Data Recovery Software Help For Windows, Mac , Linux Systems

Have you ever come across a scenario where your computer’s hard drive succumbed to corruption? Hard drive failure is a common scenario and can happen anytime. You might get prior warning signals or might not. The biggest concern, however, remains how to recover the lost or inaccessible data. In many cases, individuals lose hope to recover their vital information and do not make efforts to look around for a possible solution. Fortunately, to help all those ignorant and affected individuals, there are many data recovery software available. These tools address almost all data loss problems, and you just have to select an application depending on the nature of the data loss and storage media.

Data recovery products have emerged as revolutionary applications which help you recover data on your own. They incorporate many features which make it a cakewalk for you to recover deleted or lost data from various storage media including hard drives, pen drives, camera cards, external hard drives, and other removable media. Let’s have a look at some of the major advantages of data recovery software:

• Easy-to-use: Recovery utilities are completely hassle-free and incorporate simple and graphical user interface to guide you on how to perform recovery. Even if you do not possess technical skills, these tools can be used without acquiring any knowledge. All you have to do is follow the instructions provided with them

• Less time consuming: Most of the data recovery software are designed to perform recovery in a fast manner, but that doesn’t mean they are not efficient.

• Versatility: Data recovery software are available for different storage media and support recovery of lost or deleted data in numerous data loss situations.

• Availability: You do not have to explore a lot, these tools are easily available in abundance on the Internet. You just have to download them and they are ready to be used. Thus, you need not wait any longer to perform a data recovery task.

Data recovery software selected from a reputed data recovery company will always yield favorable and successful results. Therefore, you must pay attention while trusting a company and its product. A software, chosen wrongly, can pose serious threat to already inaccessible or lost data, and might even end up destroying the possibilities of data recovery.

Stellar Data Recovery Inc are leaders in providing unmatchable data recovery services and software. Their range of do-it-yourself applications include software for Windows data recovery, iPod recovery, photo recovery, video recovery, databases recovery, file repair and others. All data recovery applications from Stellar guarantee exceptional results and are absolutely risk-free.

During the Windows XP startup, you must have encountered some errors messages that do not allow you to log into the operating system. Such errors, often, prove very costly for the system as you may have to take some drastic steps to resolve the problem. These problems can evolve due to any number of reasons. Some of the more prominent ones could be virus infections, abrupt or improper system shutdowns, faulty hardware components, bugs in operating system, etc. You should try to find out the exact reason to rectify the problem. If nothing works out, then you should use a third-party data recovery software to perform safe data recovery.

For instance, consider a situation where you start your Windows XP system. But it fails to start, and an error message is displayed:

“The file C:\windows\system32\c_1252.nls is missing or corrupt”

Cause:

Such behavior at startup could have happened as the file mentioned in the error message, c_1252.nls, is missing or damaged.

Resolution:

To resolve such startup errors, you should perform the following methods, preferably in the order in which they are given:

Check the hard disk for errors: It may be possible that the hard disk contains some errors, which is causing the problem. To resolve them, you should run Chkdsk tool to check and repair the errors.
Replace missing files: If the mentioned file(s) is/are missing, then you should replace the missing files in the Recovery Console by using Windows XP CD-ROM.

Replace missing files without console: If you are unable to open the Recovery Console, then you should use the emergency CD for Windows 98 to replace the missing files. However, you should keep in mind that this method is applicable only on Windows XP systems with FAT32 file system.

Perform In-Place upgrade: If none of the aforementioned methods succeed, then you should perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP using the Setup CD. This should resolve the issue.

Having said that, at times these methods are unable to resolve the problem. Also, you may also need to recover the trapped data. For such situations, you should use a third-party data recovery software. Using such data recovery tools makes the data recovery safe and secure by using fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms.

One such software that performs safe data recovery is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery utility. With the ability to recover more than 185 different file types, this file data recovery software supports FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems in various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, pen drives, iPods, etc. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000, this RAID data recovery tool recovers deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express.

In Windows XP, the System32 is a system-defined folder, which is very vital for the proper functioning of the operating system. It is placed in the active partition and contains various system files that are very important to start some in-built applications, which makes its loss extremely vulnerable. However, sometimes these files can be deleted permanently either due to human errors, virus infections, power outages, corrupt operating system, etc. In such cases, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover the deleted files and folders.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on your Windows XP system. You are removing useless files from your system to clean up the data as well as to speed up the system performance. However, you did not realize that you also hard-deleted the System32 folder. When you restart the system next time, you find that few in-built applications such as Internet Explorer, Control Panel, etc are not running. You have no idea how these files got deleted or how these files can be recovered, if at all.

When you delete a file or folder, first of all its pointer is removed from the database of the file system while the file itself remains in the hard disk. Following which, a notification is send to the operating system suggesting that empty space is now available for new files. The deleted file may, however, remain there as long as a new file is not created or an existing file is not moved. So, you should ensure that you do not create a new file after accidentally hard-deleting files. One more thing that you can do with important files is to mark them as Read-only so that you will be prompted twice while deleting such files.

Regardless of the fact that these deleted files can be recovered from the hard disk, there is no in-built feature that recovers deleted files or folders. So, to perform file recovery of the deleted files you should use a third-party file recovery software. Such file recovery tools are extremely safe to use as they employ fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms to recover the deleted data.

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus is a file recovery software that recovers deleted, lost, or formatted files from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, external hard disks, etc. It is able to recover more than 200 file types. In addition, this file recovery utility restores the deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

I am pretty sure that you have lost your valuable computer data due to yet another folly of yours. Of course, that is precisely why you are here. But there is no need to worry as you are not alone in this regard. There are thousands of other users as well, including me, who may have lost computer data due to some reason or the other. Yes, the reason for each individual may be different as discussed in the subsequent section. But these files can well be recovered using a file recovery software.

There could be various reasons by which you can lose your valuable file such as:
• Permanently removing items of Recycle Bin using Empty Recycle Bin option.
• Using the Disk Cleanup feature to empty the Recycle Bin.
• Permanently deleting files using the ‘Shift+Delete’ keys.
• Deleting files from Command Prompt.
• Abrupt or improper system shutdown.
• Files getting deleted due to corrupt operating system.
• Files deleted because of virus or malicious programs.
• Other miscellaneous reasons such as power outages, human errors, etc.

How a permanently deleted file can be recovered:

When a file is deleted from the system, everybody perceives it as nonrecoverable, which is true but only partially. Because when it is deleted, only its pointer that targets to the file database is removed whereas the file remains there physically. Also, when the file is deleted the operating system is informed that the space utilized by the deleted file is now available for new files. Hence, it can be assumed that the file remains there as long as there is another written at the same location. This is to suggest that if you want to recover the file, you should ensure not to create a new file because it may get save at the same location.
However, to recover the deleted file you should use a third-party file recovery software. Such file recovery tools are read-only in nature that recover the deleted files without overwriting the contents on the hard disk.

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus is a file recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, or formatted data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. In all, this file recovery software supports file recovery from FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS & NTFS5 file systems. It is able to recover more than 200 file types from various storage media such as hard drives, external hard disks, iPods, etc. In addition, this file recovery utility is capable of recovering deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

In computing, stress test is a process to testing a system by putting great emphasis on availability, error handling, and robustness under heavy load. It is done to ensure that the system does not fail or crash in situations where sufficient computational resources are not available. However sometimes it can create problems and cause system failure. Such behaviors can also lead critical data loss in some cases. In such critical circumstances, an absolute and valid backup of your valuable data proves great help. But, if backup is not available, data recovery software are required to get your mission-critical data recovered.

In a practical scenario, you may come across file system corruption and file corruption like situations when you run extensive stress test on an NTFS (New Technology File System) partition on Windows 2003 Server computer.

After this behavior, you may not be able to access Windows hard drive partitions and stored data. To retrieve lost data in the event of system failure, you must find out the cause of this behavior and then perform data recovery by fixing it.

Cause

This issue may occur only if all the below conditions are true when stress test is run for many hours:

Your Windows computer has small NTFS file system partitions.

The NTFS file system partition on your hard drive is almost full or full.

Almost 1,000 delete, create, or extend operations are run simultaneously.

Your Windows system has multiple processors.

Resolution

The above problem is quite improbably to take place if the underwritten conditions are true:
Your system has a large NTFS file system partitions. This behavior generally occurs on the small NTFS file system partitions, which range from 1-24 GB (Gigabytes). As partition becomes larger, the possibilities of corruption are significantly decreased.

Free extend, create, or delete operations occur.

The database writes and reads are limited to the files, to which you have already allocated space on the hard drive.

If you do not take the above precautions, serious data loss situations occur and data recovery tools become the last resort to fix it.

The data recovery software are specifically developed to thoroughly scan entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They work in all possible data loss scenarios, ranging from accidental deletion to serious system crash.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and comprehensive utility to ensure safe and easy recovery of lost Windows data. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It supports recovery from all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

Whenever a user starts his/her Windows 7 based system, the boot loader starts loading all the required system and boot drivers. After these drivers are loaded, the system thread (kernel) initiates the SMSS.EXE (System Manager Subsystem) that is responsible for loading the user profile. Corruption or damage in either of the components – required for booting process – can result in unbootability of your Windows based system, which renders to inaccessibility of all the data saved in the hard drive. In most of these situations, the user encounters an error message that explains the real cause for stopping the boot process. To overcome such situations, an ideal approach is to reinstall Windows 7 and restore the data from an updated backup. However, if in case of backup file corruption or unavailability, the user will need to recover the data from a powerful third-party

data recovery software.

To deeply analyze the above scenario, consider a real-time scenario where you are working on your Windows 7 system. You install some audio and video files from the Internet and the next time you boot your system, it does not boot completely. The system boots till the loading screen and then automatically restarts. After the system restarts, the user encounters a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). Since, the system becomes unbootable post BSOD, the data saved in the hard drive also becomes inaccessible.

Note: The same error message appears every time even if you try to boot your system in safe mode, repair mode, or boot from the installation disc.

Cause:

The above error message (BSOD) appears when the boot loader get corrupted due to a fatal virus attack.

Resolution:

To get past the above BSOD, you will need to follow the below steps:

1. Reinstall Windows 7 operating system.

2. Restore all the files and folders from a complete and valid backup.

3. However, if in case of inaccessibility of a valid backup, you will need to use a safe data recovery utility that can perform comprehensive formatted data recovery. These tools are built with intensive recovery techniques that makes them perform recovery after any logical crash.

One of the most widely used data recovery Software is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. This software recovers and restores all formatted data at user-specified location. Compatible with NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems, the recovery application supports almost all Windows operating systems, including 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

Resizing is a regular process carried out by almost all Linux users to increase, decrease, create, delete, or reorganize the size of their Linux-based hard drive volumes. To carry out resizing, most of the users opt for an effective third-party partitioning utility. While the partitioning becomes simple with these utilities, it can also result in corruption of root inode. This mainly occurs when the application malfunctions during resizing process or the partitioning is not performed systematically. In most of these situations, users encounter an error message that does not allow access to data saved in any Linux based hard drive volume. To overcome such situations and to access the volume data, user needs to restore file from an updated backup. However, if the backup file is unavailable or deficient, then the user needs to opt for an effective Linux Data Recovery application.

Consider a practical case wherein you resize your 500 GB hard drive volume and divide it into two volumes. After resizing, when you try to mount any of the divided volumes, they do not mount. Furthermore, you encounter the below error messages:

“root@ubuntu:/# mount /dev/sda1 /media/500gb/  mount: wrong fs type, 

bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, 

missing codepage or other error 

 In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try  dmesg | tail or so”

“root@ubuntu:/# dmesg | tail  [17179650.572000] Bluetooth: L2CAP 

ver 2.8  [17179650.572000]

 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized  [17179651.772000] Bluetooth: 

RFCOMM socket layer initialized  [17179651.772000] 

Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized  [17179651.772000] Bluetooth: 

RFCOMM ver 1.7  [17181754.432000] EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, 

run e2fsck”

After the above error message pop up, the volumes become unmountable, resulting in inaccessibility of the data.

Cause:

As described in the error message the root i node gets corrupted.

Resolution:

To get past the above error message and to access the volume data:

• Run ‘e2fsck’ command to repair corrupt root inode.

• If the command fails, reinstall Linux operating system. Re-installation creates new partitions, making the data saved in all the volumes inaccessible. To recover lost data post re-installation, you need to search for effective Linux Data Recovery utility. These Linux Recovery utilities employ intensive recovery procedures to recover formatted volumes and data within them.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is an effective, yet secure Linux Recovery tool that systematically recovers all lost, deleted, and formatted Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT file system based volumes.

In Mac OS X operating systems, you can effectively manage user files and launch applications, network volumes, and disks. All this and more can be done using an inbuilt utility, known as Finder. It is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) application, which works as a ’shell’ in UNIX operating system. It is the first application you interact with after running Mac OS X computer. The Finder is also responsible for general look and feel of your machine. In case this application becomes faulty or cannot be launched, your valuable data may become inaccessible. In such situations, you need to fix the problem using appropriate Mac Recovery solutions.

In case the Finder application gets damaged, or it becomes unusable, you may encounter various error messages, similar to the following ones:

• The application Finder.app can’t be opened. -10810.

• The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in <folder name> can’t be read or written.
  (Error code -36)

After this, you need to find out the cause of this problem and perform Data Recovery Mac by fixing it, to access your valuable data.

What Causes Finder Corruption in Mac OS X?

Corruption may take place due to numerous reasons, such as unexpected system shutdown, virus infection, application crash, and more. The problem may also occur due to internal file system errors or running Disk Utility on mounted Mac OS X hard drive volume.

Resolution

In order to work around this problem, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system. After formatting and re-installation, restore data from the most recent backup. However, if the backup is not available, you face grave situations as formatting removes all the data from hard drive.

In such cases, Mac File Recovery Software come to your rescue. The applications are capable of methodically scanning the entire hard drive and extracting all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They enable easy and safe Mac Data Recovery in all cases of data loss.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software recovers lost data from hard drive, USB drive, FireWire drive, memory card, and Apple iPod. It recovers Mac Data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, and HFS Wrapper file system volumes. The software works well with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.

Consider a real-time scenario where you come from a vacation with a camera full of photographs. You take out the digital media (memory stick) and insert into card reader, connected to your card reader. iPhoto starts transferring the pictures to the system and while it was doing so, it crashed. Now, when you try to view the pictures, they do not appear in the storage media.

Cause:

The root cause for inaccessibility of all the files is corruption of storage media file system due to iPhoto crash.

Resolution:

To resolve the above issue and to access the pictures, the user needs to follow the below steps:

• Format the memory stick and restore the data from an updated backup.
• If no valid backup exists or backup file is damaged, then use advanced third-party photo recovery software.

Such recovery tools perform Mac Photo Recovery by using powerful scanning and recovery algorithms. These photo recovery Mac tools are built with intuitive user-interface that enables even a novice user to perform recovery. Such tools can be installed from the Internet.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a powerful, yet safe application to recover data from almost all kinds of storage media like, CDs, DVDs, flash cards, iPods, and more. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6(Snow Leopard), 10.5 (Leopard), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.3.9 (Panther), the Photo Recovery Mac application supports almost all camera, image, video, and audio file formats.

Is your Windows hard drive refusing to boot up when you start your computer? Can you boot your system using a floppy disk without any problem? The problem may occur due to missing or damaged boot files on your Windows hard drive. Corruption may occur due to numerous reasons such as virus infection and improper system shutdown. In such cases, all your hard drive data may become inaccessible and you may face critical data loss. You need to restore valuable data from a complete backup. However, if the backup is not available, hard drive recovery becomes need of hour.

When a hard drive refuses to boot in such cases, you can boot the system using a bootable floppy disk and can access the disk using third-party disk utility software. After booting the system, you can run disk repair utility, like ChkDsk tool, to detect and fix hard drive errors.

Cause

Generally, when Windows hard drive can not be detected in BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) but accessed normally after booting the system using floppy, it implies a problem with logical components of the drive. The most common cause of this problem is a damaged boot sector or a boot sector virus.

Resolution

Try the below methods to fix the problem and perform hard drive data recovery:

• Reboot the hard drive

• Scan your hard drive using an updated anti-virus software. If the problem is due to a boot sector, it can help you to sort the issue.

• Set the system or boot partition as ‘active’, if you are changing the hard drive partitions. Else, you can not boot from primary partition.

• Boot your system in Recovery Console and fix a damaged boot sector, if it has been corrupted by a virus or some other reason.

• Put your DOS partition as the first partition, if you are configuring your system as dual-boot.

If none of the above methods work, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system to fix damaged boot sector. However, formatting removes all the data from hard drive and creates need of hard drive recovery.

You can successfully recover lost hard drive data using third-party hard drive data recovery software. The applications use efficient scanning methods to ensure absolute recovery in all cases of data loss.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution for all kinds of data loss. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, and FAT16 file system partitions.