Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software - A rescue for lost photos

It was the 25 December 2009 , the Christmas Day. I , alongwith my five friends , all six (Ranvir, Meenka, Atul , Syed Dushyant and Kuldeep) went to Manali ( Himanchal Pradesh, India ). A beautiful place with beautiful people. We had a digital camera with us with 16 GB memory card. We had already planned to juice each and every moment of that trip and catch every moment with our camera.

We were alltogether afer 6 long years so, every moment was precious like gems. We took hundreds of photos and recorded too many videos.

Manu Temple

The distance between Delhi and Manali is about 600 Km and took about 15 hours to reach there. The next day when we returned back I cut all my photos from memory card and pasted it at my laptop. Now it was a big screen and clearer photos.

Now it was again the time of separation for all of us. Everyone wanted have those remembrable photos. So, we decided to print all those pictures. When I stareted my system everyone was shocked . The folder was dissapeared. I can't explain how heart breaking and embarassing it was. All the photos were lost. Aaaahhhhh............. Oh god what to do ?

After a while , Meenka suggested to go for some software help. She suggested me the Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery software to get my photos back.

I downloaded , installed and recovered all my photos. Alas! All were happy to get their photos back.

Next time we are planning to visit Goa. But this I will not forget to take my rescue with me the Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software v4.2.

Microsoft Declares Record First-Quarter Results

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 28, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced record first-quarter revenue of $16.20 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2010, a 25% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $7.12 billion, $5.41 billion and $0.62 per share, which represented increases of 59%, 51% and 55%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.

Prior year results reflect the deferral of $1.47 billion of revenue, an impact of $0.12 of diluted earnings per share, relating to the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program and sales of Windows 7 to OEMs and retailers before general availability in October 2009. Without the deferral in the prior year, first-quarter growth rates for revenue and operating income were 13% and 20%, and growth in net income and earnings per share were 16% and 19%, respectively.

“This was an exceptional quarter, combining solid enterprise growth and continued strong consumer demand for Office 2010, Windows 7, and Xbox 360 consoles and games,” said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “Our ability to grow revenue while continuing to control costs allowed us to deliver another quarter of year-over-year margin expansion.”

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Windows XP inaccessible after upgradation?

When we upgrade Windows XP on your system then it may not pay off well. It may show some problems because of damage of some setup files on the hard disk, which does not get overwritten during the upgrade process. Here some corrective measures need to be taken to resolve the issue and if it is not get solved , then a hard drive recovery software is the ultimate solution.

For more details visit: http://recovery-hard-drive.blogspot.com/2010/09/did-you-find-your-windows-xp.html

Windows 2000 - Relation between start-up issues and data loss

Sometimes, at a restart, your Windows 2000 may be displaying an unexpected error message following which the booting process may be halted and the data in the drive becomes inaccessible. In such situations, taking any chance can result a permanent loss of valuable data in the drive and user is always suggested to go for Windows data recovery software. The error message that you receive, can be any of the following:



“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM”


OR

“System hive error”

Cause:

The above errors can happen if any of the below condition is true:

* If a PCI controller card, manufactured by Promise Technology Inc has been installed in the computer and you are installing/starting-up Windows 2000 operating system.
* Possible damage to the system hive or it is missing from the registry.


It may happen sometimes that Windows 2000 OS may fail to load heavy registry files. This is the situation, when a huge block of data has been written by the write process to the system sub-key and the sub-key indeed is meant to retain only that information, which is needed to start-up the system.


Resolution:

* The first and the foremost thing that you can do is to check whether there is any CD, DVD or any other device is connected to the system. Thereafter, you should also check for the correct boot sequence in the BIOS.
* Remove the PCI Controller manufactured by Promise Technology. As it has been observed quite a few times that if you have installed a Promise ATA66 controller, you may receive such error. Then, restart Windows 2000 setup, after enabling the IDE controller on your motherboard.
* If you failed to resolve the issue with the above step, then, try replacing the backup copy of the system hive. In order to do so, try restarting Windows 2000 from the start-up disk and on the Welcome screen , press 'R' to repair. If asked, give the administrative password and press 'C in order to run recovery console. Thereafter, select the installation, which you want to repair.
* Still, if you are unable to fix the errors and the data is still inaccessible thereof, then recover your data from the valid backup and make a fresh installation after formatting the disk drive.


Formatting will wipe out all the data from the drive. Here a user is suggested to go for any trusted Windows data recovery utility like Stellar Phoenix Windows Data recovery. Its an absolute boon to the Windows users, as it can recover any lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible data.

"Fixmbr" made hard drive partition Inaccessible

When some of the operating system files need to be repaired or replaced ,you have to repair the master boot records (MBR) of the computers system. This repairing is required when . This process writes a new code to the selected partition. This procedure calls for execution of fixmbr command in the Recovery console of your system.

But it has been found so many times that all the hard drive data becomes inaccessible after running the fixmbr command. In this condition Windows Data Recovery Software is one of the rescue.

Once, one of my clients had a trouble that while trying to boot his MS Windows 2000 Professional that has been refusing to start. Here is scene he faced :

Insert the Windows installation CD in the disk drive.
Boot the system from the CD.
And then entered the recovery console.
But, when you tried to run the fixmbr command, you encountered the following error message:

'This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record. FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed. This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to become inaccessible. If you are not having problems accessing your drive, do not continue. Are you sure you want to write a new MBR?'

In such situations, you have little choice to proceed further. You will soon find the below mentioned message displayed on your system:

Writing new master boot record on physical drive
\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0.
The new master boot record has been successfully written.

After this, you need to check whether all the partitions are working properly not. In case they are not accessible, you will need to recover windows partition data, using the latest backup . And if you don't have the backup available, then you have to opt for partition recovery software to perform complete Windows data recovery. These software implement complex algorithms to read the hard drive and fetch data from it.

A free trial version of the same can be downloaded from the company website. Ie; at http://www.windows-data-recovery.net/

'Non-system disk or disk error' in Windows – How to kick it out

Its all about the self explanatory features Windows which have made it this popular. But , at the same time, its more prone to viruses and malware. Regardless of the reason, if any Windows error leads to an inaccessible data then restoration of the data from the backup is the foremost choice. If back-up is not up to date or failed to restore the data, then Windows data recovery software is the only choice you are left with.

One example could clear the concept here. Suppose one fine day , you started your computer and got a dark screen with an error message flashing on the screen. The system did not boot further making your data in the hard drive unavailable. The error message that had flashed on the screen is as follows:

“Non-system disk or disk error”

Cause:

There can be more than one possible reasons behind the above problem. Before listing the same, a simple analysis says that may be your start-up device does not contain any boot file and Windows is trying to load that device. Other possible reasons can be any of the following:

• The parameters set by the CMOS drive settings may be incorrect for the device from which the system is trying to boot.
• A troubled hard disk drive.
• Virus attack or malware intrusion.

Solution:

In order to resolve the above issue, follow the steps individually and try to boot the system thereafter.
• Try removing any non-system disk attached to the system that is any non-bootable system disk that has been at the point, from where the system is tend to boot, including the CD/DVD drive, floppy drive etc.
• Try to check, whether the boot sequence of your system is correct or not that is the boot device selected should contain the boot files or the operating system files installed in it. Go to the settings at the startup and set the correct boot device accordingly.
• If your system contains multiple hard disk drives, ensure that the drive from which you are trying to boot has been installed with a bootable operating system, such as Windows XP, Vista etc.

One very important point I would like to mention here is , please never compromise with the quality of anti virus program or else you may have have to pey more for it . The cost may be in terms of your valuable data also..

Unbootable partition in table- How to solve the issue

The MBR or Master Boot record is the first sector in a partitioned disk and is popularly known as the partition sector. The MBR keeps the detailed information about the primary and secondary partitions. It uniquely identifies the individual disk media attached to the system by virtue of a 32 bit signature and hence the Windows system is able to learn the properties of the volume/disk.

In case, if it gets corrupted, the data becomes completely inaccessible and only Windows Data Recovery software can resolve the issue. Furthermore, blue screen of death (BSOD)or a black screen appears with an error message. The booting process gets halted at that point and all your data remained inaccessible. The possible error flashing on the screen may be as below:

“No bootable partition in table”

Cause:

• Most likely, the above error can be caused due to the corruption of the Master Boot Record (MBR). Another possibility is that if by any operation, you have modified the disk MBR or your system is not getting the one it is looking for.

• Another ordinary possibility is that may be the system has been set to boot from any storage media, which doesn't have any valid boot instruction set in the MBR. In simple, the system is trying to boot from a non bootable CD, DVD or a USB device.

Resolution:

• Ensure that there is no CD, DVD or any other device connected to the system and moreover, check for the correct boot sequence.
• If the above is alright and the error still persists, put the Windows system installation disk, and open the recovery console by pressing the key 'R' at the start-up. Then run the command 'fixmbr'.
• After trying the above options, if the problem remains unresolved, then the only way left is to make a fresh installation of the operating system.

If a user does not have any backup, then you have to use any Windows data recovery software in order to recover your valuable data.

These Windows data recovery software are capable of recovering any lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible data from a Windows operating system based hard drive. Moreover, the software usually have Windows look-a-like user interfaces and come with detailed instruction sets.