Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Troubleshooting OS not found Error….. Need Data Recovery

Today I am going to share with you how can you prevent from OS (operating system) not found error?

Many times people get different error messages such as “operating system not found” and "Setup didn’t find any hard drives installed on your system." And due to these error messages, the booting process gets stopped and files stored in the hard disk become inaccessible.

Here you will see the causes of these types of error messages:

• System BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) doesn’t identify the hard disk.
• The hard disk partition is damaged.
• Sector 0 of the physical hard disk has an incorrect MBR.
• A damaged hard disk partition is marked as Active.
• A disk partition that comprehends the MBR is no longer active.

Here you will see the solutions of these types of error messages:

To resolve the above problem and get back the hard drive data, you need to follow following steps:

• If any floppy disk drive is inside then need to remove it.
• Need to check boot sequence in system BIOS. If the primary hard disk doesn’t show up within the first three boot devices, it means that your hard disk has been corrupted.
• Use the fixmbr command in the Windows XP Recovery Comfort to repair the Master Boot Record.

However, if all the above steps unable to resolve the issue, the best option available just clean OS and reinstall in the same partition. A clean reinstall of the operating system will erase all data from the partition. In such kind of data loss situations, you should use advanced Data Recovery Services or software such as partition recovery.

Stellar Data Recovery offers the most efficient Partition Recovery Software. It provides complete recovery and repair of lost files in all possible cases of logical data loss. It is compatible with FAT16, FAT32, vFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. This read only Partition Recovery Software supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Hard drive is not spinning Up– Required Hard Drive Recovery




Here I am going to share my dead hard drive story.
Few months ago I went to spend my 15 days holidays and took lot of pictures with my family and few friends. When I came back to my country home, I uploaded all the pictures in my laptop but after few days when I turned on my laptop I started to hear some electrical fizzing then rapidly I turn off my laptop (laptop), but being a stupid thought I just checked all the cables are connected correctly or not and then try again and This time I got smoke starts coming out of my laptop power supply. Then I go and buy a new power supply. No worries. I get it to home, replace the burn one and again turn on the laptop, now again got the same problem. Then I caught the problem is in my hard drive which was not being recognized such as the hard disk no sound and not spinning up. My hard drive had been completely dead.
I was panic how to fix it? My important data is stored in it. I consult to my friends and then someone suggested me about hard drive recovery services with some companies. Stellar Data Recovery was one of them. I packed my hard drive and directly visited to their office. After checking dead hard disk they gave me a list of recoverable files. I was very happy when I saw my all-important files were in that list. Instantly I decided to take the hard disk recovery service and after few days they provided me all my data in a new hard disk.
So I suggest to all be very careful about data loss situation and if still you get it then no need to worry because data recovery options are available.