Codex Special Edition

Now-a-days the most popular and convenient storage media being used world wide to store data are Hard Drives.

Before a hard drive crashes, we usually get a number of informative signs that indicate that our hard drive might fail and we could end up losing all our important data. Symptoms of hard drive crash include the following:

• System Boot Failure
• No Disk Access
• Unfamiliar humming and crunching noises coming from the machine
• Blue or black screen on Startup
• System reboots often, restarts, hangs or freezes
• Error messages like “No Fixed Disk Present”, “Drive not formatted” and “Operating system not found” are displayed.

Why do Hard Drives crash?

Hard drive crashes get corrupted or damaged due to number of reasons, and the outcome might sometimes be catastrophic. The factors that lead to a Hard drive crash can be broadly classified into physical failure and logical failure.

1. Physical Failure – Hard Disk Drives are susceptible to dust, water, heat, humidity, moisture, temperature fluctuations and shock. Some of the reasons for hard drive crash due to a physical failure are as follows
   • Heads sticking to disk platters
   • Head crash
   • Spindle motor system failure
   • PCB failure

   When you spot any clicking or crunching noise from the hard drive, immediately shut down the system as further use will make matters worse, further causing permanent data loss.,

2. Logical Failure- Logical failure refers to any other non-physical failure types. Recovering data from hard drive that has undergone a logical failure can be even easier or the most difficult at times depending on the circumstances. Some of the logical data loss scenarios include Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, Operating system crashes and many more. The need of the hour is a good hard disk data recovery software.

In case of logical data loss, REMO Recover (Windows) Pro Edition is an efficient hard disk data recovery software that lets you recover all the lost data from the crashed hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us have learnt that just ‘deleting’ a file does not permanently delete data. No matter if data has been deleted using a ‘Delete’ button, Shift –Del button, emptying the recycle bin or formatting the hard drive the data can still be recovered using any Data Recovery Software.

Then what does ‘delete’ command do?

File system maintains a directory which stores the related information of each files stored on the hard disk. Only with the help of this directory, operating system would be able to reach any particular file. All that “delete” does is just erase the file’s reference information. When the link to the original file is erased the operating system fails in finding the files, but the truth is the data still lies on the hard drive until the information is overwritten by a new file. Deleted file, which is not overwritten, can still be recovered.

Data recovery programs that we usually use to recover deleted data look for the same i.e., it searches for those data blocks that the directory says aren’t in use.

So deleting or formatting is not the secure way?

Yes, simple deletion or formatting is not at all the secure way. If you keep business, medical, or personal financial information on disks, just deleting or formatting the hard disk isn’t enough to protect the data while disposing the equipment.

What’s the right and secure way to wipe drive?

Something called Remo File Shredder is the right solution and a secure way to permanently delete data.

Once the files and folders has been wiped using File Shredder Software, it is highly impossible to restore them. The files will be deleted permanently as the software overwrites the data and the sectors holding deleted or normal data using standard or selected shred patterns.

File Shredder is designed to shred files and folders inside a logical drive. It shreds the files in a systematic way, so that shredding process would not affect the file system of the logical drive.

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If you are worriedly looking for Outlook emails, contacts and calendar items which are deleted or gone for some reason and you want them back? If yes, then, the only way to get out of this disastrous situation is Outlook Mail Recovery Software.  Many a times you may receive errors when you try to access your outlook and it may also happen that you fail to send and receive emails. All this happens because your outlook PST file is corrupted. To deal with such tough situation, Outlook PST repair tool is the only effective solution. All email messages, folders, appointments, meeting requests, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, task requests, journals and any other MS Outlook related items are restored using the tool.

Use Disk Doctors Outlook Mail Recovery Software to quickly recover your deleted emails and other outlook items from corrupt PST files. The software easily recovers the data from corrupt PST file in just four simple steps:

1. Download and Install Outlook Mail Recovery Software
2. Choose the corrupt .pst file
3. Scan the selected .pst file
4. Save the recovered .pst file to a safe location

Email data recovery requires reverse engineering which is an extremely difficult task. In the event of PST corruption, don’t panic use this recovery tool which is fully equipped with advanced technologies to help you out. Inbox Repair tool fails to recover data in many circumstances because it is quite limited in its recovery level. But Disk Doctors Outlook Mail Recovery Software is capable of handling higher degree of PST file corruptions with much ease.

Outlook mail Recovery will perform not only the recovery of deleted emails, but also email recovery for corrupt or damaged Outlook files as well as PST files that are too large to function properly. The program is a read-only application and does not modify the damaged/inaccessible PST file; it only reads it and saves objects from the source file to the new .pst file. To access you emails as before you can import the new .pst file to Microsoft Outlook. Once you have recovered and repaired the file you will be able to open the file in Microsoft Outlook as it was never lost/deleted.

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Deleting the contents of an SD memory card is a comparatively simple mistake one to make. However, in many cases it is not an unalterable one. Many devices do not clear the card when erasing data, so it is possible to recover lost items with proper care.

Certain basic steps to be followed to recover sd card data:

1. Do not use the card for any other purpose before attempting to recover data. Further use of the card will destroy any remaining files on the card and will leave the data unrecoverable. Immediately write-protect the card according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
2. Download Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software. Trail version of this software is available to test the recovery chances. Preview function is also available that make it possible to see the files that have not yet been overwritten on your SD card and are recoverable. Once you are satisfied with the result you can buy the full version and recover your lost data.
3. Insert the card into your card reader or device, and run the data recovery software. The software will scan your device for the files and show you the recoverable files available. Recover the data and save according to the instructions provided by the software.

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Quality data recovery software has recently undergone a major transformation. As hard drives have increased in size most data recovery company products have not revamped their code so as to accommodate the new giant size (one terabyte) drives. Why is this a problem? Until recently most hard drives were in the size range of around one hundred gigabytes. This meant that a data recovery program could usually accomplish deep scan of the entire drive in around 2 hours.

But consider that a deep scan on a 500 GB drive will take 10 hours and you will see that no one wants to wait around for the search to complete. And then consider that the time required to recover the found files is approximately the same and one would need to pitch a tent and camp out beside their computer using these obsolete data recovery tools. Read the rest of this entry »

Data recovery for 2009 and beyond requires software that is built to move fast yet still locate lost files. These better-built data recovery programs integrate strings of accelerators into their source code. Programs with these modules of code installed can access memory ten times faster than conventional scanning. A quality data recovery tool will scan at the binary level as opposed to older tools that most convert data back and forth from text. Read the rest of this entry »

Another result of the recent need for innovation in the world of data recovery is the creation of powerful data recovery tools for Mac computers. While most data recovery software is aimed at Windows based systems there are also excellent Mac recovery tools now available. The Mac OS X system has three separate steps as opposed to the one level system on Windows. This means along with the need for speed in accessing memory a Mac data recovery tool must be written to specifically understand Mac disk verification issues.

So what do the recent changes in Mac and Windows recovery software mean? They mean that unless the program you buy for data recovery has been updated to move fast and target binary file structures it will never be able to efficiently recover your lost or reformatted files. Read the rest of this entry »

A few features to look for when choosing data recovery software are as follows:
First make sure that the program you choose is built for your exact requirement. Different generation Windows computers have different methods of storing files. These are the FAT and NTFS methods. A quality data recovery tool with specifically address your Computer’s OS. A data recovery program built for FAT32 will not properly scan a newer NTFS based computer.

Next, make sure that the data recovery program you select will return the original file name with its results. Many inferior programs return a generic list of recovered files with new file names such as file1, file 2, etc. Unless you plan on opening up a quarter of a million files this will not work for you.

Finally, the better recover data software programs offer sorting and a preview mode for many file types. This allows you to quickly find the files you want to save. As with any software purchase speed and efficiency for data recovery tools is essential. Read the rest of this entry »