New Version of Mapilab Groupware Server
Author: Softinform
Kaliningrad, November 2007 - The MAPILab company announces the release of the new version of MAPILab Groupware Server 1.5. It is an ultimate groupware solution based on Microsoft Outlook for organizing teamwork without the deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server. This program is particularly designed for sharing public folders of Microsoft Outlook in real time mode. The MAPILab company did it best to meet demands of its customers in the new version of the program. Now through MAPILab Groupware Server installation on Microsoft Windows Vista, program components are automatically added to the list of Windows Firewall exceptions and connection of the server with clients is not blocked. A possibility to import local or domain users to the list of MAPILab Groupware users is also available in the new version. There is no need now to add each user to MAPILab Groupware Server separately as you can add local or Active Directory users with the help of a new wizard. Besides, administrators do not have to set personal passwords for each user - passwords are controlled by the system and administrators only need to add users from Active Directory to enable them to use public folders. Users can connect to public folders located on MAPILab Groupware Server using their name and password.MAPILab Groupware Server homepage: http://www.mapilab.com/groupware/server/
MAPILab homepage: http://www.mapilab.com/. About the MAPILab company: The MAPILab company is one of the leading developers of software products for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office applications. Being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner the company currently offers more than 30 products around the world including add-in for Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel; extensions for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Small Business Server; a number of groupware solutions for organizing teamwork based on Microsoft Outlook. All MAPILab titles support English, German and Russian languages.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/new-version-of-mapilab-groupware-server-274046.html
About the Author:
MAPILab Ltd.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
ERP Version Upgrade: Microsoft Great Plains Example and General Notes
ERP Version Upgrade: Microsoft Great Plains Example and General Notes
Author: Andrew Karasev
If you have been using your accounting and MRP application for the long time without investing into version update, now it might be time for you to consider getting updated. Assuming that you represent mid-size enterprise, you should expect that corporate ERP version upgrade is something that you should build the strong action plan for – to avoid your ERP shutdown time and possible rollbacks, if things are not going as expected. Additional considerations should be given to the situation when you have third party or custom-made modules: reports, integrations, EDI, etc. Let’s review what you should expect:
1. ERP annual maintenance plan. Nowadays software industry deploys this practice, when your purchase of MRP system just opens the door to ERP implementation, following support, access to newest versions, etc. Naturally, all these benefits have a cost for software development company and they are typically translated to you in the form of ERP annual enhancement program. Check with your ERP partner that you are current in this plan
2. Cross-platform integrations upgrade. In our opinion, ERP customers spend extra funds in cross platform scenarios, such as when their Sales Order Processing system is hosted in Linux/PHP environment and ERP application is Microsoft SQL Server and Windows based, here you should also recognize that MRP upgrade process requires IT person or programmer, who is comfortable with both platform: UNIX and Microsoft Windows in our example
3. Microsoft Dynamics GP upgrade scenarios. GP customizations, especially legacy ones were typically done in Great Plains Dexterity IDE and sanscript programming language. Reporting tools: FRx, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS, GP ReportWriter (where you modify such popular reports as SOP Blank Invoice Form) and Crystal Reports; eConnect opens the door to Microsoft Visual Studio .Net C# or VB developer to the realm of GP objects: customers, vendors, employees, GL transactions, Sales and Vendor Invoices
4. ERP rollback rescue. Obviously, we are optimists, however we should consider contingency plans, where we roll back to old positions. In the case of corporate ERP version update, rollback may cause substantial business opportunity loss
5. Switching from one ERP to another. When you have been operating on ERP A, it is not easy to switch to ERP B as it typically triggers fullscale data conversion and migration, employee retraining, custom logic reprogramming
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/erp-version-upgrade-microsoft-great-plains-example-and-general-notes-274637.html
About the Author:
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com - help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving customers USA/Canada nationwide: Illinois, California, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas. Local service is available in Houston & Dallas: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village, Fort Worth; serving GP customers in Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora, Joliet, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lyons, Niles, Downers Grove, Lisle, West Chicago, Barrington, Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, Lombard, Morris, Ottawa, Marseilles, Seneca, Oswego, Plainfield, Darien, Winchester, Hinsdale.
Author: Andrew Karasev
If you have been using your accounting and MRP application for the long time without investing into version update, now it might be time for you to consider getting updated. Assuming that you represent mid-size enterprise, you should expect that corporate ERP version upgrade is something that you should build the strong action plan for – to avoid your ERP shutdown time and possible rollbacks, if things are not going as expected. Additional considerations should be given to the situation when you have third party or custom-made modules: reports, integrations, EDI, etc. Let’s review what you should expect:
1. ERP annual maintenance plan. Nowadays software industry deploys this practice, when your purchase of MRP system just opens the door to ERP implementation, following support, access to newest versions, etc. Naturally, all these benefits have a cost for software development company and they are typically translated to you in the form of ERP annual enhancement program. Check with your ERP partner that you are current in this plan
2. Cross-platform integrations upgrade. In our opinion, ERP customers spend extra funds in cross platform scenarios, such as when their Sales Order Processing system is hosted in Linux/PHP environment and ERP application is Microsoft SQL Server and Windows based, here you should also recognize that MRP upgrade process requires IT person or programmer, who is comfortable with both platform: UNIX and Microsoft Windows in our example
3. Microsoft Dynamics GP upgrade scenarios. GP customizations, especially legacy ones were typically done in Great Plains Dexterity IDE and sanscript programming language. Reporting tools: FRx, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or SRS, GP ReportWriter (where you modify such popular reports as SOP Blank Invoice Form) and Crystal Reports; eConnect opens the door to Microsoft Visual Studio .Net C# or VB developer to the realm of GP objects: customers, vendors, employees, GL transactions, Sales and Vendor Invoices
4. ERP rollback rescue. Obviously, we are optimists, however we should consider contingency plans, where we roll back to old positions. In the case of corporate ERP version update, rollback may cause substantial business opportunity loss
5. Switching from one ERP to another. When you have been operating on ERP A, it is not easy to switch to ERP B as it typically triggers fullscale data conversion and migration, employee retraining, custom logic reprogramming
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/erp-version-upgrade-microsoft-great-plains-example-and-general-notes-274637.html
About the Author:
Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com - help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving customers USA/Canada nationwide: Illinois, California, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Colorado, Utah, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas. Local service is available in Houston & Dallas: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village, Fort Worth; serving GP customers in Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora, Joliet, Wheaton, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lyons, Niles, Downers Grove, Lisle, West Chicago, Barrington, Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, Lombard, Morris, Ottawa, Marseilles, Seneca, Oswego, Plainfield, Darien, Winchester, Hinsdale.
A Beginner’s Guide to Data recovery
A Beginner’s Guide to Data recovery
Hard Drive data recovery
When you lose data on your hard drive, you basically have two scenarios: a) you can still access your hard drive, and everything is ok with your operating system or b) your computer froze and doesn’t boot up, and possibly weird noises come from the hard drive.
Let’s tackle scenario a) first, with simple, easy to follow rules.
1. After data loss, never write to the hard drive.
When data is lost on a hard drive, the first rule you should follow is a simple rule of common sense: don’t write anything to that hard drive, until you recover what you’ve lost.
There is a very simple reason for this: when you delete something from your hard drive, the operating system (windows, mac os and linux for example) does not permanently delete that information. Instead, it only tells you that there is more free space – that space is still occupied by your deleted information, but it changes it state, from occupied to free.
One thing is true when it comes to data on your hard drive – what you see is not all you have on your hard drive.
This is true for lost files, but also for lost partitions. If you delete a partition, just leave it blank. You can’t see it, but data recovery software can. Same thing with formatted hard drives – you can still recover from a full format.
How do I delete files forever? If you want to erase files for security and/or privacy reasons you should use commercial software that does that job or contact a specialized data recovery company.
2. Restore your backups
If you did your homework, you should have up-to-date backups of all your vital information. This is the time to check on those backups, and eventually restore them, in order to retrieve the lost data.
In the unlikely event that you don’t have up-to-date backups of your data, you must start the process of data recovery, as explain in the following steps. But remember that in the future backups are your best chance of protecting vital and irreplaceable information. So back up often and store your backups in a safe location.
3. Don’t install data recovery software on the same hard drive where the data loss occurred
Remember step 1. If you install any software to the same hard drive where you lost data, you could overwrite that lost data forever.
4. Turn of your computer
To play it safe, right after your data loss, you should turn off the computer. Even the routine operation of the operating system depends on reads and writes from and to the hard drive, and your lost data can be overwritten in one of those.
5. Protect the hard drive
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect another one, even an old one, as long as it had an operating system installed, so you can boot up your computer and later on analyse the hard drive where data loss happened. As an alternative, you can install your hard drive in another working computer, as a secondary drive, so you can access it without writing to it directly.
If your data loss happened because of a virus attack, be sure to have anti-virus software installed on the new hard drive.
Rescue disks to the rescue: If you are afraid of taking your computer apart, and you have a pre-prepared “rescue disk”, you can boot your computer from a bootable floppy disk, CD or DVD and go from there.
6. Chose your data recovery software
There are several freeware choices on the Internet, as well as many demos of well known commercial software programs.
You can try, at your own risk experimenting with these programs. In any case, if you have any questions, doubts, or don’t have the technical expertise to recover the lost data by yourself, you can always consult a data recovery company in your area.
Scenario b) happens when hard drive failure occurs.
A hard disk failure occurs when it becomes impossible to access the hard drive, due to internal or external factors. The factors vary, but the most common one if known as “head crash” – the head that reads the magnetic surface of the disk touches the metal surface, grinding against it and making normal reads impossible.
What makes up a hard drive? Platters, a motor, reading/writing heads and head actuators. The platters rotate using the motor and the heads read and write information in the place they are moved to by the actuator arm.
1. Shut off the computer and don’t try to restart it
When a physical error occurs in a hard drive, the best thing to do is not to try to restart the computer system. Further damage can be done to the hard drive if you try a restart.
2. Secure the hard drive
If your hard drive failed because of an external problem, you should preserve the hard drive as-is. This means that, for instance if you had a flood and the hard drive came in contact with water, you should preserve the hard drive in water, and never try to open or dry it by yourself.
My computer was underwater! In this case, the best thing to do is to take your hard drive out and store it in a plastic container full of water. You will send that container to the data recovery company.
2. Choosing a data recovery company
When a physical error occurs you shouldn’t try to fix it by yourself. Many times components must be repaired or even replaced and that can only happen in a clean room environment.
To maximise your chances of recovery, you should quickly find a data recovery company near you.
There are 4 main things you should consider when choosing a data recovery company:
a) The right equipment. The company you choose should have the right means to analyse and recover your lost data. Ask directly if they have at least one class 100 clean room.
b) A partnership opportunity. Will that company forge a partnership with your company? Do they offer training and long-term advices on how to better protect your data?
c) Expertise. Does that company specialize in the media you are trying to recover?
d) List of clients. Check out their website and the list of past clients. Does that list include big names, and a wide array of different industries? That is always a plus.
3. Send the hard drive for analysis
Most data recovery companies don’t charge you anything if they can’t recover your data. They will probably give you an estimate on how much you are going to spend before you have to pay anything, so take advantage of that.
Shop around for better prices, but remember step 2 – sometimes it’s worth it to pay something extra, if you get better equipment and a better track record working for you.
When you decide, send your hard drive in for an estimate. Use preferably the wrapping material that came with your hard drive. If you bought the hard drive along with your computer, use a soft wrapping material, such as an anti-static electrostatic discharge (ESD) bag. Use foam to secure the hard drive inside and prevent sudden movements.
David Marques
Technical director
Data Recover Center
Recuperação de dados
Hard Drive data recovery
When you lose data on your hard drive, you basically have two scenarios: a) you can still access your hard drive, and everything is ok with your operating system or b) your computer froze and doesn’t boot up, and possibly weird noises come from the hard drive.
Let’s tackle scenario a) first, with simple, easy to follow rules.
1. After data loss, never write to the hard drive.
When data is lost on a hard drive, the first rule you should follow is a simple rule of common sense: don’t write anything to that hard drive, until you recover what you’ve lost.
There is a very simple reason for this: when you delete something from your hard drive, the operating system (windows, mac os and linux for example) does not permanently delete that information. Instead, it only tells you that there is more free space – that space is still occupied by your deleted information, but it changes it state, from occupied to free.
One thing is true when it comes to data on your hard drive – what you see is not all you have on your hard drive.
This is true for lost files, but also for lost partitions. If you delete a partition, just leave it blank. You can’t see it, but data recovery software can. Same thing with formatted hard drives – you can still recover from a full format.
How do I delete files forever? If you want to erase files for security and/or privacy reasons you should use commercial software that does that job or contact a specialized data recovery company.
2. Restore your backups
If you did your homework, you should have up-to-date backups of all your vital information. This is the time to check on those backups, and eventually restore them, in order to retrieve the lost data.
In the unlikely event that you don’t have up-to-date backups of your data, you must start the process of data recovery, as explain in the following steps. But remember that in the future backups are your best chance of protecting vital and irreplaceable information. So back up often and store your backups in a safe location.
3. Don’t install data recovery software on the same hard drive where the data loss occurred
Remember step 1. If you install any software to the same hard drive where you lost data, you could overwrite that lost data forever.
4. Turn of your computer
To play it safe, right after your data loss, you should turn off the computer. Even the routine operation of the operating system depends on reads and writes from and to the hard drive, and your lost data can be overwritten in one of those.
5. Protect the hard drive
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect another one, even an old one, as long as it had an operating system installed, so you can boot up your computer and later on analyse the hard drive where data loss happened. As an alternative, you can install your hard drive in another working computer, as a secondary drive, so you can access it without writing to it directly.
If your data loss happened because of a virus attack, be sure to have anti-virus software installed on the new hard drive.
Rescue disks to the rescue: If you are afraid of taking your computer apart, and you have a pre-prepared “rescue disk”, you can boot your computer from a bootable floppy disk, CD or DVD and go from there.
6. Chose your data recovery software
There are several freeware choices on the Internet, as well as many demos of well known commercial software programs.
You can try, at your own risk experimenting with these programs. In any case, if you have any questions, doubts, or don’t have the technical expertise to recover the lost data by yourself, you can always consult a data recovery company in your area.
Scenario b) happens when hard drive failure occurs.
A hard disk failure occurs when it becomes impossible to access the hard drive, due to internal or external factors. The factors vary, but the most common one if known as “head crash” – the head that reads the magnetic surface of the disk touches the metal surface, grinding against it and making normal reads impossible.
What makes up a hard drive? Platters, a motor, reading/writing heads and head actuators. The platters rotate using the motor and the heads read and write information in the place they are moved to by the actuator arm.
1. Shut off the computer and don’t try to restart it
When a physical error occurs in a hard drive, the best thing to do is not to try to restart the computer system. Further damage can be done to the hard drive if you try a restart.
2. Secure the hard drive
If your hard drive failed because of an external problem, you should preserve the hard drive as-is. This means that, for instance if you had a flood and the hard drive came in contact with water, you should preserve the hard drive in water, and never try to open or dry it by yourself.
My computer was underwater! In this case, the best thing to do is to take your hard drive out and store it in a plastic container full of water. You will send that container to the data recovery company.
2. Choosing a data recovery company
When a physical error occurs you shouldn’t try to fix it by yourself. Many times components must be repaired or even replaced and that can only happen in a clean room environment.
To maximise your chances of recovery, you should quickly find a data recovery company near you.
There are 4 main things you should consider when choosing a data recovery company:
a) The right equipment. The company you choose should have the right means to analyse and recover your lost data. Ask directly if they have at least one class 100 clean room.
b) A partnership opportunity. Will that company forge a partnership with your company? Do they offer training and long-term advices on how to better protect your data?
c) Expertise. Does that company specialize in the media you are trying to recover?
d) List of clients. Check out their website and the list of past clients. Does that list include big names, and a wide array of different industries? That is always a plus.
3. Send the hard drive for analysis
Most data recovery companies don’t charge you anything if they can’t recover your data. They will probably give you an estimate on how much you are going to spend before you have to pay anything, so take advantage of that.
Shop around for better prices, but remember step 2 – sometimes it’s worth it to pay something extra, if you get better equipment and a better track record working for you.
When you decide, send your hard drive in for an estimate. Use preferably the wrapping material that came with your hard drive. If you bought the hard drive along with your computer, use a soft wrapping material, such as an anti-static electrostatic discharge (ESD) bag. Use foam to secure the hard drive inside and prevent sudden movements.
David Marques
Technical director
Data Recover Center
Recuperação de dados
A Beginner’s Guide to Data recovery
A Beginner’s Guide to Data recovery
Hard Drive data recovery
When you lose data on your hard drive, you basically have two scenarios: a) you can still access your hard drive, and everything is ok with your operating system or b) your computer froze and doesn’t boot up, and possibly weird noises come from the hard drive.
Let’s tackle scenario a) first, with simple, easy to follow rules.
1. After data loss, never write to the hard drive.
When data is lost on a hard drive, the first rule you should follow is a simple rule of common sense: don’t write anything to that hard drive, until you recover what you’ve lost.
There is a very simple reason for this: when you delete something from your hard drive, the operating system (windows, mac os and linux for example) does not permanently delete that information. Instead, it only tells you that there is more free space – that space is still occupied by your deleted information, but it changes it state, from occupied to free.
One thing is true when it comes to data on your hard drive – what you see is not all you have on your hard drive.
This is true for lost files, but also for lost partitions. If you delete a partition, just leave it blank. You can’t see it, but data recovery software can. Same thing with formatted hard drives – you can still recover from a full format.
How do I delete files forever? If you want to erase files for security and/or privacy reasons you should use commercial software that does that job or contact a specialized data recovery company.
2. Restore your backups
If you did your homework, you should have up-to-date backups of all your vital information. This is the time to check on those backups, and eventually restore them, in order to retrieve the lost data.
In the unlikely event that you don’t have up-to-date backups of your data, you must start the process of data recovery, as explain in the following steps. But remember that in the future backups are your best chance of protecting vital and irreplaceable information. So back up often and store your backups in a safe location.
3. Don’t install data recovery software on the same hard drive where the data loss occurred
Remember step 1. If you install any software to the same hard drive where you lost data, you could overwrite that lost data forever.
4. Turn of your computer
To play it safe, right after your data loss, you should turn off the computer. Even the routine operation of the operating system depends on reads and writes from and to the hard drive, and your lost data can be overwritten in one of those.
5. Protect the hard drive
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect another one, even an old one, as long as it had an operating system installed, so you can boot up your computer and later on analyse the hard drive where data loss happened. As an alternative, you can install your hard drive in another working computer, as a secondary drive, so you can access it without writing to it directly.
If your data loss happened because of a virus attack, be sure to have anti-virus software installed on the new hard drive.
Rescue disks to the rescue: If you are afraid of taking your computer apart, and you have a pre-prepared “rescue disk”, you can boot your computer from a bootable floppy disk, CD or DVD and go from there.
6. Chose your data recovery software
There are several freeware choices on the Internet, as well as many demos of well known commercial software programs.
You can try, at your own risk experimenting with these programs. In any case, if you have any questions, doubts, or don’t have the technical expertise to recover the lost data by yourself, you can always consult a data recovery company in your area.
Scenario b) happens when hard drive failure occurs.
A hard disk failure occurs when it becomes impossible to access the hard drive, due to internal or external factors. The factors vary, but the most common one if known as “head crash” – the head that reads the magnetic surface of the disk touches the metal surface, grinding against it and making normal reads impossible.
What makes up a hard drive? Platters, a motor, reading/writing heads and head actuators. The platters rotate using the motor and the heads read and write information in the place they are moved to by the actuator arm.
1. Shut off the computer and don’t try to restart it
When a physical error occurs in a hard drive, the best thing to do is not to try to restart the computer system. Further damage can be done to the hard drive if you try a restart.
2. Secure the hard drive
If your hard drive failed because of an external problem, you should preserve the hard drive as-is. This means that, for instance if you had a flood and the hard drive came in contact with water, you should preserve the hard drive in water, and never try to open or dry it by yourself.
My computer was underwater! In this case, the best thing to do is to take your hard drive out and store it in a plastic container full of water. You will send that container to the data recovery company.
2. Choosing a data recovery company
When a physical error occurs you shouldn’t try to fix it by yourself. Many times components must be repaired or even replaced and that can only happen in a clean room environment.
To maximise your chances of recovery, you should quickly find a data recovery company near you.
There are 4 main things you should consider when choosing a data recovery company:
a) The right equipment. The company you choose should have the right means to analyse and recover your lost data. Ask directly if they have at least one class 100 clean room.
b) A partnership opportunity. Will that company forge a partnership with your company? Do they offer training and long-term advices on how to better protect your data?
c) Expertise. Does that company specialize in the media you are trying to recover?
d) List of clients. Check out their website and the list of past clients. Does that list include big names, and a wide array of different industries? That is always a plus.
3. Send the hard drive for analysis
Most data recovery companies don’t charge you anything if they can’t recover your data. They will probably give you an estimate on how much you are going to spend before you have to pay anything, so take advantage of that.
Shop around for better prices, but remember step 2 – sometimes it’s worth it to pay something extra, if you get better equipment and a better track record working for you.
When you decide, send your hard drive in for an estimate. Use preferably the wrapping material that came with your hard drive. If you bought the hard drive along with your computer, use a soft wrapping material, such as an anti-static electrostatic discharge (ESD) bag. Use foam to secure the hard drive inside and prevent sudden movements.
David Marques
Technical director
Data Recover Center
Recuperação de dados
Hard Drive data recovery
When you lose data on your hard drive, you basically have two scenarios: a) you can still access your hard drive, and everything is ok with your operating system or b) your computer froze and doesn’t boot up, and possibly weird noises come from the hard drive.
Let’s tackle scenario a) first, with simple, easy to follow rules.
1. After data loss, never write to the hard drive.
When data is lost on a hard drive, the first rule you should follow is a simple rule of common sense: don’t write anything to that hard drive, until you recover what you’ve lost.
There is a very simple reason for this: when you delete something from your hard drive, the operating system (windows, mac os and linux for example) does not permanently delete that information. Instead, it only tells you that there is more free space – that space is still occupied by your deleted information, but it changes it state, from occupied to free.
One thing is true when it comes to data on your hard drive – what you see is not all you have on your hard drive.
This is true for lost files, but also for lost partitions. If you delete a partition, just leave it blank. You can’t see it, but data recovery software can. Same thing with formatted hard drives – you can still recover from a full format.
How do I delete files forever? If you want to erase files for security and/or privacy reasons you should use commercial software that does that job or contact a specialized data recovery company.
2. Restore your backups
If you did your homework, you should have up-to-date backups of all your vital information. This is the time to check on those backups, and eventually restore them, in order to retrieve the lost data.
In the unlikely event that you don’t have up-to-date backups of your data, you must start the process of data recovery, as explain in the following steps. But remember that in the future backups are your best chance of protecting vital and irreplaceable information. So back up often and store your backups in a safe location.
3. Don’t install data recovery software on the same hard drive where the data loss occurred
Remember step 1. If you install any software to the same hard drive where you lost data, you could overwrite that lost data forever.
4. Turn of your computer
To play it safe, right after your data loss, you should turn off the computer. Even the routine operation of the operating system depends on reads and writes from and to the hard drive, and your lost data can be overwritten in one of those.
5. Protect the hard drive
Remove the hard drive from the computer and connect another one, even an old one, as long as it had an operating system installed, so you can boot up your computer and later on analyse the hard drive where data loss happened. As an alternative, you can install your hard drive in another working computer, as a secondary drive, so you can access it without writing to it directly.
If your data loss happened because of a virus attack, be sure to have anti-virus software installed on the new hard drive.
Rescue disks to the rescue: If you are afraid of taking your computer apart, and you have a pre-prepared “rescue disk”, you can boot your computer from a bootable floppy disk, CD or DVD and go from there.
6. Chose your data recovery software
There are several freeware choices on the Internet, as well as many demos of well known commercial software programs.
You can try, at your own risk experimenting with these programs. In any case, if you have any questions, doubts, or don’t have the technical expertise to recover the lost data by yourself, you can always consult a data recovery company in your area.
Scenario b) happens when hard drive failure occurs.
A hard disk failure occurs when it becomes impossible to access the hard drive, due to internal or external factors. The factors vary, but the most common one if known as “head crash” – the head that reads the magnetic surface of the disk touches the metal surface, grinding against it and making normal reads impossible.
What makes up a hard drive? Platters, a motor, reading/writing heads and head actuators. The platters rotate using the motor and the heads read and write information in the place they are moved to by the actuator arm.
1. Shut off the computer and don’t try to restart it
When a physical error occurs in a hard drive, the best thing to do is not to try to restart the computer system. Further damage can be done to the hard drive if you try a restart.
2. Secure the hard drive
If your hard drive failed because of an external problem, you should preserve the hard drive as-is. This means that, for instance if you had a flood and the hard drive came in contact with water, you should preserve the hard drive in water, and never try to open or dry it by yourself.
My computer was underwater! In this case, the best thing to do is to take your hard drive out and store it in a plastic container full of water. You will send that container to the data recovery company.
2. Choosing a data recovery company
When a physical error occurs you shouldn’t try to fix it by yourself. Many times components must be repaired or even replaced and that can only happen in a clean room environment.
To maximise your chances of recovery, you should quickly find a data recovery company near you.
There are 4 main things you should consider when choosing a data recovery company:
a) The right equipment. The company you choose should have the right means to analyse and recover your lost data. Ask directly if they have at least one class 100 clean room.
b) A partnership opportunity. Will that company forge a partnership with your company? Do they offer training and long-term advices on how to better protect your data?
c) Expertise. Does that company specialize in the media you are trying to recover?
d) List of clients. Check out their website and the list of past clients. Does that list include big names, and a wide array of different industries? That is always a plus.
3. Send the hard drive for analysis
Most data recovery companies don’t charge you anything if they can’t recover your data. They will probably give you an estimate on how much you are going to spend before you have to pay anything, so take advantage of that.
Shop around for better prices, but remember step 2 – sometimes it’s worth it to pay something extra, if you get better equipment and a better track record working for you.
When you decide, send your hard drive in for an estimate. Use preferably the wrapping material that came with your hard drive. If you bought the hard drive along with your computer, use a soft wrapping material, such as an anti-static electrostatic discharge (ESD) bag. Use foam to secure the hard drive inside and prevent sudden movements.
David Marques
Technical director
Data Recover Center
Recuperação de dados
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Photo recovery software’s - need and importance
Photo recovery software’s - need and importance
By Andrew Watson
The digital age has ushered in an era of convenience. Today it is possible to carry out thousands of activities with the help of our desktop. Digital cameras have emerged as an off shoot of this technological advancement. Cameras upported by new computer technologies have become an important source for self expression. Multimedia applications have come to occupy monstrous spaces on hard disks. Flash cards and memory cards today hold as much of information as USB drives.
Virtual albums and photo galleries have sprawled up on networking and photo sharing sites. This is because photo capturing and sharing has become much easier today. You can choose from a variety of camera and pick one most suited to your skills or requirements. The digital cameras store data on digital chip or removable media unlike regular camera that use photographic plate. The flash cards or removable cards offer high re-record-ability, power-free storage, small form factor, and rugged environmental specifications. There are few more advantages of using flash cards.
• Flash memory is noiseless.
• It allows faster access.
• It is smaller in size.
• It is lighter.
• It has no moving parts
• It offers high density storage.
Compact Flash is the main storage device used in digital cameras. It is a physical interface which is smaller than, but electrically identical to, the ATA interface. That is, it appears as a hard disk of some defined size and has a tiny IDE . Though this apparatus appears technologically sound, it is not fool proof. There is always a possibility of data loss. And in this expensive world of digital photography, losing your precious photographs is the last thing you want. One Accidental format, unwanted deletion or memory card corruption can spoil thousands of dollars worth of your effort. Your entire trips and photographs taken painstakingly may be ruined forever. To prevent this situation we must observe some basic precautions. They are:
• Always read your camera manual properly.
• Keep it handy while you travel.
• Always keep your batteries charged and have an extra memory card with you.
• Maintain your card back up regularly.
• Keep the camera away from extreme weather conditions and electronic disturbances.
• Check for their compatibility when using them with computer applications or photo editing software’s.
• Don’t panic if you suspect data loss. Avoid storing photographs on the same card till repair is carried out.
• Seek professional data recovery help.
In spite of our best efforts we still lose out on something and our silly mistakes may land us in trouble. Especially if you are a photography professional .Thank god there are photo recovery software’s. These software’s are useful for recovering photo / images after corruption due to the card being pulled out while the camera is on or turning the camera off during a write process They recover digital photo, images, audio files even after formatting of the digital storage media. The recovery is also possible for accidentally deleted photographs.
Stellar Information Systems offers Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery Software that provides complete recovery for lost, deleted and formatted digital photos and audio files from removable media- after an accidental deletion, media format or corruption of media. Using this software is simple because of its interactive interface. The demo version of this software can be downloaded at http://www.stellarinfo.com/digital-media-recovery.htm
In spite of the availability of recovery software’s data safety cannot be completely guaranteed. This is precisely why everybody recommends regular data backup. The digital tide is still fresh. Our digital dreams are yet in their infancy and any mistake at this stage is enough to shatter them.Data recovery software’s prevent us from this disastrous situation. May be they are costly but are definitely worth a buy. After all nothing in the world is as precious as those photographs which capture you’re well deserved once in a life time holiday.
Andrew Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
By Andrew Watson
The digital age has ushered in an era of convenience. Today it is possible to carry out thousands of activities with the help of our desktop. Digital cameras have emerged as an off shoot of this technological advancement. Cameras upported by new computer technologies have become an important source for self expression. Multimedia applications have come to occupy monstrous spaces on hard disks. Flash cards and memory cards today hold as much of information as USB drives.
Virtual albums and photo galleries have sprawled up on networking and photo sharing sites. This is because photo capturing and sharing has become much easier today. You can choose from a variety of camera and pick one most suited to your skills or requirements. The digital cameras store data on digital chip or removable media unlike regular camera that use photographic plate. The flash cards or removable cards offer high re-record-ability, power-free storage, small form factor, and rugged environmental specifications. There are few more advantages of using flash cards.
• Flash memory is noiseless.
• It allows faster access.
• It is smaller in size.
• It is lighter.
• It has no moving parts
• It offers high density storage.
Compact Flash is the main storage device used in digital cameras. It is a physical interface which is smaller than, but electrically identical to, the ATA interface. That is, it appears as a hard disk of some defined size and has a tiny IDE . Though this apparatus appears technologically sound, it is not fool proof. There is always a possibility of data loss. And in this expensive world of digital photography, losing your precious photographs is the last thing you want. One Accidental format, unwanted deletion or memory card corruption can spoil thousands of dollars worth of your effort. Your entire trips and photographs taken painstakingly may be ruined forever. To prevent this situation we must observe some basic precautions. They are:
• Always read your camera manual properly.
• Keep it handy while you travel.
• Always keep your batteries charged and have an extra memory card with you.
• Maintain your card back up regularly.
• Keep the camera away from extreme weather conditions and electronic disturbances.
• Check for their compatibility when using them with computer applications or photo editing software’s.
• Don’t panic if you suspect data loss. Avoid storing photographs on the same card till repair is carried out.
• Seek professional data recovery help.
In spite of our best efforts we still lose out on something and our silly mistakes may land us in trouble. Especially if you are a photography professional .Thank god there are photo recovery software’s. These software’s are useful for recovering photo / images after corruption due to the card being pulled out while the camera is on or turning the camera off during a write process They recover digital photo, images, audio files even after formatting of the digital storage media. The recovery is also possible for accidentally deleted photographs.
Stellar Information Systems offers Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery Software that provides complete recovery for lost, deleted and formatted digital photos and audio files from removable media- after an accidental deletion, media format or corruption of media. Using this software is simple because of its interactive interface. The demo version of this software can be downloaded at http://www.stellarinfo.com/digital-media-recovery.htm
In spite of the availability of recovery software’s data safety cannot be completely guaranteed. This is precisely why everybody recommends regular data backup. The digital tide is still fresh. Our digital dreams are yet in their infancy and any mistake at this stage is enough to shatter them.Data recovery software’s prevent us from this disastrous situation. May be they are costly but are definitely worth a buy. After all nothing in the world is as precious as those photographs which capture you’re well deserved once in a life time holiday.
Andrew Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
Windows Registry Repair Software: Freedom To Manage Your Data
Windows Registry Repair Software: Freedom To Manage Your Data
By Arvind Singh
A Windows registry is an information tank that stores all information about operating system hardware and all other softwares residing in your PC. Working similar to heart in human body, it pumps out the information to be used as instructions while running any program. With passage of time, it gets cluttered and need a fix. Thanks to windows registry repair software that gets into action to avid the malfunctioning and crashes of PC.
This windows registry repair software scans the information and makes necessary changes analyzing, detailing and removing the useless information. Various functions that are carried to improve stability and performance of system are:
Cleaning windows registry and fixing error (if any).
Prevent crashes, reboots and lock-ups.
Increase your computer stability and ability to perform
Well, a good news is that the windows registry repair software is available for absolute no cost, that is, it has now been the window registry repair freeware. Many websites and companies are providing windows registry repair free downloads. However, the registry repair software may be distinguished at each site.
Well, commonly recommended registry repair softwares may be lined up as:
Tune-up Utility: it is considered to be the most complete software in the market with the benefits of defragging the registry.
Registry Mechanic: a simple utility checker fixing most common of problems seeks to be more focused at its work.
XP Repair Pro: it is advanced registry software that is quiet quick, smooth in its functioning and effective. Its benefit lies in its ability to provide great graphical user interface design.
However, a common benefit with all these software lies in the re-location of deleted information if the user feels uncomfortable. Hence, with this software user can enjoy the freedom to manage the data clutter free.
Author is admin and technical expert associated with development of computer security and performance enhancing software like Registry Cleaner, Anti Spyware, Window Cleaner, Anti Spam Filter. Visit: Home Page. Learn secrets for an efficient Registry Repair. Visit PCMantra informative Resource Center to read more about the products and their usage.
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
By Arvind Singh
A Windows registry is an information tank that stores all information about operating system hardware and all other softwares residing in your PC. Working similar to heart in human body, it pumps out the information to be used as instructions while running any program. With passage of time, it gets cluttered and need a fix. Thanks to windows registry repair software that gets into action to avid the malfunctioning and crashes of PC.
This windows registry repair software scans the information and makes necessary changes analyzing, detailing and removing the useless information. Various functions that are carried to improve stability and performance of system are:
Cleaning windows registry and fixing error (if any).
Prevent crashes, reboots and lock-ups.
Increase your computer stability and ability to perform
Well, a good news is that the windows registry repair software is available for absolute no cost, that is, it has now been the window registry repair freeware. Many websites and companies are providing windows registry repair free downloads. However, the registry repair software may be distinguished at each site.
Well, commonly recommended registry repair softwares may be lined up as:
Tune-up Utility: it is considered to be the most complete software in the market with the benefits of defragging the registry.
Registry Mechanic: a simple utility checker fixing most common of problems seeks to be more focused at its work.
XP Repair Pro: it is advanced registry software that is quiet quick, smooth in its functioning and effective. Its benefit lies in its ability to provide great graphical user interface design.
However, a common benefit with all these software lies in the re-location of deleted information if the user feels uncomfortable. Hence, with this software user can enjoy the freedom to manage the data clutter free.
Author is admin and technical expert associated with development of computer security and performance enhancing software like Registry Cleaner, Anti Spyware, Window Cleaner, Anti Spam Filter. Visit: Home Page. Learn secrets for an efficient Registry Repair. Visit PCMantra informative Resource Center to read more about the products and their usage.
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
How To Watch Satellite TV On PC Using PC Satellite TV Software Now
How To Watch Satellite TV On PC Using PC Satellite TV Software Now
By Davion Wong Wong
The world has changed. People used to have more patience than they are today. This is why you see many questions posed on how to watch satellite TV on PC instantly. It seems that we are rushing into everything, even in terms of leisure and relaxation like catching a movie or watching TV. Fortunately, this has also propelled TV entertainment to make big steps in developing the latest technology for us to watch quality satellite TV. This article is going to show you how to watch satellite TV on PC using software and how it compares to using subscriber-based TV service.
Such software has been developed by software developers after 7 years of development and tested by many users worldwide.
Some details here:
1. It can be downloaded instantly from online retail stores for a fee.
2. The installation is quite and simple. Concise manuals are available to guide you through the download and installation sequence. Most people have no problem with running a software at all.
3. It allows you to watch programs like sports, weather, news, music and listen to radio stations. There are a total of over 3000 TV channels to watch from.
4. The software allows you to watch satellite TV on PC and tune into channels from over 78 countries worldwide.
5. It allows people of different language groups to watch. Programs come in English, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch and more.
6. There is no monthly fee to pay. Pay once for the software and you get to use it for life. It costs you lower than $50.
7. You also get to watch satellite TV channels that are not available in your countries like Cubavision, Venezuela TV and so on.
How does it compare with using subscriber-based TV services?
In terms of variety of TV programs, it is clear that the software can offer you more. At the same time, the number of TV channels outnumber the standard TV packages you get from the services. Even if you somehow manage to top up the package to match that offered by the software, it would have cost you hundreds a month. The installation of software is also hassle-free and does not require any satellite dish at all.
From what we can see, it is not difficult to understand why so many families are using software to watch satellite TV on PC nowadays. If you are keen, check out my satellite TV blog to discover more.
Davion is a self-proclaimed TV fanatic. Read more on how you can instantly watch satellite TV on PC, tuning into hundreds of LIVE sports channels, news channels and movies for zilch dollar. Also read his wildly popular article on how to watch satellite TV on PC instantly for pennies.
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
By Davion Wong Wong
The world has changed. People used to have more patience than they are today. This is why you see many questions posed on how to watch satellite TV on PC instantly. It seems that we are rushing into everything, even in terms of leisure and relaxation like catching a movie or watching TV. Fortunately, this has also propelled TV entertainment to make big steps in developing the latest technology for us to watch quality satellite TV. This article is going to show you how to watch satellite TV on PC using software and how it compares to using subscriber-based TV service.
Such software has been developed by software developers after 7 years of development and tested by many users worldwide.
Some details here:
1. It can be downloaded instantly from online retail stores for a fee.
2. The installation is quite and simple. Concise manuals are available to guide you through the download and installation sequence. Most people have no problem with running a software at all.
3. It allows you to watch programs like sports, weather, news, music and listen to radio stations. There are a total of over 3000 TV channels to watch from.
4. The software allows you to watch satellite TV on PC and tune into channels from over 78 countries worldwide.
5. It allows people of different language groups to watch. Programs come in English, Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch and more.
6. There is no monthly fee to pay. Pay once for the software and you get to use it for life. It costs you lower than $50.
7. You also get to watch satellite TV channels that are not available in your countries like Cubavision, Venezuela TV and so on.
How does it compare with using subscriber-based TV services?
In terms of variety of TV programs, it is clear that the software can offer you more. At the same time, the number of TV channels outnumber the standard TV packages you get from the services. Even if you somehow manage to top up the package to match that offered by the software, it would have cost you hundreds a month. The installation of software is also hassle-free and does not require any satellite dish at all.
From what we can see, it is not difficult to understand why so many families are using software to watch satellite TV on PC nowadays. If you are keen, check out my satellite TV blog to discover more.
Davion is a self-proclaimed TV fanatic. Read more on how you can instantly watch satellite TV on PC, tuning into hundreds of LIVE sports channels, news channels and movies for zilch dollar. Also read his wildly popular article on how to watch satellite TV on PC instantly for pennies.
Article Source: http://www.free-articles-zone.com
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