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 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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Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery

On December 19, 2008, In Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

How to Recover Data from Crashed Drives

Hard drive crash data recovery can be problematic, but not impossible. This statement is not to encourage you not to make regular backups of your hard disks. Backing up your data is a must, if you want to avoid the price for hard drive recovery data expert services. Even if you don’t care about the price, you still need to be aware that in some cases of drive failure, your data could be lost forever, no hard drive data recovery software being able to bring it back to you again. Prevention is an excellent way of getting your data safe, but people often neglect this very important aspect of their work. I’ve seen the blue screen of death so many times, that I do my backups every week, and in some cases, even daily, if I put a big amount of work into a project and I want to be able to restore it in case something happens with my computer. Hard disks are not unbreakable, they are exposed to failure, and usually they crash without early warning signals. One day you switch on your PC and it simply refuses to recognize your hard disk. It happened to me and to many other million computer users out there, so it may happen to you any given moment. The hard drive data recovery tools are not so easy to find, and many times you really need a specialist to recover the data for you, as you may do even worse, in case you make use of the wrong software.

Hard Drive Data Recovery Software

The data recovery is done using a special software which collects information from your hard drive and makes it accessible again. One of the providers of these programs which retrieve lost data is Pro Data Doctor. They offer the Windows Data Recovery Software, the FAT Partition Data Recovery Software and the NTFS Partition Data Recovery Software for $69 each. The removable media data recovery software is a bit cheaper, only $45. I haven’t tried their services, but the website looks OK, with lots of information on the specific data recovery products for specialized types of storage media, from iPod to memory cards or pen drives.

Hard Drive Data Recovery Services

There are companies which, instead of providing you the data recovery software, do the job by themselves, so you don’t have to know anything.

iPod Recovery Solutions

Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery is an exclusive solution for your crashed iPod. The recovery tool ensures the rescue of all the deleted or crashed audio and video files from an iPod. Main causes of iPod data loss can be frozen iPod, unknown volume format, virus attack, human error and mishandling of the device etc. Stellar Phoenix iPod Recovery comes handy in recovering data in all the above cases. The scan option will quickly and efficiently extract all the recoverable files from your iPod, imaging option will help you to create an image of the media which can be stored to the 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. 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 Mac OS X 10.4 and above. The Software is simple to operate and backed up by 24X5 unlimited customer supports with 30 days money back guarantee. If you want, you can download a trial version here.

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