How Data Recovery Bootable CD Can Help

With the development of data recovery software technology, more and more Windows users like to recover lost data by using data recovery software. But disappointingly, common data recovery software is unable to recover lost data directly when there is something wrong with boot partition, and users have to mount hard disk where data loss emerges to another computer which can boot normally. Operations are quite troublesome and even dangerous. If hardware damage appears in the process of mounting hard disk, users may suffer permanent data loss. Therefore, more and more users hope to find a piece of data recovery software which can help recover lost data when boot partition damage emerges. Now, their desire can be realized easily. As long as users download the boot edition of excellent data recovery software and burn it to boot CD, lost data can be recovered easily and safely. Here, users are suggested choosing MiniTool Power Data Recovery Boot Disk.

If we want to recover lost data by using this data recovery software boot CD, we should download it at first, and then burn it to boot CD. Then, launch the software to open its main interface:

This is the main interface of the data recovery software boot CD. Here, we can see this software is made up of 4 modules. To recover lost data from damaged boot partition, we should select the most suitable functional module according to practical situations and take operations according to prompts. When all operations are performed, data recovery software boot CD helps recover lost data successfully.

Best Zip Repair Tool for Recovering Corrupt Zip File

Users have evolved with technologies and this has resulted in increased usage of technical mediums such as emails for sending or receiving files. Zip files are highly used for sending, receiving and storing multiple files together. As this is used by many users henceZip file recovery tool with its functions will bring relief to such users who are suffering from Zip corruption.

This Zip recovery tool incorporates recovery of unlimited Zip files and retains all the data as such. Attachments and metadata is retrieved and option of extracting all files or single file is available. Tool can extract corrupt Zip data and makes it error-free. Free demo version is provided to test software prior investment and technical assistance is also provided for any queries.

Evan Swans, Director of Product Development, said, “Zip files are nowadays used by many users to compress multiple files for minimizing size of files and utilize it for sending receiving of data and storage for data management. We have analyzed that wide usage of Zip files over network have increased chances of these files getting corrupted and many users face data loss because of this. Our Zip repair tool was primarily developed to fulfill this need of recovering data files from damaged Zip files. We tried our level best to make our software advance and utilized advance technologies to make it more efficient torepair Windows 7 zip file. I wish that our product can benefit maximum number of users and solve their technical queries by recovering data files from corrupt Zip file.”

About Company: The Company has developed many software solutions and has give away many users relief from difficulties to manage data.Zip repair tool is one more such software solution which is in demand in software industry for its multi-functioned quality.

How to Recover Folders express

Since I suggest selecting MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover folders expressly, some people will ask why I suggest using this data recovery software but not any other software. They can get the answer from the following main interface. 

 

This is the main interface of this data recovery software. From this main interface, we can see clearly that this data recovery software offers different recovery modules according to different types of folder loss, so we just need to select relevant recovery module according to practical condition and do not need to scan the whole disk, thereby recovering lost folders expressly. This is the reason why I suggest selecting MiniTool Power Data Recovery. 

After seeing the above introduction to MiniTool Power Data Recovery, every user, I believe, wants to know detailed operation of this data recovery software. Well, users can visit the official website http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/ to download this free data recovery software, and then install it on the computer. Next, run it to get the above main interface. Here, let’s take “Damaged Partition Recovery” as an example to show how to recover lost files from folders expressly. First, select “Damaged Partition Recovery” module, and then the following interface appears. 

 

In this interface, select the partition where lost folders are. Here, there are 2 different operations. The first one, click “Open” button directly to unfold the partition to look for lost files. If lost files are found, we can perform the next operation. If we do not find desired lost files, we have to go back to this interface, and select “Full Scan” to scan the whole partition. After the full scan is finished, the following interface will appear. 

 

Select the partition which is most similar to the partition where lost files are, and then click “Show Files” to get the next interface: 

 

This is the recovery interface. In order to recover lost files from folders expressly, a special filter function is added to this free data recovery software. Check filter type according to the type of file loss, and then click “Apply Filter” to filter undesired files. Next, check files which need recovering from the “Recovered Files“. Then, click “Save Files” to recover lost files. 

Extract Contacts from an OST or PST File

Converter Toolbox, a company pioneering the development of ultra-compact and easy-to-use data recovery tools for a broad number of application types and file formats, is proud to announce the availability of OST to PST Conversion Toolbox, a multi-functional solution that, among other purposes, can be used to extract contacts from an OST or PST file in a quick and efficient manner.

This became possible thanks to the use of a completely renewed and deeply optimized data analysis and recovery engine that offers a whole new level of data extraction efficiency and speed. The program is primarily used for converting Outlook OST files to the standard PST format. However, it can be used for selective extraction of a particular data type – for instance, it can help extract contacts from an OST or PST file.

The program has an extremely simple, uncluttered and intuitive interface that guides the user through the procedure and helps get the job done as quickly as possible. In order to extract contacts from an OST or PST file, the user needs to start the program, open the necessary OST/PST storage file, select contacts in the built-in data browser and click a single button to initiate the recovery process.

The program does not modify the source file in any way, allowing the user to resort to alternative data recovery methods, if necessary. Apart from extracting contacts from healthy or corrupted OST/PST files, the program helps migrate data from OST to PST, fix and restore the structure of damaged Outlook storage files and generally fix the consequences of data corruption incidents of all sorts.

“The release of a new version of OST to PST Conversion Toolbox marks another step towards improving the performance and efficiency of our products through the implementation of our newest proprietary technology,” explained Head of Product Development at Converter Toolbox. “This compact tool helps extract contacts from an OST or PST file with ease that we couldn’t even think of a year ago, and we hope that our customers will appreciate the new level of comfort.”

Top data disasters of 2013

10. Foiled robbery

(Italy): A thief took a laptop among other items from a home, but must have been scared off during the robbery. While fleeing, the thief abandoned the laptop in the garden. It was
found by the owner after being out in the rain all night. Data from the SSD was eventually recovered.

9. Long journey, broken drive

(Hong Kong): When a world cyclist and photographer arrived in Hong Kong in May 2013, he discovered that the hard drive with two years of photos and video of his 40,000 km cycle fundraiser around the world was broken. Engineers quickly got to work on this case, but it proved to be a very challenging recovery as the drive had major media damage in multiple locations on multiple surfaces. In the end, most of the images were saved.

8. Movie mayhem

(Poland): While producing a movie for a film festival, a team of filmmakers encountered an on-set disaster. They were backing up their laptop to an external drive during production one day, when one of the crew members accidentally kicked the table over. Both the laptop and external drive crashed to the floor making the data inaccessible. Eighteen months of production and investments gone with only two months until the festival! Ultimately though, they made the deadline having been reunited with 80% of the data.

7. Gamer’s rage

(France): One day, the mother of three children tried to start the family computer without success. Error message. She asked the children if something strange happened because
they were the last to use it. No answer. She suspected something and asked again. The oldest sibling said her brother was so angry that he lost a video game, he slammed his fists on the keyboard.

6. Data gone wild

(United Kingdom): A university student called looking for emergency service on her laptop.  She had lost her year-end term paper, and needed it back to pass her class. When the engineers asked what happened to the laptop, she explained that the year-end party from the night before was the culprit. Her laptop was found drowning in spilled drinks.

5. Shot phone

(United States): A cell phone, no matter how smart, is not bullet-proof! Still, engineers managed full recovery, saving a total of 10GB of data.

4. Spiders

(Italy): We were called to work on a five-year-old server where the hard drive had crashed. When the data recovery engineer opened up the drive, he found a nest of spiders inside. They also had a vacation home in the drive of the server right next to the parking area of the heads. All data was recovered in the end.

3. Natural disaster

(United States): Some of the biggest data disasters stem from natural disasters. When one customer learned about looming Hurricane Sandy, they sprang into action and made a backup of all of their servers. However, they couldn’t have predicted that the river half a mile from their office would have flooded to the extent it did, leaving all of their servers and backup tapes submerged in 28 inches of water. Engineers were able to recover 100% of the office space design company’s data, which had been in business since 1957. The company said that without data recovery, they would have had to rebuild their business from scratch.

2. Having the hump and a hammer

(United Kingdom): We received a package of hard drive pieces. When engineers called the company to find out what had happened, the company explained that the drive had been hit repeatedly with a hammer. One file was salvaged. What the company learned from that one file was that an employee had tried to wipe a file and destroy evidence. The one file recovered was enough to prosecute the employee.

1. Use caution when under the influence

(United States): After a night of partying, a man woke up in the middle of the night and used what he thought to be a restroom. In the morning, he discovered that it was not a restroom, and his laptop was a poor substitute for a toilet. The reveller was reunited with his data.

Recover your data through skilled expertise

“Price is not always the best way to go,” says Brian Eardley-Wilmot, founder of Computer Forensics NZ Ltd, specialists in data recovery, hard drive recovery and computer investigations for a long list of blue chip clients across the country.

“Users need to be extremely careful with their data given how precious it is.

“Unfortunately, when it comes to recovering data, they usually only get one chance, which is why they must seek the expertise of proven recognised professionals within the industry.”

As New Zealand’s best-known name in the field of data recovery and file recovery, Computer Forensics NZ Ltd has delivered proven top-end services to some of the largest and most successful multi-national organisations since 1999.

“When choosing a data recovery service, users should not be motivated by the cost of a service, or the apparent savings, but rather a proven track record because while cost can seem attractive in the first instance, a cheap and cheerful approach can have damaging repercussions for your data,” Eardley-Wilmot adds.

Whether it be a natural disaster, a system failure or a cyber attack, Computer Forensics NZ Ltd is well-versed in the art of recovering deleted files and tracking down vital evidence.

Ranging from the typical consumer, or a start-up firm to a large scale enterprise, in today’s challenging environment of digital equipment failure, knowing your data hasn’t vanished forever can be very reassuring.

Yet Eardley-Wilmot, who first entered the IT industry in 1978 introducing Apple, then Microsoft to New Zealand, urges users to not only consider price, but also credibility when choosing data recovery specialists.

“Other than highly trained data recovery professionals, such as Computer Forensics NZ, users should not give untrained or general IT staff the chance to get at their data,” Eardley-Wilmot warns.

“Wherever you decide to do business, ensure they have the necessary credentials to carry out the job

“Do not let people other than trained data recovery people get at your data. Make sure that whoever you select to recover your data has a proven, successful data recovery record.

“It is crucial that users understand that often the act of attempting to retrieve data can actually remove it irretrievably.”

The company also specialises in RAID Data Recovery, and given the importance of servers to most businesses, Computer Forensics NZ treats RAID and server loss situations as high priority, often working round the clock 24/7.

Common issues with RAID server systems, include RAID controller failure, accidental reconfiguration of RAID drives, accidental replacement of media components, lost server registry configuration or single/multiple drive failure.

When IT staff detect a RAID failure, unless they are both skilled and experienced in RAID systems, no attempt should ever be made to resurrect the system. Failure to acknowledge this can lead to reduced results in the recovery process, even completely ruining any chance of any recovery.

According to Eardley-Wilmot, the company is very familiar with RAID hardware from IBM, Sun, HP, Compaq, Dell, and server operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, Solaris, Netware, VMware and over the years has developed proprietary procedures to ensure successful outcomes.

Preparing for Recovery

According to International Data Corporation’s Digital Universe Study, in 2012, less than a fifth of the world’s data was protected, despite 35 percent requiring such actions. Levels of data protection are significantly lagging behind the expansion in volume.

Over the years, I’ve read and heard many different ways to get data and data centers ready for recovery. While leveraging cloud services, using “hardened” storage devices and synchronizing NAS devices are all good ideas, they are all missing one very important fact: the prep work is the most important part of recovery.

This may come as a shock, but backup is completely worthless if you cannot recover your data. And, archiving data is completely useless if the data cannot be retrieved in the time you need it.

Sounds like a stupid statement, right? You’d be surprised. I have talked with far too many organizations that buy data protection products and are never quite sure if their data will be recovered or not. All the bells and whistles are not worth the money if you cannot get your data back quickly and easily.

More than ever, robust data protection is imperative to data recovery in the event of data loss. In fact, failure to safeguard company data can result in business disruption, devastating losses, and in some cases, catastrophic consequences to the business. Numerous reports and studies show that businesses that go through critical data loss often never recover.

Below are the four steps organizations should take to disaster proof their data.

This first thing every business needs to do is plan. That’s right, plan. The classification of data is the most important part of all disaster recovery planning procedures. Planning for the worst means that you have to decide which data is important and which data needs to be recovered first.

Replication is a key component of disaster recovery. The technology often works in combination with deduplication, virtual servers or the cloud to carry out its role in recovery. Copying data from a host computer to another computer (at a remote location) establishes redundant copies and ensures business continuity in the event of a disaster. When data replication is done over a computer network, changed data is copied to the remote location as soon as it changes.

The timing is important. It is necessary to understand how much data you have and how long you have to recover it. Once these two items are known, planning the mechanics of the recovery can really begin. If 10 terabytes (TBs) of data have to be recovered, but connections will only push 5 TBs per day, it will take you two days. If two days is too long, then increased bandwidth must be purchased.

Disaster recovery is no exception to the old adage, “practice makes perfect.” Testing is the only way to verify that all of your plans will work in the event of an actual disaster. If you do not test at least once a year, then you have no idea what your timing looks like or if you can even recover your data. You have to have an understanding of the weak spots or failure points.

Recovery Functionality and an Intuitive UI

Viewer Tool, a leading supplier of specialized file repair and recovery tools, as well as format-specific file viewers, is pleased to present DBF Viewer Tool, a compact and fast viewer and a highly efficient recovery tool working with corrupted DBF database files.

The program supports DBF databases created in FoxPro 2, Visual FoxPro, dBase IV, Clipper and a number of other popular database products. The just-released version of DBF Viewer tool is based on an advanced file analysis engine capable of restoring data even from seriously damaged files, and an intuitive UI built around a step-by-step wizard.

The integrated preview module enables users to view the structure of the database being recovered and assess the scope of recoverable data. The program is also capable of restoring the content of associated MEMO field files and saving data in a number of DBF formats selected by the user. At the end of each recovery session, the program shows a log file with statistics on the current recovery attempt.

How to Perform Free File Recovery

File recovery ability is not the privilege of professionals and ordinary user can still successfully perform file recovery free. Some may query how ordinary users lacking professional file recovery knowledge could smoothly process file recovery like file recovery technicians. In fact, file recovery is not as difficult as user think and those allegedly professionals realize file recovery still by employing file recovery software. Therefore, the key to successfully file recovery is selecting an appropriate file recovery software. In this regard, I would like to recommend user a powerful file recovery software by the name of MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

Generally MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a powerful yet free file recovery software boasting of five specialized main function modules as shown above Undelete Recovery, Damaged Partition Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery and CD/DVD Recovery.

In addition, MiniTool Power Data Recovery offers sound file recovery solutions for partitions with whatever FAT16, AT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3 or Ext4 file systems and support file recovery on flash memory, memory card, memory stick and CD, etc. What’s more, this free file recovery software is flawlessly compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 andWindows Server 2008, etc.

Firstly, any file recovery software whose best competence is to be exerted must be installed under a stable and secure environment. MiniTool Power Data Recovery, though possessing excellent compatibility and file recovery performance, still needs a stable operating system so as to give full play to its file recovery competence. Secondly, premise is needed for any file recovery software no matter how powerful it is, including MiniTool Power Data Recovery. File recovery principle is the premise which determines whether the lost files are recoverable or not. When user deletes a file from computer, the file actually is not deleted completely and the operating system just added a deleting mark on this file instead so as to make this file inaccessible by operating system. File recovery software, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, just breaks through the operating system addressing method and helps find and recover all files with deletion mark. However, if user continues writing data on partition suffering data loss, the lost files are very likely to be overwritten by these new-written files and become unrecoverable. Therefore, User is strongly recommended not to write any data on partition undergoing data loss.
Lastly, user is kindly requested to carefully read corresponding descriptions to each single step and then perform operation so as to avert unnecessary troubles.

Brand-New Adobe Illustrator Repair Tool with Record Efficiency

Repair Toolbox, an expert in the field of data recovery and a supplier of many award-winning recovery tools for programs that millions of users start every day, is glad to announce the release of illustrator Repair Toolbox, a simple, yet fast and efficient application that helps restore illustrations from corrupted Illustrator AI files.

Designed and developed for regular users with limited or no experience in data recovery, this Adobe Illustrator recovery software offers an easy-to-follow wizard that guides the user from the file selection stage to saving of the recovered data. Illustrator Repair Toolbox supports all versions of the AI format, resolves issued caused by known bugs in graphics editors and reconstructs illustrations from all objects found in a damaged AI file. Some of the more advanced features of the program are the ability to reduce RAM consumption while processing large AI files and the use of multiple intelligent algorithms for finding as many recoverable objects as possible.

This Adobe Illustrator recovery tool requires no third-party components or libraries, special knowledge or practical experience with identical solutions. For more convenience, the program shows a detailed recovery log at the end of each AI recovery session.

“We are excited to present the very best Adobe Illustrator data recovery tool on today’s market. The product offers a unique mix of a friendly UI, great speed and quality of recovery – all for a very good price and just a click away!” said Ivan Bobrov, Head of Marketing at Repair Toolbox. “The work on the product will be continued to ensure compatibility with the future versions of the format and even better recovery results in the most complex cases.”