Saturday, April 26, 2008

Linux Data Recovery Software

Disk Doctors Linux Data Recovery software is a tool that helps you to recover data from Ext2 & Ext3 File System which may be on any Linux Distribution. To name a few Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, Mandriva Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Caldera Linux, Slackware Linux, Gentoo Linux, Kubuntu Linux etc.

Linux based file system too is prone to data loss, you may face data loss due to:

* Lost / Corrupted MBR
* Lost / Corrupted Super Block
* Lost / Corrupted Inode Table
* Deletion of Files & Folders
* Corruption in Root Directory
* Corrupt BGD (Block Group Descriptor)



Linux Data Recovery Scenario
Once data loss happens it is presumed that data has lost forever, whether it is a result of software malfunction, or human error, this can be disastrous. When such a disaster appears, what can be done? Many users accept that their files are gone forever and face all subsequent losses.

However, this is not necessarily the way it has to be. Even when Linux does not have a practicable solution for the recovery of lost data, hope is now a possibility with Disk Doctors Linux Data Recovery Software; an easy and secure way to recover data you had thought was lost forever.

Our Linux Data Recovery Software experts have been working diligently for making this software to keep up with the ever changing hardware and software solutions for different kind of storage devices.

NTFS Data Recovery Software

Use Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery software to recover data from NTFS, NTFS5, drives as well as it supports recovery from dynamic drives created on NT/2000/XP/2003 platforms.

Recovering data using the wizard based interface is so easy that, even a user with or without any technical know-how can use this data recovery software effectively to recover data.

Using this data recovery software you can recover data from

1. IDE / AT
2. SATA
3. SCSI
4. USB Flash Drives

Also the type of data loss scenarios where software would be useful is:

1. Missing or Lost Partition Recovery
2. Deleted Partition Recovery
3. Deleted File Recovery
4. Re-formatted drive recovery
5. Formatted partition recovery

Note: We recommend that you download the evaluation versions first which will give you first hand experience to try and test before purchasing. Evaluation version gives you a fair idea on chances of the results that the full version might deliver. We suggest that you test, evaluate and get a complete understanding of our product capability using the evaluation / demo version.

Disk Wipe and Data Eraser

Disk Doctors Data Sanitizer work not only by unlinking a file but also specifically overwriting them with garbage data. For very high security installations, overwiting the file several times is advised. Many government institutions have specific disk wiping standards for file deletion. Particularly, the U.S. DoD specification 5220.22 standard says a file must be overwritten three times.

Disk Wiping Overview

Disk wiping is beneficial for privacy, because files are not completely deleted using operating system's default delete function. In most of the file systems, delete function consists of marking the space occupied by the file as free and updating file system allocation structures, leaving actual file contents intact on the storage media.

If there is continous read and write operations on the drive after deletion, eventually this space will be assigned to other files and would be overwritten. However, if the there hasn't been much of read and write operations since the file was deleted, data recovery software or disk forensic tools have a good chances of retrieving deleted data in chunks or in whole by accessing the disk drive.

So normal 'delete' command or deleting data from the recycle - bin is not a safe method for data removal.

Partition Recovery

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is much more then undelete, file recovery software. Its applicability begins when other software fails to recover or even is not able to display data.

This windows data recovery software can recover data from any logical cause for data loss on Windows; this data recovery software combines its TurboScan™ and File Tracer™ technology to give you the best Windows data recovery ever known.

Recovers After

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery can recover accidentally deleted files, including files emptied from Recycle Bin, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key + Delete, provided that this windows data recovery software is used before the files are permanently overwritten by new data on windows drive.

With Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery data can be recovered from a reformatted (to any file system), corrupted partition and deleted partition. This Windows data recovery software has the best partition recovery module to locate deleted / lost partitions, this can scan an entire physical hard drive to look for traces of gone partitions using proprietary scan engine.

Crashed Hard Drive Recovery

Hard drive can crash due to a number of reasons which can be broadly classified into two groups, physical failure and logical failure. Regardless the cause for hard drive crash, it does not mean the end of your crucial data, the data is still recoverable.

Symptoms of hard disk crash

1. Computer will not boot
2. Error messages like "No Fixed Disk Present" or "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
3. Blue or black screen after power up (commonly referred as Blue Screen of Death)
4. Clicking/ticking/humming/grinding and crunching noises coming from the drive
5. System often reboots, restarts, hangs or freezes
6. "Drive not formatted" and “Operating system not found”, messages

When you experience any of the above symptoms with your computer the first thing you should do is determine whether the problem is with the hard drive mechanical components or is it a logical failure.

Data Recovery Software Tools

Data Recovery basically means the process of acquiring back usable data from the damaged, corrupt media or storage device. The loss of important data can cause fall down of businesses, leaving you and your company in the most evil situation to face.

Chily Softech, the technologically advanced data recovery software company helps you to recover your lost data from the inaccessible, downed, damaged or corrupted media and storage device(s) with the help of RecoveryFIXTM data recovery software range. Our experienced data recovery engineers have the expertise, knowledge and have developed the newest and result-oriented data recovery software and disk recovery software tools to recover lost data from the inaccessible drives, storage media(s) and from the most critical situations when the hope of getting back lost data gets lessened.

The most common causes for data loss are due to virus attacks, human errors, software / hardware failures, technical problems and many more which results in confidential data loss, business data loss, project delays, loss of personal collections like music, photographs, files etc.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Crashed Hard Drives Data Recovery Big Business

Over my 20 years of computer repair, it is safe to say that I have had to replace 1 defective hard drive a week. That's 52 a year, so that's 1000 hard drives give or take. It is also safe to say that 20% of those crashed hard drives did not even phase the customer. Maybe 60% just considered it a hassle. But that leaves another 20% that were almost in tears because they filled it with family photos or work documents with out any form of data backup.

The purpose of this article is to cover a few backup options along with the cost associated with it. You will be surprised at the worst case scenario.

I'm willing to bet that every one smart enough to find this article has a CD burner on there computer. Right there you have no excuse for not backing up your files, but it is time consuming. The CDs need to organized to some extent and they are susceptible to scratches, nicks and heat. So while it is an option, it is not to practical.

Personally I pay about $9 a month for web hosting. With this I can simply set up a folder that is password protected on the server. Then every few days I connect to it and upload my whole drive by dragging and dropping. Take a FTP program of your choice and tell it to copy only the newer files and it's just that easy. What's that? $108 a year? Even then my hosting company backs up my backup while I can tend to the various blogs and sites I maintain.

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