Data Recovery Software Help For Windows, Mac , Linux Systems

These days files that we store on computer system have become an integral part of our life. Files are used to store valuable data. In many cases, files are quite much important for our business and lives that we cannot afford the loss of those valuable files. Data stored in files may be personal and business. In both the cases, loss of data may fall the person into grave problems. Doing just one click will open the file. And, also one click on the file may lead to the loss of important data forever. So, situations similar to lost/deleted files can be overcome with the help of file recovery software. Plenty of tools are available in the market that has been specially designed to perform recovery of lost/deleted files and gives peace of mind.

Valuable files get lost due to various reasons. These reasons include, format or corruption of a hard drive, fatal virus attack, unexpected system shutdown, or software failure. These all are the reasons by which files get lost or become inaccessible. Most of the times, it happens when we delete a file accidentally, we have an option to recover deleted file from the recycle bin. But, at times we fail to recover it if we do double click on recycle bin because file does not present there. Generally, when file once get deleted it goes to the recycle bin folder, but as said earlier many times file found to be absent in the recycle bin folder.

Above stated problem of deletion occurs, when a combination of Shift+Delete key has been used to delete a file. After the use of such combination, file becomes permanently inaccessible. So, situations similar to this can be handled easily with the help of a third party tool. A third party tool is a best fix to recover deleted files again. Before going to do a selection of a third party tool, it is advised to make use of an inbuilt methods.

One of the best recommended tools is a Stellar Phoenix File Recovery. The file recovery results produced by such software are highly productive. The tool is able to recover data from a wide variety of file systems. The software is so powerful that it able to recover files even from a corrupt or formatted hard drive. Developed with simple graphical user interface, the tool is easy to understand. Moreover, a well described help file comes along with the software that helps to perform recovery of lost/deleted files easily.

Almost every Windows user must have formatted his/her computer at least once. There could be various reasons behind formatting and some of the most common are virus infection, system unbootable, sluggish performance of system, etc. But, whatever be the cause of formatting the end result is loss of precious data. Therefore, it is always recommended specially to Windows users to maintain backup of their valuable data so that they can easily recover the loss. But, what do we do if we do not have the backup or insufficient backup? Well, for the users who do not have proper backup, there are bunch of file recovery software to recover valuable files or data. However, I too was quite unaware of the fact that recovery of formatted files is possible through third-party recovery software before I encountered the situation.

Let me explain you my case in detail.

For the past few days I was very much perturbed with the sluggish performance of my Windows XP based laptop. Scanned all the drives and even entire system for three times with the latest anti-virus but the problem persisted. However, the situation became jittery when my laptop denied restarting after running virus scan for the fourth time. Worried, restarted it for many times but with no luck. However, without losing hope inserted Windows XP installation disk to repair system from Recovery Console but didn’t find any solution. That situation left me nothing but to format the hard disk of my laptop and reinstall Windows XP OS.

Although I was having the backup of almost all of the data on external hard disk but there were some really very crucial doc files present on the My Document which were not backed up. Losing those files would be a big loss as they were containing my latest work which I had not submitted to my boss. However, at that time the immediate importance was formatting the hard disk. Thus, I formatted my laptop and then put the issue of losing files due to formatting in front of IT Support of my office. A member from IT Support team came and took my laptop with him and after few hours called me to their room.

I was shocked to see all the formatted files on the interface of some file recovery software. This was something very strange which I could believe as I was not at all aware of the fact that recovery of formatted files or data is possible. However, then I pointed out few of the formatted files of which I didn’t backed up and in few minutes the software recovered all the required ones. Thus, after successfully recovering all my files I asked that person from IT Support about that file recovery software.

He told me that he used Stellar Phoenix File Recovery software to recover all the formatted files. Further, he told me that Stellar Phoenix File Recovery software is one of the finest file recovery tools which uses high-end scanning algorithms for recovery of lost, formatted, or deleted files. The software has different versions for Mac and Windows users and supports recovery of 185 file types including emails, photos, videos, text documents, etc. Thus, to protect my data from future mishaps, I downloaded this efficient tool.

A hard disk can be divided into logically separated storage units called as partitions. Every partition is formatted according to a file system. The file system decides the method of organizing and storing the data into the partition. Different operating systems use different file systems, such as Windows operating system uses NTFS, FAT, or exFat file system. Therefore, if the partition or partition file system suffers from some corruption or malfunction then chances of data inaccessibility or data loss saved on that partition are created.

However, there are measures available online to fix the problems related to partition corruption. But, sometimes these solution measures too fail to rectify the issue and thus the problem itself compels the user to reformat the partition. Though, reformatting deletes all the data from the hard drive partition but the data can easily be recovered form updated backup. In the absence of backup, third-party partition recovery software can do the needful.

Let us discuss this issue through practical example. Consider, when you try to start your Microsoft Windows XP based computer (which has NTFS partition), encountered the following error message:

“Windows could not start because of an error in the software. Please report this problem as: load needed DLLs for kernel. Please contact your support person to report this problem.”

After encountering this error message, you may become unable to boot your system. However, to solve this issue, you must understand the causes behind occurrence of this error message.

Cause:

This issue occurs when the Hal.dll and Ntoskrnl.exe files are mismatched.

Resolution:

To solve this problem start your computer with Windows XP installation CD then follow the below mentioned steps:

• Go to setup page and repair the Windows installation by selecting ‘R’.
• Now at the recovery console, run CHKDSK, to fix the errors on your disk.
• Try to run BOOTCFG/rebuilt, to rebuild the boot configuration. Provide all the information which are asked and press Enter.
• Then try to run FIXBOOT , to fix the current boot sector.
• In the end try to run FIXMBR to fix the issues related to Master Boot Record of your system.
• Now, go out of the recovery console by selecting Exit and restart your computer.

Most of the times the above recommended resolution steps can solve the issue and fix the error. But, there are times when these solutions fail to workaround the situation at that time you are left with single choice that is to format your Windows XP based hard drive and restore the data from updated backup. However, in the absence of an updated backup, one is left with a choice that is to use third-party partition recovery software to recover precious data. These software can recover your data lost due to formatting or deletion of partitions.

One such software is Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery Software. This efficient partition recovery software for Windows operating system based computers recover lost, deleted, or inaccessible partitions. The software has intuitive user-interface which does not require knowledge of data recovery or prior training of the software. This efficient software supports the data recovery from FAT and NTFS file systems and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.