May 19 2008
Data Loss when MSSearch.exe Service is not shut cleanly or crawl is stopped
Technically advanced users dealing with servers and internet must be aware of two terms called MSSearch.exe service and Crawling process. These are the two processes which a user always wants to run in order to simplify few of its processes.
MSSearch.exe is a process which is linked with the process of search engine of MS Windows Server suite and functions for classification of indexes for MS Exchange server. This file is located at C:\Windows\System32 folder and in any of the other cases it is like a virus, spyware, trojan or worm.
Web crawling is a process which is responsible for browsing the World Wide Web in a systematic and automated manner. The search engine uses the process as a mean of providing up to date data.
All things are good with two of the process until MSSearch.exe service is shut down cleanly or if a crawl process is not stopped. You may experience some data loss and a need of data recovery in either of the cases. By dirty shutdown we mean a process crash or a computer crash or a dirty shutdown. These are the processes which could happen at any time and due to any of the reason like unexpected power outage or due to some earlier unresolved system or application issues etc.
Now because of the non-transactional nature of crawling the data may get lost due to improper shutdown like processes as by the time the documents may not have been crawled until the next full crawl.
In any of the computer or application crash , data recovery can be demanded as you need to reinstall the OS which results into a complete or fractional data loss based on the fact that either you have partitioned your hard drive or not. If it has not been then the formatting of the primary partition during the reinstallation process may result into complete data loss. This would require data recovery software.
Both the problems of data loss due to reinstallation of the OS and not proper shutting down the two processes have separate remedies-Data recovery software for first one and the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server for the second one.
Data recovery software will help you to scan the hard drive and to recover your data even after the formatting of it has been performed. These data recovery software does not take any reference to the data loss root but instead undergo data recovery for each case.
Stellar Information System Limited which is well known data recovery company provides data recovery software which works for Windows and has been termed as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software. This data recovery utility uses certain of the powerful algorithms so as to do the scanning hard disk and hence is capable of recovering data with much of the assurance.
This data recovery software is compatible with the file systems like FAT and NTFS. The software will build all the recoverable files in a tree format and will help you for data recovery for selected data. The demo version of the same can be downloaded from the company website.
