RAID Disk Recovery by Brad Triggs
RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, a category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers and increasingly being employed on personal computers. ... RAID 0, 1, 0+1; RAID 3, 4; RAID 5; RAID 10; Hardware RAID including: AMI, Compaq, Dell, Adaptec, IBM, etc.; and, Software RAID including Mac OS; Windows Servers including 2K, XP, NT; Linux, Solaris, Novell, etc.

How to Choose Right Data Recovery Software by Natalie Aranda
Data recovering is a process to make available lost or damaged data that was previously available in either a hard drive or diskettes, either due to an accidental deletion or due to a disk physically damaged by shock. Data recovery was a feature accessible in older systems with MS-DOS 6... Double check what every computer data recovery software offers, and be aware of those claiming to recover your files in a way outside all limits of reality, because of the saying; "if something looks too good to be true, it probably is." Data recovery is not a matter of a high price, in fact, sometimes...

Hard Drive Data Recovery by Mac McClellan
Hard drive data recovery is the method of recovering data from hard drives when it cannot be accessed in the normal manner. This failure to access the hard drive could be caused by logical damage to the file system or any physical damage that had occurred to the storage device, thereby... Some of the main contexts where hard drive data recovery software could save one from the blues include a formatted drive, deleted file or directory, missing file or directory, drive not booting, inaccessible drive, copying of system locked files like registry hives, damaged or corrupted partition table,...

Bare Metal Hard Drive Recovery - What's Best- Ghost, True Image, Image for Windows? by Don Watkins
Complete disaster recovery (restore from "bare metal"; formatting and restoring) has been a thorn since Windows XP. In fact it's been downright weird which reminds me of:When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. hompson It's fair to say that a Hunter S. ... I started out using a big box for testing; six RAID drives using a Perc controller (neither using RAID-0 or RAID-5), 2 3Ghz processors and Windows XP. ... I could make backups with no problem in Windows, I just couldn't boot the restore disk and you can't restore from Windows.

Five Steps to Assuring Successful Recovery of Data by Jason Perry
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. Whether your business data is in the form of a customer electronic database, office documents... Before you can get your data back, it's vital that you follow these five data recovery tips: STEP ONE: Determine the value of the data. ... Data can become corrupted because of various reasons, including: * Hardware & system failure * Human error (accidental deletion & overwrites) *...

I Lost It! Simple Guide To Recovering Corrupted Images And Files by John Deprice
WinUndelete http://www.deprice.com/winundelete.htm WinUndelete™ is an easy to use undelete software utility to recover deleted files from hard drives, floppy disks, zip drives, USB external flash drives, digital camera cards, and more. Its unique and exclusive SmartScan technology completes... BadCopy Pro http://www.deprice.com/badcopypro.htm BadCopy Pro is a leading data recovery software for floppy disks, CD-ROMs, CD-R/Ws, digital media, zip disks, and other storage media. ... Recover My Files http://www.deprice.com/recovermyfiles.htm Recover My Files Data Recovery Software will...

Data Backup - Do You Have A Data Backup And Recovery Plan In Place? by Lee Morrell
Data backup is rarely a part of a home computer user’s or business IT administrator’s plans, we all say it will never happen to me or my company, but in reality we are just mentally preparing for the time we lose our data. Its like trying to stop smoking, we all know we should do it but will... A RAID system for business continuity, offsite backup to securely protect all my business data, and to enable a quick restore, a CD backup of just my mission critical data which will keep my business running.

Condoms for Your PC – Backup Your Data by Tim Flynt
Backup is important and it is usually ignored. It is ignored until some malware wipes out a critical document, a power surge burns the PC, or you look away for a minute at the airport and find your laptop is missing. Let's look at what you can do to prepare for such a catastrophe. ... CAN YOU RESTORE – For all the great "feel good" aspects of a process that will backup your data and, no matter how secure it may be, none of the backup process is worth anything unless you can restore data from it.

Hard Drive Crash? The Essential Data Recovery Report by Greg Duffield
Your worst nightmare just became a horrifying reality. You keep hearing that little voice in your head mockingly shout "you should have backed that stuff up" The voice keeps echoing throughout your head as you perform a quick inventory all of the important information that you just lost…..your... In the following report, we will discuss what data recovery really is; the different types, the costs, and what you can realistically expect when it comes to getting your data recovered. ... Generally speaking when a hard drive is received by a data recovery firm, the first thing they do is...

The Art of Failure Planning by Glen Kendell
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon A Tale of Two Plans There is a lot of talk these days about disaster recovery planning. Organizations of all sizes are investing big money developing "The Plan" that will help... It’s a manual process to restore a server and data since the last backup will be lost. ... Take RAID for example. ... In the event a server fails, we can restore the image on a different server, even if the hardware is not the same as the original.