Recover your lost data with Data Recovery software

by andrew watson

Data recovery is the way of restoring computer data that, for any reason, has become unreachable using normal methods. Data Recovery software helps you and your business save money and time and retrieve lost data. If you have unfortunately lost your important data, then you should offer any professional data recovery company. The professionals try to recover the lost data by using data recovery software.

In the market so many type of data recovery software are available like Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software for FAT & NTFS. By using those data recovery softwares, you can easily search locate and recover your lost, missing, inaccessible or deleted computer data. So there is no need to worry about data recovery anymore because you can easily retrieve data.

Data recovery has two types: soft and hard

Soft data recovery means recover you file system damaged because of partitions, virus, etc. In this type you can recover database files, partition recovery, office files, multimedia files, etc. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software for FAT & NTFS helps you to recover your data lost due to accidental format, virus problems, software malfunction, file/directory deletion, unexpected shutdown, or even sabotage.

Hard recovery means recover the data that lost due to hardware and hard disk failures. Most of data recovery softwares are READ- ONLY hard drive recovery value and help you to retrieve all important data after unfortunately lost. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery helps you to analyze your inaccessible hard drive for damages and recovers the data back.

When your hard disk occur failure and data has been lost then only hard disk data entries are lost and data still live in hard disk in data area. Data recovery software allocates them again on File Allocation Table.

10 quick and easy ways to speed up your computer!

by James Scholes

Many people are interested in making the most of their hardware. So here are 10 simple tips on how to make your Windows XP computer run faster without having to purchase additional hardware.

1. Defrag Disk to Speed Up Access to Data

One of the factors that slow the performance of the computer is disk fragmentation. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. To speed up the response time, you should monthly run Disk Defragmenter, a Windows utility that defrags and consolidates fragmented files for quicker computer response.

* Follow Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter * Click the drives you want to defrag and click Analyze * Click Defragment

2. Detect and Repair Disk Errors

Over time, your hard disk develops bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk performance and sometimes make data writing difficult or even impossible. To detect and repair disk errors, Windows has a built-in tool called the Error Checking utility. It'll search the hard disk for bad sectors and system errors and repair them for faster performance.

* Follow Start > My Computer * In My Computer right-click the hard disk you want to scan and click Properties * Click the Tools tab * Click Check Now * Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box * Click Start

3. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a little application that uses a lot of CPU. By indexing and updating lists of all the files on the computer, it helps you to do a search for something faster as it scans the index list. But if you know where your files are, you can disable this system service. It won't do any harm to you machine, whether you search often or not very often.

* Go to Start * Click Settings * Click Control Panel * Double-click Add/Remove Programs * Click the Add/Remove Window Components * Uncheck the Indexing services * Click Next 4. Optimize Display Settings

Windows XP is a looker. But it costs you system resources that are used to display all the visual items and effects. Windows looks fine if you disable most of the settings and leave the following:

* Show shadows under menus * Show shadows under mouse pointer * Show translucent selection rectangle * Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop * Use visual styles on windows and buttons

5. Speedup Folder Browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open My Computer to browse folders that there is a little delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing speed, you can disable the "Automatically search for network folders and printers" option.

6. Disable Performance Counters

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC's performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

* Download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/exctrlst-o.asp) * Then select each counter in turn in the 'Extensible performance counters' window and clear the 'performance counters enabled' checkbox at the bottom button below

7. Optimize Your Pagefile

You can optimize your pagefile. Setting a fixed size to your pagefile saves the operating system from the need to resize the pagefile.

* Right click on My Computer and select Properties * Select the Advanced tab * Under Performance choose the Settings button * Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change * Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

8. Remove Fonts for Speed

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

* Open Control Panel * Open Fonts folder * Move fonts you don't need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

9. Use a Flash Memory to Boost Performance

To improve performance, you need to install additional RAM memory. It'll let you boot your OS much quicker and run many applications and access data quicker. There is no easiest and more technically elegant way to do it than use eBoostr (http://www.eboostr.com).

eBoostr is a little program that lets you improve a performance of any computer, powered by Windows XP in much the same way as Vista's ReadyBoost. With eBoostr, if you have a flash drive, such as a USB flash thumb drive or an SD card, you can use it to make your computer run better. Simply plug in a flash drive through a USB socket and Windows XP will use eBoostr to utilize the flash memory to improve performance.

The product shows the best results for frequently used applications and data, which becomes a great feature for people who are using office programs, graphics applications or developer tools. It'll surely attract a special attention of laptop owners as laptop upgrade is usually more complicated and laptop hard drives are by definition slower than those of desktops.

10. Perform a Boot Defragment

There's a simple way to speed up XP startup: make your system do a boot defragment, which will put all the boot files next to one another on your hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, your system will start faster.

On most systems, boot defragment should be enabled by default, but it might not be on yours, or it might have been changed inadvertently. To make sure that boot defragment is enabled:

* Run the Registry Editor * Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction * Set the Enable string value to Y if it is not already set to Y. * Exit the Registry * Reboot

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Data Disasters Accidents

by Celeste Y

For those of you who are on Facebook, you have probably already been asked to join a group something along the lines of "Cindy's cell fell in the loo, please email your phone numbers". If you haven't seen similar groups, then you probably have heard similar stories. People put their phones in their back pockets, only for them to fall out when they are getting up from the toilet. It's not only cell-phones that are losing their numbers through odd mishaps, but other forms of data as well.

Gareth, from Cape Town, South Africa, had just received his first 2GB memory stick. Although 2GB are fairly common today, when he received it, it was still state of the art hardware. Part of the appeal was that the memory stick was waterproof. His friends didn't think so.

On Friday night, at the bar, they decided to test if the memory stick was indeed waterproof. In theory, if it was waterproof then it should be beer proof as well. Much to Gareth's dismay as he watched his friends pop the memory stick in a draft, it turned out that it wasn't. Luckily Gareth was able to recover his data, but the memory stick died of alcohol poisoning.

Kroll data recovery specialists have marked some of the strangest stories that they received over the last year from people requesting data recovery from them. One story is of a woman who literally washed her data away when she left her memory stick in her pocket and popped it in the washing machine. She realised after the first cycle as she noticed the USB stick rotating amongst her clothes. One wash and the stick was cleaned off all data.

Another person who was unable to retrieve his data was a local fisherman who took his laptop onboard with him. He was passing the time by playing a few games, when a fish starting biting the line. In his enthusiasm, he jumped up making the boat unstable. Both him and his laptop went plummeting overboard into the lake.

A photographer had a career panic when he realised that he had overwritten wedding photos with other photos from another event. Fortunately the photos were recovered, without seeing the full wrath of the bride.

However, businessmen in Australia weren't so lucky. In a heated argument, a businessman threw his USB stick at his partner. The memory stick, which held the company plans and other vital documents, fell to the floor in several pieces.

Proving that science isn't always the answer, two different scientists managed to kill their hard drives in two different ways. The first accidentally poured acid onto his, instantly killing the drive. The second got annoyed with the squeaking noises coming from the hard drive, so decided to drill a little hole into the hard drives casing. He then proceeded to pour oil through the oil. The squeaking stopped, but so did the hard drive.

For some unfortunate workers, a fire destroyed their office, burning the majority of the contents and damaging most of their systems. To their glee they discovered that a few CDs had survived the flames. In an unfortunate turn of events, upon opening the CD cases, they discovered that the heat had caused the CDs to melt onto the inside of their cases.

In a rather frustrating event, researchers decided to test the functionality of a parachute by attaching a camera to the parachute. When the parachute failed to open, the camera smashed into several pieces, destroying the test results.

According to Kroll, their strangest story was one from Thailand. A man had discovered that ants had decided to live in his external hard drive. Acting on impulse, he took the cover off the hard drive and sprayed the entire interior with insect repellent. The insects passed on and so did the hard drive, until the data recovery specialists got hold of it.

Data loss and growing importance of data recovery services in today's world

by Mark Robin

Although the two words "Data loss" and "Data Recovery," used in the title, may look like they're meant for technology experts and IT personnel only, nothing could be far from truth this time. Things have changed in the digital world and it has affected every person's life in some way. Though big technological problems and troubleshooting are best left to domain experts and professionals, it's still mandatory for all business people and individuals to have a certain level of technological know-how. Is this statement exaggerated? Not at all. Who's not possessing or using a computer, a digital camera, iPod, and a laptop these days, or using at least a CD, VCD, floppy disc or pen drive to store their personal or work-related data? The answer is that very few if not none. It's not possible that they can escape advent of computers for daily use in their offices or private enterprises. Computers, and now laptops and iPods, are fast catching up in all areas where data is being stored or used in someway or other. Wo does not use and depend on Excel worksheets, Word documents and Access databases to make a bulleted list, or a pie chart, or a PowerPoint presentation? The answer is that there are very few in the corporate world that don't. And is there anyone sitting there in an office and doesn't have a desktop computer or a laptop to dig their face into the whole day? Even a mobile salesman doesn't forget to carry a laptop along with him even if he is on the prowl. Efficiency made use of computer systems, in various forms, a must for every 9-to-5 soul -true for reverse order too -and competition is what fuelling it from all sides.

If computers have become so much ubiquitous these days, a natural corollary extends from it that the moment wheels of this machinery gets stalled, perhaps whole business is going to fall apart. Data loss from important files will mean that a company may lose money, business, credibility and reputation too in the market. Worst kinds of scenarios are that when highly confidential and crucial data for decision-making purposes get deleted accidentally or automatically as a consequence of hardware or software malfunction. All hell breaks loose then on the person who is at the receiving end of the consequences in these situations. Employees responsible for deletion will shudder at the prospect of getting fired if exposed. Business will have to summon an emergency meeting with their IT staff. Though these reactions can well be expected in a couple of situations even today, the fact is that most of the people shouldn't be found to be so clueless about what to do and how to resolve the issue at hand. I mean, there are very few today who don't have any idea about recovery software. The awareness is much wider today than it was in earlier days when a data loss event aroused turmoil within the place. If data loss cases have increased so much that it's now a commonality, so has importance and awareness of data recovery techniques and products to everyone's relief. If you happen to have lost data from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access or any other media, then you're not far from recovering it all either. In digital market, several data recovery software are available to resolve your problems; however, you need to ensure the capabilities of the product before using one. It must not, in any case, cause any harm to your data. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is such a data recovery product which is non-destructive and all-encompassing as it not only does no harm to data but recovers corrupted, damaged and deleted data from all MS Office applications all the same.