Hardware data recovery

roger — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:01:07 +0000

Along with fast development of information in 21st century, computers have been applied to commercially and individually aspects with a remarkable growing speed. So it makes various electronic information, namely, the data – - become important and valuable property which cannot get lost both for enterprises or individuals. How to guarantee the integrity, usability and security of storage data has then become a crucial question day by day. As we know, data recovery can be category in to 3 levels Level 1 Logical Data Recovery. Applicable for Hard Drives manifest itself as following symptoms: Partition Loss, File corruption Virus Attack, Accidental Disk Format, File deletion… Of all the levels, this is the most widely performed. However, according to the relevant reports only 20-30% percent of all the data recovery cases can be addressed using software tools alone. On the other hand, if software tools are applied alone the risk of losing user data increases significantly, which undermines any professional data recovery level. Recovery Time = 1 Day Price = $375-$550 Level 2 Firmware and bad sector Restoration Disk manifest itself as follows 1. HDD is identified incorrectly. 2. HDD starts the motor and then hangs. 3. HDD capacity is identified incorrectly in the BIOS, usually less. 4. HDD can identify correctly in the BIOS, but all sectors are displayed as bad sectors, or disk partitioning is impossible. 5. HDD is very slow in reading/writing/formatting. Recovery Time = 1 – 2 Day Price = $650-$1100 Level 3. Hardware or mechanical data recovery This level handles with hardware component issues which can’t be repaired but the only solution is to have the components exchanged using donor parts. Strictly speaking, Level 3 is part of Level 2: Firmware and bad sector Restoration. Such as Head stack problems, Spindle motor problems and Platter Alignment & spacer problems Recovery Time= at least 2 day Price= at least USD1000 A lot of data recovery companies focus on Level 1 and Level 2 data recovery, but not Level 3. Why do not they want to dig gold form Level 3? The answer is very simple, they consider that Level 3 hardware or mechanical data recovery is too hard to deal with. Actually, it was a challenge problem for all the DR experts in a few years before. Except we have to invest hundreds of thousands money into this field for establishing a class 100 clean room, technique problems can not be overcome. For Head stack problems: how to dismount the head stack and then reinstall properly without damaging the sensitive heads is the key. Spindle motor problems: only a few top professionals with plenty of practical experience can handle spindle motor problems Platter alignment & spacer problems: so far they are still a headache for most of us without proper tools However, since a few professional data recovery tool providers researched and develop into this depth level, some easy to use and cost effective tools was launched successfully and have been gaining a popularity from DR experts, IT technicians and Forensics. The tool can assure you to operate on your HD on a relatively stable table, making your job easier and more reliable. Also, maintains the original cylinder status by removing and placing each platter of the multiple platters together, so that allows you to change multiple platters without moving the platters out of alignment with each other which otherwise will result in data corruption. Class 100 clean room can provide a good environment for drive disassembly and head/platter exchange. But it is not absolutely indispensible. This job also can be done successfully in a closed clean space. If you want to know more about data recovery hardware, please go to Google search.

How to Use 7 Basic Steps to Perform a Windows Data Recovery

roger — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:13:22 +0000

In our computerized world, there are a lot of horror stories out in our world when it comes to retrieving this data. In lots of situations, when there is lost data because of hard drive issues, it is almost critical to not run the drive.

Are there many people using software to recover data?

Many people who have used software to recover the data and because it can be a long process with the program, more damage can occur. In order to prevent this, here are some steps on how to perform a windows data recovery.

What are the 7 steps? They are:

1) Shut down the computer, and then find another computer that is running Windows 2000 or XP. Then download your computer recovery software onto the second computer, and go back to the computer you were on and remove the hard drive from it.

But before that it is a good idea to make an image of your whole drive with a disk imaging software. Do these before you decide to start work on the drive.

There are chances your drive may not ever work on your computer again. The procedure that you are about to learn will help prevent you leaving being important data without knowing it. Inadequate software can be the cause of what is called “feather”damage to your drive. Then after that take the hard drive and install it on the second computer as a data drive.

2) Laptop computer hard drive can be connected to your desktop computer with an adapter. If you want to have cheap data recovery because your recovery software doesn’t work with USB, but you are capable of using IDE, you only need a 44 to 40 pin IDE adapter.

These is just affordable, it only cost you around ten to twenty dollars. It’s available at most leading stores that carry supplies for computers. Make it sure that your windows program does not use the “check disk” utility to repair the drive.

3) Use the data recovery program to run your windows data recovery on the second computer you are using. Immediately shut down your computer if you are only using one computer. With the second step of your windows data recovery, you are still going to remove the hard drive of this computer.

4) And then install a new drive, reinstall windows and use your recovery software on it, just take safety precautions, because many people used software to recover data but because, it takes you time to process the program, more damage can occur, just be careful with this.

When the drive becomes more damaged, it can make the recovery process almost impossible. The recovery software does serve its purposes when you can afford to bring your drive to a professional recovery service.

5) Then use your recovery software to recover the data to your new hard drive. But Make it sure that the windows “check disk” utility program does not try to repair the drive when it is booted.

6) Make sure that you recover your data completely, If you want your windows data recovery run smoothly as possible, make it sure that you protect your file.

7) In order to protect your file, once you have installed and downloaded the recovery program onto your computer, you can use it to search for files that you can’t find and recover them to another drive that is on your computer.

What are the items you need?

USB external drive, memory stick, and network-shared folder these are some items that you can use to store your files.

In conclusion, performing a windows data recovery is simple and easy to do provided you know how to do it. I believe with the right tools and practice you can perform any kind of windows data recovery with a breeze.

Therefore, Eddy has started a information guide on how to help any level of computer users to manage their data recovery process with ease and also recommend some tips and techniques in data recovery.

Eddy Kong is the webmaster of a website called, Quick Windows Data Recovery Tips. This guide will be able to help more computer users to find alternative solutions to their data recovery methods so as to start the recovering process. Drop by at his site now.

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