What Is Data Recovery? by Pushkar Sinha
Retrieving deleted/inaccessible data from electronic storage media (hard drives, removable media etc...) Typical causes of data loss include: o Electro-mechanical Failure o Natural Disaster o Viruses o Data Corruption o Sabotage o Human Error Is Data Recovery important? ... “Fifty-five percent of small businesses rated themselves as "fair" or "poor" in terms of having a documented disaster recovery plan, or do not have one at all.” “Review and evaluation of data backup and storage procedures is not a common practice among small businesses.” “The majority of small companies”...

Data Recovery Tips by Michael Russell
The worst thing about any emergency is that it messes up our daily routine and throws us into a state of confusion and we really can never rule out emergencies from our lives, life is full of surprises; some good, some bad. What makes the difference is how readily prepared we are for such... Data recovery or Disc Recovery services are things we hope we will ever have the need for. ... One of the most fatal emergencies most people are never really ready to accept is a problem with personal or business computers, as this most often results in vital data loss, and a data recovery system is...

Easily Recover Stubborn Data - Really! by Toby Johanson
I've seen this more times than I care to mention. But it's more than just a blue screen of death. It's also virus' eating boot sectors, corrupted RAID's, damaged partitions and just plain 'I Give Up' Windows operating system problems. They are all catastrophic. ... This little gem is like the Swiss Army Knife of the Data Recovery World. ... There are a lot of data recovery programs out there, and I personally recommend VirtualLab. ... I own pretty much every data recovery product I've ever stumbled across..

Novell Data Recovery Software - Recovery of Re-partitioned Volumes by Sunil Chandna
Problem Description Partitions refer to the portions of the hard disk that have their own logical file structure. Re-partitioning means deleting and resizing the current partitions on the disk. Since re-partitioning almost always involves deleting the current partitions, all previously held... The software then starts scanning either the FAT table or the volume itself (as per the linking mode), then analyses the data structures and file system attributes, and finally displays the list of found data.

How to Prevent External Hard Drive Failure by Andrea Stone
A method of data storage that has become increasingly popular is the use of external hard drives. Home computer users today have more data than ever, and many find that the storage capacity of their computer's hard drive is not sufficient. As the usage of external hard drives increases, there is... Contact a Data Recovery Company If You Have Experienced External Hard Drive Failure If the data on the hard drive is worth preserving, you can contact a data recovery company to recover the data. ... A data recovery lab can repair or replace the damaged internal parts of the hard disk and...

Why My Office Files Do Not Open? by Nehaa Gupta
While working on MS Office, there may be situations when you click and try to open up an office file, it does not open. After this you try the Open With option to open the required file and the file gets opened in other program rather than its respective program. ... The file repair software repairs the damaged file and makes it easy for you to access your data.You can try the Kernel file repair range for word recovery, power point recovery, excel recovery, access recovery, and publisher recovery from the corrupt and damaged files.

Lessons From Katrina - Does Your Business Have an Adequate Disaster Recovery Plan? by Mike Makler
The Hurricane Katrina Disaster has lessons for all business owners. Now is a Good time to look over your Disaster recovery plan and see if it would survive a Hurricane Katrina Type Disaster. You may be surprised how easy and cheap it is to have a Disaster Recovery Plan that will protect your... If you run your business off a computer or even a server then an offsite back-up of key customer and vendor data is a minimal requirement for a good Disaster Recovery Plan. ... Keeping Data in an Off Site Local location is still a good idea so you can have fast access to your data and recover from...

Novell Data Recovery - Recovery of Formatted Volumes by Sunil Chandna
Problem Description Formatting a volume effectively means erasing it in its entirety. Formatting is usually done to remove sensitive data on a volume, or it may be done to prepare a volume for fresh usage (usually done after corruption), or it may just be the result of plain human error. ... Technical Aspect of the Problem Formatting a volume, in reality, means removing the current pointers to the data in the volume and redesigning the organizational structure of the actual data in the volume.

European Data Recovery Companies Are Between Their Rich Rhymes And Poor Substance by Dimetry Snagov
Often European forensic & data recovery specialists, use cheap sales tricks with claims that they have acquired/developed machines capable of reading the hdd platters inside damaged SATA RAID servers and conventional hard disk platters without changing the heads. ... While, sales myths are circulating among data recovery sales representatives in the USA & Western Europe, advanced data recovery technologies have predominantly been emerging from the Far-East, the former Eastern Block countries & India.

Novell Operating System - Recovery of Sub-Allocated Volumes by Sunil Chandna
Problem Description Data storage in Novell servers is optimized using sub-allocated volumes. Sub-allocated volumes are a new feature and have been implemented on Netware 4.x to overcome the problem of wasted disk space. These volumes are different from regular Novell volumes because they are... Since they are not physically ‘visible’, a separate data recovery module has to be incorporated into the software to ensure complete recovery. ... It is internally used by the Operating System (Netware 4.x) to optimize disk space utilization, and data recovery from such volumes thus needs advanced...