HARD DRIVE RECOVERY- A SHORT DESCRIPTION

Hard Drive Recovery- A Short Description
by Andrew Juan

The data loss is a very common incident with modern computers and it might occur at any point of time. Nevertheless the software and hardware configuration, your computer might fail (logically or physically) and critical data stored on the hard drive may become inaccessible. In such cases, Hard Drive Recovery is needed to recover data, which has lost due to accidental deletion, hard drive formatting, virus infection, file system corruption, read/write head crash, platter damage, disk controller failure, operating system malfunction and more.

There are a number of methods that can be used to get your critical data back from data storage media that can vary greatly. The easiest method of retrieving data from failed storage media is to go for a powerful and advanced third party data recovery software. Before attempting any recovery solution, you should first discover the cause of data loss.

If file system corruption, virus attack, hard drive formatting, operating system malfunction and other logical reasons are contributing in data loss, you can use recovery applications to get it recovered. In case of data loss, you should not save any data or install any software on affected or damaged hard drive. It might overwrite the lost data and may result into permanent data loss.

The Hard Drive Recovery software are powerful enough to thoroughly scan entire hard drive or other data storage device and retrieve as much data as possible from it. Efficient scanning algorithms are used by these tools to achieve absolute recovery. With interactive and simple user interface of these software, you can carry out recovery on your own.Other than the logical failure, data loss may also occur due to read/write head failure, platter damage, logic board crash, spindle motor damage, disk controller failure, actuator arm damage and more. This is called physical damage that may be caused by natural disaster, accidental dropdown of media, extensive heat, wear and tear, and dust particles between drive head and platters.
Such situations require Data Recovery service to be handled. It is the personalized help, delivered by skilled and expert recovery professionals in safe and sterile surroundings of Clean Rooms. You should not open the damaged hard drive in general environment as the dust particles available in environment might damage sensitive hard drive platters and make the situations worse.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the reliable and leading provider of superior recovery solutions. The recovery software of Stellar are available for Windows/Mac OS/UNIX/Linux/Novell operating systems. Recovery service is performed in Class 100 Clean Rooms for all hard drives, having IDE/EIDE/SATA and SCSI interfaces, using cutting edge techniques.

About the Author
Andrew Juan is a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery services. He is also a file recovery Specialist.

SYMPTOMS OF HARD DRIVE FAILURE AND DATA LOSS

Symptoms of Hard Drive Failure and Data Loss
by K madhav

Knowing the symptoms of the hard drive failure is significant because drive failure is the most common cause of data and information loss on computer systems. If you can recognize the symptoms in advance, you can get prepared for predictable computer system crash and backup your data before it is too late. In all such cases of system crash and hard drive failure, you can retrieve your critical data with the help of hard drive recovery solutions.

The most important thing that you should do to safeguard your data is to create regular backup. In case of system failure, you can easily restore all your lost data from an up-to-date backup. The next important thing is to identify the failure symptoms to be ready to handle data loss. Following are some common signs of disk failure that may help you in recognizing the type of data loss:

o Frozen Computer: While working on your computer, it gets stuck and you can not do anything on it. To overcome this problem, you need to perform hard reboot (using the reset button) of your system. It could be due to virus infection or missing system files. It is a type of logical hard drive failure.
o Missing Files or Partitions: When you bootup your computer and try to access data from it, you may find that some of your critical files and/or hard drive partitions are missing. The problem might be because of factors like accidental deletion or file system corruption.
o System Can Not Detect Hard Drive: If your system is unable to detect the hard drive then the problem could be due to disk controller failure or other similar reasons. It comes under the category of physical data loss.
o Hard Drive Noise: If your system hard drive is making strange scrapping and clicking sounds then the problem could be due to head crash or damage to the actuator arm. This problem occurs due to physical hard drive damage.

Though, data loss is a very critical situation but data recovery is possible even if your hard drive is completely dead. The hard drive recovery solution depends upon the cause of failure. If you are experiencing logical data loss then it can be fixed using hard disk recovery tools. However, in case of physical damage, recovery service is required.
Stellar Information Systems Limited provides foremost data recovery solutions to resolve all types of data loss cases. The recovery service is performed in Class -100 Clean Rooms by highly experienced professionals for Server, RAID, NAS and SAN hard drives (SCSI, SATA, IDE and EIDE). The data recovery software are available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX and Novell Netware platforms.

About the Author
K madhav is a data recovery expert and doing research on data recovery services and partition recovery.

WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES OF HARD DRIVE RECOVERY SOFTWARE

What are the Alternatives of Hard Drive Recovery Software
by k madhav

Modern computer systems and their storage devices are usually much more dependable than older generations. Today's hard drives get damaged less frequently, and they alert you in advance about the upcoming breakdowns with recent S.M.A.R.T (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) status. Although, these hard drives are more safe but they are not completely fool-proof. They may also fail at any point of time and cause serious data loss. Hard drive recovery becomes critical in order to overcome such issues.

The modern hard disks have greater data storage capabilities than their predecessors. Retaining the small physical size, the modern hard drives feature much higher storage density, which enables storing a huge amount of data on one or more hard drive platters. Although, larger storage capacity of hard drive is a plus point, but sometimes it can create certain issues like scanning the hard drive for data recovery and preparing the hard drive partitions post recovery becomes a very lengthy process (viz. with 2TB (Terabyte), 1.5 TB and 1TB hard drives where 1 Terabyte = 1024 Gigabyte). When the hard drive fails, you lose various types of files as data files and system files.

Data loss is always a stressful situation, but the lost data can be recovered by using either software or hardware level recovery solutions. If your hard drive fails due to operating system malfunction, file system corruption, virus infection, power loss while formatting hard drive and other similar reasons, you can get your data backup using third party data recovery software. Even if your hard drive is not accessible through the operating system or through another computer, recovery software can help you to retrieve all data from it.You can easily use such data recovery software tools to safely retrieve the lost data in challenging situations like partition corruption, file system damage, system metadata structure corruption, formatted hard drives, operating system corruption and virus infection. You should use these software only in case of logical damage that is software based problems. If the data loss has occurred due to situations like system crash or power failure and the hard drive is physically fine (that is getting detected by the BIOS and not making any noise), your hard disk is possibly unaffected and you can use recovery applications without any problem.
Integrity of your mission critical and valuable data is not a concern while retrieving the data using Hard Drive Recovery software. They have read-only and non-destructive design. These software deploy efficient scanning mechanisms to carry out absolute and quick recovery in the majority of data loss situations. These recovery software are available for most of the computer operating systems and can recovery data from a wide range of storage devices.Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of high-quality and reliable recovery applications. The software are available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX and Novell Netware operating systems. These tools support recovery from the corresponding file system partitions of these operating systems.

About the Author
k madhav is data recovery expert and doing research on hard drive recovery and file recovery

WHAT KIND OF HARD DRIVE RECOVERY APPLICATION YOU REQUIRE

What Kind of Hard Drive Recovery Application You Require
by Jacob Luis

Although, both deleted file recovery and data recovery software are developed to retrieve data from logically damaged storage devices, which does not need Clean Room work, there is one major feature that deleted file recovery software forget to maintain. The deleted file recovery software are designed to work in specific conditions of accidental deletion. In critical data loss situations like file system corruption, disk metadata structure corruption, partition/volume loss and hard drive formatting, these software can not help you to recover data.Selecting an appropriate recovery software is the most important step of recovery process. Selecting a cheaper and less powerful recovery application might cause further damage and may make the recovery process difficult. Recovery companies are likely to break up their software components into different parts and sell them individually. The cause behind it is: general users only plan to use one particular tool and hopefully only once; while the technicians and administrators like to obtain a complete tool to handle all the data loss cases. So when searching for a data recovery tool, ensure it is one that can tackle with all your data loss issues.

For General Recovery Situations

• You have accidentally deleted files, by emptying the Recycle/Trash Bin folder; deleted file recovery software can help you.
• Partition Table and Boot Sector corruption like issues make the files difficult to retrieve using ordinary recovery tools. A Complete and powerful hard drive recovery software is required to get your data back in such cases.
• Deleted file recovery software can not recover data in case of file system corruption, but complete recovery software can rebuild the file system and effectively recovery your data.
At the end, the hard drive recovery software do better job than deleted file recovery tools. These software employ efficient and advanced scanning mechanisms to methodically scan whole hard drive and extract all of the data from it. These software are capable of handling all the file system corruption, MBR (Master Boot Record) corruption, virus infection, partition corruption, hard drive formatting and other similar data loss situations.
The recovery software come equipped with interactive and simple graphical user interface that let you perform recovery on your own. With non-destructive conduct, these software are totally safe to use and always perform original recovery.
Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of superior recovery applications to handle most of the data loss cases. These software are available for Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux and Novell operating systems. Stellar's recovery applications support recovery from all file system volumes/partition that are usable with these OS.

About the Author
Jacob Luis is a student of Mass Communication doing research on file recovery. He is also a partition recovery Specialist.

DATA LOSS AND DATA RECOVERY FROM MULTI BOOT SYSTEM

Data Loss and Data Recovery from Multi Boot System by Jacob Luis

Dual Booting (also called Multi Booting) is the process of installing two or more operating systems on a computer. While starting the system, you can easily select which operating system to boot by using a bootloader. This is a very useful feature of a bootloader though a bootloader offers more features other than showing list of the installed operating systems, as in a multibooted system with Windows Vista and XP; we can directly go for Memory Diagnostics or Windows XP's Recovery Console using the Vista bootloader. At times, a bootloader may damage critical system components as file system and cause serious data loss. To overcome these issues, you should opt for hard drive recovery solutions.

Benefits of Multi Boot System

The multi boot configuration allows you to take advantages of multiple operating systems and applications on a single computer. This is also helpful if you want to test a new operating system without completely switching to it. Boot loader is used to accomplish this task. It can boot multiple operating systems. The popular boot loaders are NTLDR (NT LoaDeR), GRUB (GRrand Unified Bootloader) and LILO (LInux LOader).

Technical issues with Multiboot systems

In a multiboot system, you may come across compatibility issues with diverse operating systems. One operating system on your computer may not be capable of recognizing the file system(s) of other operating systems and therefore might attempt to repair it or prompt you to format it with its native file systems.
This process erases all the existing data. It generally occurs when different file systems belonging to various operating systems exist on separate partitions or volumes of the same hard drive. In some situations, the system administrator must manually configure an operating system to ignore other partitions/ volumes or disks for allowing multiple file systems.This behavior of a multiboot system prompts you to format the hard drive partitions or volumes. By reformatting a partition or volume we can correct such issues (as recognizing file system in a certain operating system, generally the one which is mostly used) but it also erases the data stored on the partition/volume. It results into serious data loss situations and may cause panic if done without taking complete backup of data.In order to recover your mission critical data, you need to go for complete scanning of the affected hard drive using Data Recovery applications. Such software facilitate easy and efficient recovery of the lost data.These software are designed to methodically scan the whole hard drive and extract all data from it. The Hard Drive Recovery software come with interactive and simple graphical user interface. It does not require sound and prior technical skills.Stellar Information Systems Limited provides advanced data recovery software to solve data loss issues of Windows, Mac OS, Linux, UNIX and Novell Netware operating systems. These user-friendly software salvage data in normal as well as daunting software caused data loss situations. These Data Recovery Tools support recovery from all file system volumes/partitions which are used by these operating systems.
About the Author

Jacob Luis is a student of Mass Communication doing research on file recovery. He is also a partition recovery Specialist.

RESOURCES FOR HARD DRIVE REPAIR AND DATA RECOVERY

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