Image via Wikipedia For a disk storage device, the subdivision of a track is called a sector that stores a fixed amount of data. Typically, magnetic storage media, like hard disk come formatted with general industry standard of 512-byte in sector size. However, disks up to 4,096 sector size are also available. In the context [...]
Image via Wikipedia Every day we are in front of our computers adding new information to it. It keeps on increasing and by the end of the month it becomes a huge data. It keeps on compiling till the day you are not able to boot the computer. You find out that the computer has [...]
Image by Patrick Q via Flickr Taking photos is a common thing these days. Even the people who do not have any idea about photography are inclined towards taking photos in small family occasions like birthdays, family functions, one day tours, weekend holidays and so on. The advent of Digital Cameras has made things simpler [...]
When you calculate the data loss hazards, there are two major factors that you need to take into consideration, the first is financial penalties and second is market reputation. Trying to rebuild the confidence in your organization could be very time consuming and costly and sometimes irreversible process. But if you take proper data loss [...]
Recently, I loaded Windows 7 RTM on my laptop. I ran into an unexpected issue with BootMgr while installing, which reinforced the need for proper backups. Like all good IT soldiers, I did a complete system backup using the Windows 7 Create an Image Backup feature. I performed the backup to an external USB2 hard [...]
Image via Wikipedia A notebook or laptop is a computer, which is designed for mobile use. You can easily carry it and it is small enough to sit on your lap while working. The laptop integrates all of the required physical components of desktop computer, including display, pointing device, keyboard, speakers and battery. Although, the [...]
To benefit new features and added capabilities of a new operating system, you often upgrade your system. You can upgrade to Windows XP provided you have its installation disk and product key available. But at times, the upgrade process might fail with some errors on screen. This could occur if you have recently installed a [...]
Although FAT (File Allocation Table) is a quite efficient file system, but due to the method it uses to allocate disk space and to chain the files, there can be several errors that can occur while its usage. The logical structure of FAT formatted disk might get corrupt and result into inaccessible files, folders and [...]
Image via Wikipedia Recently there was an interesting video on FOX news about data recovery scam. Fox News Video shows how fraud data recovery companies cheat the customer and what are the steps you need to take while choosing a good data recovery company Watch this exclusive video: Some of the experts says that if [...]
Data Recovery is an act of salvaging lost data from a physically or logically crashed storage media when it cannot be normally accessed. Though most of the lost data is not permanently lost-simply inaccessible, but the recovery solutions and techniques are entirely dependent upon the nature of data loss, logical or physical. That’s why it [...]