Saturday, August 30, 2008

What You Should Know About Hard Drive Data Recovery

The hard disk drive is one of the important parts of the computer. It is the biggest data storage unit of the computer. The computer might become slow due to hard disk problems, or occasionally develop hard drive crashes, and then recovering data from the problematic hard disk is very essential. An invalid partition table, ‘ntldr’ corrupt or not found, command.com not found, operating system not found, blue screen, improper formatting, virus problems are some of the issues with the of loss of data.



Whether you are running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Apple, Novell, Linux, or Unix operating systems, Stellar can recover your hard drive crash. Companies can spend in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in hard drive data losses and the recovery from such disastrous events. Stellar provides data recovery services from hard disk drives, tapes, zip disks, CD-Rom, flash cards and other storage media.

The scandisk sometimes makes hard drive recovery more difficult. It should be avoided in critical situations. Keeping a back-up of the system is one of the best ways to survive such a crisis. One can recover data from the mirror at no further risk of data loss from the back ups. It is better to regularly scan the disk with updated anti-virus software to save it from the virus threats.

There are many hard drive recovery service and support providers. They keep state-of-the-art facilities for disk recovery. They also provide annual maintenance contracts. But service or support provided by them is not cheap. Most of the data recovery companies charge an attempt fee. Some of them will charge a lot of money for their work.

Data can be lost during a power failure, because there is unsaved data in the memory which is not yet been saved to the hard drive. Data can also be lost through a disk failure which can happen for a number of reasons, usually mechanical such as a crash in the hard drive machinery itself. Software can also crash on your computer, especially if you are using Microsoft products, and could lead to a loss of data on your hard drive. Viruses or other malicious software can corrupt your data and is one of the biggest reasons for data loss. Fortunately, today’s technology provides a pretty good track record on recovering data from your hard drive.