iPod Data Recovery

On January 4, 2010, In data recovery software, By admin

Technology crashes. This is a fact and we have to live with it. But what to do if important data gets lost because of these crashes? How valuable is your data to you? How to retrieve it when we realize that we should have been making backups and yet we didn’t? I don’t know how good free solutions are, I’m not even sure you can find such free software to help you restore your data.

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is a software that helps you recover lost data from your crashed iPod. This recovery tool rescues all the deleted or crashed audio and video files from an iPod.

These are a few causes of iPod data loss:

  • frozen iPod
  • unknown volume format
  • virus attacks
  • human errors or mishandling of the device

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery helps recovering the data thanks to the software scan option that will extract all the recoverable files from your iPod. Then, the imaging option will help you create an image of the media which can be stored on your system for further use. In addition, find and filter option gives advanced controls for your ease.

The graphical user interface resembles the original iPod, which facilitate easiest and fastest recovery without any specialized skills and a glance of it gives complete idea about the software. Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery software enables you to recover any type of file you are looking for including MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG, RPS, M4P, AU, AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV, MP4, WMA, MP3, MPG, MPEG, GIF, WAV and all other image and video formats. Software is flexible and Multi-modal recovery features i.e. Standard Scan Recovery, Advance Scan Recovery, Raw File Scan Recovery and Image Creation.

The software offers you a live demonstration of its features through a free demo version available for download from here.

This software scans and shows the list of repairable files. If you find the desired results, purchase the activation key to active the software and save your precious data. Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery software is compatible with Windows 2K, Windows XP and Windows Vista. The Software is Simple to operate, with no prior technical skills required and backed up by 24X5 unlimited customer supports with 30 days money back guarantee.

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How to Fix PC Errors Without Losing Data

On June 30, 2009, In Registry Cleaner Programs, By admin

It’s well-known already that almost all PC computers tend to become sluggish in time, going slower every day, causing you a lot of nerves and making you lose valuable time. Although this doesn’t mean you’re going to lose your data soon, it’s still a major inconvenience, so we need to see why computers get slow and how to fix it.

I know people who reinstall their Windows system every two or three months and claim they are happy doing that. While I’m positive their PC speed improves after a fresh install of the operating system, I can’t stop myself from thinking at all that hassle involved by reinstalling all drivers and computer programs I currently use.

Sometimes, the solution is much faster and easier: cleaning the registry by removing the errors and invalid entries, thus making your PC operate faster. Registries get clogged with lots of information each time you install some software. Uninstalling it doesn’t erase all traces from the computer and usually there are a few registry entries which remain there, although they aren’t needed anymore.

If you want to see if your PC is in that situation, you can download and run a free registry scan. It’s quick and it will show you any errors your registry may have.

Beware that it’s very dangerous to attempt manual deletion of unused registry entries. After you get your free scan results, you have several options: one is to buy the unlock key to the registry cleaner and get your PC fixed and optimized automatically. Another one is to reinstall Windows, if you’d rather spend time than money on getting your PC to speed up.

Registry Easy Review

Registry Easy is one of the registry cleaners and PC optimizers that can help even the beginner users of PC computers to improve their productivity and to keep their computer unclogged. While it’s not a solution to keep a PC error-free completely, it’s true that no software in this world could promise you that. All PC users will see the blue screen of death at least every once in a while, that’s life.

What I liked most at Registry Easy was its speed. I think it took the free scan about three minutes to make me a list of all errors found in my PC. One of these errors gave me many sleepless nights: I’ll remember lsass.exe and svchost.exe for the rest of my life, that’s for sure, as they caused a lot of errors and made my PC freeze so many times.

Something I wasn’t happy with: I tried it on my Vista-operated laptop and it failed initiating. However, I know somebody who used it on Vista and said there weren’t any problems at all, so I suppose I must have been doing something wrong. Or perhaps my laptop has other problems to be fixed rather than the registry errors.

Nonetheless, if any of you is interested in knowing more about Registry Easy, here are a few features as stated by the manufacturer:

Registry Easy™ will Automatically Speed up , Clean & Repair Your PC Registry of the following:

  • Windows Installer Errors
  • ActiveX Errors
  • ActiveX Control problems
  • Windows Startup Errors
  • Windows Explorer Errors
  • Windows Media player Errors
  • l sass.exe , svchost.exe &other exe Errors
  • Windows Operating System Problems
  • Registry Errors
  • DLL Errors
  • Runtime Errors
  • IExplore and System32 Errors
  • System Crashes
  • Slow PC Performance
  • Chkdsk Issues
  • Computer Freezing
  • Internet Explorer Errors
  • Javascript Errors
  • Dr Watson Errors
  • Hardware Malfunction
  • Blue Screen
  • Vista, XP, 2000, 98 and ME Issues
  • Scan Disk
  • Driver Errors
  • Corrupt Registry Files
  • Task Manager related
  • Computer & Application Shutdown
  • Registry Easy™ detects the most registry problems
  • Cleans registry, fixes errors, and optimizes your PC for better performance
  • Prevent application crashes
  • Load windows faster
  • Run applications smoothly
  • Maintain your system like new
  • Manage your Internet Explore more handle
  • Regain disk space
  • Protects your privacy
  • Easy to use, saving you time and energy
  • Unlimited free technical support
  • Prevents PC from Freezing or Crashing

Registry Easy™ Key Features and Benefits:

  • High-performance scan
  • Junk Files Cleaner
  • Duplicate File Cleaner (New!)
  • Evidence Cleaner (New!)
  • System Optimizer (New!)
  • IE Restore
  • Browser HOM Manager
  • Automatic/manual removal
  • Back-up registry
  • Restore Point
  • Block ActiveX
  • Error Utilities
  • Register ActiveX
  • Program Shortcuts
  • Checks Invalid User Software Settings
  • Checks Invalid System Software Settings
  • Checks Invalid Application Paths
  • Checks Recently Used Files
  • Checks Invalid Class Keys
  • Checks Invalid ActiveX, OLE, COM
  • Checks Uninstall Sections
  • Checks Invalid Font
  • Checks Invalid Shared known DLL’s
  • Checks Invalid Startup Programs
  • Checks Invalid Shortcuts
  • Checks Invalid File Associations
  • Checks Invalid Start Menu Items
  • Checks Recently Used Files
  • Deletes Empty Registry Keys
  • Checks System Service
  • Organizes Windows Startup Items
  • Add/remove Program Manager
  • Memory Tweak
  • Auto Updated

 
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Hard Drive Recovery: Should I Attempt It?

On January 13, 2009, In Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

Hard drive recovery procedures are delicate, because they involve a high degree of risk to lose your data permanently. This is why it is not recommended that less experienced people try to retrieve their data using data recovery tools such as software or utilities. If undelete is enough to get your files back, then you can safely use it, even if you’ve just started with computers. If not, think twice before running any program you may have downloaded from the web, even if you paid for it. It is much safer for your data to make use of professional hard drive data recovery services, thus extracting data from your crashed hard drive for future use.

Why Shouldn’t You Attempt Data Recovery

Logical hard drive recovery implies several procedures which are done with the help of a special software. If your files are gone because of a drive failure, the software cannot be run from the same disk, so you need a second one links to the faulty drive. Then the file system is scanned, the errors are found and repaired. In case this fails, there is a more detailed procedure called low-level scan, which takes and searches each and every sector of your drive, attempting to retrieve the corrupted or lost files.

Physical hard drive recovery is required when you lost your files because you dropped your hard drive on the floor, or it was subject to floods or fire, or any other type of physical damage. This recovery can be done either mechanically or electronically. Usually, you need another hard drive, identical with yours (brand, storage capacity, printed circuit board), as you are going to use parts of it to put together your original drive again.

Briefly, such operations require a dust-free environment, and this is why you cannot do them at home. Data recovery companies use minimum Class 100 Clean Rooms to restore defective drives and recover the data.

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Data Recovery: What To Avoid

On January 12, 2009, In Data Recovery Services, By admin

Data recovery can help you get your data back, no matter if you lost it to a computer hard drive failure, crash, or due to some human error like deleting or overwriting files by mistake. Another reason for losing data can be power outages or failure in operating of certain software programs. In case this happens to your PC, laptop, camera storage card, mp3 player, USD pen drive, or any dat5a storage device, you must not panic, because you still can have your data recovered, but you should better be following these rules, in order to maximize the effect of data retrieval software or services:

  • Do not run that disk drive anymore. Overwriting files may result in permanent data loss.
  • Do not browse the web for data recovery solutions, and do not attempt to run any software that you may find, which claims to recover your information. You risk to lose it for good.
  • Do not use the regular disk tools such as ScanDisk or Disk Defragmentation. You’ll do more harm than good.

The safest way to getting back your files , be them photos, documents or music, is to use a certified data recovery solution, which you’d get from a trusted source, together with detailed instructions for use. Even better, you can let the specialists do the data retrieval for you. Most of the times, they require payment for their services only if they are successful. As nobody wants to work for free, you can be sure they’d attempt their best to give you your lost data in the shortest possible time.

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Data Recovery Tips

On January 12, 2009, In Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

Data protection should be one of your main priorities, no matter if you run your own business or you work as an employee. In both cases, you don’t want to lose your data, because this could mean either the end of your business or of your career with your current employer. However, things happen, so you may find out one day that some of your files are missing or are corrupt. First of all, don’t panic, try to assess the situation if you can, or ask for professional help in case you don’t have a clue where to start your investigations. Keep in mind that data can be retrieved, but for maximizing the success of this operation, you have to make sure to follow a few steps:

  • Have regular backups, either weekly or even daily, if you have a big load of work each and every day. Whenever you do some important task, make a backup before you start and another one after you finish your job. In this way, you’ll make sure that if something wrong happens during your work, you can get back to the initial status of your computer. If everything goes well, it is important to backup your data for safety reasons, in order not to lose such a significant amount of work and progress.
  • If your computer refuses to start, check if you have any USB devices or cards inserted in the USB slots or in the cards reader. Sometimes they may give errors when starting the computer, as it tries to boot from these hard drives. If this is not the case, do not attempt things you don’t know the possible results of, in your wish to get the computer started. You may do more harm to your hard drive data which is already endangered by the malfunction. Take the computer to an authorized service.
  • If suddenly you start to hear odd noises like clunking at computer start up, turn it off as fast as you can and ask for specialized help. Such noises may mean something is wrong with your hard drive.
  • Never assume the worst case scenario. You need to know that in lots of situations data stored on the hard disk is recoverable, no matter what your computer has been going through, be it a fire or a flood, or falling down from the 9th floor.
  • Do not attempt any form of data recovery on your own. The only exception to this rule are data recovery specialists, who have the tool and the knowledge to retrieve that data and not harm even more the drives.
  • Do not use the computer, even if you manage to make it start. Overwriting your lost data may make the recovery process even tougher if not impossible in some cases. Get in tough with a data recovery services provider and wait for them to fix things for you. Usually, such services are not expensive, and taking into consideration the loss that may be caused by your missing data, I could even say they are cheap.

These are only a few data recovery tips, which I hope will help you get your data back safely.

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Recover Lost Data: an Easy Task?

On January 8, 2009, In Deleted Files Recovery, Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

One of the biggest needs of computer operators is to recover lost data, either after they’ve done a foolish mistake, or after a hard drive crash. IT managers and other computer specialists can go crazy because of their colleagues’ requests for data recovery. Reasons matter less, what’s important is that it is not always possible to get the valuable data back.

Where to Seek for Data Recovery Help

Getting help with data recovery is not so simple. Depending on the cause of your data loss, on the moment this loss occurred, you may need a certain type of computer specialist or another one. It is one thing if your data got lost because of a hard drive crash and another one if you just deleted your file and made sure to empty your recycle bin. It is completely a different situation if you’ve overwritten a file with another one containing the wrong content. In this last case, I’m afraid nobody could ever help you get your initial file content back. However, for the other cases there are solutions.
But let’s take a look at computers infrastructure first. A hard disk is built in such a way that information you think you delete is not actually erased from the drive itself. In time, it will be overwritten with other things you put on your disk. When you delete a file, you delete only its label, and this thing signals the computer that the respective sectors of the hard drive are available for future use. Hard disk drives and USB memory drives have evolved a lot since computers were invented, so now they can reach incredible storage capacities. Were you able to imagine that some day you’d be able to store a TB of information on a hard disk? Unfortunately, the bigger they are, the more prone to bad sectors and data losses they are.

How to Deal With Operating System Data Recovery

If you only need a Windows, Mac or Linux data recovery, this is easier task. There are software programs which can help you. Such data recovery software can be fairly inexpensive, so you can deal with problems such as virus infections, malfunctioning of software, accidental format of disk drives, mistakenly deleted files and folders, or unexpected shutdown like in the case of power supply interruptions. Many of these programs will offer you a trial version or a money back guarantee, so if you cannot obtain your files back, you won’t have to pay a single dollar.

How to Deal With Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery

In case of such operation failures of your hard disk, you need to make use of specialized data recovery services, because you won’t be able to access your harddrive anymore. Maybe your computer won’t turn on at all. A hard drive can suffer damages to the write/read head, to the spindle or to the motors. It may have its circuits affected by natural elements like water or fire. There are many things that can go wrong with a hard disk, so that’s why it is important to handle it to experts who know what to do for a correct and timely diagnose of the fault. They have the so-called “clean rooms” where the technicians work on your drive to extract the information. They can do any type of hard drive crash data recovery, regardless if your hard drive is IDE, SATA, SATA II or SCSI, or even if it’s a laptop hard disk. The “no data no charge” system applied by such data retrieval companies means that if they don’t succeed to extract your data from the drive, you won’t pay a dime for their work.

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Disc and Data Recovery

On January 2, 2009, In Data Recovery Services, By admin

Data recovery is probably an issue that most computer users never think of before experiencing their first data loss occurrence. Then they start thinking and re-assessing the situation, but in some cases it may be too late to change something in the computer configuration. Knowing good data recovery services is like having good insurance for your house: you wish to never make use of it, but in case you need it, then you are grateful you did it.

Let’s recap what happens when you realize your data is lost: you seek for it in the folder where you knew it was stored, then you try to use the search function once, or twice, or even several times before realizing that your precious and important data is not on your hard drive anymore. In that moment, panic starts to appear, you sweat out of the blue, then you start thinking of consequences of your data loss. You start to feel sorry for not doing regular backups as all computer specialists advised you to do, you start to figure out that unexpected really happens and that you were totally unprepared to face it.

If you are new to computers, then you should be aware that your data is never safe, that all drives can break from time to time, and that although there are chances that you get your data back, in some situation data recovery is simply not possible anymore. Data on USB flash drives, or on mp3 players like iPod or any other brands, data on Cds and DVDs are not safer, either. All storage devices are prone to crash one day, therefore you should keep your very important data stored on many such drives and refreshed ev ery now and then. Make backup copies, them backups of the backup copies. Storage drives are now mch cheaper than they used to be not very long time ago. Take advantage of this fact and keep data backups in more places.

You know, data recovery is possible, but data loss prevention is better.

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Novell Data Recovery: Segmented Volumes Recovery

On December 29, 2008, In data recovery software, By admin

Data recovery software is a generic term which may define totally different programs, with various specific functionality. There are cases when these functions overlap. A Windows data recovery software can also be used to recover deleted files and folders. Another software may do hard rive crash data recovery, as well as USB drives data recovery. It all depends on what the manufacturer intended to software to be good for in the first place. One of the special issues in data recovery are segmented volumes. Some people may prefer to have more than one hard disk, in order to keep their personal files separate from the computer programs, for example. In such cases, there’s no need to buy a second hard drive. You can format the disk as if there were as many separate drives as you wish, labeled C:, D:, E:, F; and so on. You can assign a certain size for each of these drives, provided that the sum of all drives does not exceed the initial disk capacity. Another segmented files situation may occur when producing file archives which need to be transported on CDs or on diskettes. If the archive size exceed the storage space of one unit, then the archive is fragmented into multiple volumes.

Partitioned Disk and Segmented Volumes Data Recovery Software

Novell Data Recovery is only one of the numerous solutions of recovering lost data from segmented drives, or even retrieving lost partitions of the drive itself. Phoenix Novell is an application which has to be installed on and run from a Windows operated hard disk. The crashed or failed disk needs to be attached as secondary to this first disk, then Novell is run onto it from its location, on the good drive. The main benefit of this software is that it can recover data from all partitions of a segmented drive simultaneously, as it automatically detects if it is about a single disk or a spanned volume. This is only one example of how to recover lost data from segmented volumes. There is specialized software for data restoration for any operating system, from Windows 95, 98, XP to Apple Macintosh, Linux, or Novell. You can buy software for any kind of data files recovery such as NTFS, FAT , HFS, NWFS, EXT2 or EXT3.

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RAID Server Data Recovery

On December 23, 2008, In Data Recovery Services, raid data recovery, By admin

Attempting a RAID server data recovery implies deeper knowledge of the data retrieval software and procedures. This may sound insane, as this is the purpose of a RAID  system, to offer increased data security and to avoid data loss. RAID comes from Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, so they are expected to offer backups of vital data of a computers network. However, all devices can get faulty in operation every once in a while, and RAID drives make no exception to this rule. Therefore, instead of blaming it on your IT network manager, you’d better make sure he has all cautionary measures in place to keep your data safe. You need to bear in mind that fault-tolerant does not mean fault-proof. RAID data recovery will be required in case of multiple hard drives failure, to give you only one example of a data endangering situation.

RAID Data Recovery Situations

Regardless your RAID types, be them Mirror Sets or Volume Sets or even Stripe Sets with parity, and regardless the drives manufacturer, RAID data recovery is perfectly possible for any operating system and for all RAID controllers. Spanned and striped systems are very much alike when it comes to lost data retrieval. The data recovery on RAID drives may be necessary in situations like missing partitions, controller failure, corrupted RAID or missing partitions. If one or many hard drives in the RAID array system are physically damaged, it is possible that you may need to make use of data recovery specialists knowledge. You may attempt to retrieve your lost data by yourself, but if you are not sure you know how to do it, you’d better find one of those data recovery companies which have the software and the skills to to the job better and faster than you.

RAID Data Recovery Process

The usual method of recovering data is to mirror the drive volumes, then process the data as image files. Briefly, there is a software which runs and retrieves the data, making sure to reconstruct it wherever retrieving is not possible anymore due to sectors corruption. Such software is proprietary to data recovery companies and it may be better to contract their services instead of trying to buy the software.

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Data Recovery Services: When to Use Them

On December 23, 2008, In Data Recovery Services, Deleted Files Recovery, By admin

Data recovery services are not exactly what we’d call cheap, so this is why you need to evaluate very well your data loss situation before making use of such services. Everybody deletes files from the computer by mistake. Usually, those files go into the Recycle Bin, so it is enough to learn how to retrieve deleted data from there to have your information back. However, there are situations in which data recovery is not possible anymore. Among these, we may mention a case: saving a file you are working on, in Excel, or Word, or other programs, thus overwriting a information that was correct with a wrong one. For such cases, there’s no cure, so your files are forever lost. This is why it’s very important to develop the habit of working on copies of the original files, until you are sure that what you’ve done is correct. Data recovery services do not handle this type of data loss, and most probably the professional staff from such companies will tell you the same thing from the very beginning.

You may consider buying data recovery services in one of the following situations:

  • hard drive crash: if you cannot access your HDD anymore, there’s very little you can do by yourself, so it would be strongly advisable to seek for expert data recovery help
  • hard drive natural disaster damage: if something falls on your computer, do not attempt to switch it on if you notice physical damage to the case; laptops and notebooks are very exposed to be dropped on the floor, so their hard disks may fail to operate after such an incident.
  • the failed drive is part of a RAID array: RAID data recovery is one of the most delicate operations of data retrieval, as you may easily lose your data for good if you don’t know very well what you are doing. This is why, either you need a raid 5 data recovery, or a raid 0 data recovery, or even a raid 1 data recovery, to trust the professionals and seek for their help, be it on Linux or any other computer operating system. The good news in case of a RAID or SAN having only one hard drive failed, the data recovery operation can be done remotely, saving you precious time and money.
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