File Recovery

How to retrieve lost files from Windows OS

Windows operating system is developed and marketed by Microsoft Inc in three variations like Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate. Windows XP, Windows Vista came with fully loaded new features along with many upgrades to existing ones like an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Aero, detects hardware problems before they occur, redesigned search option, multimedia tools including Windows DVD maker, peer-to-peer technology to simplify file sharing, etc. Windows Vista uses NTFS as default file system but do supports FAT to avoid the compatibility issues.

Compare to XP, Windows Vista is highly secure, consume less power, offers good performance with less hardware consumption. When it comes to hardware requirements, Vista needs minimum hardware resources and it is compatible with SATA, SCSI and IDE hard drives. Hence most of the people are migrating to Windows Vista from its predecessors.

Data loss is common problem even with Vista like its predecessor and other operating systems. Users sometimes end up with huge data loss in Vista due to deletion or formatting an entire partition. There are many situations in which users lose their data stored in an entire partition like while formatting your hard drive or external drive, re-installing Vista, re-partitioning the hard drive using Disk Management tool, accidental deletion of partitions, etc. File Recovery in Windows can be done using powerful file recovery software.

You might be thinking that how does re-partitioning leads to data loss. While creating new partitions in your hard drive using Disk management tool, operating system will ask to format the partition in order to install the files system, at this point of time if you say yes without taking the backup of files stored, then you will lose all the files. Sometimes while deleting an existing partition, if you accidentally delete some other partition which had some important files, then it leads to critical data loss.

In order to avoid the loss of files, it is advised to take some precautionary measures before doing major changes to your hard drive like formatting or partitioning. Few of them are listed here.

  • Prior to formatting any partition in your hard drive, make sure that a proper backup is taken.
  • Always keep a backup of your important files stored in your computer hard drives.
  • Before deleting any partition, just spend few minutes in examining the things like you have taken a backup of important files stored, you are deleting a proper partition, etc.

In worst case scenario, if you end with losing files without backup, no need to panic. Stop using the hard drive or external drive from which the data is deleted and avoid making silly mistakes, because using some professional data recovery or partition recovery software, you can recover the deleted or lost files from formatted or deleted Windows partitions before overwriting the drive.

Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro Edition is one such advanced partition recovery software which is developed by data recovery experts. This utility facilitates you to recover files from formatted, partitioned and re-partitioned Windows partitions. Apart from hard drives, it supports recovery of data from external drives, RAID partitions, flash drives, memory cards, iPods, FireWire drives, etc. Using this software you can recover files from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT partitions. In case if your hard drive had bad sectors, this tool helps you to recover files by create Disk image. You can download the demo version of this software and evaluate the recovery results. This software facilitates you to preview the recovered data before saving. Recovered data can be saved to any storage device which is accessible to Windows operating system.

 

File Recovery

How to recover files from Mac trash?

People often empty files from trash and later realize that they shouldn’t have done that. Files emptied from trash are invisible until you use advanced file recovery software. If you empty files from the trash, only the reference of that file is deleted, but not the actual data. Hence, it can be recovered by using Mac file recovery software. Remo Recover (Mac) – Basic Edition is professional Mac recovery tool that has been specially designed to retrieve files deleted from Mac OS X Extended volumes or when files emptied from trash. It recovers deleted files, files emptied from trash or lost files from formatted and deleted volumes. It supports both Intel and Power PC hardware. You can also recover files from volumes where you have reinstalled Mac OS X. If you wonder as to how to recover files from Mac trash, you must make use Mac recovery software that can recover deleted files from hard drives, flash memory cards, iPods and fire wire drives.

The software has the ability to recover files that have been deleted due to accidental deletion from trash, accidental format of volumes, virus or malware attack, improper shutdown, power surge, data corruption, etc. Few of the common scenarios are briefly discussed as follows: If you empty files from trash, files get erased from the hard drive. If your system is affected by virus, files present in the hard drive gets corrupted and become inaccessible resulting in data loss. While transferring files from one storage device to other if your system is affected by power surge, there are possibilities of data getting lost.

If you would like to avoid data loss from your system, you can follow some of the basic precautions that are mentioned as follows: 1) You can take regular back up and save it on any external storage device in order to minimize the chances of data loss from your system. 2) You need to install and regularly update powerful anti-virus software to remove harmful virus. 3) You must shutdown your system properly by closing all the running applications and programs. 4) You can connect good stabilizer to the system you use in order to avoid data loss during power surge.

There are chances of losing data if you fail to follow the fundamental precautions. You can recover deleted or lost file by using Remo Recover (Mac) – Basic Edition software. It locates and recover files from missing or deleted Mac volumes using in-built advanced scanning algorithms. It can recover files from HFS+, HFSX, FAT16 and FAT32 volumes. It supports recovery of files from STA, SCSI, IDE hard drives, SD, MMC, XD flash memory cards, memory sticks, firewire drives, USB drives, iPods, etc. If you would like to preview recovered files prior to data restoration, you can download the free to try trial version and check for the recovery results. If the recovery results make you feel satisfied, you can purchase the full version of the software by just activating the key. After purchasing, you can save the recovered data on CD, DVD, USB drive or any other storage device.

Photo Recovery

Steps to recover photos using suitable canon photo recovery tool

Now a day’s many people prefer using digital cameras to shoot videos, taking photos etc. These cameras process image information from the sensor by converting them to digital data. This conversion results in 8 or 12-bit color data. Canon, Sony, Olympus are some of the famous manufacturers of digital cameras. Each manufacturer supports their individual RAW file format. Canon store images in JPEG format and store RAW images inside a file with .crw extension. This file is usually used for processing photos and can allow photo’s exposure, white balance and other elements to be manipulated. Some of the older cameras of canon use CRW file format. These RAW files store image data directly from sensor to the memory card that have little in-camera processing. They contain 12- bit color information that gives more data than some other file types. Canon uses a separate software program with the camera that allow to open and process CRW files. You can even save these files to other format that image-processing program use to open. You can view RAW files using Canon Image Browser or by using RAW compatible program. Most of the operating systems allow viewing RAW files in your system itself without opening any RAW conversion program.

When you use RAW conversion program for converting RAW files and if the program does not handle this process properly, this may lead to loss of photos. Using best canon photo recovery software helps to recover deleted or lost photos in typical photo loss scenarios.

Some of the scenarios in which RAW image files are deleted or lost:

Formatting the memory card on Canon camera: Accidental format of memory card by selecting format card option on the Canon digital camera or operating system may prompt for disk initialization when memory card is connected to system, these situations may lead to lose CR2, CRW image files.

Image files lost due to mishandling of camera or memory card: When you switch off the camera during transfer process, using same memory card in different digital cameras or pulling out the memory card when the camera is on may lead to loss of image files.

Other reasons that include in loss of RAW image files are memory card corruption, virus infection, power surge problems, interrupting transfer process from device to another, accidental deletion of the photos while previewing them using “Delete All” button etc.

Hence, backup is to be taken always after immediate transfer of data from memory card to computer. If you have taken backup before only then no need to worry about loss of data.

When backup is not available, I suggest using Remo Recover (Windows) Media edition to recover the media files that bypass recycle bin when they exceed in size. This software has built-in special algorithm to recover photo, audio, video files and digital raw photo files. This software has the ability to recover the photos from SD, XD, MMC memory cards etc. It is capable of recovering media files from formatted partitions, even after re-installing the Windows. When you download demo version, you are able to preview recovered canon image files before recovery.

Photo Recovery

Steps to undelete flash drive files

Flash drives does not support batteries and make use of to USB port to connect to PC. These drives are widely used because these are portable and you can easily transfer files from computer to another. You can store all your data which also acts as backup and carry these devices easily in your pocket. Flash drives are replaced with floppy disks due to its high speed, low cost, more storage capacity that made them more popular in today’s world. These are also called as thumb drives or jump drives. These are typically two inches long and one inch wide, which are increasing in their storage capacity day by day. These USB flash drives use a memory chip to store data rather than magnetic or optical disk where that data is maintained in erasable and rewritable circuitry. This flash memory chip consists of memory cells arranged in arrays or blocks. Data stored in these memory chips is read or written in fixed size blocks. When plugged to computer, flash drives are formatted with FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS file system like hard drives. File system handles data as clusters that consist of specific number of sectors. As they are no moving parts, these drives are less susceptible to mechanical problems. However, many scenarios like file system corruption, virus attack, improper eject of flash drives etc make flash drives corrupt where you have to use reliable tool to undelete flash drive files.

Memory chips contain cells where each cell contains two transistors. These transistors act as gates where each gate can be open or closed. Various systems use different combinations of open and closed gates to represent data. Little power is consumed to open and close these gates and thereby flash drives can be operated by drawing a small amount of power from PC.

Necessary precautions are to be maintained to prevent flash drives from corruption. Use updated antivirus and use UPS to overcome power outage problems. Improper ejection of the flash drive is the general problem encountered by most of the flash drive users. Flash drive is to be ejected from your system after complete copy or transfer of data from your USB flash drive to your PC. When your system prompts “Safely remove hardware device” then only unplug USB drive from your system. If proper ejection is not done, file system that is being accessed by computer becomes corrupt. Flash drive needs to be formatted when file system is corrupted where all the data is erased from your USB drive. Do not panic at this moment and make use of powerful recovery tool to get back your data from flash drives.

Remo Recover (Windows)-Media edition is one of the best tool that recovers deleted or lost files from corrupted flash memory cards, hard drives, USB external drives, iPods etc. This software recovers media files from formatted partitions or after re-installing Windows. You can preview recovered files prior to data restoration where you can evaluate recovery chances of the tool when you download trial version of the software.

 

Memory card recovery

How to recover memory card data after accidental removal using efficient tool?

Memory card is a tiny storage medium that store audio, video, photos, text, movies etc in digital format. These are universally used in cell phones, audio video players, digital cameras, game consoles, camcorders etc. Different memory cards are offered in the market for data storage. Some of them that are widely used by users are Secure Digital (SD) cards, Compact Flash (CF) cards, XD (Extreme digital) cards, MMC (Multimedia) cards etc. These memory cards vary in size and in their storage capacities. Before selecting memory card, you should choose it based on how quickly the data is transferred to or from it to other storage devices. Now a day, digital cameras, music devices are manufactured and released with advanced features that store large amount of data on it. If data is copied slowly on it, storing large amount of content on it may consume lot of time to save. The memory card speed is indicated in the form of 12X, 20X, 40X etc in Megabytes/ second. 20X refers to standard speed. 20X-40x is the mid high speed and above 40x is the above high speed. Lexar was the first company to rate speed of its flash memory card. This transfer rate is extremely important for professional photographers, which helps them while capturing photos. Memory cards have many advantages like portable, consume less power, store large content etc. Because of these added advantages only, their production has been increasing day to day. Sometimes, you may accidentally remove memory card while transferring data to other devices. You may lose content from memory card where you have to make use of best tool to recover memory card data after accidental removal in this situation.

When memory card is connected to your system through card reader or through USB cable, operating system detects and allows reading or writing data to memory card. If card is pulled abruptly during file system being accessed by the computer, file system that is in progress is corrupted easily. This makes data on the memory card inaccessible. Before ejecting memory card, check whether files are completely transferred to destination location or not then only select memory card for ejection. If data is written and deleted continuously from memory cards small areas of its memory can be corrupted easily. Sometimes, this may lead to fragmenting files. To overcome this, format memory card frequently in your camera. This may wind up majority of fragmentation problems.

Remo Recover (Windows)-Media edition helps to recover deleted or lost files from corrupted memory cards. This utility recovers media files that are deleted using Shift + Del or using Windows Command prompt. This tool supports recovery of files from popular brands of memory cards like Kingston, Sony, Transcend, SanDisk, HP, Kodak, Toshiba etc. This software creates disk images to bypass bad sectors from which you can recover data at later stages. You are provided with an option to preview the recovered data when you download demo version of the software.

 

Photo Recovery

USB flash drive data recovery

USB flash drive is a portable data storage device that plugs into a computer USB port and functions as an external hard drive. As USB drives are easy-to-use, small enough to carry in a pocket and can be plugged into any computer or laptop. So people use such type of devices to copy data from one storage device sat computer or laptop to another device. It can be used to store the large chunks of important data to the device.

But some times  you may accidentally delete or format the USB drive which will result in loss of all the files, pictures, videos etc that are stored in the USB flash drive.  There are many other errors and reasons that will end up resulting in loss of you precious photos, office documents, audio and video files. Even corruption to the file system of the flash drive may lead to loss of photos.

The USB flash drive recovery application recovers lost / deleted folders, music, office files, email archives, zipped archives, photos, video files etc from corrupted or formatted USB flash drive effectively.

Some of the possible data loss scenarios are

  • Corruption caused to the file
  • Accidental formatting of the USB drive
  • USB flash drive contains virus and the infected files which might be deleted while anti-virus scanning when connected to the computer

USB data recovery software helps you in recovering deleted photos, files, songs and other media files that are lost due to mishandling of the USB drive, virus attack, accidental deletion, file system corruption, software malfunction, power surges, pulling out the flash drive while data transfer, abrupt system shutdown, unintentional format of the storage device etc. To recover USB flash drive data make sure that the device is not used actively so that the data that is present in the hard drive gets over written and the data is lost beyond recovery.

In order to recover data effectively, please make sure that the recovery software selected should have all the features listed below so that you don’t lose your photos permanently.

  • Should be able to restore accidentally deleted images form corrupted USB flash drive quickly
  • Ability to retrieve photos from inaccessible USB drive, hard drives, external hard drives and other storage devices
  • Retrieve popular photo file types effectively and should allow you to select the files type
  • Ability to preview pictures even before saving them

One of the software applications that is available with all the above features is Remo Recover. Check whether the computer or laptop is compatible with the system requirements of the software like RAM, enough disk space to install the software etc. Once the software is selected you can check the ability of the software by using the demo version to recover lost photos and evaluate the recovery results by previewing the recovered pictures and audio – video files. Once you are satisfied with the demo results, you can buy the full version of the software.

Email Recovery

Best inbox repair tool

Microsoft Office Outlook is the most prominent and well-known email client used globally. There are different versions of Outlook namely Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010 of which Outlook 2010 is the latest. Because of the unique and time saving features that Outlook possess, it has gained huge amount of popularity among Microsoft users and has become an essential part of any organization to send / receive emails. Outlook can be purchased as a stand-alone product or can be bought with MS Office applications.

Outlook is basically used to send/receive email messages to / from different users simultaneously, we can also fix appointments, add reminders, schedule meetings, add contacts, add tasks and even prioritize all the email messages depending on their importance. Microsoft Outlook also provides an option to set rules using which we can automatically move the emails to a specific folder send by a particular person etc. All these interesting features present in Outlook makes it a very useful application, which is loved and used by a majority of Microsoft users.

Once Outlook is installed in your computer, it generates a PST file also known as personal storage file, which holds all the outlook data like email messages, contacts, calendar details, tasks, notes, journals, to-do-list, etc. This PST file is saved in the hard disk of your local machine where Outlook is installed. Sometimes, the PST file may get corrupted resulting in loss of important emails and other outlook data. Some of the most common reasons for the PST file to get corrupted are, power failure, abruptly terminating Outlook while it is sending / receiving emails in the background, faulty network devices, failure in data storage devices, PST file header corruption, etc. Emails may even be deleted by unintentional or intentional deletion for inbox or deleted items folder resulting in permanent deletion of emails. In such circumstances, use inbox repair tool to recover deleted or lost emails from Outlook. The software can also fix corrupt PST files and restore all the lost data. This software can repair a PST file in Outlook 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010 versions.

Software Tech Solutions

Retrieve Deleted Photos from Memory Card

Usually people lose photos from their digital camera due to number reasons. Some of the reason for losing photos from the digital camera is the memory card formatting, deletion of pictures accidentally or abrupt shutdown of the system while transferring photos from the digital camera to the computer. When you delete photos from the memory card, the system will not remove the data completely. Instead, the device will mark the space as free and available for storing new photos.

When you take new photos, it will be stored on this space overwriting of the deleted photos. The usage of memory card after you have erased photos from the digital camera largely depends on the photo recovery. So if you lose photos from memory card stop using the memory card further, remove the memory card from the camera and store it carefully until the photo recovery process got completed. With the help of photo recovery software the digital pictures deleted from the memory can be recovered. Different photo recovery software uses diverse methods to retrieve deleted photos.

Unintentional deletion, or the recycle bin emptying or hard disk formatting will not erase the data completely. If you delete a file, only the file name from the directory will be removed, and the space will be available for new data. That means all the deleted or lost files can be recovered if it is not overwritten. The undelete process is generally happening to most of the people who are using the personal computer regularly. Make use of an effective Undelete tool to recover deleted files and folders, documents, and other data.

Software Tech Solutions

Safely accessing Mac files after hard drive logic failure

When you start up your Mac computer and attempt to access stored files on its hard disk drive the Mac OS X operating system must complete the disk verification process. Should any part of that verification process fail you will be blocked from accessing not only the particular files you are looking for but also any other files on the hard disk drive. For this reason the Mac OS X application includes a repair disk program. Unfortunately very often Mac repair disk fails to complete the task and you’re left without the ability to rescue stored files on your Mac hard drive.

To recover Mac files in this type of situation you will need a powerful third party Mac data recovery tool such as those offered by Remo Software. This simple to use program to recover Mac data will allow you to basically leapfrog the disk verification process and go right to your files. The purpose of this is to when needed copy away from your hard disk drive all stored archives and then be in the position to as a cure all reload the Mac operating system.

Software Tech Solutions

Basic and advanced disk data recovery

Only the most powerful crashed hard disk recovery tools have the ability to both undelete reformatted files and recover previously deleted prior to reformatting data. Because reformatting your hard drive by reloading the Windows operating system amounts to a deletion process of itself when we attempt to scan a hard drive after reloading Windows we very often are unable to locate earlier deleted files.

The best data recovery programs are able to do what is known as a thorough scan that does take a great deal of time but inevitably returns a list of all files that were in place prior to being deleted. These programs can reattach original file names and in the case of image files even offer the user an opportunity preview files prior to recovery. When purchasing a program for crashed hard drive recovery always look for one that uses a wizard style graphic user interface. These programs require a minimum of skill to use and return the highest percentage of successful file recovery.