2010 13 Jun

The hard disk failure is a common physical failure issue. It is largely caused due to the disk controller failure. This is the circuit which acts as the intermediate between CPU and hard disk. The error messages “Hard Disk Controller Failure” or “HDD Controller Failure”, “Inaccessible Boot Disk”, hard disk not detected in the BIOS etc. may indicate its failure.

However, the same behavior may also be seen if the hard drive is not setup or connected properly or if hard drive cable is malfunctioning. If the hard drive is not booting up at all use a bootable CD or floppy to repair it.  For efficient hard drive recovery solution:

· Check if the hard drive is connected properly or not. We need to check all the connectors coming from the power supply to avoid any future issues as well like spark. We need to ensure that the power cable and the interface cable are firmly connected to the drive. Also, the interface cable is firmly connected to the motherboard or interface card.

· Make sure that the hard drive jumpers are properly set, if it is a new SATA, EIDE or IDE device. We need to check for the BIOS setup and see if the hard drive is getting detected.

· A bad cable can be another reason. The connecting cable can go bad and ultimately may result into the above mentioned symptoms.

· If all the mentioned recommendations have been applied and the issue still remains the same, it is quite probable that motherboard or the interface card has gone bad. We need to get it replaced, if under warranty or else serviced.

· The most unfortunate reason could be the controller card failure. If the hard disk is new and doesn’t contain important data, we need to get it replaced. However, if data is a concern, consult hard drive recovery service for retrieving the data.

Hard Disk Recovery

Hard drive recovery service is provided by expert technicians. The Hard disk experts try repairing the damaged drive with the fusion of tools and techniques under sterilized labs, called Clean Rooms. Hard drive recovery is a safe process, where failed hard drives are safely treated by technicians.

It demands ideal surroundings plus safe set of procedures. Thus, opening the failed hard drive on your own can affect the chances of data retrieval. The drive may attain a state where no recovery would be possible.

For the best results in hard drive recovery we should opt for Stellar Information Systems Limited. At Stellar labs, the Data Recovery Technicians have all the expertise and intellect one should look for. Under Class100 Clean Rooms, they analyze the crashed drive and carry out each possible data recovery operation at component level. It results in up to hundred percent data recovery.

Daniel Jack is a student of Mass Communication doing research on File Recovery Software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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2010 7 Jun

A Registry Cleaner or a Registry management tool is to automatically fix Registry errors and more than that, tweak the PC for optimized performance. Fixing Registry errors manually can be dangerous as it can crash the system.

This tool comes in many shades and brand today to help the windows user defragment the Registry after it removes unnecessary data, allowing the computer to run faster, and enhancing its stability.

Windows come with many computing tool that can be employ by the user to enhance the PC performance. Tools such as the Task Manager helps the user to monitor the computing resources (processing power and memory space) being use by each process of a program, driver and also the different windows services. Most of these processes create logs and entries in their operations.

One main feature of a good Registry Cleaner aside its tweaking facility, is its ability to scan and detects common errors such as ActiveX errors, blue screen errors, .exe errors, browser errors, DLL and runtime errors. On detection, it should be able to fix them and remove the invalid and redundant entries they have created.

It must also feature a good backup system, for easy a backup of the Windows Registry. If a serious system crash occurs, or one installed a troublesome program that has compromised the system’s performance, the backup registry should be able to do a good restore point from the windows facility where its backup is seamlessly integrated with on installation.

It must have a privacy eraser feature that allows user protects their privacy online. Windows keeps track of web browser’s URL history, cookies, cache files, typed URLs, auto complete list, and saved user names and passwords. A good registry management tool should be able to erases this information, and keep other family members or business colleagues from examining the user Internet activities.

Every Registry Tool must have a robust repairing and cleaning engine after a high performance scan by the Registry Cleaner. This is a feature, a user must look out for, when purchasing a Registry Management Tool.

This feature ensures that the junk files and history entries from the IE restorer are re-scan for usability, this works in pact with the (Browser Helper Objects) BHO manager. This feature in most Registry Management Tool gives the user a complete control on the automatic and manual removal of the errors and fixes. Conclusively, it must have a facility to prevent reoccurrence of errors and application crashes.

Read more on ‘Tools needed to optimize your windows and Registry’ also read the article ‘How to correct common Registry errors’. You can also view the Top recommended Registry Cleaners that have been review by experts at http://www.techiesportal.com/registry.html

Julius Ozoh is a Systems Analyst and a Chief Consultant for an IT Consulting Firm. He has over 15yrs experience in Windows management, Networking, Broadband Internet Technologies, Web portal development and Applications. He has a master degree in Information science and several IT certifications from Microsoft, IBM, Compaq/HP, and Cisco. He write for many renown global Journals.

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2010 31 May

Is your Windows computer unbootable? Are you getting boot errors while starting your Windows-based computer? This behavior can be due to missing or damaged boot files, BIOS configuration issues, and other such problems. In such cases, Windows operating system can not find the required boot files at startup and you face this problem.

In order to work around these problems, Microsoft Windows provides you a feature, called Recovery Console. It offers you a means to carry out a number of operations using command-line interface. However, it can not effectively sort out all boot problems. At this point, you may not access data from your computer and thus face data loss. In order to get your mission-critical data back, Windows Data Recovery becomes essential.

When you employ Microsoft Windows Recovery Console, it gives you limited access to the NTFS, FAT32, and FAT file system partitions, without starting Microsoft Windows operating system in a graphical interface. Using Recovery Console of Windows operating system, you can perform the below operations:

Use, rename, replace, or copy system files and directories.

Enable or disable devices or services from initializing when you start your computer next time.

Repair the MBR (Master Boot Record) or the file system boot sector.

Create and format hard drive partitions.

To access Recovery Console, you must log in as an administrator.

You can use Windows Recovery Console to Recover Windows computer using the below steps:

Start Windows Recovery Console. To do so, you need to boot your computer using bootable CD and select repair option by pressing R key.

Use command console and select the Windows installation on which you want to perform any task.

Use appropriate command to perform particular operation, like ChkDsk to check hard drive integrity, Diskpart to manage hard drive partitions, Fixboot, and Fixmbr.

The command console is intended for advanced usage, as system recovery tool. Improper usage of this utility can cause serious damage to your Windows computer and lead to severe data loss. In such critical situations, Windows Data Recovery Software help you to recover your valuable data.

The applications deploy high-end scanning to thoroughly scan your media and retrieve all lost data from it. They ensure safe and easy Windows Recovery with read-only behavior and simple user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers lost Windows data from hard drive, USB drive, CD, DVD, memory card, and other storage media. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It retrieves lost data from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

The Author is a software analyst and doing research on data recovery software to recover windows files and also analyses how to perform windows hard drive recovery

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