Data Loss on Windows 7 Disk Partition

As is well known, at the beginning of installing a brand new hard disk for our computer, the new disk can not be used to store data unless we format and partition it. Therefore, partitioning the hard disk is the thing every computer user will do. However, to keep reasonable partition, we must perform necessary partition management. Compared with original Windows operating systems, Windows 7 makes it much easy to manage disk partition on Windows 7 because this operating system makes a lot of improvement. However, although we can manage disk partition Windows 7 more conveniently with system disk management tool, it is inevitable for us to meet data loss resulting from unreasonable or mistaken operations. More unfortunately, the loss of important data is commonly seen. After important data on Windows 7 disk partition are lost, what we think about first is how to recover these important data. Actually, it is easy to recover these lost data on disk partition under Windows 7, and what we need is just a piece of excellent data recovery software. Among so much data recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is the best one. With this software, we can recover lost data easily and quickly no matter what kinds of mistaken operations we perform on Windows 7 disk partition.

Although data loss of disk partition Windows 7 is commonly seen, factors resulting in data loss may be different. If we want to recover data lost from Windows 7 disk partition quickly and completely, we must select corresponding method according to different situations. In fact, there are many factors leading to data loss on Windows 7 disk partition, and the commonly seen factors are mistaken data deletion, mistaken partition deletion and mistaken partition formatting. Considering these factors, we had better select a piece of professional data recovery software with all-sided functions. With such a kind of data recovery software, we can operate Windows 7 hard disk partition and important partition data reliably without worrying about the loss of important data.

As we all know, there are much data recovery software designed for Windows operating system. However, it is not easy to find a piece of data recovery software with all-sided functions, because most data recovery software can only recover lost data under simple situations, such as deleting data mistakenly. Therefore, these kinds of data recovery software can not meet our daily recovery demands. At this time, professional data recovery software with all-sided functions is suggested, and MiniTool Power Data Recovery is the best one. Visit the official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ to download it, and then install it on our computer. After running it, we will get the following main interface:

The main interface shows us 5 functional modules of this data recovery software. Among these modules, “Undelete Recovery“, “Damaged Partition Recovery“, “Lost Partition Recovery“, and “Digital Media Recovery” can help us recover different kinds of lost data on disk partition Windows 7 quickly and completely.

Change Cluster Size

Windows Server 2008 is the new generation server operating system released by Microsoft. This operating system is much improved than previous editions, possessing many features such as higher stability and security, and greater expansibility, etc. Moreover, Windows Server 2008 has integrated Internet Information Services 7.0, ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation and Microsoft Windows SharePoint® Services, etc, providing users with better programming environment and service environment. However, many Windows Server 2008 users have discovered that the system built-in disk management tool is not much improved. It still can only realize basic partition management operations like create/delete partition, format partition, and change drive letter or path, etc. Even though Windows Server 2008 has the functions of extend partition and shrink partition, just like Windows Vista built-in disk management tool, it can only extend partition with unallocated space behind target partition or shrink partition forwards so it is very unpractical to use this tool to realize better partition management in Windows Server 2008. When users want to merge partition, change cluster size, hide partition, or wipe partition, this tool is far from satisfying. We have to find a piece of excellent partition manager for Windows Server 2008.

When we are using Windows Server 2008, we usually encounter problem caused by few partitions in hard disk. Even though we can use partition manager to extend partition, the whole disk capacity is not changed, so promoting disk space usage rate is the first choice. Then how can we promote disk space usage rate? Changing cluster size can be an efficient solution. To manage partition better and access data more efficiently, every one cluster can only save one file. If the file size is too large, it will occupy multiple clusters. If the file size is small, it will also take one cluster. Thus, disk space is wasted. If we can change cluster size reasonably, we can avoid wasting disk space greatly. Therefore, setting reasonable cluster size is a good solution to promoting disk usage rate.

In the present software market, it is not difficult to find a piece of partition manager. But to find a piece of partition manager that is able to change cluster size is not easy. Actually, you can visit the professional server partition manager website http://www.partitionwizard.com to find and download a piece of professional partition manager that can change cluster size.
With the suggested partition manager on this website, we can easily realize changing cluster size.

This is main interface of this software. To change cluster size, we can directly select “Change Cluster Size” option in the left menu to start changing:

In this interface, we can click the pull-down list and select a suitable cluster size. Then click “Yes” button to return to main interface.

Images Loss

Many users think Mac is absolutely safe. But is it really safe? The answer isn’t likely to be yes. Not only does Windows have patches, but Mac has patches. Since the first patch in 2005, Mac has been added with quite a few patches. “No virus attacks Mac” is only a misunderstanding. Mac also has viruses like OSX/MusMinim-A. What is the reason why Mac has been seldom attacked by hackers or viruses? It is simple. Most attacks are with interest, and Mac only occupies less than 7% market share. Therefore, attacks aimed at Mac are much less than the ones aimed at Windows.

With the crazy popularity of Apple industry, market share of Mac certainly will increase, too. Meanwhile, data security in Mac will be much more threatened. So Mac needs excellent data recovery software, too. Jobs has brought us the best Apple, but we should also find a best Mac data recovery software for Mac. However, facing the downturn of Mac market share and shortage of software developers, where can we find the best Mac data recovery software?

You may have heard about that Mac has better performance in handling images than Windows, but you may not know the reason. All around the world, most designers and engineers who design and develop things all use Mac. Some common users also employ Mac. For designers, Mac has perfect performance of dealing with images. How can it be so perfect?

As to hardware, Mac doesn’t have stronger configurations than other brands’ computers, but the advantages of Mac dealing with images are rather superior to Windows’. Core image technology of Mac covers the whole system, but Windows classifies images as different subsystems and different levels. That’s why Mac can easily show its gorgeous image effect while Windows only consumes a large amount of resources. In addition, Windows systems sometimes feign death while you use it to render images while Mac can perfectly finish the work of rendering. This saves much time for us.

Since Mac is the main tool of design work and this kind of resource stands for huge value, Mac data recovery is rather necessary for Mac users. This kind of files is easy to be lost or damaged. As Mac has no built-in data recovery function, we should rely on Mac data recovery software – MiniTool Mac Data Recovery to recover data in Mac.

MiniTool Mac Data Recovery is the best Mac data recovery software specially designed for Mac computers. It supports the most common file system in Mac – HFS+perfectly. What’s more, for designers and engineers, this Mac data recovery software also provides them with digital media recovery functional module so that their work will be simpler. Let me introduce MiniTool Mac Data Recovery and its functions for you. Firstly, launch it.

To recover images, we should click on “Digital Media Recovery” functional module to start recovering digital media files.

Entering this interface of recovering digital media files, we should click on the volume where lost images were, and then click “Full Scan” to scan the whole volume.

After scanning, we can select the files to be recovered in the above interface. Find out files you need to recover, and then check them. Click “Save Files” button to save recovered files to a specific location. At last, all work of recovering lost images in Mac is successfully finished.

Repartition RAID 5

RAID, especially RAID 5, is a technology preferred by Windows Server users due to its great level of data reliability and input/output performance. Thus, to optimize the usage of Windows Server, IT administrators need to repartition RAID (RAID 5) regularly. This article will help you gain better understanding of RAID, mainly RAID 5, and provide the safest solution to repartition RAID (RAID 5) on Windows Server.

What Is RAID?
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a technology that allows computer users to achieve high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy.

“RAID” is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. When multiple physical disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array. This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is recognized by the computer user and operating system as one single disk.

RAID is used either to improve reliability and availability of data, ensuring that important data is available more often than not, or merely to improve the access speed to files. There’re several levels of RAID according to various combinations of approaches giving different trade-offs of protection against data loss, capacity, and speed, including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID5 and RAID 10 (1+0), etc. Among them, RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 are the most commonly found, and cover most requirements.

What Is RAID 5?
A RAID 5 uses block-level striping with parity data distributed across all member disks. RAID 5 has achieved popularity due to its low cost of redundancy. This can be seen by comparing the number of drives needed to achieve a given capacity. RAID 1 or RAID 10, which yields redundancy, gives only S / 2 storage capacities, where S is the sum of the capacities of N drives used. In RAID 5, the yield is S x (N-1) / N.

As an example, four 1TB drives can be made into a 2 TB redundant array under RAID 1 or RAID 10, but the same four drives can be used to build a 3 TB array under RAID 5. Although RAID 5 is commonly implemented in a disk controller, some with hardware support for parity calculations (hardware RAID cards) and some using the main system processor (motherboard based RAID controllers), it can also be done at the Operating System level. A minimum of three disks is required for a complete RAID 5 configuration. In some implementations a degraded RAID 5 disk set can be made (three disk set of which only two are online), while supports a fully-functional (non-degraded) RAID 5 setup with two disks – which function as a slow RAID1, but can be expanded with further volumes.

What is the easiest and safest solution to repartition RAID 5?
As mentioned above, due to its low cost of redundancy, RAID 5 is popular among Windows Server users. And repartitioning RAID 5 is a regular task for IT administrators to maximize the performance of their Windows Server computers. Since Windows Servers usually store the most important data of a company, IT administrators should be extremely careful when choosing software to work on their server computer, including partition software to repartition their RAID 5.

Partition Wizard Server Edition is a professional partition manager that can work perfectly well with hardware RAID, especially for RAID5.

How to repartition RAID 5 without data Loss with this partition manager?
Partition Wizard Server Edition is Compatible with all types of hardware RAID (e.g. RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5) on both Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and desktop 2000/XP/Vista 32 and 64 bit systems. It also provide a range of powerful functions to repartition RAID, especially RAID 5, including: Resize and Move partitions, Copy partition, Copy disk, Create and Delete partitions, Format partitions, Convert partitions, Explore partitions, set active partition, etc.

Among these functions, Partition Copy Wizard and Disk Copy Wizard offer you an easy way to back up your valuable data before any operations on your RAID 5 partition. Resize utility allows you to resize your RAID 5 without any data loss.

Below is the user-friendly interface of Partition Wizard Server Edition: