Windows data recovery software to recovery data from Pen Drive

A USB flash drive consists of flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1 or 2.0 interface. This rewritable and removable drive is much smaller than a floppy disk, and are lesser than 30 g (1 oz) in weight. The storage capacity of this drive in the year 2009 can be as large as 256 GB. In some flash drives 1 million write or erase cycles are possible and also have a 10-year data retention cycle.

Let me little more explaining :

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage which means that the data can be electrically erased and restored. This technology is also used in memory cards for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital devices. It is a specific type of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) that is erased and programmed in large blocks; in early flash the entire chip had to be erased at once.

Now a days these drives are being used on a very large scale to transfer data between digital devices. But the corruption of these Flash Drives can also lead to a data loss situation. In these situations one has to move towards a data recovery software to recover the lost data. Although there are an ample os software available for data recovery solution but the user must go for the best.

What is my experience?

I have researched a lot on these software in order to recover windows data and found some good names . In my opinion the Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is a prominent tool to get back the lost data from damaged or corrupted memory sticks. It is capable to recover pen drive data lost or accidentally deleted multimedia files, videos, photos, images and also the text files from inaccessible USB Pen drive removable medias.

The stellar phoenix windows data recovery software provides easy recovery of data from all removable media devices. Easily support pen drive in ranging capacities like 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and even higher capacity drives. This software supports easy recovery of entire multimedia and picture files like mpeg, tiff, midi, mp3, wav as well as text files of all the formats.

This data recovery software is safe being a read-only utility also user friendly program to recover files, damaged due to virus infection, hardware or software malfunction or power failure. Memory stick files regaining tool is compatible on windows operating system environment.

Software Features:

• A strong program to regain the lost or deleted data from pen drives.
• Supports all file formats including video files (avi, mp4, mpeg, m4v, asf), audio files (wav, ram, aac, wma, mpa), image files (jpg, tiff, gif, bmp, png), text files (doc, txt, dbt, wpd, wps) etc.
• Can work with all the big names like Kingston, Sony, Sandisk, IBM, iBall, Super Flash, Super Talent and many others.
• A user friendly graphical interface and easy-to-use application for all , both novice and experts.

Which Operating Systems Does it Support:

• Windows 7, Windows VISTA, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000
• Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows ME

How to Clone Windows Hard Drive without Data Loss?

In order to upgrade you system to a faster and larger capacity mode, you need to reinstall the operating system and the programs on new hard drive. This procedure may cause data loss and there is a need of Windows Data Recovery Software.

But , don't worry there is a solution too. You can create a mirror copy of your hard drive that could easily restore all of your data, programs and even operating system. This method is known as Disk Cloning.

Disk cloning is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an "image" file (also called Ghost Imaging). Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of the image. This is considered as the best way for moving to a larger capacity disk.

Here are some of the uses of hard drive cloning tools:

• Up gradation of Hard Drive : You can use such applications to upgrade to new or larger capacity hard drive. It prevents data loss and need of Windows Data Recovery Software.
• Provisioning new systems : Provisioning with the standard set of software so that you can go away with complete application suite and doesn't need to waste time in installing individual programs.
• Complete system backup : Using hard drive cloning applications, you can create a comprehensive and full backup of your operating system, data and all the installed application software.
• System recovery : Using the disk clone software you can create rescue disk that is used to restore your computer to its original settings after operating system malfunction. This is basically used for operating system recovery.

One thing which should be kept in mind regarding cloning software is that it should be able to access even the protected OS resources. At the time creating a clone the system should be in a working state. The prior OS on the destination drive will be overwritten. The windows data recovery software by Stellar Phoenix , is an easy to use and an effective tool to clone your hard drive . It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000

How to fix Blue Screen of Death using Microsoft Windows 7 Data Recovery ?

Microsoft Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft Windows operating system is available worldwide. It provides an advanced and enhanced bunch of features. But as we know that with every new evolution there are some positive as well as some negative points associated with it . The same is true with Windows 7 also . It has been found that this operating system may cause some critical situations which can cause data loss.

While installing the latest security updates on Windows 7 some problems may occur. This is defined as Black Screen of Death since the systems are left with black still screen with no error message at all. There may be a system crash at the same time.

What causes this problem?

It has been found that this problem can be caused by some patches and security updates that had changed permission in Windows registry. But later on, Microsoft confirmed that none of the latest updates are related to this issue.

In addition to Microsoft Windows 7, the problem is also seen in Windows Vista and Windows XP-based computers.

The another suspected cause of this issue is malware infection.

• Malware (or Malicious Software) are the programs that damage or infiltrate your computer. They may even damage your computer file system and hard drive, causing serious data loss. In such cases, windows data recovery is required to get your valuable data back.

Resolution

This problem can be resolved by reinstalling the operating system. It needs formatting of your primary partition and it may become more critical if you have not partitioned your drive.

In all such cases, windows data recovery software come for your rescue. These are powerful and effective third-party applications, which recover lost data safely. The Windows Recovery tools are quite easy to use and perform absolute recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the comprehensive software to recover data from Windows, in case of Black Screen of Death and other data loss situations. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. The software supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system volumes.

Cloning and Data Loss Situations in Windows Hard Drive

The computer hard drives store data and programs together and thus there is a need to switch over a faster and larger capacity drive. Now you need to reinstall the operating system and all the programs on the new drive. This may also lead to a severe data loss situation and require Windows Data Recovery. To tackle such situations, you can create a mirror copy of your hard drive that could easily restore all of your documents, files, data, programs and even operating system. This method is known as Disk Cloning.

The Disk Cloning is process of replicating all the contents of one hard drive to another computer hard drive or image file. Generally, the contents of first hard drive are written to image file as intermediate step, and second disk is loaded with contents of image. The process is very helpful specifically when moving to large hard drives. The cloning is made easy through Disk Cloning software.

The hard drive cloning tool is used for :

• Hard disk upgrade: You can use such applications to upgrade to new or larger capacity hard drive. It prevents data loss and need of Windows Data Recovery Software.

• Provisioning new systems: Provisioning with the standard set of software so that you can go away with complete application suite and doesn't need to waste time in installing individual programs.

• Complete system backup: Using hard drive cloning applications, you can create a comprehensive and full backup of your operating system, data and all the installed application software.

• System recovery: Using the disk clone software you can create rescue disk that is used to restore your computer to its original settings after operating system malfunction. This is basically used for operating system recovery.

The disk cloning software have to be able to access even the protected operating system resources on source drive. The system must be in a consistent and working state while the software read the drive and create clone image of it. If you have any operating system or applications installed on the destination disk while cloning, the software will overwrite everything and create a fresh copy of all the data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most effective and advanced tool to easily clone your hard drive. It works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. It creates clone of all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions of your Windows hard drive.

Lets rectify error : “DISK READ ERROR OCCURED”

It happens some times that at the time of up gradation the hard drive is automatically formatted with FAT (File Allocation Table) file system and all the data stored on the hard drive gets lost.

This situation is general in dual-boot system. This behavior of Microsoft Windows makes all your data inaccessible and can cause serious data loss. Now you are required to scan the affected hard drive and opt for an effective Windows Data Recovery to retrieve lost data from Windows hard drive.

In a practical situation, if you've NT-based version of Microsoft Windows installed on first primary partition that is formatted as NTFS (New Technology File System), and you select to format the partition as NTFS file system during setup to begin with clean partition, Windows setup process will format the drive as FAT, copy files from CD and try to reboot system in GUI mode to continue installation. In such situations, your system would stop responding and you come across below error message:

“DISK READ ERROR occurred.”

If you run ChkDsk on affected Windows drive, you will encounter following error message:

“The media descriptor byte is invalid.
FAT copies are not the same.
Many cross linked files.
All directory entries were invalid.”

Try to repair partition doesn't sort out the problem and the installation could not be continued. In these cases, you need to find out the cause of this problem and carry out Windows Recovery by fixing it.

Root of the problem

Earlier Windows NT kernel format the partition using FAT file system and then convert the file system to NTFS on final re-boot after installation. If you reformat the boot partition using NTFS file system, setup writes 16 sector boot area on freshly formatted FAT drive after file copy operation completes.

In order to sort out such issue, Windows Data Recovery is required. This is best possible using advanced third-party applications, known as Windows Data Recovery Software. The tools work in the majority of data loss situations and allow you to perform quick and easy recovery. The have non-destructive conduct and thus do not alter original data on drive and always perform safe recovery.

VMI Automation Interface May Cause Data Loss in Microsoft Windows

In Microsoft Windows, when you run the programs that use asynchronous WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) automation interfaces, applications might unpredictably and sporadically shut down or stop responding, possibly resulting into serious data loss. This behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system cause critical situations and require Windows Data Recovery to be sorted out.

Any Windows application, which uses asynchronous Windows Management Instrumentation automation interfaces might be subject to the unpredictable behavior because of different timing issues. This problem might not be identified during the development process of application as nested events occur rarely. Some common factors like network speed, CPU (Central Processing Unit) speed, external variable and system speed could provoke this behavior and lead to improper program termination and data loss.

For instance, a garbage JScript collection could lead events of fire, resulting into an irretrievable crash and causing all script codes to stop executing. Later versions of the JScript suppresses explosive stops and shutdowns, but the WMI automation interface still fires the events improperly. Particularly, the event could be fired at random times, when all other events are being processed, simply causing data loss from Windows hard drive.

The warning signs of this bug are unpredictable as they depend upon the timing of the garbage collection and on speed at which the asynchronous operations are completed. In the real-world applications, such bug causes a number of problems, which show up so often.
Data loss is something that can not be accepted at any cost. It causes a number of problems in business continuity. At this point, if you have an update backup of your data, use it for Windows Recovery. In case if the backup is not available or its not updated, you require recovery from third party solutions.

Recovery of lost data is possible in the majority of data loss situations, until it gets overwritten. You can easily recover lost data in such situations using using third-party Windows Data Recovery Software.

The Windows Recovery applications use advanced scanning algorithms to perform methodical scan of entire hard drive and extract all of the lost data out of it. The tools are completely easy to use as they come equipped with interactive and rich graphical user interface. They do not alter original data on the drive as they have read-only and non-destructive behavior.

Damaged Boot.ini File In Microsoft Windows

If the windows operating system does not boot , you can not get access data from it. It can be a case of damaged Boot.ini file. In such situations, usually we go for some data recovery software. An advanced Windows Data Recovery software can solve all the problems.

In technical words..............

At the time of booting, the NTLDR (NT Loader) program refers to Boot.ini file to check where the files of operating syatem are stored and what options to enable as operating system keep on loading. Thus if there is any issue with Boot.ini file, it could render the Windows operating system incapable of starting properly.

When you suspect that your Windows operating system does not boot up because the Boot.ini file has been damaged, you could use special Recovery Console of Bootcfg.exe utility to sort it out and perform Windows Recovery. In order to access the Recovery Console, you must first boot your system with Windows installation CD (Compact Disk).

Use the following command to use Bootcfg.exe utility from Recovery Console:
Bootcfg /parameter

Here /parameter can be anyone of the following given:

/Add: Scans hard drive for all MS Windows installations and enables you to add a new one to Boot.ini file.

/Scan: Scans hard drive for all Microsoft Windows installations.

/List: Lists every entry in Boot.ini file.

/Default: Sets default OS as main boot entry.

/Rebuild: Re-create the Boot.ini file. You must confirm every step in it.

Although the Bootcfg.exe utility can handle of the problems with system booting. But take care that improper editing of the Boot.ini file requires hard drive formatting.

Of course, the formatting removes all the errors but it also deletes all of the data from your Windows hard drive. After this the recovery is possible with the help of Windows Data Recovery Software. Although there are so many applications available for this but the one with advanced and reliable features are still lacking.

My view..........

In my opinion Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive application for smooth, simple and secure recovery of your precious data and being a user of this software I highly recommend it to overcome the problem.

Auto Complete Registry Corruption and Data Loss in Windows

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows you to store web addresses, URLs, username, passwords and other data from forms. It saves your time that is required for typing complete addresses. Once you type the first character of name, it will show all related names and you can select required one from the list. But in some situations, due to registry problems, this feature does not work and your face several problems. Registry corruption may also cause several other problems that possibly result into critical data loss situations and require Windows Data Recovery to be sorted out.

When you enable settings in AutoComplete Settings dialog box of Microsoft Internet Explorer in the Microsoft Windows XP based computer. However, AutoComplete feature doesn't work in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. For instance, when you attempt to enter any text in a web form that was previously used in any other form, AutoComplete feature doesn't enter text in the form automatically.

Root of the issue

This problem generally occurs if the value of FormSuggest registry entry, which is located under following registry subkey is set as 0:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel

The problem also occurs when the Windows registry gets damaged. Damaged Windows registry cause a number of problems and result into serious data loss that require Windows Recovery.

Resolution

In order to sort out this issue, you need to change the value of FormSuggest registry subkey to 1. To do so, you are required to go through below steps:

• Click Start button, select Run and then type regedit and then click OK button.

• In the Windows Registry Editor, go to the following Registry subkey and then click on it:
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel

• In details pane, double-click on FormSuggest.

• In Value data box, enter 1 and Click OK button.

Although, this method can solve your problem, but incorrect editing in registry cause serious damage to your system and cause data loss. In such situations, you need to opt for Windows Data Recovery Software to retrieve lost data.

The Windows Data Recovery applications are capable of thoroughly scanning the affected hard drive and retrieving all of the lost data from it. They are completely easy to use and do not demand sound technical skills. With read-only conduct, the tools are totally safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive and effective solution for all data loss issues. It recovers from all Windows partitions that have FAT32, VFAT, NTFS or NTFS5 file system. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.