How to recover data from crashed hard drives?

Hard disk crashes usually occurs for the following reasons:

1. Power surges
2. Software Corruption or Malfunction
3. Hardware or system failure
4. Natural calamities
5. User errors.

Data recovery software helps to retrieve or recover the data from the crashed hard drive. Data recovery software gives an easy and Graphical User Interface with less difficulty so that the data can be recovered easily without any assistance. The recovery software helps to recover the data and restore them on a second hard disk, the hard disk being connected to the computer and recognized by the BIOS, the recovered data can be stored on a safe location on the second disk.

How to recover the photos from a damaged digital camera?

Photos from a damaged digital camera can be recovered by using proper software’s which help us to recover photos from the damaged camera. The software also helps us to recover the images that have been deleted accidentally.

The software gives an easy and Graphical User Interface with less difficulty so that the photos or images can be recovered easily without any assistance. The software helps to recover images from Smart Media, Compact Flash, Sony Memory Sticks, IBM Micro Drives, Flash cards, floppy disks, and many other types of digital film.

How to identify a hard disk failure?

When a hard disk fails it can be identified from the following ways:

1. BIOS will not recognize or access hard disk
2. Hard disk makes clicking noise.
3. Hard disk restarts on its own.
4. Hard disk shows a boot failure, and asks for the boot records to be updated.
5. Hard disks become dead silent.

Is it safe to recover data at home using data recovery tools

The use of data recovery tools at home is safe, but the damage caused to the drive must not be a physical damage. Recovery tools are installed to the computer and are used to recover data from the drive.

The recovery tool helps to recover the data and restore them on a second hard disk, the hard disk being connected to the computer and recognized by the BIOS, the recovered data can be stored on a safe location on the second disk.

How to recover data from Applications that are unable to run or load data?

An application may be unable to run or load data in case of a data loss situation. Application may loose their loading information incase of virus attack, data corruption, accidental reformatting of partition, accidental deletion of data or any fire or water damage.

Data recovery services from inaccessible application are provided by many data recovery firms. The engineers and technicians use state-of-the-art tools and techniques to recover the critical data. However it could be dangerous to repair the application individually.

How to recover the accidentally deleted files?

When a file is deleted it is not completely deleted, the windows just mark the deleted space as available space so that the space can be utilized for storing other files or programs.

When the user realizes that the file accidentally deleted was very important he has stop using the computer till the file is retrieved back completely, as windows overwrites the available space with new files. Deleted files can be recovered easily but there must be a good recovery utility tool to recover the deleted files. The recovery of deleted files usually depends on three factors they are:

1. File system
2. Fragmentation
3. Whether the data is still available or overwritten.

Can I recover files from Floppy Disk?

Floppy Disk is a soft magnetic disk which is portable. These are slower to access and have very less storage capacity. When a floppy disk is not been able to access and the Data present in the floppy may be very valuable so at first the write protect lock must be “on” so that the floppy is no further damaged.

Floppy disk not been able to access in a computer must be accessed in a number of computers as newer versions may not be flexible as the floppy drives may be associated differently. The files or data reside on the floppy disk can be recovered by using a program called ResQflpy to make a duplicate copy of the floppy disk and rescue the files or data present on the floppy disk.

What is the cost of data recovery?

Data recovery companies have categorized the recovery process in two phase, and two separate charges. Firstly the client has to give a non - refundable evaluation fees, for which he will receive a list in which all the files that cam be recovered are mentioned and the price of the recovery.

After the client authorizes the recovery he has to the recovery charges of the damaged media there is also charge for the storage media in which the data is recovered and stored.
The evaluation fee and cost of recovery depends on the following factors:

1. Media Type
2. Media Specification
3. Media Damage
4. Time.

Windows Data Recovery Software

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is much more then an simple undelete software or a file recovery program. Its versatility begins when other software fails to recover or even is not able to display data.

Using our proprietary deep scan technology Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software can recover data from any logical crash or cause for data loss on Windows. This data recovery software combines our TurboScan™ and File Tracer™ technology to recover data from even the most severely corrupted hard drives.

Windows recovery is simple and quick using this powerful program.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery can recover accidentally deleted files, including files emptied from Recycle Bin, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT + Delete key. The recovery attempt does depend upon files not being permanently overwritten by new data.

With Disk Doctors Windows Recovery software, it is possible to recover data from a reformatted partition (to any file system), corrupted, deleted or missing partition. Our Windows data recovery software has a proven efficient partition recovery module to locate deleted / lost partitions with the help two scanning methods i.e. Quick Scan and Thorough Scan. These scanning methods locate and validate lost partitions from entire physical hard drive.

How effective is Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery

You can recover all of your data and restore it to it original condition just as it was before the files were damaged..

The programs sophisticated scan engines will align all directories and sub directories together exactly as they were before they were corrupted, including support for long files names.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery lets you preview files before recovery. This feature actually allows you to see the prospects for data recovery before you purchase by using the demo version of the software.

Of course as with all Disk Doctors Programs it operates as a third party function and thus is harmless to use on a crashed drive.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is a read-only application, which means that it will only read the contents of a faulty drive and would never attempt to write to the drive you are about to recover. However, you would need to provide a safe destination / healthy drive to write recovered data, or to install the software.

How easy is the Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software to use?

Accompanied by an on-screen "wizard", you are guided step-by-step through the data recovery, disk imaging processes systematically. When all is accomplished, you will be able to use the once-lost data just as before.

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is Windows Data recovery software for the FAT 16, FAT 32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS 5 file systems used in Windows Operating System and supported by various other operating systems.

Is the program fast?

Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software uses TurboScan™ technology and some adjustable tweaks that provide fastest Windows data recovery ever known. This recovery software recovers files from faulty logical drives even when file records (FAT / MFT) are lost.

What kinds of files are supported for Windows recovery?

For the worst problems we have developed File Tracer™. When damage to the drive is extremely severe then this technology is the best to use for recovering files from hard drive. Up to 300 file types can be traced and recovered, including Office Documents (Word - DOC, Excel - XLS, PowerPoint - PPT etc.), and any sort of commonly used graphics file, image, movie, and music formats (JPEG, AVI, MPEG, MP3, WAV, BMP, TIFF, Corel Draw - CDR, Photoshop - PSD, and many more).

Based on your requirements you may wish to select individual components of Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery or use Windows Data Recovery Software to recover data from both FAT & NTFS partitions.

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Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery

Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery Software will easily recover deleted files emptied from your Windows Recycle Bin. it will also allow you to quickly recover files lost due to errors such as accidental formatting or re-partitioning of a hard drive. The file recovery software will even restore files damaged by viruses, and unexpected system failures.

When files on your computer are damaged or lost they must be searched for in order to be restored. Our Disk Doctors Instant File Recovery Software uses a uniquely crafted data recovery engine. This powerful program will deep scan your entire computer hard drive searching for any lost, deleted or damaged files. Then, once your files are found the program will give you the option of restoring the found finds to their original status or writing them to disk, flash drive or DVD. Perhaps the best feature of the Disk Doctors Instant File recovery Software is that anyone can easily master its use. The step-by-step user-friendly interface guides you through the entire file recovery process. No technical skills are required for the user to operate and recover files.

Once it is deleted a file never gets deleted permanently, unless it has been deleted using special erasing tools or has been overwritten. If a file has been deleted under normal circumstances and the file system attributes are intact then Disk Doctors software is capable of creating the references to locate and recover the missing files.