Thursday, January 24, 2008

Hard Disk Drive Recovery - Is It Possible?

Hard Drive Recovery by Chily Softech Pvt Ltd

Just imagine this - Working day and night on a special project, about to end it and just when you leave your seat for a coffee break; your computer screen turns black as you return back. The complete project has been ruined and you are left with nothing. What do you conclude the cause of sudden black out on your computer screen.

Could it be just an unexpected system shutdown? - Try to reboot, you can do this 2 to 3 times.Could it be a Loose Connection? - Check and tighten all the connections.Could it be a hard drive failure? - IS IT POSSIBLE? So first perform checking of your hard disk controller, which can also create this situation? You can always try to switch your hard drive from IDE1 to IDE2 and see if it fixes the problem. If the problem is not solved, take out the hard disk and attach it to another computer system. If it is still not working, you can expect a hard drive failure.

So does it means that you have lost all your important data, files, images, your favorite music, emails and all the important stuff saved on your computer system.At this point, it's important to stay calm, don't PANIC! There may be hope yet!

You can try different options to recover the lost data:
Test it on another Computer System: As soon as you discover that your hard drive is not working properly or there are some creepy noises from your hard drive take out the hard disk and test it on your friend's computer system. If the hard drive runs on second computer system then there is no problem but if does not then its time to select data recovery software or data recovery services.

Hard Drive Recovery Software: There are many hard disk data recovery software to retrieve the lost data. Many data recovery companies offer data recovery, file recovery software to recover data. You can try any of the software which is generally available for FREE demo downloads. These data recovery software range completely scan your corrupt hard drive and restore every bit of data from your damaged disk. Try the demo version and then purchase FULL version of the data recovery software. These are available at reasonable prices and does work and recover data effectively.

Hard Drive Recovery Services: Hard drive recovery services are beneficial in the situations when the data recovery software cannot recover data because of high corruption level of the hard disk. In this case, data recovery is performed by a data recovery technician in Class 100 Clean room. These clean rooms are equipped with high biometric security and are the best and safe place to perform data recovery as keen observation and adequate environment is required for this process. Hard drive recovery services are the assured means of data recovery even in the complex cases like where data becomes inaccessible due to;
Fire - water damagesHard disk crashesBurnt hard driveComputer system dropped from a certain heightCorrupt hard drive due to sabotages or fraudsIntentional damages to the hard drive

And there are endless reasons and situations where your hard drive becomes corrupt. Generally these services are based on quotes on the type of media, level of corruption of your hard drive and the amount of data which you want to recover. These data recovery services can cost you around tens of thousands of dollars resulting into heavy expenses.
Most of the time data can be effectively recovered with the help of these data recovery services and the concerned company will also transfer the recovered data onto a media of your choice without any extra charges.

In the end, if you don't want to run from company to company for recovery of your data, always ensure to perform regular backups of your valuable data and have a tension free and data safe world.


About the Author
The author is a technical writer of Chily Softech Pvt Ltd - the provider of
data recovery software for hard disk recovery, email recovery, backup recovery and MS Office file repair corruption software solutions.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

The Procedure Of Recovering The Data Stored In Hard Disk

The Procedure Of Recovering The Data Stored In Hard Disk by David Faulkner

Perhaps you are already aware of the fact that the data on your computer can be stored in many different ways, such as CDs, removable disks or DVDs and so on. I may also agree with the fact that all machines reach a point where they crash, with or without any obvious reasons. Floods, fires or human mistakes can be among them, if you were looking for actual examples!

Loss of data is one of the major negative effects these break downs can cause, therefore one must try to prevent them as much as possible. You may always simply want to delete a file, but you do it on another one by mistake. On the other hand, the hard drive may fail in an attempt to open a file, or the whole operating system can crash and leave you with nothing!
In order to solve any of these problems and be safe from any computer break down, the best option you have is contacting an external hard drive data recovery specialist.
The Complete Solution:

In case you are wondering what external hard drive data recovery means, it is simply the method of recovering the damaged data that has been lost from external hard drives, such as Fire ware or USB. Generally speaking, this is not a very difficult process, just that there are times when it may get more time consuming.

The process of recovering data from external hard drives starts by a thorough analysis of the external hard drive in question. There are many external hard drive specialists who can easily get to solution of your problem and set the scope of the damage. They are the ones to decide the part of the data that can be recovered, but also establish the best way to take in order to successfully retrieve that particular data. This first evaluation is said to be rather expensive, but if you investigate the market a little, you will surely find the companies which actually do it for free.

Precautions are also necessary:
Unfortunately, the rest of the recovery process is not cheap at all. The company will provide an amount of money that covers the full costs of the project. This figure must cover for the service the company puts in to obtain your data and the amount of data restored, therefore don’t expect it to be a bargain!
There is nothing more for you to do now, than expect the specialists deal with the damage and recover your data. If you have a computer set and you have been using it for some time to store data, one of the most dreaded problems that you might - and you will encounter - is a hard drive crash.

At one time or another, you would have accidentally deleted a file and if you are not very computer-savvy, you might think that there is no way for you to recover your data.
When this happens, all you have to do is look into your Recycle Bin or Trash folder if the file is still there and restores the file by dragging it onto the desktop. You can also use a file-recovery system which can scan your disk for recoverable data.
However, it is a different case once your hard disk crashes. You may lose all of the important data stored on your hard drive and without a dependable back-up system; you might not think it possible to restore the lost files.
Do not lose hope because there are still a number of solutions available out there to recover your lost data in case your hard drive crashes.

About the Author
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