Living in a very small village people over here are not tech-savvy but the rapid growth of technology and demand from the various sector of people it become necessary to learn such necessary skill for small business man. So my uncle running a photo studio realizing this changed his studio to digital one. Have just little knowledge of computer system, knows only to click, store and print the photo. He does not have a slightest idea of backing up the data, in his case the photograph of his valuable customer. He doesn't face any problem for almost 6 month and his business grew with leaps and bound.

One dread full evening because of the power surge his computer shut down abruptly and does not boot up again. Technician told him that because of power surge some of the file system got corrupted, no repair of the system can be done, only re-installing of the operating system can make the system work again. And re-installing of the operating systems means wiping out all the data from the hard drive. Data loss at this situation can bring the business to brink. Realizing the grave situation he called me for the rescue operation. I made him comfortable, and said I will get back his data.

Data recovery is not a major issue now-a-days with lots of Data recovery software available online which can recover the data from dead hard drive. Deleted data is not lost for ever just maddeningly misplaced; recovery is only one mouse click away.

Searching on google gave me the idea of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software a file and Partition recovery utility which recovers data from formatted hard drive or loss occurs due to any of situations like software malfunction, viruses, file/directory deletion or even sabotage. It also helps to recover the data from inaccessible hard drive.

Download the demo version of the software to analyze. What I got that software is fully automated. It identfies the drive and locates all partition on the inaccessible drive and presents them in a list. It examines the remains of file structure (Boot Sector, FAT copies, Root directory) and the data area of the inaccessible drive and works the best path out to recover the files and directories. It presents all recoverable files and directories in a tree structure. We can select our data files and directories and move the data to a safe location. Stellar Phoenix scans and displays all the physical drives it finds.

I selected the physical disk from which I have to recover my data. Stellar Phoenix presents with two options either search for logical drives in the selected disk or use drive information that is stored in the partition table. I Used partition table information option to recover deleted or lost folders & files. While Stellar Phoenix is scanning the selected the logical drive it displays the search results found in the left side panel and creates a tree structure. There I see all my file and fold have lost. Scanning took almost 3 hours, but has given the good result.

I was delighted I got back my lost pictures.

All I have to do is to get the full version to save my recovered data.

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