Everything You Need to Know About Hard Drive Recovery

Data loss is an unforeseen situation, which could occur to any computer at any point of time. It could take place due to virus infection, operating system failure, human errors, partition corruption, read/write head crash, disk controller failure, spindle motor damage, PCB (Printed Circuit Board) damage and many alike. In such situations, you need to go for Hard Drive Recovery to retrieve your precious data from damaged hard drive (either logically or physically). It is the method of retrieving data from failed, damaged, inaccessible or corrupted storage media that couldn't be accessed normally.
The data loss situations or types could be divided into two main categories:

Logical data loss

Physical data loss

Both of these data loss cases are completely different from each other and require varying kind of Data Recovery solutions to salvage mission critical data. First of all you should attempt to access you hard drive by attaching it to a healthy computer. If the drive was inaccessible due to some other failures on your computer system, it will work fine through this method and you can access your data.

Recovery Software

If you are experiencing data loss due to logical failure such as virus infection, file system corruption, hard drive formatting, accidental deletion and operating system malfunction like situations, then you can resolve this problem easily using Data Recovery software.

These are powerful and advanced third party applications, which carry out in-depth scan of logically damaged hard drive using efficient scanning algorithms and extract all of the lost, missing and accessible data from it. These tools provide interactive and simple graphical user interface to let you carry out recovery on your own. With read only and non destructive design, these tools are completely safe to use.
Professional Recovery Service

However, if you are facing the data loss situations because of physical damage to the hard drive components such as spindle motor, read/write head, actuator arm, logical circuit board, and disk controller, then you are required to opt for Hard Drive Recovery service to get your valuable data back.

It is a personalized help, delivered by disk recovery software experts through safe and sterile surroundings of Clean Rooms using advanced tools and techniques. The specialists first analyze the drive and then repair or replace the damaged drive to make it functional. Data Recovery software professionals have years of experience and they know all ins and outs of the hard drive.

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Data Loss From Traditional Novell NetWare 5.x Volumes

On Novell NetWare computer, when you go to Storage-> Devices folder in iManager, a traditional Novell volume created with NetWare 5.0 or 5.1 becomes instantly deactivated.

After this, your Novell volume does not mount again and you encounter the following
error message:

“The volume could NOT be mounted. Some or all volume segments could not be found. If this is an NSS volume, the pool may need to be activated using the command nss /poolactivate=”
This behavior of Novell operating system results into the inaccessibility of data.

Grounds of the issue

The cause of this issue is that the Novell NetWare partition format is totally different between NetWare 5.x and 6.x. The iManager could not handle NetWare 5.x partition format and would just remove the partition. NetWare 5.x and 6.x have different MBR sizes. In this case, the old partition (with 32 sector MBR) is removed by iManager of NetWare 6.x and a new MBR of 64 sectors is created and thus the overwriting of the start of deleted NetWare partition takes place.
During the usual NetWare 6.x upgradation, all the partitions would be automatically converted to the NetWare 6.x format. If due to certain reasons, the partitions were not available during upgrade process, the previous NetWare 5.x format would remain.

Resolution

You can avoid this problem by upgrading your NetWare 5.x partitions to the NetWare 6.x format partitions using this console command- “MM UPGRADE PARTITIONS.”
Although, it is helpful for existing partitions and will help you in avoiding data loss but does not help in retrieving previously lost Novell partitions that have lost due to iManager issues.

In such situations, you need to carry out Novell Partition Recovery to get all your lost partitions and data back. You can do it easily using third party Novell Recovery Software. These software are extremely powerful and do absolute Novell Partition Recovery in all situations.

Stellar Phoenix Novell Data Recovery software is the best ever made and the most commanding Novell Partition Recovery software. This software is available in two different forms, which support recovery from NWFS and NSS file system. It is a result oriented and easy to use Novell Recovery software that can be used without much of prior technical knowledge.

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Hard Drive Recovery In Case of Inaccessible Boot Device

There are a number of situations, where your system or hard drive merely no longer boot up. The hard drive might not make any strange sounds such as clicking, scrapping and tickling. It might sound as it is working properly, even being recognized in BIOS (Basic Input/Outlook System). In such cases, the stored data become inaccessible and you come across critical data loss situations. In such critical circumstances, Hard Drive Recovery comes as a cure.

While some mechanical problems could surely be the cause for this behavior of your computer system to occur, some less critical probabilities are also there such as boot sector virus. The computer operating system does not include any utility or application, which can prevent boot sector virus infection. Thus you are required to go for third party anti virus software to avoid such issues from being occurred.

Problems within the operating system registry could also result into this specific situation. In particular, when the device drive that is associated with the drive controller is damaged, the hard drive could become inaccessible. A min parts swap, like the motherboard exchange or replacement, could also cause such kind of issues. These issues prevent your computer hard drive from being accessed and booting appropriately. This situation require Hard Drive Recovery to be resolved.

Some users might consider it the case of operating system malfunction and they reinstall the operating system after formatting the hard drive. Some may also use the System Recovery Disk to resolve such issues. But this is not recommended to follow these methods if your hard drive contains valuable data. These procedures might overwrite the stored data and might cause permanent data loss.

In such cases, the most important thing is to identify the cause and type of data loss. If you are experiencing the data loss due to logical reasons such as file system corruption, virus infection, hard drive formatting, operating system malfunction and many alike, then recovery is possible using Data Recovery software. They are easy to use applications, which allow you to carry out Do It Yourself recovery.

On the other hand, if physical damage such as read/write head failure, platter damage, spindle damage, disk controller failure and so forth. Recovery in such situations is possible with the personalized help of Data Recovery specialists. They use advanced tools and techniques to carry out absolute recovery in safe and sterile environment of Clean Rooms.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of superior recovery solutions. The software are provided for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux and Novell operating systems. Recovery service is carried out in Class 100 Clean Rooms using cutting-edge technologies under the supervision of recovery experts.

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Tips to choose Latest Data Recovery Software

Hard drive damage primarily results in data corruption. The damage can be caused due to various logical factors like improper system shutdown, file system corruption, software bugs, metadata structure damage, and operating system malfunctioning. In most of these cases, the data stored in your hard drive becomes partially or completely inaccessible. To access your data after all the above situations, you will need to restore the data from an updated backup. However, if you have not maintained any backup or backup falls short to restore your desired data, then you will need to use latest Data Recovery Software to recover your lost data.

Below are few points that enable you to select a data recovery software that is embedded with all the advanced technologies and full fills all the basic requirements of being the latest Data Recovery Software:

• The recovery application should be compatible with all latest versions of Windows operating system like Windows 7 (RC1), Vista, 2003, XP, and more.
• The recovery software should recover your data after all the logical corruption scenarios like virus attack, boot sector corruption, accidental deletion, partition damage, and file system corruption.
• The software should use high end scanning algorithms to completely scan and recover lost, missing, or inaccessible data from your hard drive.
• The application should support recovery from all kinds of storage media like hard drives, CD, DVD, USB flash drives, and more.
• The recovery utility should recover all kinds of different file formats like .DOT, .DOTX, .XLT, .XLW, .XLB, .XLTX, .POT, and .POTX.
• The recovery tool should be embedded with all the latest features like disk imaging, disk cloning, Find file option, S.M.A.R.T and more.
• The recover utility should provide e-mail and photo recovery.
• The tool should provide a preview of all the files and folders, and provide an option to the user to select and recover files as per his/her requirements.
• The application should be built with highly graphical user-interface so that the recovery process can be performed by a home user who does not have any technical knowledge.
• The software should be completely non destructive.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a powerful disk recovery software that fulfills all the above requirements of being the latest Data Recovery application. The tool is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems and recovers185 different file systems that can be further extended. It recovers lost files and folders from corrupted, deleted, formatted or lost hard drive partitions. The read only application supports Windows 7 (Currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

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What are the Primary reasons for Data Loss

Data loss can occur at any day and at any point of time. While the cause for data loss can be logical or physical, loss of even single bit of critical information can result in complete shutdown of your business. The most appropriate way to overcome any kind of data loss situation is to prepare a complete and regular backup of your critical information. However, in case you have not maintained any backup or backup falls short to restore the required information, then the only alternative left is to use an advanced Data Recovery Software that recovers all your lost and missing hard drive data.


The threats to data loss comes in varied forms, from accidental deletion to natural disasters. These threats are primarily categorized into various logical and physical factors:

1. A complete power failure is uncommon, however, a single power spike or fluctuation can result in hard drive crash.
2. The operating may refuse to boot after file system damage, MBR (Master Boot Record) damage, metadata structure corruption, and more.
3. Formatting complete hard drive or a hard drive partition primarily results in complete loss of data stored in hard drive.
4. Software bugs are one of the most common reasons for automatically corrupting and deleting the files stored in hard drive.
5. Loss through physical damage occurs in below forms:
6. Dust and water, if enter in the hard drive, can destroy your entire disk or a part of its surface.
7. Fire and heat can either be an accident or crime, but a hard drive getting overheated can result in complete loss of data.
8. Natural disasters like flood, hurricane, volcano, and more, result in complete destruction of your hard drive.
9. Mechanical failures and humidity factors also contribute to a large part of physical damage.

There can be numerous other logical and physical factors resulting in data loss. The best way to overcome such scenarios, if you have not maintained any backup, is to use effective hard drive recovery Software (in case of logical corruption) and Data Recovery services (in case of physical corruption). The recovery services provided at Stellar Information Systems Ltd. are performed by highly qualified and talented data recovery technicians.

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