Monday 23 June 2014

Recovering data from virus-infected inaccessible HDD - Computers - Data Recovery

Losing your computer data can be very taxing if you consider the amount of efforts that were taken to assemble the data. Yes, these days the storage devices are available in volumes that were just unimaginable some years back, to say the least. These days you get the hard disks in the units of terabytes whereas only a decade ago hard disks were available in megabytes. Phew, times have changed is actually an understatement. Also, you get the external hard drives that remove the dependency to bank on the internal hard drives. These external hard drives are plug-n-play devices that are sleek, fast, and easy to carry around. However, having said that these HDDs too are prone to corruption and may get corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, power surges, removing the plug without actually disconnecting it from the computer, human errors, etc. You should use certain methods to resolve the situations. However, if the problem is not resolved then you should use a third-party data recovery software to perform the data recovery of the trapped data.

Consider a scenario wherein you have been to a picnic with your colleagues. You have the photographs of the trip in your digital camera. You transfer the images in an external hard disk and bring it to your office to show the images to your colleagues. When you take it back at your place, you are not able to open the images.

Cause:The most possible cause in this case is that the HDD has got virus infections from the system of one of your colleagues and, thus, is now inaccessible.

Resolution:To resolve this situation, you should scan the HDD using the antivirus that you are using. Make sure that the virus definitions of the antivirus are latest so that it is able to detect each and every virus. However, it may happen that even after using the antivirus you are not able to access the images. In such situation, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover as much data as possible from the inaccessible disk. Such data recovery tools recover data without overwriting the original data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a data recovery tool that enables recovering lost, deleted, or formatted data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. It is able to recovering data from various storage media such as external hard drives, pen drives, iPods, hard disks, etc. This tool is also capable of performing RAID data recovery on RAID servers. In addition, this tool is able to recover deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.





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