May 31 2008
Care for Your Optical Disks
An optical disc is an electronic data storage medium that can be written to and read using a low-powered laser beam. Similar to the other eras, laser technology has also marked its place in the field of data storage also. Optical Disks (CDs and DVDs) provide a pleasure to us for storing and sharing photos, documents, movies and music. Now optical disks have wonderful data storage capacity of up to six gigabytes.
Like other storage media optical disks is no exception. This may happen that you insert your CD for checking few of your files and one or more of your file may refuse to open.
But before going for any solution, we first need to know what has happened exactly? Broadly there can be two categories in which the reasons of data loss can be divided: physical and logical.
Physical Reasons:
o Mishandling the optical disk.
o Development of the scratches over its surface where data is stored.
o Damage due to fire, humidity and high temperature.
Logical Reasons:
o Virus infection.
o Accidental deletion.
o Over compression.
o Improper shutdown of the system.
These are few of the examples through which data loss can happen to optical disks and you would require data recovery for the sake of retrieval of some mission critical data. So before anything can go wrong with these optical disks, you should have a brief idea about how can you care for the data on them:
o While cleaning your disk, use cleaning fluid or clean water and very mild soap.
o Always use the best quality anti-virus program to scan your system before inserting any disk into it for writing.
o While the disk is being burnt, don’t ever shut down the system or terminate the program.
o Do not use sharp objects to prevent scratching, not even the disk has got stuck in the tray.
Being a removable and the cheapest storage media, optical disks are widely accepted among the users to store valuable data. They are also used as backup storage media. But due to one or other reasons (either physical or logical), user fall for the need of data recovery. When the lost data was high on the importance curve in his business or personal matters, then the reliable source of data recovery is vital.
Based on the root of dilemma, there are two possible way outs: data recovery services and data recovery software. As mentioned above for the physical basis, data recovery services would be a help for you and for the logical grounds, data recovery software will play a safe part.
Stellar Information System Ltd. is the leading company providing you both the options of data recovery. Data recovery services from these disks and other storage media like hard drives is provided in company’s Class 100 Clean Room. Here data recovery experts work at their best level to recover the data from the physically crashed disks.
Data recovery software of Stellar are similar to the services in terms of quality. Data recovery from the windows compatible disks is possible through Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery software. This data recovery software has several of the option which would allow you to get back your original data like raw file recovery. The ‘Live Update’ feature of this data recovery software gets the latest update of this software. This data recovery software will scan your media to extract the data from it.
