Allen Sood

Several users upgrade their operating systems from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista. But in case if any error during the setup process, rollback phase is initiated. When you run the rollback phase, your system returns to previous installation of Microsoft Windows operating system. But there is ...

In Linux computers, dd (data definition) command-line utility offers several advantages such as converting raw data or low-level copying of data from hard drive to any other storage media. The command is used to copy the file system and is capable of copying specified number of data blocks or bytes....

Mac OS X uses a number of file systems including HFS, HFS+, HFSX and HFS Wrapper. In some situations where file system issues take place, you may find out some entries in the system log that indicates some error message or other problems. Such log entries signify few 'fseventsd and synchronization p...

When you need to reinstall your Mac OS X operating system, might be due to system crash, operating system malfunction, removing system errors or to switch to later version, the Mac installation disk provides you several options to perform the operation. Some of the options among them may lead to dat...

The NTFS (New Technology File System) supports several file and volume-level feature, which might cause the hard drive space to be either reported as lost or misreported. You might come across this behavior of NTFS file system if the volume suddenly becomes very full and you could not access files a...

When you attempt to start you Microsoft Windows XP- based computer, the system might appear to hang (stop responding) with a black, empty screen immediately after the POST (Power-On Self Test) operation completes. The situation occurs just before the MS Windows XP logo appears on your system's scree...

HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it look like the HFS volume and not the HFS+ volume to your system. The HFS Wrapper file system proves beneficial in computers, which does not sup...

In a computer system, hard drive stores all of your mission-critical data, operating system and applications. The hard drive is very prone to failure and may encounter a number of problems that lead to data loss. No matter what hardware and software you are using, the system crash and data loss may ...

In Microsoft Windows computer, boot record is the most critical data structure that enables booting of your system and make your system usable. In some situations, when you start your Microsoft Windows computer, you might find some errors related to missing boot record. These errors prevent you from...

Losing the Windows hard drive partitions could seem very frustrating, specifically when your complete life and work routine depends upon your computer. In order to prevent loss of hard drive partitions and data and unnecessary stress, this is significant to retrieve lost partitions. This is possible...

In Microsoft Windows, Bootcfg.exe is a command-line utility that is used to modify Boot.ini file. It has a function, which scan the hard drive of your computer and then add them to existing Boot.ini file or creates a new Boot.ini file if it doesn't exist. You can use Bootcfg.exe command for adding e...

In Mac OS X, Disk Utility is used to perform several disk related tasks. It is beneficial in creating, converting, compressing and encrypting disk images, checking the SMART status of hard drive, verifying the disk integrity, mounting or unmounting the hard drive, checking and repairing file system ...

Every computer file system uses a driver through which the operating system interfaces with the file system code. For instance, NTFS (New Technology File System) of Windows operating system uses Ntfs.sys file. It is an API (Application Programing Interface) that works as an interface between file sy...

The System Configuration tool in Microsoft Windows automates the routine steps, which Microsoft Customer Support Services professionals use while diagnosing system configuration problems. While using this tool for changing system configuration, you could select check boxes for eliminating problems t...

.plist are the preference files of Mac OS X, which are named after the application linked to them. As the name suggests, preferences are the customized user settings that it performs for an application. Most of these preference files are located in a folder called Preferences in the Library folder o...

Windows Server 2003 doesn't support all FTDisk (fault-tolerant) volumes that have ever existed in Windows NT Server 4.0 installed computer system. For this reason, when you upgrade your computer to Windows Server 2003, some of dynamic volumes might remain inaccessible. Along with other symptoms, you...

Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP2) and its earlier versions do not provide support for 48-bit LBA (Logical Block Addressing), which is a technology that extends the IDE ATA/ATAPI hard drive capacity beyond standard limit of 137.4 GB. To enable it, you should install the latest Windows 2000 Service Pack...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is the latest release of Mac OS X family of operating systems with major updates and advanced features over its previous members. The installation of Snow leopard requires partition table of disk to be in clean state. Snow Leopard installer will fail if it finds any issues...

Mac OS X includes Disk Utility that allows performing disk tasks, such as formatting, repairing, partitioning, changing partition scheme and more. On occasion, the tool might fail to repair the disk, generally when you are using it from within Mac OS X system. It requires you to execute administrati...

Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard, the latest release of Mac OS X family of operating systems, can only boot from GUID partition table disks installed on Intel-based Macintosh computers. So, if you try to use a former PowerPC hard drive as the startup disk for an Intel-based Macintosh computer with Snow ...

A dual-boot between Windows XP and Windows Vista allows you to choose any of the operating systems while booting. You might encounter issues when you find your Windows Vista partition inaccesible and unreadable. If you fail to restore from your present backup in such cases, you are recommended to us...

On a Windows installed computer, you can install Linux as the second operating system. To proceed Linux installation, you need to create /boot partition using free space available on the hard disk or by shrinking the existing Windows partition. You are not recommended to abort the Linux installation...

Dynamic disks support different volume types including fault-tolerant mirrored volumes. Each dynamic disk contains an LDM database at its end. When you create a mirror volume, the LDM database records two component entries for each one-half of the mirror. At times, when you try to create or add such...

Boot Camp Beta is a Boot Camp version available for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This version has now expired and systems installed with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and higher are only able to use the improved version of the application that comes included in the operating system. The basic requirements to run B...

Most of the firmware can be updated and give your hardware new capabilities and features. Updating the firmware can even change the GUI and battery life. Apple provides such updates in various downloads for an Intel-based Macintosh computer system. But sometimes, you might observe abrupt system beha...

Restore disc(s) come shipped with your Mac computer and allow you to restore Apple software. A Mac OS X 10.2 Restore disc is deprived of restoring some applications including Classic Support, if you have installed Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). To reinstall these applications, you might need to perform some...

From time to time, generally because of virus infection and improper system shutdown like situations, FAT file system boot sector of your Windows computer might get damaged. If the partition containing operating system files or it is an active primary partition, it could prevent the computer system ...

Sometimes your NT Based Windows operating system might not start if "multi()" syntax is used in Boot.ini file on X86-based computer and their first sector of hard drive partition on which Microsoft Windows is installed is 4 GB or more on the hard drive. That is, if cumulative size of other hard driv...

In Microsoft Windows operating system, unexpected system shutdown and disk corruption are the highest contributing factors for partition loss. The partition loss in these cases could be indicated by STOP errors on NTFS hard drive in Ntfs.sys file. The disk corruption and dirty system shutdown situat...

In Microsoft Windows based computer, when the boot process fails on a system with mirrored boot drive, and failure is resulted by an issues that has struck both mirror and primary partitions, such as corrupt or bad device drivers or other system changes, using the Fault Tolerance device doesn't enab...

Fragmentation is a common problem with Microsoft Windows operating system. When you save a file on Windows hard drive, it gets fragmented into several parts. Excessive fragmentation of files might decrease the system performance and you need to defragment the hard drive. Windows provides Disk Defrag...

NTFS or New Technology File System is an advanced file system for Microsoft Windows operating system. NTFS is more reliable than the FAT file system as it supports journalizing, which prevents file system corruption and data loss situations in case of improper system shutdown. But in some cases, whe...

HFS Plus (HFS+) is the most widely used, reliable and advanced file system, introduced by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X operating system. The HFS+ file system is made up of several objects or data structure and Catalog File is one of them. The catalog file is used by HFS+ file system to maintain critical ...

mksf.ext3 is a Linux command that allows you to create a Linux file system (ext3), generally in a hard disk partition. When executing the command, you need to specify the device name the file system should reside on. The command creates the file system with ext3 journal. If you execute this command ...

In a Linux system, files, blocks, directories, sockets and other items are referred by corresponding file descriptors. If your system is reporting errors that the file descriptor is bad, one of possible causes is that file system is corrupt and thus, you require restoring from backup. But if backup ...

Disk Utility is an extremely important and useful tool in Mac OS X that is used to carry out a number of hard drive related operations and disk resizing is one of them. Using Disk Utility, you can easily resize your Mac OS X hard drive without losing your valuable data stored on the drive. But in so...

Ext3 (or extended file system) is used as the default file system for many of the Linux distributions. Since it is a journaled file system, it removes the need of running file system check after you encounter unexpected system shutdown. It also supports online file system growth and HTree indexing f...

LILO (LInux LOader) is the standard boot loader used for Linux systems. When you start a LILO installed system, it undergoes two major stages to boot successfully: first stage (in boot sector) and second stage (in /boot/boot .b file). LILO finds all the required sector addresses in a map file called...

LVM or Logical Volume Manager for Linux is responsible for managing mass-storage devices like disk drives. It allows you to add or replace disks, resize disk partition, take snapshots and resize dynamic volumes etc. LVM metadata holds critical system information and if it gets corrupted, you cannot ...

HFS+ or HFS Plus is an advanced file system designed by Apple Inc. for replacing their HFS (Hierarchical File System) as primary file system, which was used in Mac OS. The HFS file system volumes are made of various metadata structures such as Catalog File, Volume Header, Allocation File and more. T...

SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is the feature included in Linux that offers several security policies using LSM (Linux Security Modules) in Linux Kernel. In other words, it is the set of security modifications that you can apply to your Linux system. The policies applied allow you to set your sys...

Linux Root directory is the initial point, from where the system starts looking for the files stored on the hard disk. Each file and folder that you store on your Linux-based system is marked under this root directory. It is denoted by ´/´. The Linux root directory further subdivides int...

Partitioning a Linux based hard drive means dividing it into many logical drives, each of which is considered as an independent disk. Linux supports different disk partitioning software such as cfdisk (curses based version of fdisk), parted (GNU partition editor), sfdisk (command line version of fdi...

The HFS (Hierarchical File System) is the most important component of Mac OS X computer. It provides high stability, data availability and access speed. This file system is made of various components and these components perform given task. These components are useful in improving the speed to your ...

fstab (also referred as file system table) is an important system configuration file in Linux. Located at /etc/fstab, this file lists all available disk and disk partitions. This file is used to determine disk initialization information and is usually used by mount command. Generally, while booting ...

Linux boot process proceeds in steps. At first, BIOS selects the boot device and loads the boot sector. The boot manager then loads the kernel image in RAM to execute and run the setup code. Kernel initializes all the installed devices, switches the CPU from Real Mode to Protected Mode, loads the co...

CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is the standard check process that different files use to detect corruption inconsistencies, if any. Using this check, Linux systems ensure that kernel image hasn´t changed after it was built. If system finds any mismatch between the original and current value, it...

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the standard boot loader used in Linux systems. When you turn on a Linux based computer, the system uses MBR (Master Boot Record) to load initial bootstrap program. This MBR contains GRUB stage 1, which further loads GRUB stage 1.5 or stage 2 directly. GRUB stage 1...

Jailbreak is the process of privilege escalation (a process of exploiting the design flow in a software, in order to gain access of protected resources) tool in Mac OS X operating system. This process includes breaking out of the chroot (a process of changing the obvious disk root directory) or bypa...

Linux primarily supports Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS file systems. All the files are organized in directories, which are further arranged in a tree-structure format. The root directory (which is represented by ´/´) serve as the trunk of this tree, from where all the directories originate. I...

Mac OS X is a powerful and reliable computer operating system, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It provides better performance and high availability of your critical data. But like other operating systems, sometimes Mac OS X may also face problems at startup and may not allow you to access your ...

Mac OS X provides a utility to perform disk related tasks. These tasks include creation of disk images, mounting/un-mounting file system, enabling/disabling journaling, verifying disk integrity, erasing/formatting/partitioning hard drive and checking S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reportin...

Under certain situations where fsck command line utility and Disk Utility might report overlapped extent errors in Mac OS X operating system. They may fail to detect and repair the file system issues. Due to the same, the Mac file system problem persists and your critical data remains inaccessible. ...

Most of the application and system software provide periodic updates to benefit the user by added features and functionalities of the software. You can easily install these updates by downloading them from the Internet. Although, updates are helpful, but at times installing them may make the softwar...

In Linux operating system, the superblock stores important information about the files, folders, inode tables, block group size, disk block map and file system. Corruption in superblock primarily occurs due to file system damage, metadata structure malfunctioning, software bugs and more. Two major c...

HFS Plus is a file system with general volume format in Mac OS X. Out of all basic structures that these volumes use, Catalog File is the one that keeps records of all its files and directories. It is a B*-tree, which is divided into fixed-size nodes of 4 KB each. There are four basic types of nodes...

On Mac OS X hard disk, a file usually exits as fragments. Mac systems refer these fragments as extents. To hold information about these fragments, a catalog file, called as extents B-tree, is used. But sometimes, you may observe errors with these extents. In such cases, the corresponding file become...

A Linux Kernel program acts as a nucleus of a computer operating system. This central component is the first part of the operating system that gets loaded into the memory during the booting process. Furthermore, the services offered by this program are required continuously from the starting to the ...

To access the multiple features and functions of two different operating systems, a user installs two or more operating systems on different partitions of the storage media. The user can boot any one particular operating system at the starting of the computer system. However, the booting process in ...

Partitions created in the hard drive enable you to install different operating systems. A partition table is positioned at the first sector (cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1, Master Boot Record) of every hard drive. This table contains the information about locations and sizes on the hard drive. Corr...

A boot Loader is a small and vital program that allows you to load the operating system in the computer´s memory. Most commonly used Linux boot loaders are Linux Loader (LILO), Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), and Tiny PIC. You can install and replace a new boot loader with a previously instal...

Linux systems use ext2, ext3 and reiserFS file systems in general. For all these file systems, inode is a significant metadata structure. Inode keeps record of each file or directory on the drive together with of other metadata structures. For accessing any of files, directories or file system objec...

Mac OS X Disk Utility is the tool to perform disk related tasks like disk mounting, disabling or enabling disk journaling, disk erasing, verifying and repairing disk and many similar. But in few Mac OS X versions, the utility is not found to function correctly. Specifically in Leopard, when it comes...

Mac OS is the most efficient and competent OS now a days. This operating system has several added features along with the features of the earlier operating systems of this series. Although Leopard is more powerful and full features operating system from Apple, but it has a huge bug. In this operatin...

The most widely used operating system Mac which is as well defined and reliable from Apple Inc. it is very efficient and effective as compared with other operating system for is low rate of to problems or failures as compared to other operating systems like Windows and Linux. But no system is fully ...

When you start your Mac Tiger computer after an unsuccessful software update, it freezes on "Starting Mac OS X" screen. The system does not boot and all your data becomes inaccessible. To overcome such problems, Mac Data Recovery is required. This is a very critical situation for a Mac user where al...

ReiserFS supports journaling and is used in many Linux distributions. When it suffers inconsistencies, reiserfsck can correct it. Reiserfsck is more like a Linux Recovery tool that can help replaying the transactions, detecting and repairing damaged file system for the specified device. The basic sy...

Ext2, ext3 and ReiserFS file systems are the three most popular Linux file systems. While ext3 and ReiserFS are journaling file systems, ext2 doesn´t support it. Thus for ext2, there is no automatic provision that it may rebuild after power failure. That´s the reason why Linux Data Recov...

The hard disk is the most widely used storage device today and is the important part of your computer system. It can store a huge amount of data and information, no matter what the type of information is. It also have operating system and other application software installed and without this your co...

Microsoft Windows 2000 family of server products supports running clustering service. Thus servers running cluster service and connected into server clusters are able to balance load and provide high availability of required services and back-end applications. These servers can also give failover su...

The disk image is a file that contains all the contents and structure of your storage device. Creating disk image is the most convenient method of backing up your precious data stored on the hard drive. There are several different file formats used to create hard drive image in Mac operating system ...

When you try to start a Windows XP computer system, you may receive an error message related to BIOS settings, computer system files, operating system files, drivers and applications. Such error messages halt the booting process and make the data saved in the hard disk inaccessible. If there is no r...

Mac OS X v10.4, Tiger is widely used as desktop as well as server operating system. The operating system offers several advanced features like fast searching option with Spotlight, Safari to meet web browsing needs, Automator as a scripting tool and more, which make Tiger suitable for all IT profess...

When you attempt to access any file, directory or volume from a Linux hard drive, you might receive any of the following error messages:"Inode entry of the file is deleted""File not found""File <file name> is inaccessible"These error messages take place because of corruption to the Block Group...

Mac iLife is an Apple provided software suite which includes several digital data management tools like iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iWeb, iDVD and Garageband. In order to install iLife ´04, we can make use of its installation CDs or DVD that come with the computer system. Alternatively, Mac OS X 1...

Xserve is the 1-U rack-mounted Macintosh server computer provided by Apple Inc. Initially, it featured display adapter, optical drive, one or two PowerPC G4 processors and up to four disks configured as RAID 1 or 0. At present, Xserve runs on two quad-core Xeon processors and in Xserve Cluster Node ...

Microsoft Outlook is the world´s most preferred E-Mail client because of its features and simplicity. Various Outlook versions are used by users as per their existing usage requirements to communicate efficiently and above all to store all the e-mails locally. The possibility of an error messa...

Macintosh HFS Plus file system has superseded its predecessor HFS due to support to larger files, improved design, better data manageability and protection and Unicode support to name its files and folders and more. Also known as HFS Extended and HFS+, this file system is comprised of different data...

Mac OS X facilitates encrypting information in home folder through FileVault, which thus helps protecting the files. FileVault uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm to encrypt the home directory and the Encrypted File System (EFS) is mounted and unmounted as the user logs in and out of t...

Leopard (Mac OS X v10.5) adds to the Mac OS X version family with certain quality features and tools and if any data loss occurs, Mac data recovery can be called for. This Mac system software is available in two forms: desktop version and server version and features two valuable attributes: Screen s...

Most of the Linux users, from system administrators to general desktop users, have used the tool called boot loader. It is a utility that loads operating system into main memory during the boot process. Different variations of boot loader tool provide different levels of functionality and support. I...

QuickTime made the multimedia world easier for Mac users. This is basically a multimedia architecture which helps dealing with sounds, compressed images and real-time movies. The software supports various sound, text, animation, digital video, image, media clip and music formats. Apple keeps updatin...

In Microsoft Outlook, local copies of all the e-mails, calendars, contacts, tasks and more are saved in a data file named Personal Storage (PST) file. The size of PST increases when more e-mails with or without attachments get added to the PST file. As the size of PST file grows, the chances of MS O...

The Personal Storage (PST) Files enable the user to store all kind of data files which consist of business critical information. The PST is the easiest way to distinguish between your stored personal and professional data. For example, a user who has a PST that contains more than 10 GB of data norma...

A Disk utility in an operating system performs disk related tasks such as partitioning, disk formatting, mounting and unmounting disks, verifying and repairing permissions; formation, compression and conversion of disk images and more. But, this has been found that due to certain reasons, the disk u...

The computers are so essential for us in our day to day life. It is because of the features they possess and their decreasing cost in terms of hardware and software. Also, to keep our computing experience pleasant we need to regularly backup data. The common methods are by installing an automated ba...

Every new file version of any operating system comes with a number of added features and functions. The same thing is with Linux flavors also. All the users like to take benefit of these advanced and new features and upgrade to the later versions. One such operating system file version is Kubunto 8....

Although, Linux is a reliable and stable operating system, but sometimes it may crash unexpectedly. While booting a Linux system, you may get the below given error message:"ext2fs partition type 0x83. ....ext3-fs: journal inode is deleted....mount: error 22 mounting ext3 error 2 mounting name switch...

Outlook security updates offers data security from network intrusions and helps making PST away from attacks. Security updates are the shield against what attackers plan to harm the data and hence the user. Security updates 925938 and 929969 for Outlook 2003 comes in the same category and helps prot...

In Mac computers, File Vault is a system which protects your important data from unauthorized access. It is available in Mac OS X 10.3 and later versions.It uses an encrypted file system, which are mounted and un-mounted when user logs in or out of the account or system. The home directory of user a...

The term synchronization defines one of two unique but associated notions: synchronization or data and synchronization of processes. The process synchronization means to the concept that several individual processes are to handshake or join up at certain point to reach an agreement or perform certai...

Feeling safe in your office? You think that none of the disaster can strike you. Then, open your eyes to the wide perspectives. Disaster can hit you with its maximim force and may shatter your misapprehension of data safety. Even a simple power outage can rupture your business, though flood, earthqu...

There are some situations where you may need to resize your Linux hard drive volumes. Volume resizing means increasing/decreasing the size of your hard drive volume. It is generally done to increase the size of a specific volume to store particular data. Though it is helpful to resize the hard drive...

Imagine what would it take, if one day you lose all your data? Some bucks, time or your existence? Well, the real data loss can cost upon all these three things or perhaps more than this. You have no resource to recreate, no valid backup and on top of that, data is extremely important. So what would...

Data recovery turns the data loss beliefs into misconceptions. The data, which was considered to be lost forever once you delete it, is now under the scope of data recovery. Even the serious incidents, in which you format the drive, face a hard drive crash or virus hostages your system, are no issue...

Upgrading to the later version of any application or system software is very common process for a computer user. It gives you the possibility to take advantages of a number of advanced features. But sometimes, while upgrading, you may lose your important data. For example, when you upgrade to Of...

MS SQL Server is the most popular and widely used Relation Database Management System. It allows you to organize your data in an easy and effective way. You can process the stored data as per your requirements and can perform desired operations. SQL Server is the well-known RDBMS from reliability an...

Though, we don´t agree to admit it now that the small electronic box, called hard drive, is the driving factor of our business and professional lives, but the fact will remain unaltered. We experience the differences in our lives when the perspiring, disgusted and terrible feeling hostages our...

Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used email client. It stores all of your emails, contacts and other personal data into PST file. Day by day the size of PST file continuously increases. The increased size of PST file could affect the performance of Outlook and in Outlook 2002 and earlier version...

When you try to run Microsoft Outlook 2002 or earlier version, or when you attempt to open the PST (Personal Folder File), you may encounter the following error message:"Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116."Here Outlook.pst is the PST file which is holding all your important emails, notes, ...

A hard drive is a permanent data storage media, which stores a vast amount of data on a magnetic surface, coated on the hard drive platters. Hard drive uses unbending rotating platters. Every platter has planer magnetic surface on that digital data is stored. Information is written and accessed on/f...

Do you see your Linux system running slow? The one reason could be the fragmentation in the hard disk. Sounds strange to hear? Till now, you might have heard that Linux file system don´t need defragging as whole of the system is organized and lets file saving in a sequential way. But, this is ...

what is fstab?This is the main configuration file which retains all the information about the partitions and storage devices of your Linux system, which also shows how you can initialize and integrate them. Thus this is the main file, used while mounting so as to determine the options usable.Where i...

Linux is the most popular open source operating system. It is the most outstanding example of free software and it can be customized according to the users´ need. It is a well known operating system for servers as it offers better reliability, usability, and availability like features. A numbe...

The unbootable condition with Mac systems is common, resulted from a number of reasons. Among them, the one could be the experimenting acts of users which have changed the permissions of key system resources; the act can be unintentional even. When the system finds that the key system file permissio...

Microsoft Outlook allows its users to use ActiveX controls to have benefit of added features. An ActiveX control is the component program object which can be re-used by several applications within a computer system or among several computers on a network. The technique for creating the ActiveX contr...

With the progressively more quick growth of the business and personal communication and information, the Microsoft Outlook PST file, which holds all your emails, notes, contacts, journal and other personal data, also expands considerably. Due to this rapid growth of PST file, the performance of Outl...

File system holds all the information about the files located on the hard disk. Without this, your operating system would not be able to locate the data as then no memory pointer would be there. So for any operating system, including Linux, this is the top priority task that file system should remai...

Data recovery allows coping with the heavy duty data loss due to the aggressive and unexpected sources. In addition to this, there have also been cases where data recovery has set a benchmark in recovering the data, lost due to fire, earthquake, water damage, operator´s own mistakes and virus ...

Security updates are released by the manufacturers so as to detach few of the bugs out of the actual installation of system software, which had been the real issue. These are to improve the actual product. But Security Update 2008-007 for Mac systems has changed this clause in some of the cases. Act...

Data recovery is the salvaging of lost or inaccessible data from a storage media which can not be accessed in normal way. Data recovery is being ever more used and is a very significant process these days. Your data may become inaccessible or may get lost due to a variety of reasons. The most common...

Who can be chosen for data recovery? What is the next step when everything goes wrong with data? The stress really increases when the data has get lost due to hardware fault, physical mishap, user error, virus attack or any other reason. May be for few, the present data loss situation is forcing fir...

Gparted has benefited the Linux users to re-size the partitions with preservation of partition contents, but its use sometimes becomes too problematic which can force you to think of Linux recovery. When the process is on its way, the read/write errors may halt the phenomenon.After this horrifying i...

There is not anything more stressful than losing precious data from your computer hard drive or any other storage media. You may have heard of ´Data Recovery´ if you have encountered with such sort of situations. The concise meaning of data recovery is extracting lost data from hard driv...

Mac OS X 10.5.5 update has come up with the certain new improvements, which a Mac user will always want to have. This update is helpful in enhancing the operating system capabilities with respect to stability, security and compatibility. Certain application related problems have also been fixed.But ...

Something that spins at thousands of rotations per minute has the obvious chance to catch some ups and downs in workings. Hard drives, which are considered as the wonderful creation of mechanical technology, heap up the chances of failure with the each rotation of its platters, still we count upon t...

Snap Server is NAS (Network Attached Storage) computer device. Mainly used to backup data, this appliance is also used to backup data which is using the Novell networking compatible application. But few of the error messages in Snap server log indicate that you can´t restore the data and hence...

Imagine the first day with MS Outlook. It was responding instantly to your commands, was free from any crashes or error messages, was quickly switching between folders and was opening or closing rapidly. But now the time has changed. MS Outlook has now maintained a large sized PST containing thousan...

You rely on different storage media for keeping your life savings- data. But the hard fact is that all the storage media have a definite time period of survival, after which the slow performance or ultimately death is certain. The retention power of the media is getting down as you are adding speed ...

Soft recovery is the most important process of Exchange Server recovery and is carried out in case of EDB corruption. It is performed through Eseutil /r. In the default scenario of soft recovery, an external even unpredictably stops the Exchange Server database, but the log and database files remain intact. When the database is remounted, Exchange Server reads the checkpoint files and starts to replay the transaction log which is listed as the checkpoint log. If the checkpoint files do not exist, replay begins with the oldest log file exists in the transaction log.

Sometimes when you try to install device drivers on your Linux system, you might fail to do it. It could be due to incompatibility of the operating system Kernel with your device driver or device. To work around this issue, you need to install the latest version of Linux kernel. It may include ´forcedeth´ patch, which is capable of resolving most of the incompatibility issues

When you attempt to mount Exchange Server storage group, you may come across with an error message, which might be similar to the following one:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: ESE98Event Category: Logging/RecoveryEvent ID: 0Date: 4/16/2001Time: 7:53:27 PMUser: N/AComputer: EXCHANGE1Description: Information Store (3128) Database recovery on 'D:\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\PRIV4.edb' failed with error -1216. The database is not in the state expected at the first reference of this database in the log files. It is likely that a file copy of this database was restored, but not all log files since the file copy was made are currently available. Please contact PSS for further assistance. After this error message, the storage group becomes inaccessible and you can not retrieve even a single bit of data from it. Grounds of the troubleThis error message generally occurs if you are missing the log files at the beginning of the required range. It indicates that you won´t be able to rerun any log data at all into referenced database. You could rerun log data for a specific database if the last reliable log is present there, and then only if there is a continuous stream of logs pass this "anchor" log.Such problems indicate the database corruption, which requires repairing of the same. In such situations, even Eseutil can not repair the database as there is no valid checkpoint file. In these circumstances, you need for a tool which can perform EDB recovery without taking any regard from the database log files. Such tools are known as Exchange Server recovery software. Exchange Server recovery software are easy to use applications which can do EDB repair in almost all of the situations of EDB corruption. These softwares generally do not require any prior and high technical knowledge to carry out Exchange Server repair. Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most advanced and the highly influential EDB recovery software which allows you to carry out effective Exchange Server repair in each and every case of corruption. This software can perform Exchange Server recovery for all the EDB objects including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, and many alike. This software is powerful enough to carry out EDB recovery for all file versions of Exchange Server.

Information Store Server Error in Exchange ServerWhen you attempt to start "Information Store Server" of your Exchange Server, you may receive the following error message:"The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service returned service specific error 4294966274."After this exasperating e...

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Sometimes, when you start your iPod, you may experience any one of the below given situations with a sad iPod icon in your iPod (of any generation such as iPod Shuffle, Nano, Touch):iPod does not get recognized in iTunesiPod does not get recognized in Finder (Mac OS X) or iPod does not get recognize...

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