Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Hard Drive Recovery

Seagate hard drives are most widely used and they are known as most reliable hard drives. They also provide enhanced accessing speed as compared to other hard drive. But you should never think that there will be no damage on Seagate hard drive or they will never fail.

I’m telling this thing because I have experienced data loss in Seagate hard drive. I have 500 GB Seagate SATA hard drive. It had crashed just after installing new graphic driver (nVidia GeForce 8400 GS). The Master File Table (MFT) on the disk partition has been damaged therefore operating system can’t read or write from or to disk. It happened after I had to hard reboot my system after random freeze.

Now, the Master File Table is damaged, and all of my hard drive data are inaccessible. Because of some busy schedule and some over confidence on faithful system I took last backup almost 5 months ago. I was planning to backup my important files to my laptop, but now it’s so late.

Now I have two options, access the drive using another system or to recover the data using hard drive recovery software. I decide to use first option; I attached my hard drive to my laptop and tried to access it. But I failed to do it, because all the logical partitions of my hard drive are disappeared.

Now, my last and only hope is to recover the lost data using hard drive recovery software. I’m not much familiar about hard drive recovery software so I started searching on Internet about technical support for my problem. I found a data recovery software provider company: Stellar Information Systems Ltd and told my problem to their technical support team. I got a shy of relief when they told me that data recovery in my case is possible up to 98% and recommended me to download the demo version of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software.

I downloaded the demo version and scanned my hard drive through it. After completing the scanning process it displayed the recoverable data in tree format and I found that all my important data are recoverable. I tried to save them using “Recover All” option but the software displayed a message that I have to activate the software in order to save the recovered data. As I was satisfied with the result, I purchased the activation key of the software and recovered all the data. I found Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software the best hard drive recovery tool.