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Data recovery after data loss on local computer

Although modern computer hardware is very reliable, in the event of computer failures users are likely to think that a problem lies in faulty equipment. As a matter of fact, 95% of such incidents generally account for operating system errors as well as software malfunction. As it turns out the more changes made to configuration of an operating system the less stable it works. Still one can not ignore this procedure while updating drivers or modifying system parameters and components. As a result, an operating system might be vulnerable to failures. A good case in point is unknown files deletion by users. These files as a rule are of crucial importance for runtime performance of OS and the deletion therefore results in operating system disability to run smoothly. Since backup usually is not practiced on personal computers, precious collection of documents, photos, films or songs might be inevitably lost.

Data loss on personal computer

Regarding software malfunction, typical problems here are those that can cause disc drive system logical corruption. These are primarily wrong installation of new software, disc management program failures - partitioning, logical drives creating, hard drive formatting, RAID-controller management program failures. Disc file system corruption in its turn can lead to partially or totally inaccessible information stored on a computer.

Moreover, computer reliability and its performance can be affected by the Internet viruses. Users who regularly surf the Internet are likely to have their computer infected with viruses, worms, etc. In fact, these might not be detected by anti-virus programs. An infected computer displays obvious symptoms which can be easily noticed. Among these are files damage, software modification. The most reliable solution to get rid from a dangerous virus is to reinstall an operating system and reformat hard drive. In this case all information stored on a computer will be totally deleted.

As you can see from the above examples, data collected over the years might be easily lost. Data loss is certainly a headache for users who realize the its value. In the majority of cases they do not have their lost data saved on additional media. Data recovery therefore is the only reasonable solution.

Specially designed UFS Explorer software helps to retrieve information in the following events:

data deletion caused by human errors
loss of files due to RAID-controller failure
data loss resulting from a RAID array disc crash
data loss on a virtual drive

One of the most frequent reasons of data loss is a human mistake. A user of a computer as well members of a family can delete files accidentally. Both deleted files recovery and logically corrupted files recovery are possible due to peculiarities of modern file systems. While formatting or deletion most data is not wiped out. Basically what happens is nothing else but file system parameters modification and any data references deletion. Information itself in a deleted file as a rule stays intact on a hard drive or RAID array. For this reason in nine times out of ten data loss caused by file system corruption is most likely to be recovered. UFS Explorer allows in a short space of time to retrieve lost valuable data from a hard disc drive or RAID array. It should be emphasized since UFS Explorer supports most commonly used file systems the chances of positive efficient recovery results in such cases are good indeed.

Recovery of information lost due to RAID controller failure is one more task successfully fulfilled with UFS Explorer. The disc array controller is a hardware device that manages the physical hard drives and presents them to the computer as logical units. Such unfavorable factors as power drops, emergency shutdown of a malfunctioning computer system, power circuit failures can lead to a RAID controller failure. As a result, it is impossible to access files stored on a RAID array.

Specialized version of UFS Explorer enables virtual reconstruction of an array and critical data recovery. One of the key beneficial features of UFS Explorer is ability to support the most widely used configurations of RAID arrays solutions as well as major algorithms for the placement of segments among the discs.

Apart from RAID controller failure, a crash of one or two RAID array discs is a common problem as well. It is noteworthy to emphasize that in a situation where survived RAID array discs do not tolerate array redundancy the only way out is data recovery service in a specialized laboratory.

The rest of the problems concerning crashed RAID array discs can be efficiently solved with UFS Explorer in the shortest possible time. Using unaffected discs, the high-qualitative software worked out by our company makes virtual reconstruction of a crashed RAID array. In the event of a single crashed disc in RAID 3, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 7 data recovery for UFS Explorer is an easy task. Just indicate a failed disc so as it can virtually reconstruct a RAID array. RAID 6 data recovery with UFS Explorer is possible only after one or two discs crash. RAID 1 data recovery requires a single healthy disc. Regarding other types of high performance RAID which are more fault-tolerant as well as those which enable more speedy data access (RAID 10, RAID 0+1, RAID 50 and others) you can effectively reconstruct them with UFS Explorer as well.

Data loss on workstation

Due to a computer complexity any workstation can stop working because of failures. These are often caused by incompatibility of hardware elements or outside factors, for example, power cut off, etc. Software failures as well as human errors can also result in a disability of a workstation. Virus attacks that can threaten information integrity can not be ignored either.

Due to these negative factors a company can run the risk of crucial data deletion. Since data backup is generally not practiced on employees' workstations all the above mentioned unfavorable conditions can lead to critical data loss. Instead of wasting precious daily time on inputing the lost information into a workstation it is more preferable to choose data recovery. In this case the costs of data recovery software are well lower in comparison with the expenses required to input lost data manually.

Our innovative technologies successfully utilized in UFS Explorer software allow to recover lost data. They give effective results in cases there is data loss caused by accidental file deletion, virus attacks, hardware failures due to electric power cut-off, software failures as well as hard drive formatting or partitioning. No matter which operating systems and programs are used on workstations qualitative and quick data recovery can be performed efficiently with UFS Explorer.

Besides, UFS Explorer is an excellent tool that helps to retrieve valuable lost data from different storage media as well as to rebuild and recover information from the most commonly used high performance RAID arrays that are often applied to increase access speed and data storage reliability.