Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:55 AM
The Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 include a full disk encryption feature, called BitLocker Drive Encryption. For BitLocker to operate, it requires the boot volume isolated from encryption. To accomplish it, Microsoft provides 'Bitlocker Drive Preparation Tool'. To fulfill the requirements of two NTFS volumes, for operating system and a minimum of 1.5GB volume, it shrinks the existing volume in order to create required room for a new boot volume and to transfer the essential bootstrapping files to it. At times, when you find the tool failing to operate, one of the top reasons might be files that it finds unmovable from the partition. Such cases create unavoidable situations of reinstalling the operating system, which causes data loss. Thus, to restore it, you should have a valid data backup or a powerful windows data recovery utility that could recover the data.
For instance, when trying to use BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool for your Windows Vista based computer, you might receive an error as below:...
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:33 AM
If a Windows system undergoes unexpected shutdown, an automatic disk check runs that examines the disk for file system errors. Once the process starts, it should not be interrupted in anyway or otherwise can cause unrecoverable errors. Apart from rendering the data inaccessible, it can introduce several corruption errors to critical data structures of the disk. The data thus lost should be restored from available backup. However, you can use more effective products of
partition recovery in case no access to valid data backup is feasible.
To illustrate it, consider a scenario of unexpected shutdown with your Windows based system. The next time when it restarts, the disk check runs to scrutinize the disk for consistency. You kill the operation, but when you restart the computer, the system is unable to boot. Consequently, you receive errors, such as it cannot locate Windows. The installation disk repair function fails too...
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:21 AM
When it comes to the loss of your valuable data and information, the situations become drastic. In the majority of data loss situations price is not a big factor. The most important that you should aim towards is- what is the best possible method to retrieve your lost data? If you are not aware of the recovery solutions, then you might try anything that could result into severe data loss. The frantic efforts could make situations worse and minimize the chances of successful data recovery.
Following are some common techniques that would help you take right decision to ensure secure and complete recovery of your mission-critical data:
Traditional methods
There was time when the loss of data was considered the greatest headache. The data loss victims used to send their failed hard drives to the recovery professionals to retrieve their lost data. The recovery help was composed of several factors such as time, several human errors, enough money and the recovery service labs. The data recovery using old techniques was very slow and the success rate was also quite less...
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 3:17 AM
Data storage is the most integral part of every organization's regular operations. Either you work on the computer on daily basis or use it only for some special operations,you stored data in the form of emails, documents, audio files, video files, images, graphic files and so forth. Although computers are considered as the most secure way to store data, but it also may fail at some point of time due to software or hardware malfunction and cause critical data loss situations. In these cases, you need to opt for the
data recovery software through effective and advanced tools and techniques.
Some of the computer users think that the data storage deal with all types of damaged in case of system failure or virus infection. This is right up to an extent but not always help you to protect your data. In order to safeguard your data, backup is the best option. Several business are required to maintain accurate information in accordance with government regulations and tax law...
Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Dynamic disks support limited partition types, which constitute extended partitions, OEM partitions and type 0x42 for dynamic volumes. If the disk MBR or EBR contains another partition type value, it might render the disk to exhibit improper behavior. These errors are also observed when MBR or EBR is corrupted, compelling you to recreate the disk partitions. If the backup proves inefficient in such cases to restore data, you need to apply
partition recovery utilities to scan and restore them.
For example, when you view the disk in Disk Management snap-in, it might appear as
“Dynamic Unreadable”
When you right-click the disk to change it to basic disk, you receive the below message:
“Data on the this disk will be lost if you convert the disk to Basic, do you wish to continue?”...
Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM
%SystemRoot% is a system-wide environment variable used in Windows NT family of operating systems with value as the location of the system folder plus drive and its path. Typically, in Windows XP and later versions, it is \WINDOWS and Windows 2000 uses \WINNT. The further reading discusses about issues installing Windows 2000 or Server 2003 with non-default %SystemRoot% folder. While Setup, you might fail to specify the installation folder because of system/boot drive failure, however, there can be other reasons as well. As a result, you may need to reformat the original boot partition and restore from backup. For any reason if backup proves incompetent to restore, you are suggested to use a comprehensive data recovery product to locate and recover data.
To illustrate, consider you try to install Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 by booting from installation media. You observe that while the Setup is running, you cannot specify or edit the installation folder name .
Cause...
Posted on Monday, October 05, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 are prone to boot errors due to applications or services problems, hardware issues, recently installed updates or disk errors. While rendering your data inaccessible, such errors are prime cause that can compel you to reinstall Windows. However, to restore missing data, you should check for last backup status and apply it to get back all information lost. If it is unfeasible due to any cause, use a safe data recovery software.
Consider you use a Windows Vista or Windows 7 based computer system. When attempting to boot your computer, you might encounter an error message, similar to below:
“STOP: 0x0000006B (Code_1, Code_2, Code_3, Code_4)
PROCESS_INITIALIZATION_FAILED.”
After you receive this error message, you cannot boot into the system and hence, your data remains inaccessible.
Cause
A Windows computer prompts error 0x0000006B if one of the below conditions exists:
- A new hardware or software has been improperly installed...
Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Kernel32.dll is a Windows kernel file that manages memory functions, interrupts and I/O operations. To protect its memory space from being occupied by other programs, this file is loaded in a protected memory space whenever you start the computer. At times, the file might get damaged resulting into unexpected system behavior or an unbootable system. Such issues are generally indicated through BSOD at startup. These screens show the description of the error occurred. However, to isolate such problems, you might need to completely reinstall your operating system. It causes data loss if you store important files on primary partition or haven't partitioned the drive. You will need to use a professional data recovery program if you find your data backup incompetent to restore the lost files and folders.
For an instance, consider that you use a Windows XP based computer. You boot the computer and the process fails displaying the below BSOD:
“STOP: C00000139 (Entry Point Not Found)...
Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) became available on Windows Update and Download Center for Windows Vista users on March 18, 2008. The update includes various substantial improvements in terms of performance, reliability, user's experience and support to various new hardware and standards. But at times, the deployment of the service pack via Windows Update can cause a machine to become unbootable. This forces you to attempt Windows repair using Windows Recovery Environment. But if you fail in your attempts, you might need to perform clean reinstallation of Windows Vista, which causes data loss. In such cases if your backup fails or is currently absent, you are suggested to use a powerful data recovery utility that could restore the data thus lost.
For an instance, consider that you use Windows Update to install Windows Vista SP 1 on your computer. The process appears to be completed as you see progress status showing 100% completion. But when you start the computer, it gives the below error message:...
Posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 at 2:13 AM
Almost all of the computer users have had to handle the hard drive failure and most of them have experience with the recovery of lost, missing or inaccessible data. A damage or failed computer drive is one of the most frustrating situation that you might come across. The data loss could occur due to a number of reasons, which are broadly divided into two major categories. You should always remember that data loss in not permanent. You can recover the lost data in most of the data loss situations, with the help of
computer data recovery solutions.
The recovery solutions might cost you vary, depending upon the extent and type of damage. The cost could range anything from hundred to thousands of dollars. The reason behind high cost of recovery solutions is the cost of equipments, such as Clean Rooms, which are used for recovery process. If recover does not need service from experts, it could become less costly and easy...
Posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 at 2:36 AM
A Windows system might fail to boot if one or more required boot files are found to be missing or corrupt. You can try troubleshooting such problems by using Windows installation disc. But if it fails to perform the required task, you might need to install the operating system, which causes data loss. In such cases, if no valid data backup is available, you need to use data recovery utilities.
For an instance, consider that you try to boot a Windows Vista or Windows 7 based system and it fails to boot displaying the below error message on screen:
“The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible”
This error displays with 0xc000000f error code. You cannot boot into the system even at subsequent attempts of restarting the system.
Cause
The above error might occur due to any of the below reasons:
Incorrect BIOS settings for the boot device, usually hard drive. This might occur if you have recently performed some changes in system BIOS settings...
Posted on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 10:55 PM
You can install Windows XP in dual-boot configuration with an existing Windows NT based operating system. Such installation allows you to choose either of the operating systems while starting the computer system. At times, when Windows XP is configured for dual-boot, it might fail to start displaying an error on screen. This might occur if the existing Windows operating system has replaced the boot files of Windows XP, thereby has resulted into an unbootable system. You might need to use your backup to restore the data thus lost. But if no valid backup is available that could give the desired results, you will need to use powerful
data recovery software.
For an instance, you are using Windows XP that is configured in dual-boot configuration. You might receive the below error message when trying to boot your Windows XP installation:
“Windows XP could not start because the following files were missing or corrupted:
WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM NTLDR MISSING...
Posted on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Online data backup, as the name suggests, is the process of backing up file, folders and other hard drive contents regularly with the use of an online system. Also termed as remote data backup, the service thus provided is aimed at storing your data on a network connected system or a remote server. There are number of companies providing online backup services. As compared to traditional backup methods deployed, this system doesn't require any user intervention, gives offsite data storage, works continuously to backup data and uses a secure encryption technique. But at times, despite of using this technique, you might fail to rule out data loss and hence perform data recovery. There might occur some events that prevent you from restoring data.
Description and Features...
Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 2:11 AM
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks) systems are prone to several kinds of problems such as loss of registry configurations, parity damage, controller failure, unintentional reconfigurations of RAID array and more. Because of their built-in factor of redundancy, many of the RAID systems can continue to function even after one or more hard drive failure. Though the performance gets affected, but the lost information can be regenerated. The two prime factors that govern data loss and
RAID Data Recovery while hard drive failure are RAID level in use and number of hard drives failed.
While a single hard drive failure, nothing gets affected except the performance of the system that goes in degraded mode. Until the failed hard drive is replaced and data is rebuilt by the controller, the odds of next hard drive failure that can disable the RAID system are very high. Typical type of RAID failure instances that are observed and can cause complete data loss are mentioned below:...
Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Uninstal.exe is a Windows uninstall program. But in some specific set of conditions, the process might replace FAT32 MBR, thereby resulting into inaccessible primary partition (usually C:) of system. Such situations require performing steps like recreating the primary partition and reinstalling Windows. So, to restore the lost information, you should use your recent data backup available or scan your affected hard drive by using powerful
computer data recovery applications.
Consider an instance, you try to run Uninstal.exe in real mode, but instead of expected behavior, you encounter an error message describing that Winundo.dat is missing or damaged. The error further gives you an option to continue. Clicking either of the options (Yes or No) gives you the below error message:
“Invalid system disk”
This error appears after the system restarts.
Cause
The above behavior is exhibited when the following set of conditions is true:...
Posted on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Data loss and need of recovery solutions is very common. You have simply deleted and file, which you did not mean to, or have an unexpected power outage, the recovery becomes essential to retrieve the lost data and save your business. Even with the most excellent backup strategy in place, there are some situations when failure takes place and you have to go for hard drive recovery to sort out the issue.
The recovery is possible in two ways: as a preventive measure before hard drive failure or as a remedial solution after the data has actually lost. You must be wondering how to start retrieving lost data on your own. To begin, you could explore some cases that help you to achieve high success rate.
Recovery software
If you are experiencing data loss due to logical hard drive failure such as file system corruption, virus infection, operating system malfunction, application errors, system meta data structure corruption, partition loss, hard drive formatting and other similar reasons, the lost data can be recovered using
data recovery software. This is a type of post crash solution that can be carried out by user itself...
Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 at 11:04 PM
No matter how aware you are about backing up your business critical and valuable data, the data loss still remains an issue. The type, cause and extent of data loss might be different, but the need of recovery always remains unfluctuated. However, the most usual causes of the data loss are human errors, system errors, disk malfunction and system meta data structure errors. In all such cases, you require
file data recovery to overcome the problems and retrieve inaccessible, missing or lost data.
The data might get lost from an individual computer or from an organization's computer. But the common thing is how to safeguard against the weird circumstances of data loss. Well, there are some approaches for same: preventing data loss beforehand the data loss occurs and retrieving data after the data loss takes place.
Data Loss Prevention...
