Thursday, November 5, 2009

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.

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