File Recovery Software

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Everyone knows that writing papers, designing posters, formatting PowerPoint presentations, etc., can take a considerable amount of time.  It requires you to spend a lot of time working on your computer.  Several times, these projects can take several hours to complete.  For college students who stay up all night writing their last final paper, the time spent at the computer can seem like an eternity.  One of the worst predicaments that you may ever find yourself in is when you have spent several hours working on a computer project and you find that the file is no longer there.  You ask yourself, where is the file?  Did I not save it?  Can I recover it?  When you find yourself in this situation, it can become extremely stressful and is a very unfortunate place to be.  However, there actually is a type of software that may be able to assist you in your problem and properly recover your lost files.

File recovery software is a program that works with your computer to find lost files, and sometimes even deleted files that accidentally got deleted by the user.  This can be a huge help for those of us who need various files to be recovered.  The software typically does not take long to recover files.  However, you should keep in mind that the sooner you purchase the software, the better chance you have of recovering files.  As soon as you find out that the file is missing, you should purchase the software.  If you wait a couple of days, the software may not be able to recover the file.

You can purchase recovery software at virtually any electronics store that sells computer software.  You should talk to the salesclerk and ask them their opinion on the different types of software.  However, you should also do your own research before going to the store to purchase recovery program.  You want to go into the store with at least a bit of knowledge in this area, so make sure that you are prepared by taking a few minutes and reading about the different types of software available.

You can also purchase file recovery software online.  At times you may find it cheaper online than in local stores.  However, you need to make sure that the software can be shipped immediately.  If it takes longer than a few days, it might not be worth it to buy it online.

The FIXMBR website has additional information that you might find useful.

August 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: File Recovery Software | Leave a comment

Windows System Recovery

No matter how much we trust our electronic equipment, occasionally it will break down.  This could be because of age, damage, viruses, or any other reason you can think of.  While it can be super frustrating to have your computer break down on you, there are some things you can do to make sure that you don’t lose important files and information that you have stored on your computer.  If you have a PC then you are probably running the Windows operating system from Microsoft.  Here are some tips that you can use to maintain windows system recovery.

Once you reboot computer you can try to use the system restore to bring back system files that may be important to you.  This is great because it will do this without interrupting your other files that are already running (such as documents).  You can also try using the “Last known good configuration” setting to try and bring up the last set of drivers and registry settings that you were using.  If neither of these work then you should promptly put your computer into safe mode until you can figure out what to do to fix the problem.

One of the next things you can try in Windows recovery is to disable any devices that may be hindering the operating system.  You can also restore any running system devices that may be necessary to get it working properly.  The way you can do this is by going into the Device Manager and messing with the settings a little bit.  Here you can either add or remove programs that will help your system to run smoother.

If things are still not working then you can try the startup repair to try to fix the damaged files and get the most out of your windows recovery.  This startup repair device is located on the Windows Installation disc.  If this still doesn’t work, you may need to just reinstall Windows completely.  In this case, you will probably lose all of the files you were trying to recover.

The best way to ensure that you can get a complete Windows system recovery is to make sure that you have all of your files and documents saved on an external hard drive somewhere.  That way, even if your computer crashes you will still have a copy of your important data so you don’t have to go through the frustration and anxiety of completely losing it all.

The FIXMBR website has additional information that you might find useful.

July 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Windows System Recovery | Leave a comment

System Recovery Disk

When files and data are lost due to a system failure because of software issues you can quickly recover and gain access to those important files using a system recovery disk.  Recovery disks are available online and most are a free.  You could also make your own recovery disk from available tools and utilities using a Live Linux operating system.  Also DOS could be used because there are many excellent tools and utilities available for DOS.

My favorite recovery disk uses the Slax Linux operating system.  I simply remaster the disk using easy to load utility modules that contain the tools that I like to use for recovering files or operating systems.  Likewise DOS has as many tools available so that you can accomplish the same tasks using DOS utilities.  However the fastest recovery uses imaging tools that can perform a complete system recovery in a few minutes.

There are two imaging tools that I prefer.  The first is North Ghost and the second is a free Open Source utility called Partimage.  Partimage is a Linux tool that can image and restore both FAT32 and NTFS files systems.  Partimage is fast and is a clone of Norton Ghost.  I use Norton Ghost to daily to restore 35 computers in a high school lab.  The high school students have complete admin rights to the computers so that they can complete labs that require them to change the software configuration.  Each morning I am able to refresh the operating systems by restoring using and image on a DOS operating system.  DOS is fast and it only takes about 10 minutes to restore all 35 computers.  I can also restore computers during class if needed to provide a fresh known working configuration.  This helps me keep the computers available for the students 24/7/365 with about 99.9% availability.  I occasionally have a power supply or hard drive failure that takes about 5 minutes to fix.

Sometimes my students ask me why we need to learn DOS.  I tell them that Windows is the problem and DOS can be a great solution.

The FIXMBR website has additional information that you might find useful.

June 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: System Recovery Disk | Leave a comment
 
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