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A Secure Way to Repair Corrupted Hard Drives

November 6th, 2008, 4:53 am @ Hardware & Software

It's rather dangerous to fix hard drive partitions on a damaged hard disk drive. You can even use one of the greatest tools and be certain in your actions, you are still risking to waste your info. Alterations that can be made to the corrupted disk are irreversible. You should remember that it is really easy to overwrite the structure of vital info about your disk. Bottom line: it's good to backup before making the recovery. Or is it?

You may come across the other approach to data recovery process that can be even more harmless and easier and it doesn't need to have backup. You cannot make a backup copy of the drive, but you may create a total binary snapshot of it or its partition. Then you may continue recovering with different approaches for so many times as you wish. That is the purpose of data recovery software.

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The Most Actual Difficulties that May Require File Restoration from RAID Arrays

October 3rd, 2008, 11:05 am @ Hardware & Software

The article goes about Disk Recovery and all the things linked with it. If you use embedded Raid controller, it may require the Raid array restoration service. Let's get an instance. You've equipped a built-in chip set controller from AMD SB 600 with the installed Raid array. It worked without any difficulties and you're happy, but then there came moment to refresh your old hardware. Of course you must have settled to select Intel Core CPU. You have selected a main board, but there is a built-in controller ICH9R, relocated hard disk drives and Raid array cannot be defined. There're 2 ways out:

1. There is a way of getting new hard disks and making a new Raid array on them. In this situation you would have to transfer the old info to new hard disks and spend a great amount of time to restore preceding Raid array.

2. And you may select to turn to some “data restoration lab” where the specialists will restore your Raid array for some money and during the little term. Or you may use professional Raid restoration programs. If you would use external Raid array such a problem would not just subsist, because you're simply to transport a controller with hard drives. One more problem is that nowadays there're a lot of embedded semi-hardware Raid controllers in the market. The only Raid arrays that may be recovered by these controllers are 1, 0+1, 5 and they cannot utilize another methods of restore.

The utilization of “mirroring” as guarantee of safety. Some persons claim that if you wouldn't utilize stripe (Raid 0), you are surely secured from Raid arrays and file recovery. But there are problems such as electricity defaults, driver difficulties in operating system, virus assaults that would make you lose all your files from all the hard disks and no “mirroring” will assist you. And what would you do in this case? You may just restore the files from Raid array or recover the Raid array in whole. The best point that may be done is of course taking your PC to a file recovery specialist or buying professional Raid recovery software. Only doing these strides you will have an ability to save and recover your info from Raid arrays. Read more »

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Loss of Information Can Be Simply Worked Out

September 9th, 2008, 12:51 pm @ Hardware & Software

There are lots of methods to execute ntfs data recovery and current article demonstrates part of them. All that you require to know is written below. It is actually great problem nowadays as the amount of information saved on disks is constantly growing and it is difficult to manage all the information properly.

If you asked for assistance of some expert he would say that it is not reasonable to save all the important information just on the HDD as that is easy to lose it. Lots of users prefer some other types of data carriers as CDs and other magnetic devices exactly to save really important information. Except mechanical breakdowns there are many different ways to lose the data saved on the HDD.

Several years ago there was a truly famous software program which helped to restore some data. It was really frequently used and was called fdisk. Nowadays that is utilized just in rare cases and only by real professionals because amateur may make harm to information with it.

File systems

File system defines the way which is used to save data on the surface of the HDD. There are some sectors that are called partitions on the HDD. Even not very experienced user may easily say that there are two types of file systems and knows their names NTFS (NT File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table). Windows OS of the old generation and DOS used FAT-16. Modern Windows work with FAT-32. FAT-32 was developed on the principles of working of FAT-16 but it can serve more information. That is difficult to believe that users utilized FAT-16 and had disks not bigger than 2 GB. In the newest versions of Windows the primary system is NTFS but it may easily operate with FAT without complexities.

Of course all the Windows OS can work with FAT but NTFS proposes considerably more possibilities. Moreover NTFS allows to define access rights for any single file. All such systems use disk partition table and boot record which are stored in the first sector of every disk and define which one is boot disk. Read more »

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