Hard Detach May Cause Data Loss on External Hard Drive
Mahendra Pratap Singh
November 03, 2009
For integrity and safety of your data on external/removable hard drive, you should remove the hard drive properly. If you do "hot detach" of a removable hard drive from MS Windows Vista computer, the drive may not work properly next time when you try access data from it. At the same time, you may see some warning events in system log. This behavior renders all of your critical data inaccessible and cause serious data loss. In order to retrieve lost data in such circumstances, you need to go for hard drive recovery to get your valuable data back.
In a practical scenario, you may find the following events may logged into the System log of your Windows Vista computer:
"Event ID: 12
The device disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal."
Furthermore, if the file system of drive is NTFS, a warning message, which resembles the following might be logged in System log:
"Event ID: 57
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."
At this point, the drive become completely inaccessible and you encounter data loss. To gain access of your data, you need to find out the cause of this behavior and go for hard drive data recovery by sorting it out.
Root of the problem
This problem might take place when the disk is "surprise removed". For instance, this issue is caused if you remove the hard drive without using "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in notification area to stop the drive first.
NTFS (New Technology File System) uses transaction logging to offer a level of the fault tolerance. Under some circumstances, it might take long time for the transaction log to be completed. In this case, critical data structures on the drive may get damaged and you come across data loss situations.
In such critical situations, you need to opt for hard drive recovery software to retrieve all of the lost data from affected hard drive. The applications perform smooth recovery as they use advanced scanning techniques. The hard drive recovery tools have self-descriptive and simple graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound technical skills for recovery. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, the applications are completely safe to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most significant tool for quick and perfect recovery. It recover all of the FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions and stored data. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
Author is researching on the hard drive related problems and explains the situations that can cause data loss .Author has given solution to recover hard drive and suggested to use hard drive recovery software for lost data recovery.
In a practical scenario, you may find the following events may logged into the System log of your Windows Vista computer:
"Event ID: 12
The device disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal."
Furthermore, if the file system of drive is NTFS, a warning message, which resembles the following might be logged in System log:
"Event ID: 57
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."
At this point, the drive become completely inaccessible and you encounter data loss. To gain access of your data, you need to find out the cause of this behavior and go for hard drive data recovery by sorting it out.
Root of the problem
This problem might take place when the disk is "surprise removed". For instance, this issue is caused if you remove the hard drive without using "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in notification area to stop the drive first.
NTFS (New Technology File System) uses transaction logging to offer a level of the fault tolerance. Under some circumstances, it might take long time for the transaction log to be completed. In this case, critical data structures on the drive may get damaged and you come across data loss situations.
In such critical situations, you need to opt for hard drive recovery software to retrieve all of the lost data from affected hard drive. The applications perform smooth recovery as they use advanced scanning techniques. The hard drive recovery tools have self-descriptive and simple graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound technical skills for recovery. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, the applications are completely safe to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most significant tool for quick and perfect recovery. It recover all of the FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions and stored data. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
Author is researching on the hard drive related problems and explains the situations that can cause data loss .Author has given solution to recover hard drive and suggested to use hard drive recovery software for lost data recovery.
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