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Free Hard Drive Monitoring Software

Posted by admin on Sep.16, 2010, under Free, Free Software, Hard Disk, RAID Server (3) Comments


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Free Hard Drive Monitoring Software Acronis Drive Monitor is a free drive monitoring software that helps to protect essential data in the hard disk. By automatic checking of hard disk and episodic reporting to the user, Acronis makes data in computer more secure. Another hard disk Recovery Guide that we reviewed earlier. Acronis Drive Monitor monitors event logs and attaches flag to the occurrence that indicate that data are in danger. And when a crash of hard disk is imminent, it alerts the user about the trouble. So user can take a backup of essential data before actual disaster happens. It also explains the nature of the problem and guides the user on how to deal with the trouble.

Free Hard Drive Monitoring Software

Free Hard Drive Monitoring Software

How to use Free Hard Drive Monitoring software : Acronis Drive Monitor: Users have to only install Acronis in their computers. Once the installation procedure is complete, it starts to monitor the health of the hard disk. It gives an on-screen message to the users when a crash of hard disk is about to occur so that users can timely backup their critical data. Acronis Drive Monitor gives users extra time to respond in order to save data contained on disk devices and to arrange for their replacements.

  • Its services includes:
  • Checking for disk trouble automatically
  • Monitoring event logs and attaching flag to the event that indicates possibility of loss of data.
  • Sending an email and displaying a message on window taskbar when it uncovers a disk related problem.
  • Providing a weekly report showing the status of storage media.
  • It supports RAID drives too.

You can Download Free Acronis Drive Monitor software from here!

Apart from using Acronis Drive Monitor, make sure you also read All Causes for Data Loss. You can Recover your damage data with Free File Recovery Software.


Free File Recovery Software

Posted by admin on Feb.22, 2010, under Data Recovery, Free Software (8) Comments

Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. And that does not mean restoration of a file from Recycle Bin. The software recovers files removed from Recycle Bin, deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and

Free Pandora Recovery Software

Free Pandora Recovery Software

files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery lets its user browse, search, preview and recover files deleted from NTFS and FAT volumes, supporting hard drives, flash drives and memory cards. It successfully handles archived, hidden, encrypted and compressed files and recovers Alternate Data Streams (ADS). Pandora Recovery features classic interface wizards, hints and context-sensitive help. Pandora Recovery allows user to browse and search the tree of deleted files where show deleted items only button comes handy. Finally, it has ability to scan drive clusters, picking up files whose MFT record has been reused by OS, damaged or recreated (it can restore files on formatted drives). (continue reading…)


Free Active Partition Manager Software

Posted by admin on Feb.20, 2010, under Free Software, Hard Disk (4) Comments

During the surfing I found a good free software for Partition.  Which is  Active Partition Manager. Active@ Partition Manager is an application that helps you manage storage devices and the logical drives or partitions that they contain. You may create, delete, format and name partitions on your computer without shutting down the system. Most configuration changes take effect immediately.

active-partition-manager

active-partition-manager

Active@ Partition Manager includes the following features:

  • Create a partition or logical drive
  • Format a logical drive or partition (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS)
  • Assign or change partition attributes
  • Format a Flash memory as NTFS
  • Delete a partition or logical drive
  • Create FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB in size (up to 1Tb)
  • Mark partition as active.
  • Create several partitions on a USB flash memory device
  • View the properties of a partition, logical drive or hard drive device

Active@ Partition Manager is a component of Active@ Boot Disk (Windows-based LiveCD) You can Free download  here


Server RAID, NAS and SAN Information

Posted by admin on Feb.16, 2010, under RAID Server (84) Comments

RAID Server

RAID Server

RAID and other enterprise server environments have a high degree of fault tolerance however even the most well designed systems are susceptible to malfunctions and RAID systems can hardly be an exception to this rule. There’s a litany of reasons that can cause a RAID system failure. Sometimes power fluctuation, software, hardware problems (disk controller malfunctions) or even human error.

Unfortunately when a business RAID, NAS or SANs storage server system first fails, it can be the first sings an unfolding catastrophe. The damage and losses caused by such failures are not only disruptive to productivity, but the down time and outage can also often have astronomical financial consequences if not quickly remedied. (continue reading…)

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All causes of Data loss

Posted by admin on Feb.16, 2010, under Data Recovery, Hard Disk No Comments

Data Loss Causes

Following mechanical and electrical failure causes along with software corruption and human error often plays a major role in data loss, however regardless the cause of failure.

Logical Physical Disasters
Deletions Head Crash Fire
Virus Infection Media Damage Flood
Corruption Electrical Damage Hurricane
Lost Password Controller Error Tornado
Damaged / Overwritten MFT Actuator Failure Earthquake
Lost Partition structure Damaged Motor Power Spike
Formatted Partitions Bad Sectors Earthquake
File Deletion Heat Related Failure Power Shortage & Spikes
Dropped cracked casing Sabotage or Terrorist acts

First Steps for Data Recovery

Posted by admin on Feb.12, 2010, under Data Recovery, Hard Disk (4) Comments

Data recovery is a tricky thing, and if you’ve somehow accidentally deleted or had your important files

Data Recovery

Data Recovery

corrupted or lost due to human error, business espionage, faulty hardware or software or any other reason; the good news is that your lost data is probably recoverable. This article will show you a few things NOT to do when an event such as this occurs.

Don’t run the drive anymore, or use the device. (MP3, portable storage, camera card, whatever) If you think it won’t hurt to even just poke around the internet for a solution to this mess you’ve made/found, you’re wrong! Don’t install or run anything on the drive you hope to recover data from (infected Hard Drive). Only access this drive again from a healthy PC with the software solution you’re going to use. Since files are overwritten in the order they’ve been deleted, the last files that have been excised from your drive will be the first to be lost permanently. Even just surfing, with all the cookies and temporary internet files that are always being generated will often doom the process without you even knowing about it. (continue reading…)


Free Software for Drivers Backup

Posted by admin on Feb.11, 2010, under Free, Free Software (8) Comments

I found a very useful software and it is 100% free.  In thins software you can easily create the backup of your computer installed drivers (just the particular or all drivers) and use it to troubleshoot any driver problems. This backup will be very useful when you will format your computer window due to any reason or installation same configuration PCs. There is no need to search the drivers from internet or drivers CD,  just import the driver backup and within five minute, you will complete the driver installation process. You can move this backup from one computer to other computer for installation.

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Software for Windows Data Recovery

Posted by admin on Feb.10, 2010, under Data Recovery, Free Software (7) Comments

Data Recovery basically means the process of acquiring back usable data from the damaged, corrupt media or storage device. The loss of important data can cause fall down of businesses, leaving you and your company in the most evil situation to face.

RecoveryFIX for Windows data recovery software is an effective tool to recover deleted files, files deleted from the recycle bin or deleted permanently using the Shift + Delete keys. Our windows data recovery software tool efficiently recovers data from the corrupt windows partitions based on FAT and NTFS operating systems, and even from the reformatted partitions. Data from the damaged, formatted, deleted or corrupt partitions of Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, 2000, 2003 is successfully recovered by the windows data recovery software and supports data recovery from
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. (continue reading…)


If Accidentally Lost or Deleted Files

Posted by admin on Feb.10, 2010, under Data Recovery (10) Comments

delete fileEmptied your recycle bin? Discovered that you may have needed something there? Don’t worry. The file is still there, and likely very recoverable. Has the file you’ve been looking for been missing for a while? Chances are, it’s still available.

In situations where you are simply looking to undelete a file or retrieve data that was once there but can’t be found now, you can likely perform your file recovery with data recovery software. (continue reading…)


Is Your Hard Drive Making Clicking or Buzzing Sounds

Posted by admin on Feb.10, 2010, under Hard Disk (37) Comments

Is your hard disk drive making strange whirring, clicking or buzzing sounds that you have not heard before? Additionally, are these being accompanied by error messages or difficulties with your computer? An example of this may be “blue screen errors”.

Data Recovery

Hard Disk Recovery

When your drive starts making sounds that you haven’t heard before, you may be having some drive head issues. This is a very critical time for your hard drive – any rash actions could mean complete hard drive failure. If you are in this situation, your drive recovery can still be very inexpensive, but you must follow a cautious route. (continue reading…)

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