Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How to Recover Data after Smoke Damages?

In general terms, smoke refers to the collection of solid or liquid gaseous components or particulates, emitted as the by-product of fires and other such events. Their particular properties are that they can float in air for a long interval of time and are quite smaller in width. These attributes make them appropriate to enter hard disk and hence damage its internals. But as a result, you can suffer a hard disk crash that necessitates the need of Data Recovery Services.

A hard disk is basically comprised of mechanical and electronic components and an air-filter to prevent the entrance of smoke like particles. Smoke particles are negligibly small in size and could break the prevention of this air filter. Moreover, the failure of air-filter could also result hard disk crash.

• Read/write head is the basic internal that floats over disk surface to read/write information. After smoke particles enter hard disk and settle down on its surface, it becomes tricky for read/write head to go over the surface. As a result, it might get stuck, resulting into head crash.
• Hard disk circuitry is also sensitive to these smoke particles. Since it is made of metal, smoke particles might react and corrode them.
• Smoke particles can also create short-circuits.

If you encounter hard disk failure due to any of the event described above, you should immediately turn off your system and replace the hard disk. Next, you should check the status of your backup and use it to restore the lost information. But if data cannot be restored using backup, consult Data Recovery Service technicians.

Hard Disk Recovery is the technical aid provided by experts to repair and recover data from a physically crashed drive. A failed hard disk is first scrutinized in Clean Room environment to determine the cause of failure, extent of damage and recovery possibilities. Based on these observation results, recovery technicians perform steps like replacing or repairing damaged internals, drive imaging, moving platters etc. Such services are provided in all kinds of hard disk damages, be it smoke damage, hard disk crash or natural disaster crash.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Database damage can occur for various reasons

Database damage can occur for various reasons. As database files are probably the most accessed and writable on the hard drive, they are the first to suffer in an event of a system crash, power failure or disk damage. While it is easy to restore the whole database from a backup, why losing any data at all when you may be able to repair the entire database in just minutes?

DBF Repair Tool can recover DBF files in a fully automatic way. Even if you are not an experienced system administrator, you can still repair the damage and recover the corrupted database to full working order.

Using DBF Recovery to recover a DBF database could not be easier. All you have to do is opening the corrupted DBF database from DBF Recovery, and the DBF recovery tool will do the rest fully automatically. But don't be fooled by the seemingly easy operation of DBF Recovery! The database recovery tool features advanced methods designed to recover DBF databases no matter how badly damaged they might be.

Under the hood, DBF Recovery features powerful technology based on years of experience in DBF recovery business. While there's no shortage of DBF recovery tools based on the popular ODBC and BDE interfaces, such tools fail miserably when it comes to recovering a DBF database that's damaged beyond a certain point. Unlike these DBF recovery tools, DBF Recovery always recovers DBF databases directly without using any third-party interfaces or plug-ins.

Unlike competing DBF recovery tools that only fix the headers of the corrupted database, DBF Recovery repairs both headers and actual records. The sophisticated DBF recovery engine analyzes the whole database record by record, repairs corrupted headers and recovers damaged records with stunning accuracy.

Users of DBF databases will appreciate the ability to drag and drop DBF files onto the DBF Recovery window for fully automated recovery, while advanced users and experienced system administrators will find extensive command-line support useful when repairing multiple databases.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Manage by yourself: Situation of Data loss

Situation gets more hamper when the computer user loses his personal data. An unexpected loss of data is called Data loss. Is a single and most strengthen word to put into a great sorrow. If you face any incident of data loss do not be panic stricken. In today’s scenario data loss is not a situation which could not be handled. Yeah, it may be easily handled with the help of Data recovery Services provider.

The very first step strike in mind at the time of time loss to determine the exact reason why it had been happened with me. Results may be vary from the point to point analysis. Data loss may be occur due to hard drive failure, hard drive crash, accidental deletion of data, files overwritten, power outages, virus attack etc. Some of the usual steps I am telling which may be helpful in case of data loss and recovery of lost data as well.

- The data loss situation you have encountered may also be handled through data recovery software in first step.

- One may get such software freeware on internet with lot of free downloading sites. It is quite fine when the rate of data loss is not too higher. But in the case of a critical situation do not use these freeware and immediately contact to any Data recovery service provider.

- When you are confirmed now a data loss has been occurred with your laptop, do not run scan disk or disk fragmentation commands. In such cases, these commands can make situation out of control.

- In that case when the data loss is with physical damage that is the worst condition for any kind of data lost scene.
In such case only experienced Data recovery specialist would recover the data safely. Do consult with a perfect service provider.