Sunday, May 29, 2011

Process for recovering damaged data on external hard drive


External hard disk usage each day has become the most popular in our daily lives. It provides flexibility and storage capacity for our needs. But the problem is also accompanying the moment is inseparable from their usefulness. Problem of data loss as a cause of hard drive failure is actually the most frustrating problem. A World of data recovery is quite a big mystery to most consumers and even some IT professionals. This is largely because hard drives are complex devices and technical details are not known. That is why we must prepare and get knowledgeable about the hardware of the external drive data recovery.

This knowledge will help a lot, both to avoid the possible loss of data, and manage the data loss problems correctly than our capacity as a user. We need to know first, what is the main reason for a problem of external hard drive. The main factor determining the cause of a problem with external hard drive is:

Hardware failure. This fact affects up to 44% to 78% of the problem hard drive. Technically, this may be due to overheating due to a poor ventilation system on the hard drive, and other physical damage:

Human error: This problem affects at least 26% of hard drive problem. Negligence by the user is a problem that we must avoid. Example of human error in hard disk crash, which is harmful particles accidentally, deleted a file system, etc.

If the external hard drive is suffering as a physical damage, such as accidentally deleting a system file, so that it can be solved much more easily.  Sometimes you do not even have to be a technical expert to resolve this problem.  External hard drive data recovery, corrective measures, how the problem can be done with any external hard drive data recovery software. But sometimes the scope is too large, the level of corruption is very high, or problems that have caused data loss is too much for the average user can manage, you may need to use a professional data recovery services.

External hard drive data recovery, needed to solve advanced problems (such as a physical error) may be sensitive to the activities that take a considerable amount of time and energy and a lot of technical skills to retrieve lost data in its original form. The process is usually done by professionals so that your hard drive data recovery is:

To analyze how bad the damage is caused by an external hard drive, and then if they can restore the data or not. If they can, will determine the method and tell you how much data loss can be recovered.
If the damage is caused by a faulty component, then replace it. But if it's beyond that, they must make a very low level of scan to work with hard disk sectors and try to locate the missing data, duplicate and regenerate the data exactly the same.

Should know what kind of problem you can manage and what kind of problem that can not. For a problem that can not handle, it is strongly recommended to use professional data recovery services to conduct an external hard drive data recovery. Because if the process is done incorrectly, this can lead to a worst case hard disk is damaged to the extent that cannot be repaired and the data on your hard drive lost forever.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

When You Face Issues With Winload.exe in Windows Vista

If you have been using Windows Operating System for quite sometime now, you must have found several types of disk arrays. You may have noticed Windows users making more than one hard disk partition. This is done to store data in a nice way to get the job becomes easier and organized. However, poor distribution of the disk lead to serious errors and in serious cases, your data may become inaccessible.To recover partition data you may employ various methods or seek an expert's help.

Such a situation where you have problems in Windows Vista can be

“File:\windows\system32\winload.exe
Status:0xc000000f
Info:The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt”

Winload.exe is the OS boot loader and is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. It loads the OS kernel and device drivers at the Windows start-up. Any issue with winload.exe leads to problematic booting and your partition data becomes completely inaccessible.

Windows recovery software may help you in retrieving the lost or inaccessible data back. Before that, you may try some general trouble shoot methods to resolve the issues and make your system get going again.

You may follow these steps to fix the above mentioned issue -
• Boot the computer with Windows Vista CD
• Enter the Recovery Console
• In the command prompt run 'fixboot' and 'fixmbr'
• Restart the computer

Note: 'Fixboot' command writes a new partition boot sector to the system parition. 'Fixmbr' writes a new Master Boot Record to the hard disk drive, specified by you.

If the issue does not get fixed using the above mentioned resolution steps, you need to format the hard disk. This will erase all data from hard disk and you may need a data recovery software to recover data back.