Recovering lost data using hard disk data recovery software

Hard disk drive is the largest data storage device in a computer.  The Operating System, different software’s, and other files are stored in the hard disk drives. Hard disk drive is also known as HDD (Abbreviation), hard drive, hard disk, fixed drive, fixed disk, fixed disk drive, etc. In any computer hard disk is considered as secondary memory device and it is used for primary data storage. Of course primary memory is RAM (Random Access Memory) but it can not be used to store permanent data. Tape storage media is also secondary memory but most popularly hard disk is used as secondary memory device because of faster access speed and reliability of the data it offers. There are two different types of hard disk available namely internal hard disk and external hard disk. Internal hard disks are used for data storage in computer case and they are not portable. External hard disks are also used to store computer data but they are portable and they can be connected to other systems as well.

Data stored in hard disk may get deleted or data may get damaged. Whenever you lose data from the hard disk it becomes very difficult to recover data from the hard disk. Recovering lost data from the hard disk is very difficult task without using hard disk data recovery software. It is almost impossible to recover lost data from the hard drive using manual methods. You need to make use of good data recovery software in order to recover lost data. There are many case scenarios in which you may lose data from the hard drive.

Most of the time data loss occurs from the hard drive due to common human errors like accidental system shut down, formatting hard drive accidentally, re-formatting drive or partition, etc. Whenever bad sector problem arises data becomes inaccessible from the hard drive. Because read/ write head can not read or write data into bad sectors. Due to bad sectors hard drive may get corrupted. Sometimes files present in the hard drive will get corrupted due to virus attack. When you are trying to install new Operating System in your computer data loss may occur. Master Boot Record corruption, partition corruption, error occurrences due to partition resizing-these are all common scenarios in which most of the people will lose data from the hard drive.

You can recover lost data from the hard drive using good quality data recovery software. Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro edition provides a best solution to recover lost data from any storage device. Whenever data loss occurs from the hard drive, stop using that particular hard drive until you recover lost data. If you continue using the same hard drive then you may lose data permanently. To recover lost data first you can try out demo version of Remo Recover software which is freely available in the internet. Download and install demo version in your computer. After installing it will start scanning the storage device and it will recover data. Once the scanning is complete you can view recovered data using preview option. If you are satisfied with result then you can purchase complete version of this application and save recovered data.

How to retrieve deleted data from Recycle Bin?

Recycle Bin is a folder on desktop of the computers having Windows Operating System installed. This folder keeps the useless files that we delete while cleaning hard disk for making more space on it. You may delete useless files that are there in your computer and while deleting useless files from desktop there may be a chance to delete an important folder. In this situation no need to worry  until the files are available in the Recycle Bin folder, we can recover them back later on, but once the files are deleted from this recycle Bin then they gone forever. This doesn’t mean that you cannot perform Recycle Bin recovery, you can recover such files but for that you have to use or install good file recovery software. The recovery software undelete files that are deleted from the Recycle Bin.

The common file loss or deletion scenarios are as follows:

  • Files emptied from Recycle Bin: As discussed above you may accidentally delete files that are in the Recycle Bin.
  • Files deleted using combination of two keys: When you don’t want the deleted files to reside on recycle bin then you can use Shift Delete combination to delete such files.
  • Files deleted from command prompt: You can permanently delete your file using Command prompt option.
  • Files lost due to power surge: Fluctuation in voltage might lead to file getting corrupted.
  • Files lost due to improper shut down: Improper shut down of the computer due to power surge may lead to file loss.

Remo Recover software is one of the best software to recover deleted or lost files. The software will easily and securely recover deleted files from hard drive, flash drive, USB external drive, ZIP, Fire wire drives, digital camera card, and more. The software easily recovers deleted files that are emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus infection, unexpected system shutdown and software failure etc. The software works best with Microsoft Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can recover data from both FAT and NTFS Windows file systems. The software quickly recovers the deleted files and also user who does not have much technical knowledge can also recover their lost or deleted files using this software.  Trial or demo version is available. Using the trail version you can check whether this software properly recovers deleted file or not. In order to make use of trail version you should download and install the demo version of the software .The software also provides preview option. By using this preview option you can view recovered data. And if you are satisfied with the demo result obtained from the demo version you can purchase full version of the recovery software. In full version there is a save option available and using that option you can save the recovered data. This software provides user friendly interface, so that anyone can recover lost data very easily.

How to repair PST using Recovery Software

Outlook is a very good application to enjoy faultless communication through emails. It handles many other tasks along with emails like Meeting Requests, Calendar Events, Appointments, Contacts, etc. However, sometimes your Outlook may encounter some problems due to logical corruption and start getting error messages like “Unknown error ox80040600” or “OL2000: Unable to Use Your Personal Folder File”, etc. Upon getting these types of errors you can conclude that it is due to .pst file corruption. PST file is a storage folder used by MS Outlook, which holds all the emails along with other data which user saves in their profile.

Like any other problem, there is a solution for .pst file corruption also; you can repair it using PST recovery software but it is good to know about the problem and reasons first to avoid it. Once this is understood  you can easily decide on ways  how to repair PST file.

Some scenarios which lead to .pst file corruption are explained below.

  • Limitation of PST file size: The major reason for .pst file corruption is its file size. Continuous use of .pst file will gradually increase its size. In older versions of Outlook the .pst file size was fixed to 2GB later it is upgraded and changed to 20GB and 50GB in Outlook 2010. If the amount of data stored reaches or exceeds the limited size, the access of .pst file will be denied and Outlook fails to synchronize. This leads to .pst file corruption.
  • Improper termination of Outlook: If you came across any power surge or system crash which will force Outlook terminate, which is not a proper way to quit the application. At that point of time, if your .pst file was in use or Outlook was performing any information related task then it results in entering some garbage values. Since the .pst file is in database format, it obviously leads corruption the file.

As I mentioned earlier the only solution is using some .pst repair tool, if you don’t have its backup. You can try using your scanpst.exe but for effective results it is good to opt for some third party tools, because scanpst.exe is not capable of handling severe corruptions.

But the third party tools are well engineered, which are able to scan and extract data from highly corrupted .pst files. They will never harm your original .pst file, instead of that they will create a new file with the previous data which you can import back to your Outlook. Remo Repair Outlook (PST) is one such application which has got an effective repair and recovery mechanism which gives better results in a few steps. This utility takes care of your data and gives you back as it was previously even after complete corruption with all the settings.

Once you are done with repair process, it is strongly advised to take a regular backup of your .pst file which never lets you think of any repair process in future. This plays a major role in case of .pst file corruption.

You can download the free to try version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST) to repair corrupt .pst file.

 

Tips to Undelete deleted files from Recycle Bin

Sometimes you may delete a file from hard drive and these files might not be accessible.  In such cases, the file is not completely deleted from hard drive. These deleted files moves to Recycle Bin and such files can be retrieved from Recycle Bin only if the files are present in Recycle Bin. If you have not emptied the Recycle Bin, you can restore it by just right clicking the files in the Recycle Bin and selecting restore option from the right click menu. After you have selected restore option, you will find that the file is recovered back to the original folder.  In some cases, you may not be able to retrieve the deleted files from Recycle Bin because the file might have deleted from the Recycle Bin or the size of the files might be too large to store in Recycle Bin so it might bypasses the Recycle Bin. Sometimes, if you delete the files using Shift + Delete keys or using command prompt, the file will be deleted completely, it does not reaches the Recycle bin. In such scenario, you will not be able to undelete files from the Recycle Bin.

Files may be deleted due to various reasons like:

  • Permanent file deletion: If a file is deleted using shift + Del combination keys, file is deleted using command prompt then these files are permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin.
  • Accidental formatting /re-formatting:  If you have accidentally formatted your drive or partition it may results in loss of files from the hard drive or partition.
  • Virus Attack: While you’re anti-virus software scanning, which might deletes some of the files important files from the hard drive.
  • Improper computer shut down: if your computer is not shutting down property, which may leads to data loss.

How to undelete files from Recycle Bin?

You can recover deleted files from Recycle Bin by using a recovery software.  Remo Recover (Windows) is the best recovery software that helps you to restore data from complex data loss scenarios such as formatting, re-formatting, re-partitioning and re-installing Windows OS. This software allows supports various file type recovery.

First you need to download the demo version of the Remo Recover (Windows) Software and verify whether it restores the data lost due to different scenarios. Based on the demo results, if you are satisfied with the recovery you can activate the full version of the Software to recover your deleted or lost files from Windows OS. Follow the steps given below to recover undelete files from Recycle Bin

  • Remove the hard drive from the computer in which you have lost the files and connect it to the healthy computer as a secondary storage device.
  • Download and install recovery software to the healthy computer through which your hard drive has been connected.
  • Run the recovery software to restore deleted or lost files from Recycle Bin
  • Follow the steps given by the software to restore deleted files from Recycle Bin.

How to repair corrupted pst file?

Microsoft Outlook is an email client which also works as a personal information manager. MS Outlook is included Microsoft Office suite. MS Outlook is having a set of attributes to manage E-mails, Contacts, To-do lists, Events, Tasks and many more. To manage all the attributes MS Outlook needs to store the related data in a file for which it uses .pst file. PST (Personal Storage Table) file acts as a local storage folder for MS Outlook to store emails along with all the attributes content. It uses a single .pst file to manage all the data. In any cases if the .pst file gets corrupt or damaged, all emails along with attachments may lost.

Before learning the method to fix the damage, just think why does these important .pst files gets corrupt? What might be the reasons? Here are the few reasons that troubles the Outlook users like PST file corruption due to exceeding size, when the file is shared over a network between different users, Outlook may crashes, accidentally changing the location of the .pst file, etc. Due to these and other reasons .pst file may get corrupt which in turn leads to data loss or MS Outlook may not work. If you face this type of situation to fix corrupted PST, you may think of using MS Outlook built-in tool scanpst.exe. The Outlook scanpst repair tool has very limited scope of functioning, and is incapable to fix highly corrupted PST file. If you suspect that .pst file is corrupted to a higher level then you need to think of how to repair PST using more competent software tool.  A third party application which can repair the .pst file and recover the data it contains. You would need a application which is safe to use and does no harm to the important data stored in the PST file.

One such application is Remo Repair Outlook (PST) which treats the .pst file as read-only.  They read the content of .pst file and create a new.pst file which has the recovered data in it, thus they don’t harm the original .pst file. It fix the damaged PST file and also retrieves the deleted E-mails, Calendar events, Appointments, Tasks, RSS feeds, etc. Using this third party application you can get back your important mails and other data with just few clicks. These applications are easy to use, even a user with minimal technical knowledge can repair the corrupted .pst file and restore his Outlook data without harming the original .pst file.

Only thing you need to take care is that selecting a third party application, it should be an efficient user, friendly and trusted by some of the other people. My suggestion for you is to download the trial version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST) and check its working, because with this application I recovered all my important Contacts and other Outlook elements as they were. Anyway before selecting the application just go through the features of and the pre requisites. One other important tip for Outlook users is maintaining a back up of the PST file. If you have a back up you can easily import it and work with MS Outlook.

How to recover lost photos from memory card using memory card recovery software?

Memory cards are also called as digital film, which are used to store data. Memory cards are available in different size and capacities. Most of the electronic devices use different types of memory cards like SD, XD, CF, MMC etc. Earlier, older cameras were using smart media(SM) cards, which are available still now but, these memory cards can store only less amount of data therefore they have been replaced by XD and SD cards. Memory cards use very less power and therefore they are most widely used in the electronic devices which use batteries. Generally, memory cards are used to store photos, audios and videos. Although the memory cards have several advantages over other types of storage devices, they are more susceptible to data loss during photo transfer from memory card to computer. You can easily recover lost photos, using some memory card recovery software such as photo recovery software.

The most common data loss scenarios are virus attacks, accidentally formatting the memory card and accidentally deleting contents of memory cards. Formatting is the process of setting up a new file system by erasing the existing contents. Sometimes, while previewing photos from digital camera if you pressed format option then it will erase complete data present on digital camera, which may result in data loss. But, this is not a permanent loss. When you format the memory card, it rebuilds the new file system by erasing the existing contents. So, you may not be able to access the data because, allocation information of that data is deleted. But, the actual contents are still present on the memory card until you save or copy new data.

Sometimes, digital camera’s memory cards get corrupted due to improper formatting or virus attack. So, to avoid digital camera’s memory card corruption, properly format camera’s memory card in camera only. Do not try to format in computer because, your digital camera may support the different file system and may not be able to access the memory card data, which is formatted in computer. To restore the lost or deleted data, do not save or copy any new data over affected memory cards. Saving or copying new data will overwrite the old data resulting in permanent data loss beyond recovery. You can use memory card recovery software to recover lost or deleted data. Try to use read-only recovery software to avoid permanent data loss from memory cards.

Remo Recover (Windows)-Media software recovers lost photos using special in-built algorithms. Along with photos, this software can also recover deleted or lost audio and video files from memory cards. If you have accidentally formatted your memory card then you can use this software to recover the data. This software is also capable of recovering and restoring digital RAW photos from all popular brands of digital cameras like Olympus, Fujifilm, Nikon, Sony, Canon etc. This software supports different types of memory cards like SD, CF, MMC and XD memory cards. After recovery, you can save your recovered photos into any accessible drives of Windows like CD or DVD.

How to recover deleted data from external hard drive?

External hard drive is a storage device just like hard drive. The size of the external hard drive varies in size from 350GB to 1TB. It is used to store data such as photos, movies, audio files and other files. The advantages of external hard drive are – large data storage capacity, portable, cheap and the data can be carried from one place to another and does not depend on internet to transfer larger files. We can make any number of partitions in it to segregate the files. It can be connected to any system via USB ports. Data in it can be deleted or lost due to several reasons one of them is – data lost during file transfer from the system to external hard drive. The lost data from the external hard drive can be recovered by using data recovery software. Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro edition is a good recovery tool which can recover data from external hard drive.

There are many ways the data from the external hard drive gets deleted. Some of the most common scenarios are listed below

  • Accidently deletion of data: – Data from the computer or external hard drive gets deleted due to some human errors. User might accidently presses delete button and the data might get deleted.
  • Improper shutdown: – Data from the computer or from any storage device can get deleted due to improper shutdown of the computer. Suppose you are accessing some information from the external hard drive in such case if there is power fluctuation then the data being accessed can be corrupt or deleted.
  • Conversation of file system: – While converting the file system from FAT to NTFS and vice-versa there might occur an error and your data might get deleted.
  • Partition of hard drive: – While partitions of the external hard drive using some third party tool or partition being carried by unauthorized professional, can lose data from the hard drive.

These scenarios mentioned are the most common one, there are some more scenarios where the data can get deleted those are power surge, malfunctioning of the external hard drive etc.

Observing the factors, which are effecting the deletion of data from computer or external hard drive the solution for this, is data recovery. Data recovery can done by data recovery software’s which are available in the market. However, the most trusted one is Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro edition, it is the product of Remo Software who expertise in developing deleted data recovery products. This software is a powerful tool that it can recover your entire hard drive. Recover any data that has been deleted bypassing the recycle bin using Shift + Delete key as well. You can download the demo version of the software from official Remo Software website and if you are satisfied with the results, you can buy the full version.

How to fix corrupted PST using PST repair tool?

Personal storage table (PST) that stores the email messages, calendar, contacts, tasks, RSS feeds etc., is located differently for almost every version of the Microsoft Outlook. These Personal Folder files are used by Microsoft Outlook to store Outlook data. When you share the PST files over the network, other users are able to access them through their Outlook e-mail client. The .pst files are based on the fixed-block allocation scheme i.e., it holds internally information about the allocated and non allocated blocks. The .PST file format is supported by different Microsoft applications like Microsoft exchange client, Microsoft Outlook, Windows messaging etc.

Some of the common scenarios for the corruption of the PST file are when infected by virus, failure of the information storage device, defects in network devices, inappropriate shutdown of the system or improper existing of the application, using the third party utilities to divide the large PST file etc. If this happens you can try to fix corrupted PST by using inbuilt tool available in MS Outlook. If the inbuilt scanpst tool doesn’t repair then you can choose the best PST repair tool to repair the corrupt PST file.

In order to reduce the chances for the corruption of PST file, delete all the emails that are not used any more. This reduces the size of the PST file from exceeding the maximum limit like above 2 GB in case of Outlook 2000. Don’t use the any unreliable third party utility that doesn’t work properly when you want to divide your large PST file. Sometimes this process may fail which leads to the corruption of PST file, which leads to permanent data loss. You can even encrypt and set the password for the protection of the PST files.

Remo Repair Outlook (PST) helps Outlook users to repair their corrupt PST files and recover Outlook data from it. The application repairs PST and OST files and recovers deleted or missing emails. You can use the software to recover email messages emptied from deleted items folder or deleted from any other Outlook folder. This utility generates the repaired PST files in the location you have choose for the new PST file to store the repaired data, which can be easily imported to Outlook 2003-2010. This software helps you to search for the PST files on your computer when you don’t know the exact location where it is stored. This utility repairs the corrupt PST files that are damaged due to compression. This software recovers email messages along with other attributes like Calendar events, RSS feeds, tasks, journals etc. This utility helps you to preview the repaired items through the Outlook style browser view. When you forgot the password that you have set for the protection of the PST file, don’t panic by using this software you are able to repair the password protected PST files also. From trial version you can preview the emails. Once, when you are satisfied with the obtained results go with the full version.

How to recover deleted files from Windows Vista Operating System?

Windows Vista is an entirely new Operating System compare to Windows XP released by Microsoft in the year 2006 for use on desktop computer, laptops, notebooks, and media center PCs. If you already have the knowledge about Windows XP or if you are using the Windows XP Operating System then you will find many similarities with Vista OS.

This Operating system provides many new features such as updated graphical user interface, redesigned search function, visual style dubbed Aero and multimedia tools including Windows DVD maker. It also provides redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems. Also it has increased the level of communication between the machines using peer to peer technology for sharing your files and media files.

Microsoft categorized Windows Vista into two types. They are as follows

  • Vista Capable and
  • Vista Premium Ready

Vista Capable computers are able to run Vista OS, but they have few limitations in the functionality of the new features. The system requirement for Vista capable computers are as follows: There must be 512MB of RAM memory, 20 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space and CD-ROM drive.

Vista Premium Ready Operating System takes the full advantage of above listed new features. The system requirements of Vista Premium Ready OS are as follows: There must be 1GB of RAM memory, 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space, DVD-ROM drive. It also requires audio output capability and internet access capability.

Suppose if you accidentally delete files from this Windows Vista then is it possible to recover such files? Yes, it is possible to recover deleted files using any of the best recovery software. The recovery software should be capable to recover all your lost or deleted files from Vista Operating System.

Similarly when you accidentally delete a file from your computer, it directly sends those files into Windows Recycle Bin. Later you can easily restore those deleted files from Recycle Bin. If not able to find deleted files in the Recycle Bin or if the file get deleted surpassing the Recycle Bin. You will not be able to recover those files from Recycle bin. In such cases there are software’s available to recover files from empty Recycle Bin. By using this Recycle bin recovery you can easily retrieve all your lost or deleted files from the Windows Vista Operating System.

The recovery software recovers files that are deleted using Shift Delete combination keys or when deleted using Command prompt. It also restores files which bypass Windows Recycle Bin when they exceed in size as compared to Recycle Bin size.

Remo Recover (Windows) Edition is the best recovery tool to restore or recover your deleted or lost files from the computer. The software apart from recovering accidentally deleted files or from empty Recycle Bin, it also recovers files from SATA, SCSI or IDE hard drives, SD, XD, MMC flash memory cards, memory stick, USB external drives, Fire wire drives and iPods. The software has the ability to recover more than 280 file formats on the basis of their unique signature. The software is available in the trial or demo version; you can download the software and check for its chance of recovery. User without having much technical knowledge can also use this software to recover their lost or deleted files easily. All steps to recover lost files are clearly mentioned in the manual. Once you install the software, it automatically scans all your files from your system and recovers deleted or lost files.