admin | 4:54 am | November 6, 2008 | Computers & Internet
It is rather risky to repair hard drive partitions on a corrupted hard disk drive. Even if you utilize the best toolkit and are absolutely certain in your actions, you are still risking your files shall something go wrong. You must know that all the changes that are done to a damaged disk are irrevocable. You can simply overwrite vital information about your HDD, files and data. Bottom line: it pays to substitute before performing disk recovery. Or is it?
You can find the other way of data restoration procedure that may be even safer and easier and it doesn't need to have substitute. You cannot create a backup replica of the disk, but you can create a complete double image of it or its partition. Then you may persist recovering with diverse approaches for so many times as you like. This is 1 of the possibilities of data recovery software.
admin | 11:20 am | October 3, 2008 | Computers & Internet
There is great info for those persons who are interested in RAID recovery. The usage of embedded Raid controller may demand the Raid array restoration. So, have a look at one example. You have installed a built-in chip set controller from AMD SB 600 with the equipped Raid array. You're glad when it acted, but there came a time to follow modern technologies. So, you stopped your selection on the Intel Core processors. On the motherboard you have selected you found an embedded controller ICH9R, replaced hard drive but your Raid array isn't identified. There are two ways out available for users:
1. You can purchase new hard drives and create absolutely new Raid array and transfer all data from the old machine to a new one that requires a lot of expenditures and much time to restore a preceding Raid array.
2. Or you can apply to a “Data restoration laboratory” where your Raid array will be recovered for some certain amount of money and during short period of time by facilities of file transportation. And in the situation when an individual use external Raid array the problem will disappear by itself. It happens so because it is needed just to transport a controller with hard drives. Another problem is semi-hardware controllers that crammed the market nowadays. Such controllers may recover only 1, 0+1, 5 Raid arrays and the other means of file recovery are not available for them.
The way of “mirroring” can assure safety. There's a conviction that the utilization of stripe (Raid 0) deprives people of file restoration and persons who don't use it are really protected from the Raid arrays restoration. But in case of electricity difficulties, driver problems in operating system, virus attacks one may lose two hard drives at once and it will not be protected by any mirroring. But what is the resolution of this type of difficulty then? In this case you must not try to restore the files from a Raid array or to restore the entire Raid array. You have to switch off your personal computer and take a system unit to a file restoration expert. You may protect your info only utilizing these pieces of advice and without fabricating self-made restoration deeds. (more…)
admin | 1:05 pm | September 9, 2008 | Computers & Internet
Reading this article you will find a great deal of data about hard drive recovery and some actions executed to save data. No one is proof against the information loss. Even great corporations which spend great deals of money on the newest systems frequently ask for assistance of professionals.
If you are an experienced user you ought to understand that HDD is not considered to be a reliable place to save some quite important information. Unlike CDs and other kinds of data carriers HDD is a mechanism which wears out like any other mechanical system. Except mechanical breakdowns there are many various ways to lose the data stored on your HDD.
Several years ago there was a really popular software solution that helped to restore some data. It was really frequently used and was named fdisk. Today it is used just in rare cases and just by true professionals because amateur may make harm to information with it.
File systems
File system is a type of software which assists computer to interact with HDD and perform needed operations with data. Every HDD is separated on some sections. These sections are named partitions. Even not quite experienced user may easily announce that there are two types of file systems and remembers their names NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). Windows OS of the old generation and DOS used FAT-16. Newer Windows work with FAT-32. If we compare these two systems we can see that FAT-32 can operate with bigger volumes of info. The disk space limitation for FAT-16 is only 2 GB. Developers of Windows of the modern versions brought the possibility for the clients to work with both FAT and NTFS systems.
The main reason why modern versions of Windows operate with NTFS as a main system is that it has got higher level of safety. Moreover NTFS permits to define access rights for every single file. All these systems utilize disk partition table and boot record which are saved in the first sector of every disk and determine which one is boot disk. (more…)
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