2010 11 Aug


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2010 4 Jul


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2010 15 Jun

If you are assuming that formatting the hard drive or simply emptying the recycle bin permanently eliminates the data, which you want to remove, then you are making a huge mistake. The sad reality is that the files you have deleted are still there on your hard drive. Hackers or even the ordinary people, who are not much technically savvy, can recover the data and use it for their individual interests. In this way, you can put your security at risk. But there are some methods which can be used to securely delete your confidential data from the hard drive and preserve your privacy. The drive wipe software delete metadata, the information of the files and folders stored on the hard drive and which is not removed when your format the drive or delete a file. The wipe hard drive software overwrite the existing data and make it impossible to recover. The drive wipe software are actually very easy to use, even for the users who do not have much technical knowledge. Securing data after deleting is pretty convenient and effective and the drive wipe software are the best tools to use for the same. There are clear reasons why you want to make your information safe. Since you use computers daily with everything you do- business transactions, banking, company records, and other type of transaction and information traffic – it would make you vulnerable to information risks such as hacking or identity theft. To prevent the possible disasters of identity theft and data hacking, software developers have created drive wipe applications to do the job of efficiently removing the data from your hard drive before disposing it. Since your computer hard drive store your most critical and sensitive information, it becomes very important to use the powerful drive wipe software to ensure complete destruction of the data. The effectiveness and power of a wipe hard drive software could be measured by the number of passes it performs for overwriting the data. The more number of passes, the less chances of data recovery are. Stellar Disk Wipe is the most influential and award winning drive wipe software which ensures complete wiping of your hard drive. Once you have wiped your hard drive using Stellar Disk Wipe, there is no chance to recover the data by using any of the technology. This software performs up to 35 passes to overwrite the data. 29 different algorithms are used by this drive wipe software to get the job done and it facilitates the user to select a drive wipe software of its choice by itself. This hard drive wipe software comes in bootable CD and thus doesn’t require to be installed on your system. It can also wipe the previously deleted files and locked system files.

Simpson is a freelancer for Stellar which offers data recovery software and file recovery programs for different OS and file system.

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2010 14 Jun

Using partition recovery software the right wayIn order to safely recover lost data using partition recovery software, do not restart your computer when the recovery process ends. Instead, save the drive with the lost partition as a secondary drive behind another bootable drive (meaning you need to have a second working drive with its own operating system, not just a secondary data drive). Now start the drive, and copy all of the files from the non-functioning drive to the one that is working. Safety is the first step.Does it really matter?Why do you need to do all of this when it would be so much easier to just reboot your computer. Partition recover software presents a problem when it asks you to boot the computer again once they fix the partition. The files may have corruption which you cannot tell beforehand, and you reboot, you can damage the partition and the data. Then you will never recover your files.If you are trying to replace data recovery with partition recovery software because you want to avoid using the required process, this is a bad idea. To recover your data safely with partition recovery software or data recovery tools, you must focus on data safety first, and hope everything goes quicker than expected.Knowing the steps to takePartition recovery software is meant to recover any number of partition tables on a hard disk drive. This is what allows you to recover your files successfully so that you don’t have to go through the time consuming task of actually making al your file from scratch again.Partition recovery software will scan the drive to account for all of the data still present and show its location; this includes deleted, corrupt and over-written data or partitions. For help visit: www.quick-selling-software.com The algorithms will then determine if any of the data is out of place and need to be reorganized so that it is functioning again.Finally, partition recovery software can virtually correct any problems and show the results. If you are satisfied with what the program says it can repair or recover, you can then command the partition recovery software to proceed.The biggest difference between partition recovery software and data recovery software is that one allows partitions to access files, and the other simply recovers your files. If you decide to use partition recovery software take the proper steps to keep from blowing all your data away for good.

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2010 11 Jun


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2010 2 Jun

I was on my computer with Dream of Mirror Online (an MMORPG), Firefox, & Windows Task Manager open. I walk away for a mere Thirty seconds and come back to a blue screen with white text on it. It wasn’t “the blue screen of death”, but it said something about restarting the computer. I didn’t get to finish or start reading it because my computer shut off. It restarted itself, asked me how I wanted to start up my computer (I chose normally), & it led me to the log-in screen where I typed in my password & logged in. I got “Welcome…” with the little loading symbol next to it, & the screen frozen like this (the wheel stopped spinning, I waited a minute to make sure it wasn’t acting funny). So I hit the power button & started it up again. “acer” flashed on the screen like it always does, & then I got a screen of static (the static was arranged in columns). So I hit the power button & restart it again. Then I get a screen saying that windows failed to start up. It asked me if I wanted to restore my computer to a previous date in time, which I chose yes. So it restarted, & brought me back to log in screen again. I logged in & ran a virus scan with AVG.

So basically I’d like to ask, what just happened? Was this a hardware problem, a virus or a software problem? & is my computer on death row?

2010 22 May

Acronis Disk Director Suite10.0 is an award winning suite of programs which integrates several excellent set of utilities.It is an easy to manage , multifunctional and decent effective Hard disk manager, you can use every utility of Disk Director for different purposes and none of them will let you down.Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is very easy to install.Every step is accompanied by detailed instructions, what you have to do is to simply follow the traditional setup wizard.In addition, this installation file is absolutely clear without any useless software ,adware, spyware, malware.This comprehensive Hard disk manager is composed of disk editor, partition manager, boot tool and partition recovery utility. Partition Manager–A partition Expert included in AcronisDisk Director Suite 10.0, which offers a simple and visual way to perform the tasks of resizing, moving, creating and deleting hard disk partitions. What’more, Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 allows you to to install two or more operating systems on different partitions and then choose which one you want to use every time you start the PC. It works perfectly, even when we installed the Beta versions of Windows Vista as our second OS. It also detected, and offered us the chance to start the PC from, a bootable Linux CD. In addition, Acronis Disk Director Suite also has inside a Disk Editor, the main advantage of Disk Editor is allowing you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing.Apart from the above, Acronis Disk Director Suite is also a Partition Recovery which is a reliable data, partition and disk recovery tool.Completely protect your data, allowing you to recover deleted or lost partitions.If your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error, you can recover it instantly.Acronis Disk Director Suite works perfectly with: Windows 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 (SP6), 2000 (SP4), and XP (SP2). A floppy drive or CD-RW/DVD-RW drive is required, and a mouse is definitely recommended!With Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0, you could have you Hard drive partitioned in less than 5 minutes.In addition, Acronis Disk Director Suite has an intuitive and beautiful eye-catching interface. At the first glance of the image, you will be know what’s function is this button for.The simple interface of this software lets all your required adjustments take only one minute. Even if you are not an advanced user in this branch of computer technology, nothing to worry about, Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is just the program you need that will be simple in use.Learn more, feel free to visit:http://www.topsofts.com/hot/acronis-disk-director-suite/index.html

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2010 20 May

This week, I felt the need to re publish an article that my web designer wrote a few years ago. It was written about formatting files from a hard drive to make them unrecoverable. This is very important when selling a computer, giving it away to charity or just disposing of it.

I am still meeting people on a weekly basis who would happily sell their computer without deleting data properly, this is why I felt it would be worthwhile to recycle an old article of mine as it is just as relevant today.

” With data security becoming a greater issue on a daily basis it’s important to make sure that you securely remove all your data from your hard drives before you decide to sell your hard drive or donate it towards a charity of your choice. For a great amount of time there have been programs available which can miraculously restore data from a damaged floppy disk, with being the token computer guy in the house at university and still people using this decidedly unreliable format I became familiar with the programs used for restoring corrupted or deleted data from the diskettes.

Technically, just deleting a file isn’t sufficient to get rid of it permanently; when you delete a file from say Windows XP or any other OS you’re not truly deleting the file. You will need to have a rough idea of how file allocation tables work in order to understand this properly. This is based on the current format of your hard drive. Unfortunately formatting the drive isn’t necessarily sufficient as data can still be relatively easily restored using an unformatting program which are available readily on the Internet.

The free tool dBan (Darik’s Boot and Nuke)is used for securely erasing all data from your hard drive. If you’re looking to pass it on to a third party, this really is the best tool to use, it will make recovery of previous data from your hard drive pretty much impossible. DBAN performs a military grade format on your hard drive, conforming to American DOD (Department of Defence) standards.

DBAN is more effective than the conventional Windows format as it performs multiple passes over the hard drive, on each pass it will randomly flip each binary bit from a zero to a one or vice versa to completely scramble all the data on the drive. Multiple passes are required so traces of the old data are more difficult to detect. The small, free piece of software called DBAN can be downloaded from http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Note it’s name “BOOT AND NUKE” – The CD that you create will be bootable when you turn on the computer with CD booting enabled the program will load automatically and if you’re not careful you will lose ALL data on the drive. Everything on the drive, including the OS is deleted – ALL data means ALL the data.

Ryan Carson, Refresh Creations Ltd ”

Chris Holgate writes a weekly article of all things tech related. He is a director and copyrighter of the online computer consumables business Refresh Cartridges who sell cheap ink cartridges, toner cartridges, computer hardware and other computer consumables online. An archive of his work can be found at www.computerarticles.co.uk.

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2010 20 May

when it is a mechanical failure and they need to remove the disk inside the drive. And is there a special machine they use to hook up that hard drive disk to?
I have most of the software for recovering data, but nothing to assist me if the hard drive fails mechanically.

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2010 19 May


Change computer file type association in Windows XP by opening up a text document, clicking Start, My Computer, Tools, Folder Options and going to the File Types tab. Change Windows XP file type associations withtips from a software developer in this free video about computer technology. Expert: Dave Andrews Contact: www.daveandrews.org Bio: Dave Andrews is a software developer that holds a degree in computer science. Currently, he is employed by a government IT department. Filmmaker: Tim Brown

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