Monday, November 28, 2011

Is Virus Deleted all your Data? Consult to data Recovery Services Expert


These days one of the most common reason behind data loss is boot sector virus. As, we all know hard drive is divided in to various sectors. Boot sector is most important sector and is accessed first when the computer boots up.Boot sector is responsible for starting a computer. Boot sector virus attack on very first sector that is boot sector and create difficulty in booting the system.

What boot sector virus actually do?

Boot sector virus sometimes replaces the original boot sector code to its own code or sometime change the location of boot sector.During startup the virus is loaded into memory. Once loaded in memory, the virus will infect any non-infected disks accessed by the system.

Symptoms:

How to analyse your system is infected with boot sector virus:

1. One of the dangerous symptom is when all your data get disappeared from the partition.
2. Another, when boot sector virus creates various boot sectors in the system.
3. When your system fails to start or find difficulty in locating hard disk.
4. Some boot sector virus also contain instructions to redirect disk reads.
5. Some boot sector viruses damage the File Allocation Table (FAT) which is the index of all the files on the drive. This causes loss of data

Causes:

But what are the sources of boot sector.Below discussing some of the reasons behind boot sector virus:
1. Generally your system get boot sector virus when you download any files or receive any email attachments through internet.

Resolution:

To protect your system from boot sector virus always keep updated antivirus. Try to scan your system with updated antivirus. Updated Antivirus removes virus in most cases. But many times it can not remove virus. In that case it is better to consult data recovery services expert. They properly analyse the storage media in clean environment of class 100 clean room then recover the data.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Physical Hard Disk Failure symptoms and Data Recovery Solution


Many times, due to electrical, mechanical or firmware failure, the hard disk gets physically damaged and data becomes inaccessible. Except few visible damages, users finds it difficult to diagnosis the physical hard disk failure. However, hard disk give notifications prior to hard disk failure. But due to lack of awareness people find it difficult to track the situation and end up making the situation worse. Below we are mentioning symptoms which indicate physical failure.

Symptoms which indicate physical hard disk failure are:

1. While booting, the screen hangs on Blue screen of death and fails to boot further.
2. Hard disk starts producing clicking, grinding sound.
3. Even after power on, drive doesn't show any drive movement.
4. System restarts continuously.
5. System BIOS finds it difficult to detect hard disk.
6. Each time you try to reboot, system prompts to restart.

Generally even after encountering any of the symptoms, people keep on running the system. Without knowing that it is reducing the chances of data recovery. For safe recovery it is always preferred to shut down the system, if encounter any of the above mentioned symptoms. And consult to Stellar hard disk recovery services.

Note: Never try to open the hard disk, if confront with hard disk failure. As it will delete your data permanently , leaving behind no hope of data recovery.

Stellar Data Recovery Services is providing professional data recovery services from last 18 years. With skilled data recovery engineers, exclusive tools and Class 100 Clean Room Stellar data recovery services solved almost all data loss cases irrespective of its severity.