After upgrading Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1 Enterprise (RTM), the store app won’t launch anymore, hanging on the splash screen forever. Is there a trick to reset the store app or something? Restarting or killing the app didn’t work. There are no error messages in the event logs (TWinUI/Operational etc.). Solution: Found this on…
How do I create a Data Lifeguard Diagnostic disk (Floppy or CD)?You will need a blank, formatted floppy disk or a blank CD to create the diagnostic disk. To create a diagnostic disk, you can follow one of the procedures below:
OPTION 2: Creating a diagnostic floppy disk.
To test a Western Digital Serial ATA or EIDE hard drive for errors using the diagnostic disk, you can follow these steps:
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I’ve never quite got this. Just say you write a small program in any language at all which rolls some dice (just using dice as an example). After 600,000 rolls, each number would have been rolled around 100,000 times, which is what I’d expect. Why are there websites dedicated to ‘true randomness’? Surely, given the…
Disabling Auto-Relocation and SMART Attribute Processing
While the methods outlined in the previous section go a long way to obtaining an image of the data, other problems remain.
When drive firmware identifies a bad sector, it may remap the sector to a reserved area on the disk that is hidden from the user (Figure 3). This remapping is recorded in the drive defects table (G-list). Since the bad sector could not be read, the data residing in the substitute sector in the reserved area is not the original data. It might be null data or some other data in accordance with the vendor-specific firmware policy, or even previously remapped data in the case where the G-list was modified due to corruption.
Moreover, system software is unaware of the remapping process. When the drive is asked to retrieve data from a sector identified as bad, the drive firmware may automatically redirect the request to the alternate sector in the reserved area, without notifying the system before the error is returned. This redirection occurs despite the fact that the bad sector is likely still readable and only contains a small number of bytes with errors.
Figure 3: G-List Remapping
This process performed by drive firmware is known as bad sector auto-relocation. This process can and should be turned off before the imaging process begins. Auto-relocation on a drive with read instability not only obscures instances when non-original data is being read, it is also time-consuming and increases drive wear, possibly leading to increased read instability.
Effective imaging software should be able to turn off auto-relocation so that it can identify problem sectors for itself and take appropriate action, which ensures that the original data is being read.
Unfortunately, the ATA specification does not have a command to turn off auto-relocation. Therefore imaging software should use vendor-specific ATA commands to do this.
A similar problem exists with Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes. The drive firmware constantly recalculates SMART attributes and this processing creates a large amount of overhead that increases imaging time and the possibility of further drive degradation. Imaging software should be able to disable SMART attribute processing.
Other drive preconfiguration issues exist, but auto-relocation and SMART attributes are among the most important that imaging software should address.
Increasing Transfer Speed with UDMA Mode
Modern computers are equipped with drives and ATA controllers that are capable of the Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) mode of data transfer. With Direct Memory Access (DMA), the processor is freed from the task of data transfers to and from memory. UDMA can be thought of as an advanced DMA mode, and is defined as data transfer occurring on both the rise and fall of the clock pulse, thus doubling the transfer speed compared to ordinary DMA.
Both DMA and UDMA modes are in contrast to the earlier Programmed Input Output (PIO) mode in which the processor must perform the data transfer itself. Faster UDMA modes also require an 80-pin connector, instead of the 40-pin connector required for slower UDMA and DMA.
The advantages are obvious. Not only does UDMA speed up data transfer, but the processor is free to perform other tasks.
While modern system software is capable of using UDMA, imaging software should be able to use this data transfer mode on a hardware-level (bypassing system software) as well. If the source and destination drives are on separate IDE channels, read and write transfers can occur simultaneously, doubling the speed of the imaging process. Also, with the computer processor free, imaged data can be processed on the fly. These two advantages can only be achieved if the imaging software handles DMA/UDMA modes, bypassing system software. Most imaging tools currently available on the market use system software to access the drive and so don’t have these advantages.
If you deleted an important file from recycle bin that you really needed, do you have any way to get it back? Some people hit the fan and begin to drastically panic if the file they deleted was very important. In fact, you can recover deleted files from the Recycle Bin. The file you deleted from the recycle bin hasn’t actually been permanently erased yet, it is still hidden deep within your computer’s hard drive. All you need to do is know how to find it, and with the aid of new advanced software’s, finding and recovering that deleted file can be as simple as a few clicks of your mouse.
A common misconception is that once you delete a file from the Recycling Bin it has been erased forever, and it is no longer present on the Hard Drive. Luckily for you this is not true, you see when you click empty recycle bin, windows does not actually delete the files, Those commands just generally delete a file’s name from the directory so it won’t show up when the files are listed. But the information itself can live on until it is overwritten by new files. Therefore the file has not actually been deleted; instead the space that it occupied has been freed up and listed as re-use space. Now until that file is overwritten by new data your file is still there and can be retrieved.
The first thing you should do if you want to get your files back is to stop downloading or installing any new data on the hard drive. The reason being, that once you install new programs or download new data onto the Drive it could use up the space created by your deleted file and it will be a lot harder to recover. Having more available space on your hard drive will increase your chances of recovery, as Windows avoids using up space that has recently been freed; therefore if you have plenty of room on your hard drive it will use that before it touches the space from the deleted file. Although I still strongly recommend you act as soon as possible and do not download any new material to your hard drive, that way you will most certainly have your deleted files back.
Therefore in order to recover deleted files from the recycle bin you must obtain a good Undelete Software, these software’s can recover data from almost any data drive like hard disks, USB drives, Zip drives, SD Cards etc.. The software’s can also recover data from data cards in digital cameras and cell phones. The good news is that most Undelete Programs offer a Free Download, so you can try out their software at no cost to see if you are able to recover your deleted files from recycle bin.
Attribute changer
This application is designed to automate mass changes to file and folder attributes. It add’s itself to the context menus for folders and drives. You can establish filters and exceptions to fine tune the search process.
Fast File Renamer
A free program which can help you with the tedious task of renaming large numbers of files. It can be used by anyone who needs to keep large collections of files organized (such as mp3 files, image and graphics files, web-site-related files, system files).
FreeCommander
Free dual-pane Windows-Explorer replacement.
Media Convert
Free online media-file converter. Converts sound, video and text files to other formats.
ShellGem
A small free program that makes moving and copying files in Windows 95/98 easily. Once you install it, just right-click-drag any file, and ShellGEM opens a list of the drives on your system. You can then move through an unfolding tree of your system’s folders (no clicking required), and move or copy the file wherever you want.
The Rename
Program that allows you to rename a batch of files simply and quickly with many options.
Total Commander
Not free. A highly recommended shareware Explorer replacement program for Windows. Improved access to your local files through a two-pane interface, convenient access to remote FTP sites, access Zip files as directories, enhanced search, quick view, etc. Much better than the standard Windows explorer.
UnLock IT
Freeware program which enables you to unlock the files that are locked by some processes in your system. For Windows.
xplorer2 lite
Free file manager for Windows.
XXCopy
XXCOPY is a powerful superset of XCOPY using the same syntax. Command-line program for DOS and Windows.
