Mar 05 2008
How to recover data from “Delayed Write” Error
I’m working in Language department of a school. I own a Sony VAIO laptop for lesson preparation. Its model is PCG-9RHM that was purchased before six months.
Before one week, I was concerned by one error message that appears when the machine on saying “SMART failure predicted on hard drive 0 please perform immediate backup of data and replace the disk”. But this error doesn’t create problems, after starting the laptop works well.
Yesterday it gave a new error message “Delayed Write” from my operating system that is Windows XP. It looked like Windows XP was annoying to edit the registry when it croaked. After shut down, the laptop wouldn’t boot. When I tried to boot it in safe mode, it caused the system to reboot repeatedly after loading System32\Drivers\Mup.sys.
When I reported Sony VAIO tech support team in this regard they suggested to restore the system using 6GB hidden partition of my drive created by Sony. But I failed to find this partition when tried to access the drive as a slave to another computer.
When I asked them again, they told to restore the system using VAIO recovery disk. But I don’t want to loss my data, so installed the new operating system of another drive and tried to access the main drive by attaching on this computer. But I didn’t show even the partition of my drive. I was really much tensioned as I lost all the lessons created yet. Those were stored only this drive without backing up.
My drive was completely formatted and the data has been lost. I told this problem to my friend who works as a hardware engineer in a company. He told me that this is not a hardware failure, you hard drive is formatted due to some registry errors and suggested me to search for any solution about this problem.
I started searching on the Internet to find out the solution and got a data recovery software: Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. But I was not sure that this software can solve my problem, so called up the technical support team of the company and told them about the problem. They replied me that data recovery in my case is possible and also suggested to try to scan the drive using demo version of the software.
As they suggested, I downloaded and installed the Windows Data recovery software and start searching through the “search logical partition” option of the software. After few minutes of processing, the software displayed all the logical partitions and I attempted to perform scan for data on my logical partitions using advance scan of the software. The data recovery software displayed all the results in tree structure and I found that all of the lost data were recoverable and tried to recover them. But the software gave a message that you need to activate the software in order to recover the data. I just purchased the serial key of the software and recovered all my lost data.
