Data Recovery

How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought It

2011-04-15T21:43:00.001-07:00

One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer.

Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads websites. Inevitably though, it starts to slow down until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks.

Why is this? It turns out the answer is actually quite simple and you don't even need to be "technical" to understand the causes and solutions.

The good news: It's not the computer hardware that's the problem. In most cases, the hardware you have is perfectly capable of being restored to its original glory and kept in fast running condition with minimal effort.

Rather, the problem lies with changes that occur to the PC's software. The two most common causes of slowdown (along with easy solutions) are:

1. The most common problem: registery errors

Every time you (or your kids) load a program, game, or file, your PC's software registery is updated with new instructions needed to operate that item. However, when the item is removed, these instructions usually remain on your PC. Every time you run your computer it tries to execute these instructions but, because the related program can't be found, it causes a registry error. Your PC is doing a lot more work than it should be and the result is a significantly slower computer.

One of the best ways to manage this is with a neat little tool from Support.com, a Silicon Valley based company. It's called ARO 2011 and it scans, identifies, and fixes registry errors--resulting in a computer that's a lot more like it was when you first bought it. On top of the amazing results it offers, it's so easy to install and use that it was recently awarded a coveted 4.5 star rating (out of 5) by CNET's editorial staff and has been downloaded more than 30 million times.

You can now get a free working version of the software which will quickly scan your entire PC and identify all of the registry errors that may be bogging it down. The free version also scans for junk and checks your PC's baseline security status. It will eliminate the first 100 errors for free, and if you have more errors that you want to clean up or want to set the program to run on a regular basis (which is recommended), you can easily upgrade to the full version for just $29.95. After that, registry errors will no longer be a problem.

Generation 4.0 in Data Recovery: EASIS® Data LifeSaver®

2011-03-17T12:17:00.000-07:00

With release 4.0 of its highly recommended Data LifeSaver®, EASIS® brings to us a new generation of data recovery software version. The newly introduced version 4.0 moves this product to the top rank of available DR software for recovery of data from most rewritable storage media.

Compared to other recent programs, Data LifeSaver® 4 will achieve the highest recovery rates and speed on FAT and NTFS storage media. The program reconstructs complete folder structures and shows files with their full original names – attributes that not many competitors can offer.

With its very simple menu structure, Data LifeSaver® makes rapid data recovery also available to the less experienced user who knows very little about his computer system.

In Data LifeSaver® 4, EASIS® has introduced new algorithms for the handling of very huge FAT formatted devices with many millions of data or directoris on it. New heuristics for quick searching of lost partitions are implemented. The lost partitions can be select for for a partial deep data recovery scan.

Picking the folders and files to be retrieved is easy and comfortable because of the clear and intuitive structures. The whole recovery routine has been shortened and speeded up.

Data LifeSaver® is available online as a full license or as a limited 14-day version. The demo version can be downloaded and tested for free.

EASIS GmbH is a German technology company based in Berlin. The company is developing software, with the main focus on data recovery and other methods of pattern recognition. The world ´s first leading data recovery software came from here, more than fifteenths years ago. Based on this knowledge and experience, new programs have been developed that are now again leading in data recovery.

Vaio X Damaged

2009-11-30T03:10:00.000-08:00

It's not been long since Sony launched the Vaio X in India. Within days of getting mine, I had to pack it off to a Data Recovery Service. It's compact and extremely light, therefore very easy to carry around. But it's advantage also turns into it's major problem. The thing is so light, it can easily just slip out of your hands and fall. Even worse, if you keep it somewhere, you have to keep a check that no one keeps anything heavy on it. Although it is rigid, there is a limit to how much impact it can sustain. It could break as mine did.

I had loaded the laptop with all kinds of things—downloaded all the applications one could possibly use on a computer. PhotoShop, Picassa, iTunes, and a whole lot of other things. The point of using a laptop like Vaio was that I could carry it with me easily. This meant that I didn't have to bother about having a separate 'laptop bag'-- it fitted into my back-pack.

Some days ago, I had kept it on my bed while packing and without realizing, I piled a whole lot things on it. Now if they were light things, then there would be no problem. But as my luck would have it I put my dvd player, and a couple of other things on top of everything. The bottom-line is that once I removed the whole heap of things from it, I found the Vaio broken.

But now I had lost all my data from it.

The first reaction I got from people was “didn't you take a back-up of your data?”. I did.

I took a back-up of the photos and music. The point is I didn't take any back-up of the important documents like word docs, excel sheets, presentations etc that I needed for all my projects etc. I just never thought that I would be in this hot water so soon. I was in a state of panic thinking that I would have to re-do all that work, and gather all the notes I had made.

Knock at perfect services for RAID data recovery

2009-11-16T01:03:00.000-08:00

RAID Data Recovery is one of the most complicated tasks that all of Data recovery Service providers are doing. Problem gets giant when users fell like it is good to recover data themselves and repair the array through various system utilities. Idea is not bad may be you do not have important data that has to be recovered. However it has been experienced that when you have a RAID failure that has been resulted in substantial data loss.

Mostly it is being recommended in case of RAID failure to take service of any Data Recovery Service provider. There is a set procedure that most data recovery professional follow when it comes to performing the recovery work. These procedures are followed and expanded upon when dealing with a RAID Recovery. When starting in this phase of Data Recovery make sure if all of the drives are functional. Now, what methodology you have for recovery do apply it. In very next step make compete, sector by sector clones of every drive. This is not Ghosting, resemble it with the process which is rather helpful to work around bad sectors. While making clone of the sector keeps in mind that source drive should be in “right protected” mode, hence no data can be written to the drive. This marked as the original data is not altered in anyway. Once the cloning process is completed, original drives you have already set off to the side and are not touched during all these. The actual recovery process performed on the clones. So there is nothing done during recovery process which could make situation worse.

The best action one can take in the situation of a Raid data recovery problem is to immediately send the hard disk to a specialized firm. As the users in such cases go for a try to make some recovery resulting in more chances to data lost even more difficulties to recover that lost data by professionals too. It is obvious that RAID Data Recovery is expensive but still cheaper to a situation when there is an attempt to recreate the lost data.

Data Recovery when only the Platter of your Hard drive is intact

2009-11-08T21:03:00.000-08:00

A Hard Disk Drive consists of 5 components—Head Assembly, Shaft Motor, Read/write Head, Voice coil and Platters. The Platter is probably the most crucial part of the Hard Drive. It saves all the data from your computer system. The other components of the hard drive help in rotating, reading and writing data from the Platter. Often when people think about hard drive problems, the first thing that comes to mind is when all electronic components stop working. In such cases softwares seldom come to our rescue and one is at a loss of ideas on how to get back the data stored in the system. In such situations one can consult which perform Data Recovery Companies Hard Drive Data Recovery Services.

For example, when the computer boots-up, there is no hard ware detected. In some cases the key board and monitor may not function properly. You may think you have lost all the data from your system, even your back-up is only accessible if the hard drive works

Cause:

All/Either of the electric components (shaft motor, head assembly, voice coil etc) are not working.
The shaft motor could be is fine but the read/write head has stopped working ( you can hear the platters spinning).

Solution:

Companies that offer Hard Drive Data Recovery Services use a method called Platter Transplant, which can bring back all your original data. Platter Transplant is done mainly when the Platter is working fine but other components of the hard drive fail. They extract the platter from the original hard drive (or Dead Drive) and move it to another similar drive. This device can now be used to boot a system and thus you are able to recover your hard drive.

Raid Data Recovery Services

2009-11-08T20:50:00.000-08:00

raid is a Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks it has raid 0, raid 1, raid 5, raid 10, in raid system data is writing series of cheap disk drive, if one has some problem then other will work.