Many
novices were start doing experiment on their hard disk such us freezing it, wetting it and
start drying it with a warm air in the hope that might their hard disk will start to work again.
But these ways were not going to help you in anyway except to delete the remaining
possibility of recovering the data from the hard disk.

Hard disk has a limitation in which if the hard drive gets completely corrupted, many disk
recovery experts/hard drive recovery companies will refuse to recover the data from the
hard disk. Even many data recovery software would unable to recover the data. So
whenever the hard disk stopped responding or become inaccessible, just properly shut down
the system in a proper manner and let the HDD to any data recovery experts, or digg the
web, and I'm sure you will find some useful ways of recovering your data.

For more information about the limitations of hard drive recovery, you can check this:
Testing the Limits of hard disk recovery
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Indian businesses now availing the great benefits with Microsoft CRM R7 2011

2011-12-09T14:05:00.007+05:30

With growing Indian economy, businesses in India are taking many benefits. Several new technology advancement let them able to do so. Now this time, Microsoft Dynamic CRM R7 with outstanding social plugins and automated activity feeds, will give them an added benefit. Companies can now become more social with their customers worldwide. This post will describes the important features of Microsoft Dynamic CRM R7 and how it is helpful for your business.

Microsoft Dynamic CRM R7 2011 and Office 365
With office 365, Dynamic CRM R7 will give small size business or enterprise a great power to stay ahead from the competition and can become master of their niches. People would always love to use social media and micro-blogging sites, and now they can find the important updates, official announcement etc. on their favourite social networking sites by using automated activity feeds(in build feature in CRM R7), which is also accessible from windows enabled devices such as windows 7 phone. In this way, Business can find the exact customer needs, or the feedback about specific products. This product is also having the real time conversation features, so if users having any query or want to contact business person, they are free to involve in the conversation.

It will also enable businesses an easy cloud computing, managing common administration. Gathering and maintaining employee information, billing could also become so easier than ever. It will provide an excellent disaster recovery features for securing and maintaining large business data. Therefore, Business don't have to bother about their data privacy or security. You have to just visit on http://crm.dynamics.com/nov2011 and register yourself to get the free 30 day trial. You can test this product on your own and purchase it for your company or enterprise.

About Microsoft and it's other Services:
By using this product, business and enterprise can surely improve their customer experience, manage the company resources efficiently and increase brand awareness, in reach of customers 24*7.

Microsoft will always try to offer the best services and technology to its users, small or mid size businesses and enterprises. Microsoft can does great things on their own or by enabling their business partners which are having the user friendly technologies or help's user in many ways. Recently, Microsoft awarded the organization named Stellar Information Systems LTD. as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Stellar is the famous company and having great brand image among their millions of certified customers which help's people to recover any type of data, files and folders from inaccessible drive or location, crashed hard drive, memory card etc. by using different data recovery software. Stellar Information Systems ltd. is the worldwide firm and recovering data since 1993.

Recover inaccessible or lost files due to Windows upgrade

2011-11-28T12:08:00.002+05:30

At times, while trying to upgrade your current Windows operating system to a newer version, the system encounters problems. During this process, after the initial verification process, the system stops the installation process and all the data in the hard drive becomes completely inaccessible. There are several possible reasons behind this problem, which can be resolved with certain recommended solutions. However, if those suggestions fail to solve the problem, you can use any file recovery software to recover the seemingly lost or inaccessible data back.

In the above situations, the system fails to respond with several error messages on the screen. One of the mostly encountered error messages, while upgrading Windows 2000 to Windows XP can be read as below:

“Setup was unable to verify drive C:
Your computer may not have enough memory to examine the drive, or your Windows XP CD may contain some corrupted files.
To continue, press Enter.”

At the occurrence of the above error message, when you press the 'Enter' key, another error message is displayed as below:

“Setup cannot access the CD containing the Windows XP installation files.”

Possible reasons behind the above problem:

The BIOS settings are incompatible with the new OS, Windows XP.
The Windows XP setup disc may have damaged
The hard disk may be corrupt.
The motherboard does not support Windows XP.

Below are some of the suggested workarounds for the above listed causes behind the problem:

If your current BIOS version is incompatible with Windows XP, then verify and upgrade the version. You can use the Microsoft Windows Upgrade Advisor tool to verify and download the recent BIOS versions. Similarly, from there, you can get all the motherboard compatibility information.
If the Windows setup disc has the problem, try to clean the CD with any soft cloth and cross check the disc by running it on another system. If, the disc does not run, try using another disc.
If your hard disk has any corruption, then boot the system in Recovery Console and run the 'chkdsk' utility to scan the disk for errors. Moreover, if you find any corruption to the Master Boot Record (MBR), run the utilities, 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr' to repair the same.

However, after trying all the above options if the system still remains inaccessible, then you need to take the help of any reliable file recovery utility.

Software that can recover lost or formatted files back from your Windows system

2011-11-09T14:14:00.000+05:30

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These days, computers have been a necessity. The business class or working users store their important official data in the computer hard drives, while the home users use their computer hard drive storage to store their personal data. In this way, computer memory store many important data, including text documents, photos, songs, movies, audios, videos and many such files/folders. As the Windows operating system is being used by the most number of computer users in the world, these operating-system based computers are hugely targeted by various viruses/malwares. Though, users take steps to safe-guard their valuable data in the drives, sometimes, it becomes practically impossible to prevent the infection/corruption. In such situations, you can take the help of any file recovery software to recover your data back.

There are several situations, which corrupt important system files and make all the data in the drive completely inaccessible. Many users encounter such issues after installing a new software. After installing a device software that has probably come with your camera or any such device, when you restart the system, the system fails to boot and displays error messages on the screen. In such situation, the error message that you receive can be read as below:

“Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate”

The above error message indicates that the system registry file, which stores all the options and configuration settings of the Windows OS, has been damaged or corrupted.

In order to solve the above problem, you need to perform a set of systematic steps. First of all, you need to copy the system registry files from their original location to a newly created temporary folder. You to create a general set of registry files and place them at the location. These new registry files will help you boot the system. However, these files do not have any information, before the change and you need to restore the registry by performing 'System Restore'. This resolution process is quite confusing and can be performed only by the advanced users. Hence, it is suggested to format and restore the data from any valid backup.

However, if you do not have any valid backup, then you need to recover the lost, formatted or inaccessible files with the help of any file recovery software. These data recovery software are designed with highly innovative techniques to retrieve lost/inaccessible files and restore them back, with their original internal structure intact.

Lost Valuable Data – Here is the Solution!

2011-10-12T10:26:00.001+05:30

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In this era of Information Technology, computers have replaced almost all the paper works from almost all the industries. Be it small or large all the organizations have shifted their work on computers. Thus, the businesses are flourishing on the data saved on the computers. Despite of the thriving use of computers, the data stored on it is prone to loss due to reasons like hard disk crash, operating system corruption, virus infection, malicious software or applications, etc. But, the good news is people are now quite aware of data loss and thus they take all the precautionary measures to save their valuable data from future disasters. One of the most common and easiest ways to save our data from loss is to take its regular backup.

However, it is very rightly said that we cannot change which is destined. Thus, irrespective of all the measures taken to backup the data, there are times when we end up with data loss. And in such situation of precious data loss, one has very little option and that is to opt for third-party data recovery software. There are various organizations which provide solution for data recovery. The recovery software provided by these organizations have intuitive user interface that does not require any training of the software or prior knowledge of data recovery. In addition these organizations have experienced data recovery engineers which are there to assist you all the times.

One such organization is Stellar Information Systems Limited, which is providing the data recovery software and services for more than 18 years. The software which are working as mile stone for the organization in the field of data recovery are Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (different versions for Windows and Mac both), as well as data recovery software for Linux and UNIX operating systems. However, the various recovery software developed by the organization not only recover data from internal hard disk of the computer but also support recovery from external hard disk, USB drive, memory card, and various other secondary storage devices. So, if you are the one who is suffering from valuable data loss due to any reason then go to Stellar’s web site, find your product, download the free demo version. And after getting fully satisfied by the demo version purchase your required software which bears an affordable price.

Tips to repair JPEG Images

2011-08-31T17:36:00.012+05:30

Most of the camera users, photographers used JPEG or JPG image format to save their photos because of its graphics and photo quality. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Expert Group is the joint committee between ITU-T (formerly CCITT) and ISO/IEC which creates JPEG Standards.

JPEG is the most commonly used photo format all over the world that’s why most the photographers suffer with corruption in JPEG images. Most common corruption reason is when images gets corrupted - plug in your camera in to the switch and the electricity gone or fluctuating or you saved your images in PC/Laptop which is infected with virus or your camera wet due to rain or your file system get corrupted.

In all the above reasons you cannot see your images in proper format. See image below

In any case of corruption stop using device (Memory Card, SD Card or Hard Drive) instantly it may cause further damage to your photos. In case of camera failures or physical damage in memory card or hard drive the only way to recover photos by any good data recovery company.

Logical case is recoverable like if your photos are corrupted and there is not any physical damage in the card or hard drive, some of the JPEG Repair software available in the net those are effective enough to repair corrupt JPG files within a minute.

You can see in the image how photos are corrupted and after using JPEG Repair software it will come into its original form.

Discussing Partition corruption and ways to Undelete Windows files in case of Partition Error 0x80070571

2011-08-01T13:00:00.004+05:30

Partition corruption is a major area of concern for almost every Vista user. It leaves you in a distressing situation, wherein neither you have access to the partition data nor you can copy or save files to that partition. This may happen due to various reasons, including file system errors, operating system malfunction, virus infection, boot sector damage etc. The problem can be easily resolved using a CHKDSK utility, but this fix is often temporary. The instances, in which the CHKDSK utility fails to repair corruption and recover the inaccessible partition data, you need to use a third-party recovery tool in order to undelete files of the corrupt partition.

A Windows Vista computer behaves differently from its usual conduct in the event of partition malfunction. For instance, you can encounter error '0X80070571' each time when you try to create a file in a particular partition. Additionally, you might observe symptoms like:

• You cannot copy or save more files to the partition
• You fail to access few of the files stored on the partition
• If a Zip file is stored on the partition, you cannot unzip it

The above errors are caused due to partition corruption. Corruption may occur due to various reasons, such as file system errors, operating system malfunction, virus infection, boot sector damage etc.
Each hard disk partition in Windows is formatted to a file system, FAT or NTFS. The file system determines the method of storing and then organizing the files on the partition. Thus, if the partition file system is suffering from some malfunction, chances develop that create several issues while accessing these files. A similar situation has been described further. The solution to the discussed problem can compel you to reformat the partition, so you need a good backup of your data to perform Partition Recovery later.

For instance, you use a Windows Vista-based PC. You may receive the following error message while trying to create a new folder on your computer's external hard disk:

“An unexpected error is keeping you from creating the folder. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.

Error 0x80070571: The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.”

Most Possible Reasons:-

The above error occurs when all the following conditions are true-
• You are having an external hard disk or have recently created a secondary partition.
• You have installed the Windows Vista on the primary partition.
• Now, you move all the important data to the external hard disk or the secondary partition of your system hard disk.
• You again install Windows Vista on your primary partition.
• After reinstalling the OS, you try installing some Windows updates.

This would refrain you from copying or saving files to the partition. It may also lead to partition inaccessibility or data loss. In such situations, an updated backup may help to restore all the lost or inaccessible data. If the backup is unavailable, follow the below mentioned resolution steps to undelete Windows partition.

How to Solve it:-

Try these methods described below to sort the issue-

• Use an external disk of size greater than the total size of all the partitions on your system disk.
• Try to get a hard disk which has Windows XP PE version installed.
• Copy all the data to the external disk.
• Delete all the partitions on your system disk and make one complete partition.
• Try resetting permissions on the external disk using XP.
• Now install Windows Vista on the partitioned disk.
• Copy the data from the external hard disk to your system disk.

If the above steps are unable to fix the problem, you should take help of an efficient Windows undelete software to recover back all the lost partition data. These software use powerful scanning algorithms to ensure a quick and reliable partition recovery. They enable users to perform a signature based recovery of files.

Advanced data recovery service to get your data back from physically damaged drives

2011-07-14T17:13:00.001+05:30

Is your hard drive not booting-up or has it crashed? All mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifost all computer users have witnessed similar lines in their life. Crash of the hard drive or inaccessibility of the same, leads to the loss of important data in it. There was a time, when it is believed that once a piece of data has been deleted, it is gone for ever. In the same context, if there was a physical damage to the hard disk and it had crashed, nobody even could think of getting the data back. However, time has changed and now with the help of advanced hard drive data recovery techniques, there is ample chance of recovering all your lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible data back.

It can be MS Word documents, photographs, audio files, videos or any folder carrying business critical information, with hard drive crash all your data in the drive becomes completely inaccessible.

There are many possible reasons behind the occurrence of a hard drive crash. A hard drive of a computer has many mechanical and electromagnetic parts in it, such as the magnetic platter, the head, spindle motor, PCB (Printed Circuit Board), etc. If the head of the hard drive gets displaced, the motor stops functioning or any such problem happens, the hard drive fails.

These are the kind of problems, in which you cannot take any software to retrieve the data back. Such problems demand efficient data recovery services to recover the stuck data back.

Before start recovering the data, there are few lines of caution, which you must be aware of. Data in the hard drive never gets permanently erased/lost, until that is being overwritten. Hence, you must avoid using the drive/volume, on which you are to perform the recovery process.

Apart from this, physically damaged hard drives must not be opened in ordinary environment. In ordinary environment, there are many anomalies in the atmosphere, which can go within the head and the platter of the hard disk. This results scratches on the magnetic platter leading to loss of data beyond the scope of data recovery.

Opening of the physically damaged drives can only be performed inside CLASS 100 Clean Room. CLASS Clean Rooms are scientifically controlled environment, in which there are less than 100 dust particles of size below 0.5 microns per cubic foot of air.

A small analysis on NTFS Volume corruption and tips to Undelete Windows Files

2011-06-17T09:24:00.007+05:30

NTFS or (New Technology File System) is particularly known for its high performance and improved file-level security. Features like file encryption, compression, and auditing have made it a popular choice among the Windows users. It is generally used with large volumes and also incorporates various transaction logging techniques useful for maintaining the integrity of volume data. But NTFS based volumes usually get corrupt due to reasons like virus attacks, power surges, human errors etc.

There may be other reasons for corruption as well. The major ones are listed below-
• Hard disk corruption
• File system damage
• Problems with SCSI or IDE drivers

This would make all the hard drive data inaccessible. You can use a backup to restore all the lost or inaccessible data. However, if the backup is missing, you should follow the below given resolution steps to undelete files.

Try these steps to resolve the problem-
• Examine the error message carefully and try to find its real cause.
• Determine which driver or device is causing problem by checking error messages in the Event viewer.
• Stop all the anti-virus and backup programs currently running in your system.
• Use 'chkdsk /r' command to fix file system corruption.

If the problem still persists, you should take help of an efficient undelete software. These software safely recover all the files, documents, emails, photos, videos etc. from your Windows-based system in any instance of data loss. They have an in-built 'auto-update feature' that helps you install all the latest software updates. They incorporate many other useful features, such as resume recovery, file preview, drive status, recovery based on file types etc

Quickbooks Recovery for inaccessible data of company file

2011-05-18T15:11:00.003+05:30

A QuickBooks company file mainly uses two different files, one is data file and the other is backup file. Along with both these files, it uses other different files to store data or information. In data files, you store your data and due to various reasons, these data files get prone to corruption. In case of corruption, QuickBooks company data file starts showing abrupt behavior, resulting in the loss of valuable financial information of the organization. In such situations, a recently taken valid backup proves really beneficial. However, if backup is not available, or deficient, then such cases need to be dealt with the help of a third party recovery tool.

Let us consider a real time scenario. Suppose, you are using QuickBooks accounting software and while using it, you came across a serious problem with the application; QuickBooks company file is showing wrong balance in the undeposited funds account because of corrupt or damaged transactions.

To solve the above stated erroneous situation, first you have to trace out the corrupt or damaged transactions that are causing problems in the company data file. Following steps will guide you through the process:

1. Maintain a backup copy of the QuickBooks file and do not overwrite the backup.
2. Select Banking > Make Deposits.
3. Just deposit all the transactions listed in the Window of Payments to Deposit by making a memo, so that you can see the deposits later.
4. Select Report > Custom Summary Report.
5. Select Modify Report and perform the below steps:
• Use the drop down arrow to click Display rows and choose Payee.
• Select the Advanced button, choose Non-zero in the section of Display Rows, and then click OK.
6. Select the Filters tab by below steps:
• Choose Account from the Filters list.
• Click the drop-down arrow named as Account and choose Undeposited Funds.
• Choose Date from the Filters list.
• Select the drop-down arrow, named as Date and select All.
7. Click OK to execute the report.
8. Check for a corrupt or damaged transaction. If it is found to be damaged, record again.
9. After correcting the corrupt transactions, remove the deposit, which was created in the third step.

If the problem still remains the same, try any third party repair tool. These tools effectively repair QuickBooks file and are absolutely non-destructive nature. The procedure for using these tools is quite easy and does not require any technical skill.
Resource: http://www.stellarinfo.com/file-repair/quickbooks-recovery/quickbooks-recovery.php

World class hard disk recovery techniques now available

2011-05-06T12:44:00.003+05:30

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Which is the storage media that store major portion of your data? Is it the pen drive, CD, DVD, any other external media or the hard drive of your computer? Yes, it is the hard drive of the computer that primarily stores all the data, before you transfer them to any other media. For its rigorous use or sometimes, for your mistakes, hard drive gets damaged and all your data in the drive becomes lost or inaccessible. In such a situation, if you do not have a previously taken valid backup, then the hard drive need to be treated by opting professional hard disk recovery services.

You may have encountered many data loss incidents in day to day life, including data deletion, formatting, file system corruption, operating system malfunction, inaccessibility of data due to virus/malware infection etc. In all such cases, the recovery of lost/inaccessible data can be performed by using any third-party recovery software.
But, what if the head of the hard drive has been damaged, the motor is not working, the acuter arm has been displaced, the circuit board has been blown away by a bad short-circuit or a firmware corruption! No software is able to deal with these mechanical, electrical or firmware failure. In case of a physical damage to the hard disk, first of all the hard disk needs to be repaired inside specially maintained CLASS 100 Clean Room labs and then only the data in it can be retrieved back.

Note: CLASS 100 Clean Room is a prime requisite for hard disk data recovery, in which there are less than 100 dust particles (size below 0.5 microns) per cubic foot of air present in comparison to some thousand numbers in even closed office/home environment.
The most prominent reason behind unsuccessful hard drive recovery is the experiments on the troubled devices. Recovery operations on the damaged hard disk by any inexperienced person or at your own just lead to some disastrous results leading to loss of data beyond recovery.

Hard disk recovery is a specialized job and not only need expertise but also many scientific tools, techniques and infrastructure like CLASS 100 Clean Room. Hence, it is always safe to opt for professional hard disk recovery service providers to perform the recovery task.

How to recover deleted files from Linux

2011-04-13T12:25:00.000+05:30

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A file can be anything, including an Open Office text document, a spread sheet, a photo, an audio file, a video file or any other multimedia file. Though, LINUX systems are more of a command based operating system, at many times the users whether by mistake or unknowingly hit wrong commands, which lead to deletion of files. LINUX is considered to be the most recently developed operating system that has gained its popularity not by mere marketing strategy but by virtue of its advanced features. LINUX is updated regularly with recent technologies, but, unfortunately, there is no such feature available that officially claims that it can recover a deleted file.

Whether in part of a home user or a professional user, file deletion is a part of regular computer usage. It can be an incident of accidental deletion or maybe you deleted a file, which you felt necessary and now want it back. Moreover, file deletion can have many more reasons behind it, such as file system corruption, malfunctioning of the operating system, virus/malware infection etc.

However, there is an interesting fact that will take your worries of data loss away. The deleted data never goes away permanently from the LINUX system. LINUX only deletes the address of the deleted file and shows the memory as free, so that a new piece of data can be stored using that memory. Therefore, the deleted file lies very much at the same place in the hard drive and with the help of good Linux data recovery software, you can get that back.

In the mean time, you need to ensure that the drive or partition from which you want to recover the deleted file must be untouched. Because, if you keep on working on the drive, chances may be there that the deleted file may get overwritten by some other data. If that happens, you chance of recovering deleted file almost finishes.

Hence, it is best to use an efficient recovery software soon. These software are perfectly read-only in nature and there is no danger for other data in the hard drive.

Mac data recovery to bring back your lost data safely

2011-04-08T16:56:00.002+05:30

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Mac is the only operating system, which is used almost in equal numbers to that of Microsoft Windows. The operating system has been developed with great analysis and that reflects in the satisfaction of its users. Some Mac users even feel that they are using a superior product, which can never go wrong. However, like any other system, Mac system also goes wrong resulting in the loss r inaccessibility of valuable data in the system hard drive. But, don’t worry! There are many Mac data recovery software available in the market to retrieve back your seemingly lost data.

While using Mac system, there can be a number of things, which can put your system into trouble leading to serious data loss or inaccessibility. Some of the reasons can be listed as below:

• Accidental or Intentional deletion of an important file
• Virus or Malware infection resulting in the inaccessibility of data
• Accidental formatting of the drive/volume
• Mac file system corruption and inaccessibility
• Malfunctioning of Mac OS X
• Any other application contradiction leading to corruption etc.

In all the above situations, the data either gets lost or becomes inaccessible. But, the soothing factor is among such a tragic event is that data in the Mac drive is never permanently lost until it is being overwritten by any new data.
Even after deletion, formatting or corruption, the seemingly lost data still remains in the Mac hard drive and can be recovered back using any efficient data recovery software for Mac.

These Mac file recovery software are developed with extremely powerful programs, which can scan every bit of the Mac hard drive and successfully locate the lost data.

In the mean time, you need to ensure that the troubled drive or volume must be unaltered, as no software can retrieve the overwritten data.

Mac recovery software is absolutely risk-free in their scanning and recovery operations and there is no harm for other data in the drive. Above all, these utilities incorporate highly interactive graphical user interfaces, so that you do not need any further assistance in using them.

Useful Link: http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm

Mac photo recovery while I am in exiting holiday

2011-04-04T17:47:00.002+05:30

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I had gone for on the holiday to my paternal village after a some 20 years. Though the village had changed in greater extent, it had still maintained its sanctity and purity. The village had always been my divine destination when I was a child. But with the change of time and my engagement in studies and job along with the changed scopes for entertainment in the water, I had almost forgotten the enjoyment I used to have in my village. After such a long interval, I wanted to capture each moment in my village and with my village men in my camera. So I had snapped as many photos as I could. Back home, I uploaded the photos in my Mac book to edit them and then float them in the facebook. However, after a month when I tried to view the photos in my system, I was unable to access them. By this time I had no photos in my camera either.

Being a data recovery expert I used to recover my inaccessible photos from an updated backup. But as I had no proper backup of my photos, I used Stellar Phoenix Mac photo recovery
software to recover my photos. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is one such tool that performs Mac Picture Recovery from memory cards, CDs, DVDs, iPods, USB storages devices, digital cameras, Flash Cards, Zip Disks, Mini Disks and Mac operating system based hard drives. The software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther).

File Recovery with the Expert Software saves your time

2011-03-17T14:23:00.001+05:30

Several times it happens that you may fail to access the data saved in your Windows based computer. The reasons may be different. At times you may simply find it missing or deleted and other times there may be a problem with the file system of your operating system. Whatever the case may be, you look for ways to recover deleted files. Given the importance of the files, you need to look for the accurate resolutions. Files may be related to your work or to the functioning of the Windows.

Many times you fail to perform a task smoothly due to repeated interruptions by virus. One of the most common virus warning messages is -

“This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated by HOME- 90537A666E\john smith

Time before shutdown : 00.00.08

Message
WARNING! Your computer is infected and will shutdown.”

This may be one of the cases where you cannot access the file at all. With time, the frequency of the warning increases. You worry for your important files. File recovery becomes utmost important now. Here, you may try few simple steps to resolve the issue.

• Start a deep scan of the system with the latest version of the anti-virus you are using. If needed go for a different anti virus tool that can probably detect the infection.
• If the step does not solve your cause then download the patch from the Microsoft support website. Patch is a software that is designed to fix certain issues including the security vulnerabilities. This may heal the infection.

However, there may be cases when even the patch file or a system scan by your anti virus may not resolve the issue. File recovery software can come to your rescue here. It recovers deleted and formatted partitions, like NTFS, NTFS5, exFAT, VFAT, FAT32 and FAT16.

Deleted File recovery when Windows Vista fails to recognize the system partition

2011-03-07T17:42:00.002+05:30

Boot partition is the partition of your primary hard disk containing the necessary system files required to boot the Windows operating system. This system partition should be marked as active for the Windows to easily recognize the partition. If any of the files goes missing or gets corrupt, your PC will become unbootable resulting in serious data loss or inaccessibility. Furthermore, if you try to change your active partition using the Windows disk management tool, you may face similar problems. To overcome the problem, you need to go for file recovery through a reliable third -party utility.

Let's illustrate a practical scenario. Suppose, when you try to start your Windows Vista-based computer, it fails to successfully boot and you are forced to start the system in Windows Recovery Environment. When you try to use the 'Startup Repair' option to repair Windows Vista, you receive the following error message:

“The partition table does not have a valid System Partition.”

Possible Reasons:
The system files in the active partition may be missing or corrupt, which the Windows Vista requires for booting.

Startup Repair may fail due to any of the following reasons-
• Virus infection
• Hardware malfunction
• Windows update
• Corrupt registry

This would prevent you from accessing the valuable information stored in your system. To recover all your lost or inaccessible data in such circumstances, you should use efficient Windows file recovery software. First, you should try to fix the above error by following the below mentioned resolution steps.

Solution:
Try anyone of these steps to solve the problem-
• Try restoring the missing system files from a backup.
• Restore Windows Vista to a previous healthy state using the 'System Restore' feature.
• If the problem still persists, format the system and reinstall Windows Vista.

Formatting the computer would mean erasing all the data stored on your system hard disk. If you have a backup, you can easily restore your lost data. If the backup is missing, you should take help of a deleted file recovery tool. These software can recover deleted or formatted files, photos, music, videos, emails, databases etc. in any data loss scenario. They recover Windows files without compromising the integrity and authenticity of the data.

Resolving DBF corruption in Visual FoxPro 8.0 after receiving “Fatal Error: Exception Code=C0000005”

2011-03-01T10:17:00.002+05:30

Visual FoxPro, derived from FoxPro, is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. It has a built-in database engine, through which it can perform data manipulation and support SQL queries. It is widely used for creating web applications, fat client applications, and middle-ware. But Visual FoxPro users sometimes face corruption problems. These problems can arise due to a number of reasons, such as conflicting anti-virus packages, faulty network components, incompatible video drivers, file locking issues etc. These factors could make the Visual FoxPro DBF file inaccessible and you may lose all the vital information stored in your database. To overcome this problem and regain access to the corrupt DBF file, you need to go for DBF recovery through a reliable third-party utility.

For instance, you are using Visual FoxPro 8.0. When you try to open your Visual FoxPro DBF file, you may receive any one of the following error messages:

“Fatal Error: Exception Code=C0000005”

“The instruction at "0x0046ae8e" referenced memory at "0x00000020".
The memory count not be "read".
”

“VFP caused an invalid page fault in module VFP.EXE at 0137:0045e07a.”

Might be the possible reasons:

The above error may be caused by any one of the following reasons-

· Any anti-virus programs installed in your system

· Poor network adapters

· Corrupt indexes

· Driver issues

· Some ActiveX controls may be causing the problem

This may prevent you from accessing the DBF file components. To repair corrupt DBF file and restore all the damaged components, you may use a backup. If the backup is not available, you should follow the below given resolution steps.

Perfect Solution:

Try to obtain the latest service pack for Visual FoxPro 8.0.

If the above solution fails to solve the problem, you should take help of an efficient DBF recovery. These software have a rich feature set, which ensure a complete and accurate recovery of the damaged DBF file components, such as table name, column name, primary keys, column data type, indexes etc. They have an embedded 'Live Update' feature to install the latest software updates.

Have you ever Converted OST file? It is truly Easy and Effective

2011-02-17T10:01:00.002+05:30

Outlook e-mail application is fully capable to work in an Offline mode. Offline mode permits you to access e-mails and other data related to mail-objects. But you cannot send e-mails to other person. Once a synchronization is done, data directly gets converted to PST file. But you will be shocked to hear that Outlook OST file is vulnerable to corruption. After corruption, data of OST file cannot be synchronized with the Exchange Server. To avoid the corruption of OST file, it is suggested to be extra careful while working with OST file. Do not kept large amount of data in the OST file that it exceeds the size limit. But if the OST file gets already corrupt, then use corrective methods. Otherwise, use a OST PST converter, so that you can directly convert OST file to a PST file.

In the below scenario, a problem of OST file has been discussed. Here it is, when you make an attempt to add new data to the OST file with the use of synchronization or some another operation. And, if OST file reaches or exceeds the size of file 2GB, you will become unable to add more data into it. If you still try the same, it will display an error message for you, that is:

“Task 'Microsoft Exchange Server' reported error (0x00040820):'Errors in background synchronization. In most cases, further information is available in a synchronization log in the Deleted Items folder.'”

Try to sort out the issue by applying different procedures after knowing the disgraceful cause.

Possible Reasons:
Reason responsible for this peculiar situation is that your OST file has exceeded the size of 2GB. Because of exceeding the size, Outlook OST file gets corrupt or damaged. When corruption occurs, delivery of e-mails to OST file gets stopped.

May be You get the Solution From here:
This peculiar situation can be easily overcome, if you upgrade your Outlook prior version to Outlook 2003. As, the later versions of Outlook have more capacity than 2GB. You have an option of inbuilt OST Integrity Checker tool also. Let us see what this tool does? This tool repairs the OST file when the file gets corrupt. But you cannot always rely on this utility. In other words, OST Integrity Checker tool sometimes does not repair the OST file due to its limitations.

However, if you do not get desired results, or you are facing problems while working with OST file, then it is good to opt for a third party OST to PST conversion tools. Conversion of OST to PST cannot be done without the use of a third party tools. Because Outlook itself do not provide any utility. That is why, you need to convert OST file with a third party tools. A lots of software are available in the market this time. But before purchasing this tool, know all the features of these tools by using a demo version.

Windows XP operating system is unable to recognize the available space of the hard drive

2011-02-04T15:03:00.000+05:30

Hard drive is the primary storage device of a computer system. All the data on the computer along with the operating system is stored on the hard drive. If you are a Windows XP operating system user, you might have encountered situation in which the Windows fails to recognize the available disk space. For, example, suppose your hard drive has a capacity of 30 gigabyte, but according to Disk Management utility or Windows Explorer, you only have 2 GB of space in your hard drive. This may result in inaccessibility of the data saved on the hard drive resulting in vital data loss. However the data can be recovered using Windows data recovery software.

In this case, even though you have sufficient disk space, you get the error message that reads:

“Low Disk Space. You are running out of disk space on ”

Possible Issues..

The root cause of this error message is that the Windows XP operating system is unable to recognize the available space of the hard drive.

Possible Solutions:

Following are the methods that one must follow in order to resolve the problem arises due to failure of the operating system to recognize the total available space in the hard drive:

Insert the Windows XP installation CD into the CD-ROM drive and restart the computer
After you get the start option from the CD, press any key to start
When you find the Windows XP Setup screen, press ENTER
Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) by pressing F8
To install the Windows XP freshly without repairing, press ESC when you see the list of current Windows XP installations on your screen
You will receive the partition information on the Windows XP Setup screen. Note the partitioned and unpartitioned space and find if your available space is listed. Then, perform either of the following steps:

If all of your hard disk space is not listed, then you can conclude that the problem lies with the BIOS that is preventing the computer from recognizing your hard disk correctly

or
If all the hard disk space is listed, perform one of the following options:

To delete the partition, select the partition you want to delete and then press D
To create a new partition , select the unpartitioned space and then press C

The methods described above May require that you reinstall Windows XP there by results in loss of the data stored on the computer. It is thus recommended to take a backup of your data before conducting the above procedures. But many time it becomes impossible to take backup of your data. At this time, the Windows data recovery software turns out to be the best option to retrieve the lost data in the process.

You can recover your photos from a mac based computer system

2011-01-31T17:31:00.003+05:30

Photos are the most fascinating possession of any person. The precious moments are captured in the camera for times to come. The mac based system is a user's delight as it provides utmost facilities to the users to edit and manage the photos. However, the photos in the mac based computer system is also prone to get corrupted and thereby become inaccessible. An updated backup is a sign of rescue in case the photos are not accessible. But in case a proper backup is not present, a mac photo recovery software is the best option to recover the inaccessible photos. The software throughly scans the hard drive to trace the lost and deleted photos.

Consider a situation wherein, you have gone for your brother's convocation party. As your parents did not go for the party you snapped as much photos as possible to show them back home. Back home, you transferred the photos from the memory card of the camera to the mac note book. After you saved your file on the mac note book, you had shut down the system. When you further logged in to the system to access the photographs to show it to your parents, you did not find your photos. Now your brother charged on you for damaging his precious photos. Now you thought to retrieve the photos from the memory card. But to your utter misfortune, your brother thinking that the photos are already saved on the system, reformatted to card and save new photos, which ultimately over wrote the older photos. Now you remain helpless with no clue of what to do next. You had tried your best to search the photos in other locations of your system but in vain. The photos from the system is lost for sure.

If this has been your pity condition, you can retrieve the photos from an updated backup. But it is not possible to have a proper backup all the time. In such condition, you can use mac photo recovery software to recover your lost and deleted photos.

Corrupt PST file cannot be imported - How to repair PST file to access my mails?

2011-01-28T12:39:00.002+05:30

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Many times, process of importing a PST file becomes quite complex. Specially, when you are trying to import PST file of later version to a prior version of MS-Outlook. This inconvenience is caused because different versions of Outlook use different formats. Like, MS-Outlook 2003 uses UNICODE format whereas prior versions of Outlook uses ANSI format. Version incompatibility does not allows you to perform import process without any difficulty. To overcome such failures, make use of methods that help to overcome such problem. Otherwise, repair PST file with the help of a commercial Outlook PST repair tool.

Let's discuss an error message that appears when you make an attempt to import an Outlook PST file. And if the version of the MS-Outlook is earlier than MS-Outlook 2003, an Outlook PST file can't get imported and receives an error message that utters something like this:

“Properties for this information service must be defined prior to use.”

On clicking OK button, another error message gets received.

“The file path\filename.pst is not compatible with this version of Personal Folders information service. Contact your administrator.”

Root of the issue:
Above problem is caused because the Outlook PST file that you are importing is a file of MS-Outlook 2003. MS-Outlook 2003 PST files support Unicode format whereas prior versions of Outlook donot support Unicode format. In other words, version incompatibility is the main reason for the above error message. Because of version incompatibility, Outlook PST file gets corrupt.

Solution:
Follow the below mentioned steps to isolate above error message:

First of all, save your MS-Outlook 2003 PST file as Outlook 97-2002 PST file, and then try to export Outlook 2003 PST file to a new Outlook PST file by considering the following steps:

Select New from the File menu, and then select Outlook Data File. Perform this step in Outlook 2003.
Select Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File in the New Outlook Data File dialog box.
Type a name for your new Outlook PST file in the Create or Open Outlook Data File. After doing this, save the new PST file to a location like Windows Desktop.
Select OK to close the Create Microsoft Personal Folders dialog box.
Choose a new Personal Folders from the Navigation Pane. Then select Import and Export from the File menu.
Select Import from another program or file, and then select Next.
Select Personal Folder File (.pst), and then select Next.
Select Browse to select the Outlook PST file that is trying to export to an earlier version. Select Open.
Select Next.
From Select the folder to import from, select Personal Folders.
Select Include subfolders check box.
From the Import items into the same folder in box, select the PST file that is saved in step 3.
Select Finish.
Select OK after receiving the following error message:

You are importing data to a location that does not fully support Unicode. To avoid loss of multilingual data, it is recommended that you choose a location that supports Unicode, such as a Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders File.

Select OK to continue with the location that you have chosen.
For importing the new PST file to an earlier version of MS-Outlook, follow the below steps:

From the prior version of MS-Outlook, select Import and Export from the file menu.
Select Import from another program or file, and then select Next.
Select PST file, and then select Next.
Select Browse to locate and open the PST file that is saved from Outlook 2003. Then select Next.
From Select the folder to import from, select Personal Folders.
Select Include subfolders check box by clicking.
From the Import items into the same folder in box, select the PST file that you want to import.
Select Finish.

If by performing above steps you do not find any results, then go for a third party Outlook PST repair tools. Repair PST file with the help of these software.

Performing SQL database recovery after receiving MS SQL Server Error 8909

2011-01-25T09:56:00.002+05:30

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While working with large databases, one often had to compromise on performance and time when there was a requirement for using only specific data from the large repository of data. It was important to limit or filter results of the queries that returned entire datasets from the SQL Server database. To overcome this problem, MS SQL Server used the paging technique to efficiently organize the data into small and manageable pages. These pages fail to function properly in case of a database corruption and you might not be able to implement any of the paging methods which may require you to go for database recovery.

There could be a number of reasons behind database corruption, such as virus attacks, power surges, improper shutdown etc. In such situations, you should take appropriate steps to recover your precious data from the corrupt database. If you are unable to recover the database, you should perform SQL repair by using a third party recovery software.

Sometimes the DBCC CHECKDB command may fail and return the following error message while performing a consistency check on one of your database tables:

"Table error: Object ID O_ID, index ID I_ID, page ID P_ID1. The PageId in the page header = P_ID2."

Most Possible Reasons:
This error may have occurred due to any of the following reasons-
There could be a mismatch between the page header of a requested page and some other page.
The database table on which the DBCC CHECKDB command was running may be corrupt.

When you try running DBCC CHECKDB using 'repair_allow_data_loss' option, it will show that the error is fixed even though it is not. When the DBCC CHECKDB fails to fix the error, you should try to perform SQL recovery through below mentioned resolution steps.

What You Need to Do:
These steps might help you solve the problem-
Check whether a hardware failure has caused the problem. You may be required to run hardware diagnostics.
Try using a backup to restore database to its original state.

If all the above mentioned resolution steps fail to solve the problem, you should take help of a reliable database recovery software in order to recover back your lost valuable data from the corrupt database. These software use efficient scanning algorithms that enable you to perform a faster recovery.

Recovery of Lost Windows partition After MBR Corruption

2011-01-14T12:22:00.004+05:30

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While booting the computer, you might encounter error messages like “Missing operating system”, “Error loading system”, and “Invalid partition table”. These messages are displayed when there is damage or corruption in the Master Boot Record (MBR). Located in the boot section of the hard drive, which is the first sector on the first platter, MBR contains the sequence of commands necessary to boot the operating system. It tells the computer’s BIOS (Basic Input Output System) the location of bootstrap code for the operating system. The MBR includes 4 partition tables of 16 bytes each. The partition table retains the information about size and location of partitions on hard disk. Anyways, MBR corruption leads to severe loss of your valuable data, which can be only recovered using an efficient third party partition recovery software.

Possible Causes:

Let us consider few prominent causes of MBR corruption that potentially result in partition loss. The corruption in the MBR can be caused because of the following factors:

· MBR damage due to partition table damageImage via Wikipedia
· Damage due to CIH virus
· Accidental deletion of partition
· EPBR corruption due to damage of Partition table
· Damage due to corruption of partition boot sector

At times, while booting the Operating System after hardware testing procedures in a MS Windows-based system, we find just blank screen with no messages. It signifies that the piece of code at the beginning of the MBR could not be executed properly, as a result even error messages could not be displayed. This is a very severe case of data loss as you are not at all able to communicate with the computer. It clearly demands to recover lost Windows partition and get back your inaccessible data.

Might be the Solutions

Image via WikipediaWe will now briefly discuss on different resolution methods for the damage of the MBR caused due to above discussed reasons.

MBR damage due to partition table damage
In this case, non of the partitions are detected and accessed by the Fdisk or the OS. The data can be recovered by patching the MBR partition table.

Damage due to CIH virus
In this case, the virus dumps random data in the first 2048 sectors of the hard disk. MBR which is located in the first sector of the hard disk also gets corrupted in this process as a result, non of the partition is detected and accessed by the OS. This type of damage requires expert's advice.

Accidental deletion of partition
In this case, a partition is deleted accidentally by the use of Fdisk or Windows Disk Administrator. The MBR and the partition table remain valid while the pointers to the partition are removed from the partition table thereby, the deleted partition is not detected. The corrupted data can be recovered by adding an entry for the deleted partition in the partition table.

EPBR corruption due to damage of Partition table
In this case, none of the partitions described in the corrupt EPBR can be accessed. The corrupted data can be recovered by rebuilding a valid logical partition chain.
Damage due to corruption of partition boot sector
In this case, the primary FAT32 partition is assigned a drive letter but cannot be accessed. The corrupted data can be recovered by repairing the partition boot sector.

The above mentioned procedures may help you resolve the issue with your corrupt MBR. In many cases, it may happen that after following the above steps you are still not able to interact with your computer, which compels you to go for Windows data recovery. There are many third-party Windows data recovery software available in the market. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers the lost data in the case of MBR corruption.

DBCC CHECKDB Cannot Fix Serious Database Corruption in SharePoint

2011-01-11T09:43:00.002+05:30

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Microsoft SharePoint Server is a product of Microsoft that enables you to create collaborative enterprise environment and easily share your business-critical data. It uses robust SQL Server database that is very reliable. SQL Server offers advanced tools to check database integrity and fix any kind of corruption to the database. These SharePoint recovery utilities are totally safe and easy to use.

DBCC CHECKDB utility supports various parameters that help you recover SharePoint data in different scenarios. For instance, when you run DBCC CHECKDB on a SharePoint database that does not have severe corruption; you may get the following message-

“DBCC results for 'database_name'.
Service Broker Msg 9675, State 1: Message Types analyzed: 14.
Service Broker Msg 9676, State 1: Service Contracts analyzed: 6.
Service Broker Msg 9667, State 1: Services analyzed: 3.
Service Broker Msg 9668, State 1: Service Queues analyzed: 3.
Service Broker Msg 9669, State 1: Conversation Endpoints analyzed: 0.
Service Broker Msg 9674, State 1: Conversation Groups analyzed: 0.
Service Broker Msg 9670, State 1: Remote Service Bindings analyzed: 0.
Service Broker Msg 9605, State 1: Conversation Priorities analyzed: 0.”

However, if database is corrupt and it requires SharePoint database recovery, you might get the below error message while running DBCC CHECKDB command-

“DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
Msg 8968, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Table error: DBCC PAGE page (1:11368905) (object ID 0, index ID 0, partition ID 0, alloc unit ID 0 (type Unknown)) is out of the range of this database.”

This error occurs when DBCC CHECKDB cannot handle database corruption. If corruption is serious, alternative recovery mechanisms are required. The most efficient recovery solution is to restore database from backup. However, this recovery method works only if backup is valid and updated.

If you do not have a usable backup, SharePoint recovery software becomes need of hour. These tools are designed to thoroughly scan entire database and extract all unusable items from it.

SharePoint database recovery applications are able to work in all corruption scenarios, including virus infection, database structure corruption, and more. They are incorporated with highly-interactive user interface and thus do not demand sound technical skills to recover damaged database.

Recovering inaccessible Windows XP data when you install Windows Vista to make it dual-boot

2010-12-17T12:31:00.001+05:30

The startup pattern of Windows XP is very different than that of Windows Vista. That is the reason when you install Windows Vista in a system that is already having Windows XP, some or the other startup problem comes up. One of the reasons behind this is that in Windows XP, the boot.ini file tells the operating system about the location of Windows installation. And when Windows Vista is installed in another partition, you may not be able to start Windows XP. You can modify the boot.ini file in such case to recover partition. If that is not possible, then you should use a third-party Windows partition recovery software to recover all the data.
Let us consider an instance when you have installed Windows Vista in a system that already has Windows XP to make it a dual-boot computer. However, when you start the system using Windows XP it does not start and displays the following error message:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Cause:

This problem has occurred as Windows Vista is installed in formerly unallocated disk space that existed in front of the partition on which Windows XP was installed.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should perform the following steps:
· Start Windows Vista.
· Right-click 'Start' and click 'Explore'.
· In the 'Organize' menu, click 'Folder and Search Options'.
· Click 'View' in the 'Folder Options' dialog box.
· In the 'Advanced settings' area, click 'Show hidden files and folders'.
· Clear the selected 'Hide extensions for known file types' check box, and 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)' check box.
· Select the 'Yes' check box to confirm that you want to display the operating system files.
· Click OK when done.
· Browse and click the Windows XP system drive.
· Right-click boot.ini file, and click 'Properties'.
· Click Owner | Edit.
· Leave the default 'Administrators' option selected in the 'Change owner to' list and click OK four times.
· Right-click boot.ini file and click 'Edit'.
· Modify the ARC (Advanced RISC Computing) path as appropriate for the correct path of the Windows XP startup partition. The ARC path should look like the following path:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
· Save the boot.ini file and close Notepad.
· Restart the system and boot into Windows XP.

However, if you are unable to boot Windows XP partition then you should recover partition with the help of a third-party partition recovery software. These tools are absolutely safe to use that do not damage the existing files during recovery.

Recovering inaccessible data from damaged hard disk in Windows XP

2010-12-10T15:29:00.001+05:30

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In the Windows operating system, there are certain system files that are used to boot the system. These files perform several types of tasks of their own like suggesting which type of operating system to select to boot, the partition to access, etc. However, this practice fails to occur when these system files are corrupt due to any miscellaneous reason such as virus infections, hard disk damage, abrupt or unplanned system shutdown, etc. Such situations call for reinstalling the Windows system but for that you would need to recover the lost data. That is made easy using a third-party hard disk recovery software that would help you in doing so.

Let us consider a situation in which you start your Windows XP system but it fails to boot properly. It stops showing a black screen and may display either of the following error messages:

STOP: C0000221 unknown hard error
Path\File_name
STOP: 0xC0000221 unknown hard error
C:\Winnt\System32\Ntdll.dll (or another specific file or driver)
STOP: 0xC0000221 STATUS_IMAGE_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH
Path\File_name

Cause:

There could be the following reasons for this situation at the system startup:

The files mentioned in the error messages are either missing or damaged.
You have installed an inappropriate system driver that is incompatible with the system.
You may have installed an Iomega ZIP drive on the same IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) cable as the hard disk drive.

Resolution:

You can perform the following methods to resolve this problem:

Repair the damaged files: You should try to use the Windows XP Setup CD to repair or replace the corrupt system boot files.
Reinstall Windows XP: If the previous method does not work, then you should use the Setup CD to reinstall Windows XP.

These mentioned methods would be able to address the problem. However, as one of the methods suggests to reinstall Windows XP that would result in you losing the precious inaccessible data. In such cases, you would need to recover all such data using a third-party hard disk recovery software. Using sophisticated scanning mechanisms, these data recovery tools ensure that the data is not damaged during the recovery.

Advanced Mac photo recovery software to recover your seemingly lost photos

2010-12-06T15:41:00.002+05:30

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Are you unable to mount your external hard drive carrying all your memorable photos to your Mac system? Don't worry! This is a panic situation of photo loss that many Mac users must have witnessed. However, the good thing is that your lost or deleted photos are never permanently lost from the Mac system, until they are being over written and with the help of any Mac photo recovery utility can be easily recovered back.

This article will give you a insight of the problem that you have faced, how to deal with it and how to perform photo recovery Mac to bring back your precious pictures.

While trying to mount your external hard drive with some thousands of valuable photos and videos, you encounter an error message, following which the media got completely inaccessible. The error message that you received can be read as below:

"Directory cannot be rebuilt, this file system is unsupported

Or This disk is not a Macintosh disk

Or This disk does appear on the desktop."

The errors appear as problem related to the file system of the media. The cause can be the corruption or damage to the file system of the external device after an abrupt shut down of your Mac system, virus/ malware infection etc.

Resolution

In such a case, if there is not any visible damage to the storage device, you can run the 'Disk Utility', by connecting the device to your Mac system. Disk Utility is an in-built utility with most of the Mac OS X based system to check the integrity of the disk and repair them as well. However, if Disk utility fails, you have another option to check and repair the file system of the media by running the command-line utility 'fsck'.

However, 'fsck' also fails at times, when there is a severe corruption to the storage media and under such a complicated situation, you need to take the help of advanced Mac image recovery software to recover and restore your seemingly lost photos back.

How to recover data while BCD store is corrupt or missing entries in Windows Vista

2010-12-02T12:20:00.002+05:30

In the Windows Vista and later operating systems of Windows, the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) store contains the boot entries, which are read by the boot manager when the system is started. The well being of the BCD store is very essential for the system. However, due to some unavoidable circumstances such as virus infections, power outages, hardware malfunctioning, abrupt or unplanned system shutdown, etc the BCD store gets corrupt and you are unable to start the system. In such cases, you should try to rebuild the BCD store to recover Windows data using appropriate methods. If these methods are insufficient to save your day, then I would suggest using a third-party Windows data recovery software from the inaccessible system.

Consider a situation in which you are unable to start your Windows Vista-based system. An error message is displayed in this regard, that is:

“File: \Boot\BCD

Status: 0xc0000034

Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information”

Cause:

Such problems at system startup can appear for either of the following conditions is true:

* The Boot\BCD file on the active partition is damaged or missing.
* The Windows Boot Manager (Bootmgr) entry is not present is the BCD store.

Resolution:

This problem can be resolved using either of the following methods. Please note that you follow these methods in the given sequence only:

* Repair the BCD store by using the Startup Repair option: You should use the 'Startup Repair' option in the Windows Recovery Environment to repair the BCD store. Restart the system after doing this. If the problem is not solved, then proceed to the next method.

* Rebuild the BCD store by using the Bootrec.exe tool: You should rebuild the BCD store by using the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment. Restart the system after doing this. If the problem persists, then try the next method.

* Rebuild the BCD store manually by using the Bcdedit.exe tool: Finally, you should try out manually rebuilding the BCD store by using the Bcdedit.exe tool.

If the problem is still persisting, then you should recover Windows data using a powerful third-party data recovery software. These hard drive recovery utilities are able to recover all the inaccessible files using fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms without any data loss.

Data Recovery Software Are A Necessity If You Delete or Format Data

2010-11-25T16:29:00.002+05:30

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With the plethora of software that are available in the market, it is little surprise that people wonder which software is beneficial for them and which one isn't. Same is the case, when they come across a data recovery software. These software recover deleted data. But isn't it possible to recover deleted data by selecting 'Recover' from 'Recycle Bin'. Yes it is possible! But what happens if a particular file is no longer residing in your 'Recycle Bin'. Then how can you recover. Or what if your deleted file never found its way into the 'Recycle Bin'. Even then, files can be recovered. There are times when you accidentally delete a few files that you did not intend to. In such situations, it is only a file data recovery software that can aid you.

These software are specifically designed to analyze those parts of the hard drive which are marked for writing data. They read those areas of the hard disk drive which are interpreted as empty by the operating system, when data exists in them. These software also give a preview of recoverable data, so the users can choose which files they want to recover.

There are times when a virus attack, or application malfunction may delete your data in such a manner that you cannot see them on the system, neither in the recycle bin or by performing a search of the system. At other times, system may be formatted, by you or sabotaged. In such a situation too, you need a recovery software by your side to be able to recover your vital data.

Though many such tools are available in the market, it is not easy to choose a good software. In fact, people at times trust some freewares that are actually lethal viruses or malwares. Also, professionals know how to handle data properly. So, the software developed by experts is always better, even if they are paid. A company that has good experience in data recovery understands the sensitivity of the data as well. Specialized tools are available for recovering data from different operating systems, like Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

Columbia Disintegrated with the Crew, But Data Recovery Services Infused Life into Data

2010-11-17T12:27:00.003+05:30

Columbia disintegrated over Texas, resulting in death of all the crew members, a short while before conclusion of its mission. The heat and the gases together destroyed all the life, with the exception of a few worms, which were part of a study and survived, and the equipments and devices. Not only were precious lives lost in the shuttle disaster, but also a lot of reports and studies. But wait, not all was lost! Amongst the debris, was a videotape and a damaged disk drive. These two items had survived along with the petri-dish worms. Though the videotape and drive had been severely destroyed, data was not lost, as the area that contained data was unharmed. The data was recovered, and the mission was a success from the research perspective. A lot of data had survived. The crew's hard work had survived. And it could be easily recovered using data recovery services.

The 400 MB Seagate hard drive had been reinforced and fitted in Columbia Space Shuttle, and had survived the explosion. Though the outer part of it was severely destroyed, the data area had been intact, owing to which data was recovered. Hard disk data can survive explosions, burning, water and pressure damage, natural calamities, and more, as long as the data area, i.e., the platter, is unharmed. Normally, most of the data is downloaded, while the experiment proceeds, but the data set saved on the disk had been recently recovered using data recovery.

The recovery job is very tricky and needs expert handling and deep knowledge. Not only that, recovery task needs to be transparent, while maintaining confidentiality of the data. Another important thing is documentation of the recovery job. Storage area of the hard drive is very delicate, and if mishandled, can cause irrevocable data loss. That is why, a company with state-of-the-art tools and high-end techniques should be entrusted with the recovery task. And in cases, which require opening of the hard disk drive, a sterilized clean room with controlled environment is a necessity.

Recovering Windows Vista when the SATA device driver is not enabled in the Windows registry

2010-11-11T11:59:00.001+05:30

In the past decade or so, we have seen new advancements in the data storage technologies. In this series, one of the most useful change is the SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive that has replaced the conventional IDE (Integrated Device Electronics). SATA is faster, lighter, reliable, and supports hot swapping. However, sometimes you may face some issue that may bar you from starting the system. You should look to resolve these problems to recover WindowsWindows data recovery software to get the inaccessible data. using appropriate corrective measures. If the problem is not addressed, then you should use a third-party

Let us assume a situation in which you have changed the BIOS settings in your Windows Vista system. You have modified the SATA mode of the boot drive to use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) specification or the RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) features. When you restart the computer, it does not start, and the following error message is displayed:

“STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE”

Cause:

The root cause of this startup issue is that the disk driver in Windows Vista is disabled. You should install and enable the driver before changing the SATA/RAID mode of the boot drive.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should modify the registry entries to enable the AHCI driver in the registry before changing the SATA mode of the boot drive. This can be done using the following steps:

Start the computer in Safe mode.
Click Start | Run, and type 'regedit' in the Open box and press Enter.
Click Continue if the 'User Account Control' box is displayed.
Find any of the following registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

Right-click 'Start' in the 'Name' column, and click 'Modify'.
Type '0' in the 'Value data' box and click OK.
Click File | Exit to exit Registry Editor.
Restart the system. It should run fine now.

However, if you still are unable to start your system then you should reinstall the operating system after taking the backup of the Windows data. For this purpose, you should recover Windows files with the help of a third-party Window data recovery software. These highly interactive tools are capable of recovering all the files while maintaining the file integrity intact.

Recovering all kinds of lost data using File Recovery Software

2010-10-28T16:08:00.001+05:30

In our day-to-day life, we all are dependent on the computers, directly or indirectly. In other words, we live our life in and out of our PC. Usually our personal computer, desktop or laptop, contains very sensitive as well as valuable data such as financial, personal, and legal documents. Besides all this, our PC also takes care of the office documents, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, projects, etc. All this becomes quite obvious as most of us spend nearly two-third of the day in front of the computer. And it is essential that each one of us should understand how dangerous it is to lose the data. Proper measures must be taken towards to safeguard our data because recovering data once you lost it is quite a strenuous task.

Nothing in this world is perfect and this applies to the computers as well. Yes, we have had technical advancements in the past and are continually progressing on that front. The computer hardware is comparatively much sophisticated and costs much lesser. But all said and done, the types of errors that appear have compounded considerably. However, if you are unable to prevent the data loss at any point of time then you can take the help of a file recovery software.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on an MS Word document. Suddenly, there is a power outage and the system shuts down abruptly. When you power is restored, you try to open the document but unable to do so. You do not have the updated backup of the file and you need that file badly. You have tried the “Open and Repair” option as well. In this scenario, you can take the help of a file recovery software.

Fixing the file system in Windows XP when the system does not start

2010-10-08T15:00:00.001+05:30

A file system in the computer systems is the method or mechanism that helps in storing the files on the computer. Apart from this, it also lays the rules to organize the data and also to retrieve it. Also, these enable to maintain the physical location of the files. However, when the file system gets corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, abrupt system shutdown, power outages, etc, the computer system becomes inaccessible making the data vulnerable. In such cases, you should try to repair the file system using in-built Windows methods. However, if you are unable to provide any solutions then you should use a third-party data recovery software to recover all the data.

Let us take a look at a practical scenario in which you start your Windows XP system only to find it stuck at the system startup.

“Unmountable Boot Volume”

Cause:

This problematic situation can appear due to either of the following reasons:

• You are using a standard 40-wire connector cable instead of the 80-wire, 40-pin cable to connect the UDMA drive to the controller.
• The settings of the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) are defined as as to use the faster UDMA modes.
• The file system of your Windows operating system is damaged. Which is why, you are unable to mount the system.

Resolution:

To resolve the problem, you can perform the following methods according to the particular issue:

• You should replace the 40-wire cable with an 80-wire UDMA cable, if the problem is due to the incompatible connector cable.
• If it is because of the incorrect BIOS settings, then you should reactivate the most frequently used options like USB Support after loading the 'Fail-Safe' default settings.
• If the file system is damaged, then perform the following steps to fix the problem:
◦ Restart the system using a Windows XP CD-ROM.
◦ Press R to enter the Recovery Console.
◦ Type chkdsk /r and press Enter.
◦ Type 'exit' in the command prompt and press Enter to restart the system. This should solve the problem.

If you are still are getting the same error message or unable to start the system, then you would need to format the hard drives and reinstall the operating system. But before doing this, you should use a third-party data recovery software to recover all the inaccessible data from the system. With the help of read-only mechanisms and rich user interface, these data recovery utilities ensure safe and easy file recovery.

Facing Data Loss in Dual Boot is Easy with File Data Recovery

2010-09-29T11:40:00.001+05:30

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With the ongoing demand for having dual boot computers, more and more people are having their systems with dual boot configuration. The reasons behind opting for such a configuration are plenty. If you are the inquisitive types who like to test the functioning of a new operating system, while simultaneously ensuring that your normal working is not hampered, then dual booting is for you. Another advantage of using the dual boot configuration is that you can get to work in a fairly new operating system, and at the same time ensure that the previous system that you have is intact, may be for other users (at home, or in office). This way, it makes file accessibility and data recovery simple for all the users.

But none of the things we do, can help get rid of the many problems that plague computers in general. For example, there are times when a user with dual boot abruptly finds that none of the file systems is mounting, may be after a sudden power failure. At times a new driver may be giving problem and not allowing a file system to mount. Repeated mounting attempts in such a situation may lead to corruption of the file system. In such a situation, the user is unable to access the system and finds himself/herself facing data inaccessibility.

The user has to opt for file data recovery using appropriate means. The first thing to be done is to attach the hard drive to another computer as slave, and then attempt to read data from it. In case the data is accessible, the user can instantly recover data and save it to a safe location. In case, the hard drive is accessible, but the data is not, then the user will need to opt for data recovery using appropriate software, like Windows recovery software, Linux recovery software, or may be a Mac recovery software, depending on the needs. These are third-party recovery software that apply complex algorithms to read inaccessible and lost data from an accessible hard disk drive.

Data Backup Software a Must for Preventing Downtime

2010-09-27T11:16:00.001+05:30

Image via WikipediaFor efficient working of any organization, with minimum downtime and maximum productivity, backups are a must. That is why, it is very important for every employee to maintain and update backups on a regular basis. But with all the work done every single day, which may not be limited to working on one file, it is not always easy for an employee to keep backups on regular basis. In such a situation, there is always a possibility of these employees forgetting this additional task due to some meetings, urgent tasks, or at times because too many things were to be backed up in a short time. Reasons could be many, but end result is that these employees are at the risk of losing their hard work, just because they did not bother to maintain backups. That is why, backup software are available to make this task automatic.

These data backup software need to be scheduled for a daily, weekly, and/or monthly backup depending on the requirement of the user. Since they start automatically, the problem of forgetting the backup task is solved. Another important thing is that these software allow you to choose the files and folders for which backup is required, so they need not be told everytime, what all needs to be backed up. Another problem solved by these backup software is the usage of space and time. Since these software have the option of creating a full, incremental, and differential backups, the user need to carry out full backup everytime, thus saving up on the total amount of time spent on updating the backups.

But even with a data backup software, people find problem, for example what would happen if the system itself got infected by virus. Or worse, if the computer system refused to boot. In such a situation, it would not be possible for recovery of data, unless some smart software that is capable of preventing virus attack is installed on the system.
One trusted software that can handle these problems, apart from giving various other options is Stellar Phoenix Instabackup Gold. It creates a Stellar Secure zone, which cannot be attacked by viruses, thus preventing files from getting affected by virus attack. After installing this software, you get the option of creating a bootable rescue disk or USB drive. This disk can help you restore your computer's operating system, and to recover individual files and folders from backup image. It is an easy to use tool that features context-sensitive help manual and an easy to understand and use interface

Data Recovery Services in case Hard Drive Components are Faulty

2010-09-16T15:20:00.002+05:30

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Every computer component has different functions. Similarly, every component of a hard disk drive has different functions to perform. Like a platter is supposed to store information, and the head is meant to read or write to or from these platters. An actuator arm holds the head in the right position to ensure the platter is not scratched by the head. A spindle motor is responsible for rotating the platters of the disk. And if one of these components doesn't work properly, then chances are that at least one of the components is not working properly. If the arm doesn't hold the head properly, then probability of the platter being scratched are very high. Similarly, if the platter is not moving properly, then probably the spindle motor is faulty. To handle such hardware related problem, and to extract data from such a problem hard drive, one has to opt for hard disk recovery.

These components have a life span, some last longer than others, while others have very small life span. Infact some minor problems like, power fluctuations or power spikes, dropping of the hard drive, and many others may be responsible for failure of hard drive.

A fully functional hard drive, neither makes noise nor gets heated up quickly. Further, it can stand against start and stop cycles, and also extensive power. If the actuator arm has the problem, then using that hard drive means scratching the platters, thereby reducing the chances of recovery. Similarly, spindle motor failure can mean that the platter doesn't move, and your data remains confined to the platters.

It is not possible to prevent your computer from the daily wear and tear, but it is possible to reduce the impact of the same. However, It is possible to protect your data from the potential damages, thereby reducing the downtime, and the need to opt for data recovery services.

These are specialized services that need changing of the component to ensure that data can be extracted from the non-functioning and non-reliable hard drive, and then saving the extracted data on another hard drive.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the provider of comprehensive hard disk recovery from any inaccessible hard drive, irrespective of its type and interface. Stellar is ISO 9001:2008 certified data recovery services expert, and has Class 100 clean rooms where such hard drives can be opened to change problem components, to make the drive readable, and to perform recovery in such a case.

Mac Photo Recovery after Media Corruption

2010-09-15T12:24:00.001+05:30

Image via WikipediaWorking on photos and videos is such a pleasure for any Mac user. However, with risks involved in every computer, and every file prone to a loss situation, every computer manufacturer advices users to always keep a backup of their important work. Having said that, consider a situation, wherein after clicking photos with your camera when you attach it to your Mac machine to extract and edit them, you find that all the photos clicked by you are unavailable. This makes you wonder what to do! In such a situation, you will not be having a backup. So what to do? Well, you have no option but to look for ways to recover Mac photos. Though many tools are readily available for this, you have to try and look for reliable Mac photo recovery software.

Imagine a situation wherein, after returning from the most memorable vacation, you return home and without doing anything else, just sit in front of your Macbook to start the photo transfer process.

But you find that the system is unnecessarily slow, and in a hurry, you simply restart your computer. After this, when you restart file transfer, you find all your photos have become inaccessible, and you face:

"Memory card error"

When the computer was restarted the transfer process stopped midway, owing to which all the photos stored in the memory card have become inaccessible. Since you do not have another copy of the photos, and your memory card has become corrupt, you have no option but to format the memory card. It is a general misconception that formatting removes the data completely. Though the reason for formatting is removal of data, formatting actually doesn't empty every sector of the storage media, but merely removes the pointers of the file. This means, if information is read from each and every sector directly, it is possible to recover all the data from it, as long as it is not overwritten. That is where a proficient Mac photo recovery software come into picture.

Backups are Important for all kinds of disaster recovery

2010-09-13T10:40:00.001+05:30

Taking regular and complete backups on a reliable backup media is the most important aspect of any disaster recovery strategy of a computer user. And if it is done in such a manner that data is completely safe from virus attack, then there is nothing which is better than that. After all loss of even a single pivotal file could mean a major risk to your life, especially the professional life. It is the biggest trouble that a computer user could possibly be exposed to. And to combat the effects of such problem, a user must take backups using efficient backup software.

Considering the entire gamut of computer data loss situations, one can broadly divide them into: data files getting lost or inaccessible; data getting deleted; and data files getting corrupt or damaged. Let us understand the two problems in detail.

Data getting lost, or File Inaccessible: Such situations generally occur when the files are safe on the computer at the place you saved, but, due to some problem, like, system crash, OS malfunction, partition corruption, virus attack or something similar, you are finding it hard to approach them.

Data file getting deleted: You mistakenly hard delete a crucial file, by pressing the 'shift' key while deleting, or clicking 'delete' instead of 'recover' after selecting a file in the recycle bin, or deleting it along with some unimportant files from the recycle bin. These are some accidental situations that can hamper any computer users work. Other file deletion situations include formatting of the hard drive, partition deletion, and virus infection.

Data file getting corrupt: If files get corrupt, then you will be able to see the file, click it, but may not be able to open it, or may be able to open it, but the data saved in it may not appear, and you'll see garbled text, or empty boxes. These problems may occur due to viruses, improper shutdown of the system, breakdown of the operating system,and malfunctioning of some application.

To handle any of the above stated problems, one has to rely on data backups. A large number of data backup software are available for users today. One common feature with these backup software is that they make the job of taking and maintaining backups completely automatic.

Steps How to recover windows password

2010-08-26T16:40:00.005+05:30

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Windows Password, such an amazing concept made by security professionals of Microsoft. The idea behind this to protect your Computer, Laptop with any unauthorized access, so you can browse anything privately without sharing your personalized settings.

Suppose a scenario, you have lost/forget your Windows password what are the option you have to unlock your computer? Guess!!
No more guessing now the solution is here..

Here are some steps by which you can recover your windows password with ease:

Step1: Login as administrator then reassigns your password

If step1 fails then try step2

Step2: Create a password reset diskette; just insert to reset your password

If step2 fails go to step 3

Step3: Just Repair your windows with Boot Disk CD. It’s reset your all password to blank.

I am very sure you can get your Windows password with above given steps.
There are very rare conditions where these steps don’t work for you like you do not created password reset disk previously, cannot log on as administrator or you don’t have boot disk to repair your Windows. In such situation you need to buy any third party password recovery software to recover your Windows password. These password recovery software deploy complicated program to reset the password of your Windows OS. These software recover passwords from Windows 7/Vista/ XP and many more, you have to see what features software offers.

Some software companies provides free trial version option which is really good idea to check any software capability and your chance of recovery.

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Accessing Inaccessible Photos using Photo Recovery

2010-08-10T10:05:00.006+05:30

Last week, I accompanied my younger brother on the convocation ceremony of his college. Receiving the degree and sharing the time with old batch mates and faculty is one overwhelming experience. Since our parents had to go out of town due to some urgent work, we decided to click as many photos as we could, so we could share it with them. Particularly important were the ones in which he was accepting the degree wearing the ever-pervading black attire. But while clicking,

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it never occurred to us, that we may even lose them. And we'll have to opt for photo recovery.

And so after clicking endlessly, when the ceremony got over, we went back home. On our way back, my brother sat back, trying to view the photos that I had clicked. But to his utter dismay, and later mine, the camera read:

“Memory card error. Memory card parameter error”

We were dumbfound. And on reaching home immediately connected the camera to our computer, but the data was inaccessible. My brother was heart-broken. When we got a call from our dad, he asked about the ceremony. And my brother told him everything, while blaming me for it. Our dad, a computer engineer told us that it had happened because the file system had corrupted. And it was owing to this that all the photos were inaccessible, but 'not completely lost'. His eyes gleamed on hearing this. But file system corruption was the worst case. However, he advised, we should try some simple methods to recover our photos, before using a photo recovery software. He suggested some simple trouble-shooting steps. We cleaned the card surface and re-inserted it, and then tried to access the card using a card reader. But nothing worked. So we had to format the card. And we learnt, photos are not lost after formatting. They simply become inaccessible.

This was followed by photo recovery using a read-only, yet very simple tool by stellar phoenix. But before this, we downloaded the demo version of some of the most popular photo recovery software. We downloaded Windows compatible demo version of one software, and with it, very soon we had the preview of all our photos which had been inaccessible fore so many hours. We thanked our dad, and saved all the photos on our computer, before he uploaded them on Flickr, Picasa, twitter, and his facebook accounts.

How to recover partition when the MBR gets corrupt in Windows XP

2010-07-31T16:52:00.002+05:30

Image via WikipediaIn all the storage media that is used around, all of them have to be partitioned using the in-build feature in the respective operating system. The operating system starts from the active partition as the boot files are stored in this partition only. At times, these files are damaged due to some external factors that bar the system from booting. Appropriate restorative measures should be taken to recover partition in such cases. Having said that, if nothing succeeds, then according to me you should take the services of a professional partition recovery software.

One such situation can be considered wherein you are unable to start your Windows XP system. In this case, either of the following message is displayed

• Missing operating system.
• Operating system not found.

Reasons:

Such problems occur when there is some undesirable issues with the active partition in your system. Some are them are:

• The Sector 0 of the hard drive is having corrupt MBR.
• The partition that is marked as Active is incompatible.
• The partition containing the MBR is not active.
• The hard disk is corrupt.

Solutions:

For the aforementioned causes, the following methods are suggested:

• Check the BIOS settings: You should check the BIOS settings and check whether the booting preferences are properly defined to boot the correct storage media. If not, then adjust the settings accordingly. Restart the system after saving the settings.
• Use fixmbr tool: If the previous method does not work, then you should enter the Recovery Console using the Windows XP Setup CD. Then, use the the FIXMBR command to repair and rebuild the MBR of the active partition.

If the system is still not able to start properly, then you should re-install the Windows XP operating system. However, in that case all the data would not be secure or may get removed. At this juncture, I would suggest you to use a Windows data recovery software to recover all the data safely. While performing partition recovery, these tools ensure that no data is destroyed as these use sophisticated scanning algorithms.

How to recover data from corrupted hard drive

2010-07-19T12:44:00.003+05:30

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A hard drive is the most basic part of the computer systems, be it a desktop, a laptop, or any other hand-held device. It contains all the data that is present on your system. That is the reason, you should take utmost care of the hard disk failing which you would find yourself in a soup. There are lots of reasons because of which the hard disk becomes corrupt thereby making the data inaccessible or deleted. For such cases, you should use certain methods to safeguard your data. However, even if you lose your data or the hard disk is inaccessible then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery software to recover the inaccessible data.

There are various reasons that cause your hard drive to fail or become inaccessible. Some of the most prominent causes and their resolutions are:

• Virus: Lot of times, our hard disk gets corrupted by viruses. Such viruses are specifically designed to destroy the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the active partition. Because of which, the system is unable to start and the hard disk becomes inaccessible because of this. You should regularly use an antivirus application to safeguard your hard disk from such nuisances. However, you should ensure that the antivirus has latest virus definitions installed from the Internet.

• Corrupted files: In your computer system, several kinds of processes can corrupt the hard disk. For instance, abruptly shutting down computer repeatedly before closing the opened programs or system files can result in inaccessible hard drive. For this case, you should run the in-built ScanDisk, Disk Defragmentar, and Disk Cleanup utilities regularly to fix minor corruption cases.

• Age: Most of the crash cases are caused due to the old age or excessive use of the hard disk. The hard disks, like any other thing, do wear down with age. In such cases, you should restore your valuable data to a new hard disk.

However, if you face case of inaccessible hard disk even after using the aforementioned techniques then you should use a third-party hard drive data recovery software to recover the trapped data. Such read-only tools enable hard drive recovery using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

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

Troubleshooting an error while rebuilding Entourage database

2010-07-07T14:12:00.002+05:30

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Microsoft Entourage database sometimes behaves abnormally. The primary reason behind this behavior is corruption of database. Corruption falls you to grave hardships like loss of valuable business and personal information contained in e-mail objects, such as e-mails, tasks, events, projects, notes and journals etc. Corruption occurs mainly due to reasons like exceeding the size limitation, virus infections, network sharing, improper system shutdown and interrupted compaction etc. However, to repair entourage database that has been corrupted, you need to rebuild that database. Numerous third party Entourage recovery software have been introduced to repair databases quickly and easily.

To illustrate such scenarios, consider that you use a entourage database and try to rebuild it. You start the computer and come across the below error message:

“An error occurred while attempting to rebuild your database”

Everytime you try to rebuild entourage database you will encounter an error message like this.

Causes:

The root cause for this problem is that the Entourage database has suffered such a damage that it is beyond the scope to rebuild. The other prominent cause is unavailability of enough space or contiguous space on the hard drive.

Resolution:

This error usually occurs if the Entourage database is severely corrupt. To overcome this issue try the following resolutions:

· Try to manually move the data to a new Identity in Entourage database. This method usually works in most of the cases.

· Always maintain a backup so that you can access data in such cases.

However, if the above method does not solve the issue and you do not have an updated backup of the entourage database or the backup itself has got corrupted, you have to use a third party entourage recovery software. Such tools repair entourage database and restore e-mail objects such as e-mails, contacts, appointments, calendar-entries, tasks etc instantly.

FAT Table Needs to be Updated Regularly to Protect Your Data

2010-06-30T10:56:00.002+05:30

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Microsoft Windows operating system uses file system to organize, manage, and manipulate data on your Windows hard drive. It basically supports two major file systems- FAT and NTFS. Both these file systems have different variants. FAT is so far the most simple file system supported by Microsoft Windows operating system. It is characterized by FAT (File Allocation Table) that is actually a table, which resides at very top of Windows partition. Under some circumstances, this critical Windows data structure gets damaged due to virus infection and unexpected system shutdown like situations. At this point, entire partition becomes inaccessible and needs of FAT data recovery arise.

From file system and data security point of view, FAT file system preserves redundant copy of the file allocation table. You can restore the backup copy of FAT in case the original table gets damaged. Furthermore, the root directory and file allocation tables must be stored at a fixed location on hard drive so that operating system can correctly locate the boot files and boot up your system properly.

A FAT file system partition is allocated into the clusters. The size of clusters is determined by size of partition. When you create a file on FAT partition, it creates an entry in directory and establishes the first cluster that contains data. The entry in file allocation table either points to next cluster on the partition or indicates that it is laster cluster of file.

It is pretty important to periodically update the file allocation table of FAT file system partition. However, it is a very time consuming process. The process is time consuming because read/write heads needs to be repositioned to logical track zero of the drive every time when you update it. If you do not regularly update this metadata structure, it may get damaged and lead to severe data loss.

Data loss is something that cannot be accepted at any cost and may affect your professional as well as personal life. At this point, FAT recovery is required to retrieve your data and save your business.

FAT recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as FAT data recovery software. They employ highly advanced scanning methods to perform in-depth scan of entire disk and extract all inaccessible data from it.

How to Recover Lost Data from A Windows Hard Drive Image?

2010-06-17T10:15:00.001+05:30

In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can create image of your hard drive partition, selected region of the hard drive, or entire hard drive using third-party applications. You can use disk imaging process to create complete backup of your valuable data and prevent data loss situations. However, in some situations, the disk image created on NTFS file system drive may get damaged and it can not be accessed. In such situations, you come across severe data loss and require NTFS data recovery to work around the problem.

A hard drive image or disk image is a single file that contains all the contents of source storage media, such as hard drive, CD, DVD, USB drive, and memory card. The disk image is generally a sector-by-sector copy of your Windows hard drive or other storage media, which can be mounted like a hard drive partition and accessed. Some of the disk imaging tools may also remove unused space of the hard drive when they create image of the disk.

Under some critical circumstances, you can not access a hard drive image from NTFS file system drive. You may also come across numerous error messages at this point. Such issues are generally caused by any of the following reasons:

• Virus infection- If the virus has infected disk image or its significant data structures, then Windows can not recognize the file and access its contents. The data become inaccessible in such cases and you face severe data loss situations.

• Damaged storage media- If the storage device, on which disk image is stored, it corrupt, the file can not be accessed. You must first perform NTFS file recovery to fix the damaged storage media, before the file is actually recovered.

• File system corruption- If the file system of your disk image is corrupt, Windows can not identify it and read data from it.

In case source drive is corrupt and the disk image is also inaccessible, serious data loss issues take place. In such critical situations, NTFS partition recovery come for your help.

The NTFS data recovery applications are powerful enough to systematically scan entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They are totally safe and easy to use with non-destructive behavior and interactive graphical user interface.

Resolving “The file system structure on disk is corrupt..” Windows 7 Error

2010-06-11T09:56:00.003+05:30

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Are you getting 'Event ID 55' while booting your Windows 7 operating system-based computer? Is your Windows 7 hard drive unreadable and unusable due to corrupt file system structure? Well, it is a very critical situation that renders your system totally inaccessible. It is resulted by various factors like sluggish operating system, missing/corrupt system data structures, and hard drive logical structure errors. The problem generally occurs on NTFS file system partitions and leads to serious partition loss situations. In order to recover lost data and hard drive partitions at this point, NTFS data recovery is required.

As a practical instance of this behavior of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, you may run across the underwritten error message when you try to boot up your computer:

“Event Type: Error
Event Source: NTFS
Event ID: 55
Description:
The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume ”

If you run Chkdsk.exe utility to fix the issue, process gets interrupted halfway. The drive remains unusable and severe data loss occurs.

What causes 'Event ID 55' in Microsoft Windows 7?

The above problem may occur if the Windows hard drive partition or its file system is damaged. The corruption can be caused by any of the following reasons:

· You Windows hard drive has damaged data structures.

· The Input/Output requests, which are issued by file system to hard disk subsystem, may not have completed successfully.

What You need to do...

Try out any of the below methods to fix this problem-

Check state of NTFS file system and then repair it if required:

· Type chkntfs : at command prompt.

· If it says 'drive is dirty' then run chkdsk against it, otherwise the volume is not corrupt and no repair is required.

You can also try running the Chkdsk.exe utility manually to check out the integrity and consistency of the Windows hard drive.

If the above processes fails, you can make your drive functional by formatting it and reinstalling operating system. However, it is not safe from data point of view and requires NTFS file recovery to retrieve data, if applied.

You can successfully recovery your lost data using NTFS partition recovery software. The applications are particularly invented to systematically scan entire hard drive and recover lost NTFS file system partitions. NTFS data recovery with these tools is quite safe and easy.

Pros and Cons of Disk Write Caching in Microsoft Windows

2010-06-02T12:44:00.003+05:30

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Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to enable or disable the disk write caching to improve the system performance. It makes the disk writes more effective. However, in some situations, disk caching may interfere with the working of various Windows applications. In such cases, you may need to disable the write caching to use these applications. Sometimes, disk write caching may cause serious problems if your computer face power failure or system crash like situations. You may lose your hard drive partitions and valuable data at this point and need Partition Recovery Software to work around the issue, if there is no backup in place.

What is Write Caching?

When you save a file on Windows hard drive, recent versions of Windows operating system take a note of this fact that you want to save a file on hard drive. They save this information somewhere else in computer memory, and write this file to hard drive later. After a file is written to the hard drive, cache sends an acknowledgment to the operating system that data is written to the hard drive and it can be removed from cache.

How to Enable Disk Write Caching?

· Right-click the My Computer icon, and select Properties.
· Click Hardware tab.
· Click the Device Manager.
· Click + (plus sign) next to Disk Drives for expanding it.
· Right-click the disk on which you need to enable write caching, and click Properties.
· Click Disk Properties tab.
· Click Write Cache Enabled check box for selecting it.
· Click the OK button.

When you enable the write caching on a Windows hard drive, you may come across the below warning message, which indicates possibilities of data loss:

“By enabling write caching, file system corruption and/or data loss could occur if the machine experiences a power, device or system failure and cannot be shutdown properly.”

If you face any sort of failure on your system that has disk write caching enabled, due to power outages, improper system shutdown, or system crash, file system corruption and partition loss may occur. In such cases, ntfs data recovery becomes need of hour.

Recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful applications, known as NTFS file recovery software. Such NTFS partition recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use with non-destructive nature and rich graphical user interface.

Recovering partition from Windows Vista in case of corrupt BCD store

2010-05-24T11:25:00.001+05:30

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When a Windows Vista system is switched on, the boot sector loads the bootmgr file to access the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store, which uses its information to load the operating system. The BCD store is a firmware-independent database, which is used to store the boot time configuration data, and is very significant for the boot process. However, sometimes the BCD store gets corrupt and results in making the system unable to boot. In such cases, you should use appropriate corrective measures to resolve the issue. However, if you are not able to address the problem then you should use a Windows data recovery software to recover the trapped data.

Consider a scenario wherein your Windows Vista system is unable to boot. An error message is displayed, that is:

“File: \Boot\BCD

Status: 0xc0000034

Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information”

Cause:

The most possible cause of the aforementioned error message could be either (or both) of the following reasons:

· The entry of the Windows Boot Manager (Bootmgr) is missing in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store.

· The Boot\BCD file on the active partition is either corrupt or missing.

Resolution:

To resolve this error message and to be able to access the Windows Vista system, you should perform the following methods, preferably in the given order:

· Repair the BCD store by using the Startup Repair option: In the Windows Recovery Environment, use the Startup Repair option to repair the BCD store.

· Rebuild the BCD store by using the Bootrec.exe tool: If the previous method is not able to resolve the issue, then you should use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to resolve the issue.

· Rebuild the BCD store manually using the Bcdedit.exe tool: If you are still not able to rebuild the BCD store, then you should do it manually using the Bcdedit.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment.

Either of the aforementioned methods will be able to resolve the error. However, if you are still not able to address the issue then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to recover the lost partition. Such read-only tools are able to recover partition from all instances of corruption using sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Recovering hard-deleted files using file recovery software

2010-05-17T10:34:00.002+05:30

Nearly each one of us has experienced the data loss situations some way or the other. And we all know how painful it is to lose data especially when it is not possible to recover it. Such scenarios occur because of various reasons such as emptying the Recycle Bin, hard-deleting the files, deleting files from the DOS prompt, virus infections, shutting down the system abruptly, etc. In most of the cases, you do not have a backup of these files, which makes the situation even more depressing and calls for file recovery. In such cases, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover deleted files.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on an important document for your monthly report. Once you are done with the document, you hard-delete the rest of the files using 'Shift+Delete'. However, after deleting these files, you realize that you have mistakenly deleted the actual file. After deleting these files, you realized that it was the file that you required for the report. And to make the matters worse, the file also skipped the Recycle Bin because of shift-deleting it. Now, as usual you must be cursing yourself for this great folly of yours. But wait a minute, the file may still be recovered even after hard-deleting.

Actually when a file is deleted from a Windows system, it is not removed from the file system database. Only its reference is deleted and the file is still there. Thus, Windows makes a note that the space reserved by the deleted file is now available for a new file. So, until a new file is created and saved at the location where the deleted file was stored, it can be recovered from there. However, to recover such deleted files you need to use a third-party file recovery software. Such read-only tools are able to perform file recovery without overwriting the existing data.

Format of Mac Hard Drive Makes Mac Recovery Complex

2010-05-14T09:59:00.002+05:30

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As far as data recovery is concerned, Mac users experience face more challenges as compared to the owners of Microsoft Windows computers. It is due to the fact that disk formatting process in Mac includes three phases as opposed to Microsoft Windows. The steps are- hard drive formatting, hard drive verification, and hard drive zeroing. You may face any kind of errors, during the process, which can eventually lead to severe data loss. Disk Initialization is a dominant threat to your valuable data. After initialization, the hard drive partitions are vanished and Disk Utility asks you to format the hard drive. In all such critical situations, Mac Recovery is helpfull, if you do not have an updated and complete backup in place.

When such problems occur or you make mistake to land up in such situations, the experts recommend you to use the Disk First Aid of Disk Utility, to resolve this behavior. However, this process fails in the majority of situations and you come across some error messages, similar to the following one:

“Verify and Repair Volume
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B tree node structure.
Volume check failed.”

The cause of this problem is as indecipherable as effects of data loss. It makes all your precious data inaccessible. In order to gain access of your mission-critical data in such situations, you are required to identify the root cause and then perform Data Recovery Mac.

Cause

The problem generally occurs due to file system related errors. Which may be because of the following reasons:

· The partition table, which keeps record of all the Mac OS X hard drive volumes, is damaged. It leads to the inaccessibility of Mac OS X logical hard drive volumes.

· Catalog B tree is damaged. It is the most significant component of HFS+ and HFSX file systems.

Resolution

In order to fix partition table and Catalog B tree corruption, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system. It eventually cause serious data loss and require Mac Data Recovery to sort out the problem.

Recovery is possible using powerful and advanced Mac Recovery Software. The applications are powerful enough to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and extract all lost data from it. They are totally safe and easy to use with read-only nature and interactive user interface.

Missing Kernel File May Cause Data Loss in Windows

2010-05-05T11:50:00.002+05:30

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Kernel is the most significant part of Windows operating system, which works as an interface between software and hardware. In case the kernel or any of its critical files get damaged, Windows operating system may not boot. In such situations, all your valuable data stored on Windows hard drive becomes inaccessible, causing severe data loss. In such circumstances, you need to opt for windows data recovery, if there is no updated backup in place.

In a practical scenario, your system may stop responding after the POST (Power On Self Test) and boot process may halt, when you try to start your Windows computer with Windows NTFS (New Technology File System) partition. Furthermore, you may come across the below error message:

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

This problem generally occurs on Intel-based systems with NTFS boot partition and renders your system inaccessible. In order to access your mission critical data in such cases, you need to first find out the root of the issue and then perform Windows Data Recovery by resolving it.

Grounds of the problem
You may face this behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system if the disk structure data of NTFS file system, which is stored in MFT (Master File Table) is either fragmented or damaged. It prevents Microsoft Windows Ntldr (NT Boot Loader) from being discovered and read.

Resolution
In order to work around this behavior, follow the underwritten steps:

• Verify that the boot partition is active, using Fdisk tool.
• Try to repair Ntldr file using Microsoft Windows Recovery Console through boot CD of Windows operating system.
• Detect and remove boot sector viruses from your system using an updated and powerful anti-virus application.
• Create backup of your significant files, format your Windows hard drive, and reinstall Microsoft Windows operating system. However, if you are unable to access the hard drive using Windows boot disk and create backup, severe data loss situations are caused by hard drive formatting.

In such grave situations, windows recovery software come to your rescue. The applications are specifically designed to methodically scan the entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They perform safe, easy, and absolute data recovery in all data loss situations.

Recovering partitions in case of raw partition

2010-05-03T17:12:00.003+05:30

No matter how much you care about your PC and how many measures you take to safeguard its data, it is virtually impossible to make it stay error-free for long. With time there is bound to be some issue or the other that may either considerably reduce its performance or make it stop functioning. At times your system may get corrupted because of various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power fluctuations, abrupt or improper system shutdown, etc. In such situations, you should take appropriate corrective measures to resolve the issue. However, if you are not able to address the issue then you should use a third-party Windows data recovery

Consider a scenario wherein you have a 250 GB partition for data storage in your system. One fine day, when you try to access the drive you are unable to do so. An error message is displayed, which could be either of the following:

• The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
• The disk in drive X: is not formatted.
• There was an error accessing drive X:. The disk is not formatted.

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

“The type of the filesystem is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”

The aforementioned error messages and scenario signify that the mentioned partition has corrupted and, thus, is inaccessible.

Cause:
The root cause for this situation is that the file system has corrupted due to corruption in partition table, LDM database, or the volume boot sector.

Resolution:
To resolve this situation, you should use a third-party windows data recovery software to recover partition. Such read-only tools are able to recover data from corrupt partitions by employing fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

software to recover inaccessible data.

Rectifying “A Media Card has been inserted that contains errors” Memory Card Error

2010-04-29T09:38:00.003+05:30

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Digital cameras have revolutionized the photography with their excellent picture quality, ease of use, and reliability. They use flash memory or memory cards to store pictures. The memory cards use flash memory to store photos, which are shot using digital cameras. They do not contain any moving components, and thus are considered more reliable as compared to magnetic storage devices. However, in some situations, the memory cards may face logical corruption due to damaged or missing data structures. In such critical circumstances, you can not access the photos stored on media. It leads to significant photo loss, if you do not have an absolute backup of your memorable pictures, and require Digital Photo Recovery to be fixed.

As an example of memory card corruption, you may come across the below error message when you try to access memory card using digital camera or by attaching it to your computer:

“A Media Card has been inserted that contains errors. To correct the errors please use a disk error-checking utility on a computer.”

The above error particularly occurs with SD (Secure Digital) memory card, which is one of the most widely used type of memory card for digital cameras and other handheld devices. The status of this problem may be different in different situations. In some cases, you may not see the contents of the media, in other cases you can see the files but can not use them.

If files are invisible:

It may be due to logical corruption of the memory card. Try accessing the device using card reader. If the card is still inaccessible, formatting is the only option to solve this problem. The process is safe only if you have complete backup of your photos, else you have to go for Photo Recovery using third-party tools.

If contents are visible:

This situations is quite safe as compared to the first one. Here, you can save your data to hard drive, format the memory card, and then copy data back to memory card for accessing it.

In case of unusable or unavailable backup, after formatting the memory card, image recovery software are required to retrieve lost, missing, and deleted photos from memory card. These software do not demand sound technical skills to recover lost files as they have interactive and simple graphical user interface. The applications perform absolute picture recovery through advanced and powerful scanning techniques.

How to Recover My Saved Login Id and Password in Firefox?

2010-04-06T09:38:00.003+05:30

Have you accidentally deleted password manager settings of Firefox? So, all your user names and passwords, saved in Firefox password manager, are deleted. This may create several problems, if you do not remember the login id and passwords that you saved in Firefox. You can not log into your accounts. In such situations, you need to recover all the lost user names and passwords using password recovery software.

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Mozilla Firefox, a popular and widely used web browser, securely saves user names and passwords that you enter on websites or web forms. You may save the login details to make it simpler to log into the websites, without typing the details again and again. By default, “Remember passwords for the sites” feature is enabled in the browser, but still it asks you every time when you log into your account. If you click “Remember button” Firefox saves your login details. This feature provides you a convenient way to log into your accounts.

You should not save the usernames and passwords on a public or shared computer. It increases the hazards of your login details being exposed.

In some cases, you may need to recover login details. Such situations include:
• The Firefox application is crashed or inaccessible. You can open the browser.

• You have accidentally deleted the password manager settings in Firefox.

• You have manually deleted the usernames and passwords in Firefox from the 'Security' tab in 'Options' of 'Tools' menu.

• You forgot the password and now you need to log into your account on another computer or browser.

• You lost the password and now you need to reset it. For resetting the password, you must have existing log in details.

If you come across any of the above situations, you can not log into your account. In such situations, you need to recover login details using Firefox Password Recovery applications. Firefox stores login information in Windows registry and these recovery applications can effectively recover it.

Such applications use advanced scanning algorithms to Recover Windows Password, even if you delete the settings in password manager. Password Recovery Software can easily recover your login details, with simple and rich graphical user interface. You need not interact with Windows registry to extract the login details.

How to Solve '- 60 bad master directory block' Error?

2010-04-01T11:31:00.003+05:30

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A HFS (Hierarchical File System) volume comprises of five main structures: Boot Blocks, MDB (Master Directory Block), Volume Bitmap, Extent Overflow File, and Catalog File. Out of these structures, MDB is the one that defines data itself. Located at logical block 2 of the volume, MDB is an important structure that consists of valuable information that is used to locate data on a disk. A damaged directory is a direct indication of data loss. As such, a condition with no data backup can leave in an unavoidable situation of using a Macintosh data recovery utility.

A corrupted MDB is mostly a result of unexpected power outage. To clarify the related problems, consider yourself as a Mac OS X user who experiences a power failure on his Mac OS X computer. Next time, when you try to start your computer, a gray screen greets you. You also receive an error message that reads:

“-60 bad master directory block”

While preventing your access to the data, this error won't allow you to boot Mac OS X computer further.

As the error message mentions, this is a case of MDB corruption. Apart from power outage, virus infection can also lead to MDB damage.

Steps to Recover

Below mentioned steps help you recover such damaged disks in case of MDB corruption:

* If you have a valid and good data backup, clean the disk and simply restore the data.

* In the absence of a backup, you can repair the damaged directory by 'Repair Disk' function of 'Disk Utility. For an unbootable computer, you need to boot from the installation disk or connect the disk in disk mode to another working Mac OS X computer.

* Sometimes, the damage can be too extensive, and 'Disk Utility' might take considerable amount of time or in worst cases, might fail completely. In case of complete failure, you should use a Data Recovery Mac application. A Mac Data Recovery software can scan a logically crashed Mac disk and retrieve maximum data in the safest manner.

How To Recover Emails From Corrupted NSF File of Lotus Notes?

2010-03-25T17:37:00.002+05:30

Lotus Notes is an email-client and personal information manager, developed and marketed by IBM. It is the client side application of client-server collaborative software. Lotus Notes is an integrated desktop client application to access emails, contacts, and calendars on IBM Lotus Domino server. The application is widely used for emails, PIM, calendaring, web browsing, instant messaging, and a wide range of custom applications.

It provides excellent security of all your emails and personal data. However, in some cases, you may face NSF (Notes Storage File) corruption in Lotus Notes and come across data loss situations. In order to overcome such problems, you need to go for Lotus Notes Recovery Software.

Lotus Notes is mainly used as an email client in bigger organizations. If an organization deploys Lotus Domino server, it generally also employs Lotus Notes for the client systems to use database, send/receive emails, and read emails. However, you can also use the Microsoft Outlook with Domino server. Lotus Notes also provides support for the calendaring features via Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers.

IBM Lotus Notes stores all your emails, calender entries, and other data in a database file, known as NSF (Notes Storage File). It is a standard container for all the data in Notes architecture. You can enable replication and compression features on this file for added security of your valuable data.

However, in some cases, you may come across NSF file corruption and all your valuable data stored in the file become inaccessible. Lotus Notes indicates corruption through different error messages, similar to the followings:

“Error full text indexing : Full text index Corrupt, Try to Delete and Re-add Index”
“Notes Database Header File is corrupt”
“Error reading NotesDN person”
“File 'D:\Lotus\Domino\Data\Log.nsf' is CORRUPT - Now Read Only!
Cannot Write to log file: Database is corrupt -- Cannot allocate space.”

In such circumstances, you cannot access the emails stored in NSF file and face data loss situations. In such circumstances, Email Recovery becomes essential to get your valuable emails back.

You can quickly recover your corrupted emails using Lotus Notes Recovery software. These programs deploy high-end scanning algorithms to extensively scan damaged NSF file and extract inaccessible emails from it. The Email Recovery software enable easy recovery as they have interactive and simple graphical user interface.

Lost Your Windows Administrator Password, What To Do Now?

2010-03-23T15:47:00.004+05:30

Have you forgot your Windows administrator password? Are you unable to access your Windows administrator account because your lost your password? It is a very complicated situation, which any Windows user may face. In such cases, you cannot log into your Windows computer and access data from it. If you are unable to recall the password, windows password recovery is the only way to follow.

Password loss is a quite common situation with computer users. You can try out the following things to recover the password and gain access of your Windows administrator account:

* Try leaving password field blank. In a number of cases, the administrator password does not exist at all. Simply press the Enter key without typing any password. However, this is very unsafe, especially if you have any sensitive information stored in the computer.

* If you have more than one administrator account on your computer, try logging in to another administrator account and resetting the password of first account. Although, this method can help you to reset the password, but you may lose access of encrypted data and emails of first account after this process.

* Use password hint to recall the password. The hint is available only if you set it while creating a password for your administrator account.

* Use password reset disk to reset the password. This disk is created when you set a password for your account. If the disk is not available, you cannot go for it.

* Perform parallel installation of Windows on another operating system, create administrator account on it, and try to reset the password through another account. However, installing Windows on another partition may remove all your data stored on the particular partitions.

* Format your hard drive and reinstall Windows operating system. Reinstalling the operating system removes existing installation and installs a fresh copy of Windows for which you can set a new administrator password. But, this option is also unsafe. Formatting the drive removes all data, files, applications, and other information from hard drive.

Above all these methods, there is a fast, simple, and safe way to recover your lost or forgotten Windows administrator password, known as password recovery software.

These tools enable you to recover windows password for all user accounts and administrator account. With simple graphical user interface and easy processing, the password recovery applications recover lost password successfully.

Fixing “The file or directory is corrupt...” Error In Windows 2000

2010-03-17T15:02:00.004+05:30

MFT (Master File Table) in Windows 2000 operating system is responsible for storing critical information about all the files and folders in a NTFS volume. Corruption in MFT primarily occurs due to unexpected system shutdown, virus attack, file system damage, and similar reasons. In most instances of MFT corruption, a Windows user encounters an error message that does not allow him/her to access the files or folders. To access files post MFT corruption, a user needs to opt for an updated backup, run CHKDSK utility, or use third-party hard drive recovery software.

Consider a practical case, you try to open, delete, or rename a folder using command prompt. While doing so, you encounter the below error message:

“:\ is not accessible
The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable. The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable. The file or directory \ is corrupt and unreadable.
Please Run the Chkdsk utility.”

After the above error message appears, the data saved in the folder becomes inaccessible. You encounter the same error message each time you try to access that folder.

Cause:

The above error message is a result of MFT or file system damage.

Resolution:

As suggested in the error message, you will need to run CHKDSK utility. To do so, you will need to:

1. Click on 'Start', and then click 'Run'.
2. Type CHKDSK /F in the Open box.
Note: The here is the name of the drive in which the folder exists.
3. Click on 'OK'.

In most cases, the repair utility allows you to overcome the above error message and makes the files saved in the folder accessible. However, if the above error message persists, and the data in the folder remains inaccessible, then you need to opt for third-party hard drive recovery

software. Such hard drive data recovery tools scan the hard drive using powerful recovery algorithms and recover inaccessible files from any folder.

Tips to Resolve “TEXT_ID has incorrect node type NODE_TYPE” Error

2010-03-15T16:50:00.002+05:30

Corruption of SQL server database hampers the database in different ways. Sometimes the database user is able to mount but not able to view the table records and sometimes, the database remains unmountable. Few major causes for SQL database corruption are metadata structure damage, SQL Server damage, and virus attack. In either of the above outcomes of SQL database damage, the records saved in the table remains inaccessible. This is the time when the user can restore the database table from an updated backup and continue with his/her work.

However, if in case the user has not maintained any database backup or backup falls short to restore the data, then s/he needs to repair the database by using an effective SQL database recovery application.

To elaborate the above situation, consider an error message that appears when you try to access a database table:

“Table error: The text, ntext, or image node at page P_ID, slot S_ID, text ID TEXT_ID has incorrect node type NODE_TYPE.”

The error message does not allows you to access the database table records. Moreover, the same error message pops up every time when you try to access the database table.

Cause:

The above error message appears when a text page contains a text node with an unknown type. (A text data node is a leaf node, which stores all the records of a database table.) The above situation primarily occurs when the database is logically or physically damaged.

Resolution:

To resolve the above table error message and to access its records, you will need to identify the exact cause of SQL database corruption and then follow appropriate steps to repair the database. Below are the two ways by which you can determine the cause and resolution for the above problem:

• To identify the hardware related issues, you will need to check the application logs, SQL Server logs, and system logs. In case you find any system component corrupted, change it by a new component.

• In case of logical corruption of SQL database, run DBCC CHECKDB command with an appropriate repair clause.

• However, if the logical corruption persists, then you will need to use an effective SQL Database Recovery application. A SQL Recovery utility repairs all kinds of logically corrupted MS SQL databases.

How to Recover Forgotten Mozilla Firefox Passwords?

2010-03-12T09:52:00.002+05:30

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Mozilla Firefox is one of the popular web browsers used by different communities of people. When you access a website that requires username and password through Firefox, the details get stored on your local hard disk as encrypted data in Windows registry. Like other web browsers, Firefox also incorporates built-in functionality (Password Manager) to remember passwords for the user. But sometimes, the passwords might not be saved. Such situations create possibilities of losing or forgetting the passwords for one or more websites. In these circumstances, a Password Recovery Software can aid recovering lost or forgotten Mozilla Firefox passwords.

Firefox Password Manager allows you to manage all the website passwords that you want it to remember. Once the information is stored, it auto-fills the appropriate fields whenever you try to access the website. But for the function to work, you need to click the 'Remember' button on the prompt, which appears when the website opens. If you click 'Never for This Site', Firefox skips storing the password details. So each time when you want to access the website, you need to manually type in the website password.

Sometimes, you may observe Firefox doesn't prompt or save the password. This might occur for following reasons:

• Firefox Password Manager is configured not to remember the password for a particular website.
• Password saving setting is disabled in Firefox.
• Firefox Password Manager is configured to erase the password once it closes.
• You are using Firefox 'Private Browsing' feature, which restricts saving the passwords.
• Few websites don't permit storing the passwords for data security reasons.

Losing or forgetting website passwords is common. If any of the above cases occurs, chances are that you may lose a password for a website in Firefox. Consider a similar situation, when you cannot access a website because you have lost or forgotten the password. You cannot view the e-mails or any other data stored in your website account.

But fortunately, there are several Password Recovery utilities that can recover these passwords. The Password Recovery Software designed for Firefox can allow retrieving the forgotten password in a few clicks.

Resolving Index Corruption in NTFS

2010-02-25T15:32:00.004+05:30

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To index file system data, NTFS (New Technology File System) employs B+ tree structure to allow fast look up times. All the filenames are generally indexed individually in their own directory and with separate MFT entry, attributes, and security descriptors. NTFS users can experience critical data loss problems if NTFS indexes undergo corruption for some reasons. Such problems can be detected by unusual system behavior while accessing the corrupted partition. However, to deal with these issues, one may need to reformat the drive and restore the data from backup. But if no updated or valid backup is available, situations arise that can necessitate the use of NTFS recovery software.

Following is a realistic problem that will help you comprehend such problems in more detail. Consider one or more of your hard drive partitions are formatted to NTFS. When you try to access or open any of the NTFS partitions, it shows few or all of the given symptoms:

You open 'Windows Explorer' and try to expand the NTFS partition, but the computer hangs
On running chkdsk for the same partition, it reports NTFS index errors, such as below:

“Deleting index entry in index of file of file ”

Some of the Windows applications fail to start because of missing files (.exe or .dll files)

Cause

NTFS index structure is damaged. This can occur for common reasons like, unexpected power outage, bad cables, and system issues.

Other probable causes can be newly or faulty installed hardware and disabled 32-Bit Disk Access for the IDE controller setting in BIOS.

Solution

Run system diagnosis to find out the problematic hardware. Remove it and see if the problem still persists. If this doesn't resolve the issue, check for the above mentioned BIOS settings. In case the problem still persists, NTFS structure is damaged.

You need to reformat the NTFS hard drive partition to resolve the NTFS corruption issue, which requires you to restore deleted data from backup. But if it is not feasible to restore from backup, it is suggested to use a NTFS data recovery utility. These are exclusive products designed to perform hard drive recovery in all logical crash scenarios, safely and easily.

iPhone Overtakes Windows Mobile Users In U.S.

2010-02-23T17:04:00.003+05:30

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The iPhone now has more U.S. users than Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, new research shows. Apple’s iconic handset had an average of 8.97 million users in October, compared to Microsoft’s 7.13 million. This is the first time the iPhone has led Windows Mobile cell phones in actual user numbers.

Microsoft has admitted Apple’s iPhone “caught us all napping.” Windows Mobile 7 is not expected until the end of 2010. Morgan Stanley recently said Apple has a two- to three-year lead on its competitors.

The new numbers from Internet metric firm comScore means Apple has the second-largest U.S. marketshare in smartphones. Research in Motion continues to lead the pack with 14.96 million U.S. BlackBerry users. Compared to the iPhone and BlackBerry’s accelerating growth, Windows Mobile has been at a near stand-still.

Palm grew to around 2.84 million U.S. users, while Android and Symbian had about 1.02 million and 1.3 million U.S. users, according to comScore.

Credit for Apple passing Windows Mobile users is the iPhone 3GS, launched just prior to the three-month October period.

How to Solve when Hard Disk is Not Auto-Detected in BIOS?

2010-02-20T15:10:00.003+05:30

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Almost all Computer BIOSes are now available with an IDE device auto-detection feature that controls the setup of IDE devices on the computer. This utility generally comes in two major forms: Dynamic IDE auto-detection and Manual IDE auto-detection. The former form is a fully automatic mode, in which the BIOS automatically detects the newly connected drive (particularly hard disk drives) at each boot-up and sets its correct options. However, the latter one is the manual mode that requires you to select auto-detection option to let BIOS set the IDE parameters for the newly detected devices. The BIOS then saves the parameters permanently. A hard disk usually appears as physically failed if BIOS auto-detection feature cannot detect the hard drive, however, there can be other causes as well. But if you conclude at hard disk failure, hard disk recovery service can help you to rescue the lost data.

Consider an instance when you boot-up the computer and BIOS refuses to detect the hard drive. The BIOS seems to search the drive and finally reports that it cannot find the drive This can be a critical situation for a user with important data on the hard drive as it cannot access the data until the hard disk is visible to the BIOS. The problem can be related to drive set up rather than within the drive, thus a user is recommended to consider the following basic suggestions in such conditions:

In case you are trying to detect a new hard drive or the one that has been moved to a new or upgraded system, the problem might be related to system assembly issues.
Try to move and attach the hard drive to another computer. If it is detected, the hard disk controller might be defective.
Make sure that the hard disk is properly powered up
Check if hard disk properly spinning up. If you hear that the hard disk spins up and spins down quickly or not spinning at all, the hard disk failure is most likely.
Ensure that the jumpers are correctly configured
Make sure that the IDE controller is enabled and IDE cable is healthily connected
Consult the manufacturers to take care of your specific issue
If the hard disk is completely dead, seek disk recovery experts' help to recover the data. hard disk recovery service provider companies have special equipments and technology to diagnose and extract data from any kind of hard drive.

Resolving 'System hive error' in Windows after Unexpected Shutdown

2010-02-06T17:00:00.003+05:30

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As one of the prime components of Windows operating system, the registry should be kept away from errors that can otherwise lead to system crashes and operational issues. The most common causes of Windows registry errors are malicious software, incompatible software installation, improper removal of a program, unexpected power outage, and the like. If computer does not start, one of the typical reasons can be the corruption of registry hives. This makes it essential that you should either repair or replace the corrupted registries or reinstall Windows. But in case of backup unavailability, these situations can also compel you to use a Windows Data Recovery product.

For instance, consider a problem when you experience unexpected shutdown with your Windows based computer. The next time when you start the computer, it cannot boot and give the below error message:

“System hive error”

The error results into data loss as you cannot boot the computer further.

Cause

Windows registry hive is corrupted. When you use the computer, it saves registry in the memory. As you shut down the computer, all the changes are committed to system registry. In case of system failure or unexpected outage, the memory contains the damaged entries, which also leaves registry corrupted.

Solution

Use the following measures to solve the above error:

Boot the computer using Windows installation disc and start Recovery Console/ Recovery Environment. Restore the computer to the previous working state
Use the Startup Repair option to repair the computer
Identify the corrupted registry files and try to replace with the corresponding copies on the installation disc
Reinstall Windows and restore from the last backup

There can be situations when you don't have valid data backup. The backup might be corrupted or incomplete. In such cases, you are suggested to use a Windows partition recovery utility.

A Windows data recovery product uses efficient and safe scanning algorithms to analyze the logically corrupted hard disk and restore the lost data. These software are reliable to use because of their non-destructive nature. Also, the data recovery products are easy to use with their self-explanatory interface.