Recover Data Files, Unerase Files

Whenever a file is created on Microsoft Windows hard drive, the file gets broken into several pieces and gets fragmented. The fragments of the file are saved on different memory locations on the hard drive. Over time the fragmentation of file is increased and it results into slow performance of your Windows computer. In some situations, excessive fragmentation might cause severe damage to your Windows file system and cause critical data loss situations. At this point, you are required to opt for Hard Drive Recovery solutions to overcome this problem and retrieve your lost files. In order to improve the performance of your system in case of high fragmentation, you are required to defragment the hard drive.

For defragmenting the Windows hard drive, Microsoft Windows includes a powerful utility called Disk Defragmenter. This utility puts the pieces of related files back together, to organize the fragmented files in adjacent manner. After defragmenting the Windows hard drive, the operating system would be able to access files more proficiently. By effectively managing or organizing your files, the defragmenting would leave free hard drive space in a big storage area. Though, the hard drive defragmenting is extremely helpful for improving the system performance, but if the Windows computer loses power or it shuts down while defragmenting the hard drive, you might come across one or more of the below circumstances:

• Damaged Windows file system
• Lost clusters on Microsoft Windows hard drive
• Missing files and folder on the hard drive

This behavior of Microsoft Windows will eventually cause the loss of your valuable and business critical data.

Cause

When you defragment the Windows hard drive, the Disk Defragmenter creates several duplicate copies of the files and then move them to unallocated hard drive clusters, prior to write the files on contiguous disk clusters. When the procedure is interrupted halfway, the files could not be written to assigned memory location and so could not be accessed.

Resolution

In these circumstances, to sort out such issue, you are required to perform hard drive recovery. This is the procedure of retrieve lost, missing or inaccessible Windows files. You can automate the recovery process using hard drive recovery software. These are third party applications, which carry out methodical scan of affected hard drive and recover all sorts of lost files. The hard drive recovery software are completely safe and easy to use as they have rich graphical user interface. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to effectively handle most of the file loss situations. This software recovers lost files from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It supports recovery from Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

For integrity and safety of your data on external/removable hard drive, you should remove the hard drive properly. If you do “hot detach” of a removable hard drive from MS Windows Vista computer, the drive may not work properly next time when you try access data from it. At the same time, you may see some warning events in system log. This behavior renders all of your critical data inaccessible and cause serious data loss. In order to retrieve lost data in such circumstances, you need to go for hard drive recovery to get your valuable data back. In a practical scenario, you may find the following events may logged into the System log of your Windows Vista computer: “Event ID: 12 The device disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.”

Furthermore, if the file system of drive is NTFS, a warning message, which resembles the following might be logged in System log: “Event ID: 57 The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.” At this point, the drive become completely inaccessible and you encounter data loss. To gain access of your data, you need to find out the cause of this behavior and go for hard drive data recovery by sorting it out.

Root of the problem

This problem might take place when the disk is “surprise removed”. For instance, this issue is caused if you remove the hard drive without using “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in notification area to stop the drive first. NTFS (New Technology File System) uses transaction logging to offer a level of the fault tolerance. Under some circumstances, it might take long time for the transaction log to be completed.

In this case, critical data structures on the drive may get damaged and you come across data loss situations. In such critical situations, you need to opt for hard drive recovery software to retrieve all of the lost data from affected hard drive. The applications perform smooth recovery as they use advanced scanning techniques. The hard drive recovery tools have self-descriptive and simple graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound technical skills for recovery. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, the applications are completely safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most significant tool for quick and perfect recovery. It recover all of the FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions and stored data. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.