To get the best result, choose Create Image File command from Drive menu (or context menu) to copy the damaged data to another hard drive. You can create the Image of segments of the partition, Image of the whole partition, or even Image of the full hard drive. To adjust the number of attempts to read bad sectors, use I/O Tries in Drive Control properties. After the Image is created, you can open the Image using Open Image File command, and work with it as with original drive. (See also Q24)

The best way to recover data from drives having bad sector, is to clone the drive or to create disk image of the drive and then to process cloned drive or created image, this eventually helps in ignoring the bad sectors and avoids continuous read attempts directly on the disk in real-time situation. The less number of read attempts ensures no further increase in bad sectors and no further loss of data.

Each person who has logged into the computer will have his or her files and settings stored in a folder named with his or her user name. Only the person who is logged in (or an Administrator) can access his or her personal folder. To find these user folders: The My Documents folder is located within this user folder (Note: The My Documents icon on your desktop is a shortcut to this folder). Files that were saved to the desktop are located in the Desktop folder.

That depends entirely upon "how crashed" the drive is. But SpinRite is often credited with performing "true miracles" of data recovery. Please read some of the true-life SpinRite testimonials we have received to get a sense for what SpinRite has done and can probably do for you if you ever need it. It is obviously possible for a drive to be so totally dead that it is only useful as a door stop. But today's modern drives struggle to stay alive and to die slowly.

No. Some of these files are required for normal operation and the others are nice to have on the disk for future installs on other computers and troubleshooting. These files don't take up much space on the drive, so there is no advantage in deleting them.

With SCSI drives, the drive should be capable of re-mapping these automatically. However, many drives are shipped with this feature disabled, for some mysterious reason..

TrueCrypt does not contain any mechanism or facility that would allow partial or complete recovery of your encrypted data without knowing the correct password or the key used to encrypt the data. The only way to recover your files is to try to "crack" the password or the key, but it could take thousands or millions of years depending on the length and quality of the password/keyfiles, on software/hardware efficiency, and other factors.

NO, if you have corrupted / damaged sectors on the hard drive, we will not be able to recover the data on that sector, but other non-corrupted / damaged sectors can be recovered. -Up-

Yes we can! A clicking hard drive usually means that your drive has internal mechanical parts that have failed. In order to recover mechanically failed drives, a clean environment is needed. Flashback Data's recovery lab is equipped with a Class 10 clean environment. The class number refers to the maximum number of airborne particles greater than or equal to one-half of a micron that would be allowed in one cubic foot of clean environment air.

These notes are particular to laptops; the issue of file recover or transfer is otherwise covered in a number of FAQ questions in section 2.0, so read the adjacent responses. First, determine whether your drive is SCSI, or ATA (or IDE, same thing). A SCSI laptop hard drive has 50 pins, or possibly 54 pins (four for power); an IDE laptop hard drive has 40 or more likely 44 pins. IF the drive is IDE, you can't connect it as a SCSI drive and vice versa. Apple does not support external IDE drives.

Usually, the best way to upgrade a hard drive is to replace the current drive with a new one, after transferring all the files. This is preferable to adding a new drive as a 2nd drive, or to installing a new drive as the boot drive but leaving the old drive in the system. The main reason is speed: newer drives tend to be faster, and chaining a new drive to an old one can make the new drive slow down to match the speed of the old one.

You can easily set up a set of sector-specific datasets. Create a system with blank rules, that contains the data set for the sector in question, e.g. industrial stocks, high-tech stocks, energy stocks, precious metal stocks, etc.. The same approach can be used to have collections of funds for a specific fund family for fund sector rotation testing. Then save the system with an appropriately descriptive file name.

In many cases, yes. We always attempt to recover your data without voiding the manufacturer’s warranty on your hard drive. Should we need to use methods that may affect your warranty, we will discuss with you all options before proceeding.

If you are running Windows, the file system is listed below. If you are inexperienced with different Windows versions, here are the most commonly used file systems:

Yes, there are programs out there that recove lost data quite esily. The important thing to remember is that data will be overwritten the more you use the PC. So if you accidently erased something critical, be sure to stop and use a program like Undelete Now to get the data back.

You can save to some locations (C:/temp, My Documents) on the hard drive. You cannot save to the desktop. However, once the computer reboots, everything is cleared from the hard drive! If the computer freezes while you are working, for instance, you could lose your work. We recommend using your student storage space and saving frequently on multiple storage devices to avoid losing your work.

You must delete files from your disk or hard drive if you have either of these two conditions AND you have already notified me and I have advised you to delete files: If you are storing your work on a floppy disk and you are getting warnings that the disk is becoming full, it is time to delete some files from your data disk. If your work has become corrupt on the Instructor Management Web site because of export and upload errors, you must delete ALL your files.

After restoring your computer, go to the iFolder web site, download the iFolderClient, install the client and login to your iFolder. Your files will automatically download to your computer.

No, with eZconference others can only see the documents you insert into the meeting. (eZdesktop users may choose to allow others to see or control their computer remotely.) Error 450 indicates that the eZ software is unable to connect to our servers over the Internet, and therefore, you are unable to register or log in. There may be a "personal firewall application" on your computer that is not allowing eZ to access the Internet.

You cannot access remote hard drives (in a network) with the disk editor. And under Windows NT/2000, administrator privileges are needed to access local hard drives.

Nothing bad will happen. Restorer2000 will just copy those files. Their NTFS permissions will be cleared, though. Even files locked by the system (such as registry hives or a pagefile) can be copied.

No. Computer hard drives and duplicator hard drives are two separate file systems, so they cannot communicate. The USB and Firewire connections' allow the computer to use the duplicator as a CD or DVD external burner. You can use either of those devices to store the data on a disc from a specified CD or DVD drive on the duplicator. Once you create that disc, you can use it as your master disc to load into the hard drive and make your duplications. No.