Data Recovery

What is Data Recovery?

Data recovery is the process of recovering data stored on hard drive and other devices which have become corrupt and inaccessible.

Different media is used for storing data like hard disks, RAID configurations, tapes, magnetic disks, CDs and other storage media. Data can corrupt in many ways virus attack. The erased data can be recovered by using different data recovery techniques. This data can be recovered by hardware or software but still you will need services of data recovery professionals.
Some examples of data recovery:

You can repair small nicks and scratches on your CD/DVD. You can use these to fill nicks and seal the surface and in this way you can read inaccessible data.

The hard drive might have mechanical or physical problems. You can replace motor /PCB if it is not working and platter are intact. You can use Hex Editor if mechanics are not damaged but data is deleted. The first sector of hard drive provides information on the file system and you can find the location of your data.

The RAID array can be recreated if there are errors in the RAID configurations and data can be recovered separately from each drive and it can be merged back to original state.

Can erased data be recovered????

Actually file is not deleted from computer even if you have deleted iot from hard drive and simply its actual location is deleted. If you work on that particular location then this file might be overwritten.

How can I completely erase a hard disk???

The lost data can easily be recovered from the computer even if hard drive is formatted or it is shredded. Every byte of data can be recovered by using extra sensitive recovery system. But it is always good to seek help of the data recovery professionals in case of any problem.
Prevention

It is always better to prevent rather than cure. Keep backup of your data at different locations. Test this data for final working.

Some doings

Keep the record of all working on your computer including last installation if you think that the data loss is topped. You should also have the record of last application run and last upgradation on your computer. All these things will be helpful to the data recovery professionals and don’t try to change data on your hard drive.

If you repair the hard drive avoid opening it. These drives should be placed on safe and cooler place as dust can make your hard drive useless.

Always contact customer support from good data recovery form.

Avoid any working on the drive even if you need to do some work.

Use kids gloves to treat these hard drives and always keep these drives in packing as these hard drives are very sensitive. The faulty drives are more sensitive.

Free Data Recovery Software

There are number of free data software available. These software can be used to recover data but functionality of these software is limited. It is good thing to save programs on the hard disk for the backups from where you can access your data in case of any data loss.

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Five Essential Keys to Finding Success in Internet Marketing

To start off things on a strong note this year, I wanted to share five of my top tips that I hope will assist you in your journey toward success. These are 5 things that I wish I had understood when I first started out in the Internet Marketing world. Some of these might not make sense to you right away—some things you just have to learn from experience… but I do hope to shorten the learning curve for you can start doing what you want to do as soon as possible!

1) Be able to answer the question “What do I want?”. Be specific! How exactly do you want to spend the limited time in your life, what do you want to accomplish, how do you want to feel, and what things and feelings do you desire? If you don’t know what you want, then what are you working toward, and where are you going?

If you don’t have a destination, you will simply be tossed around this industry, unable to focus or allocate your precious energy into furthering your career. When you know what it is you want, you will be able to attract it into your life.

2) Find your passion. The basic test for passion is to find something that you would want to devote most of your time to, even if there was no money involved. Some people that aspire to be Internet Marketers don’t like advertising, marketing, the internet, or networking, yet they want to do it because they think they can make some fast easy money.

Well, I’m sorry, but if you don’t love and believe in what you are doing, it will be obvious to everyone and people will run from you. What I’m saying is that you can do whatever you want, and get paid WAY more for it then a job you hate. It’s your life to design— don’t let other people tell you what you can or can’t do.

3) Take Action. Thats the simple thing that is oftentimes the difference between success and failure. Learning is wonderful and necessary, but you need to be spending focused energy towards the tasks that will actually make you money. Don’t get stuck and try to learn everything yourself— work at what you’re good at and outsource the rest. Be a CEO in your life and hire others to handle the minutia.

4) Connect with others in the industry! I know that it can be frightening at first for some shy people to reach out to others in the industry and collaborate, share, and help with, but trust me when I say that its nearly impossible to make it in this industry on your own. You will need help from others, be they joint venture partners, affiliates, team leaders, etc.

You may find it daunting, but once you start making those connections, your business will start to gain momentum, and you will project credibility and radiate success. Find those real relationships, and treasure them for they truly are more valuable than gold.

5) Don’t be selfish. While I understand that people believe that they’re acting in their own self interest by hiding their secrets or wealth, you might not be doing yourself the favor that you think. For example, if you don’t teach your affiliates or downline how to sell, then you will actually suffer in the long run by repelling people that could be generating passive income.

Trust me: when less than 5% of people that sign up for marketing programs ever even promote them, you don’t have to worry about people “stealing your secrets’. Encourage others to emulate what you do that makes you successful, open your heart, and remember that it is far more rewarding, both in the physical and mental sense, to give then to receive.

Give of yourself without expectation, and you are literally opening yourself up to the universe and will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams.

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Windows Network

SoftPerfect Network Scanner - SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on a network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.

VNC, Virtual Network Computing -

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Version for Win32.

FREEping - FREE IP Ping Software -

FREEping - FREE IP Ping Software - FREEping - FREE IP Ping Software is a freeware Windows GUI based ping utility with popup alerting and statistics. FREEping is 100% freeware. FREEping Features: Used by thousands of network administrators. Small footprint, 1 executable file and 1 text-based configuration file. Automatically gathers statistics while active. Ping as many TCP/IP addresses as you want. Popup alerts.
NetMeter - NetMeter -

NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT4/2000/XP. NetMeter is and will always stay freeware. The program has been tested extensively on Windows 2000 and XP, but it should work just as well on all other Win32 operating systems. NetMeter can show upload and download speeds, and cumulative weekly and monthly volumes of files uploaded and downloaded.

Link Monitor Free Network Software -

Link Monitor Free Network Software - FREEping - Link Monitor will check an Internet or network connection by pinging a specified host. When the host replies, it will show a green light, indicating that the host is online and reachable. However when no reply was received in time or the IP address could not be found, it will show a red light, indicating that the specified host could not be reached (or doesn't exist). Different profiles can be configured with the ProfileEditor utility. Features of Link Monitor: Ping history chart, Real-time logging, Multiple profiles, Start with Windows, Stay on top, Minimize to system tray, Plays sound on disconnect and connect, Tiny window mode, Invisible mode, Lag indication, Command-line options to specify host, auto-start, auto-minimize, Uses only 2Mb of RAM and almost 0% CPU time. Freeware Network Software.

Sam Spade Network Monitoring Software for Windows -

Sam Spade is an integrated network query tool for Windows 95, 98, NT4.0 & Windows 2000. It's freeware. Tools ping nslookup whois IP block whois dig traceroute finger SMTP VRFY web browser keep-alive DNS zone transfer SMTP relay check Usenet cancel check website download website search email header analysis Email blacklist query Abuse address query S-Lang scripting Time.

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Display Windows Icons on Desktop

Below is a easy way to choose what windows icons you want to display on the desktop.
Rightclick on the desktop and select "properties". In the new "display properties" window, click on the "desktop" tab. Hit the "customize desktop..." button at the bottom of the window. Now you can select the icons you want.

Increasing Modem Performance

To increase modem performance when connecting to the Internet:
Disable compression on your modem In SYSTEM.INI under 386enh section put in: COMxBUFFER=1024 (x is your modem port number ) Add AT%C0 (that's a zero),to the extra settings line of your modem's properties. Switch error correction off

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Password to the Guest account

The default for the guest password in XP Home and Pro is BLANK...there is no password. I have been told by many even MicorSoft Reps that applying a password is not an option. Well they are all wrong. Listed below is the how to info.
To apply a Password to the guest account:
Please log on to this computer with an Administrator account and turn
on the guest account.
Click Start->Run->Type cmd and click OK.
Input the following command and press Enter. Net user guest password
Go to Control Panel->User Accounts. Click the Guest account and now you can change the password.
Thats it...it does work for I have done it many times.

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