Monday, July 8, 2013

EVALUATION PROCESS OF DATA RECOVERY

Everybody else except to those who really doesn't know, almost of all hard drives fails due to normal use conditions. Hard drive failures due to normal wear and tear may happen and occur anytime and it takes several months or years to occur. Whatever the case could that be, you should always be aware of the options that are available to you and what you might do in case this computer condition appears.

Data Recovery is the most useful type and the best way to retrieve data’s that has been lost or deleted from a hard drive when it fails. Data recovery can restore files that have been lost, no matter what the cause may be. Most experienced computer technicians can restore your hard drive in just a couple of days.

Evaluating the hard drive is very important before it can be rebuilt. This process gives the technician a good chance to go through your hard drive, determine what cause the failure, and what steps do they need to do to restore your data.

Firstly, technician must determine if the problem is whether physical, logical or maybe both. Physical failures results hardware malfunctions, while Logical failures lie in the software. Once they (technician) found the problem and its cause, they can plan out the repair process and what he needs to do to recover all the necessary information which are on the drive.

After gaining access to the drive, technician will then create a mirror image of the drive and continue the process. Data structure comes next, it’s a process of determining how much data could be saved. It’s an evaluation process which is very time consuming, as the technician will have to go through each sector step by step and locate all the necessary files or data that can be retrieved and can’t be retrieved.

Once it is completed, results will be delivered to you. Technicians normally go over everything with you, and explain to you the options that may be available. This is where they will discuss about the pricing, as well as how long it will take. Technicians will let you know how much  data can be retrieved, and what they think had cause the problem to occur. Of course, you, as the owner of the hard drive the technician had repaired, always get a second opinion if you choose to, or just go ahead and use what the technician’s idea. 

In rare events where no data can be retrieved, the technicians will tell you ahead that they can’t do anything for your hard drive. Bear in mind that before the technicians do anything to retrieve your hard drive, they should and would always contact you first to find out what you really want to do with your hard drive.

Most of the times, recovering data’s will only take less than 48 hours maximum. The process may take a couple of days, since it is very time consuming, and depending on the parts that are needed. If you hire a technician which has all the necessary experience with this kind of problem | data recovery processing, it won’t take long. On the other hand, if your hard drive has a lot of mechanical problems e.g hardware, it would take weeks before you found out anything.

Data recovery software can be downloaded here.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

HOW TO FIX TOUCHPAD NOT WORKING IN LAPTOP?

It is embarrassing when you work several hours on your computer, specifically on your laptop, doing some hard work and then suddenly, your laptop's touchpad became unresponsive. Have you tried to do everything just to make it work but still, nothing happens?

Most of the modernized laptops these days come with a touchpad mouse built into the computer. If you had tried to use the touchpad and the mouse pointer on screen is unresponsive, expect the worst, maybe you or anybody else had accidentally disable the touchpad using one of the Function keys without knowing that those keys were the reason and has the capability to disable and would be the reason why your touchpad mouse is unresponsive. 

To fix an unresponsive touchpad on your laptop, you need to re-enable or reactivate it again using the Function Keys on your laptops keyboard. This is done when you know the exact Function key to make it work again since this process varies on the kinds/different computer laptop manufacturer.

The following are the things needed to be done in order to reactivate the inactive touchpad on your laptop.

1. You should locate the "Fn" key in the lower right or left corner of the laptop keyboard. This "Fn" key 
               typically has different colored text in it.

2. After locating the "Fn" key, you now need to locate the function key (F1 to F12) key at the top of the 
                keyboard that disables or enables the touchpad on the laptop. This key usually has an icon that
                resembles a touchpad with a finger touching it or a touchpad with a diagonal line through it.

3. If you already located the specific keys needed to reactivate/re-enable your disabled touchpad, you need
                to press the "Fn" key and the touchpad Function key simultaneously to reactivate the touchpad on 
                your laptop. Verify that its working by moving your finger on the touchpad. Press the combination
                anytime to disable the touchpad again.


Notes:

There are some laptop computers which had a colored light in the upper left or right corner of the touchpad.  
                         Double tap the light on the touchpad with your finger to re-enable the touchpad.

If ever you not sure with the function keys to enable and disables the touchpad, cautiously try each 
                         combination and attempt to use the touchpad to know if its working after its combination.

Additional Infos:

                 
                  Toshiba computers uses "F9" or "F5" to disable and enable the touchpad.
                   Asus computers use "F3" or "F7" to disable and enable the touchpad.
                     Acer computers use "F7" to disable and enable the touchpad.
                      Dell computers uses "F7" to disable and enable the touchpad.
                       Mac computers uses "F2" to disable and enable the touchpad.
                        Lenovo computers uses "Fn" + F8" combination to disable and enable the touchpad.
                         Gateway computers uses "Fm+F6" combinations.
                          Sony VAIO computers uses "Fn" + "F1" combination to disable and enable the touchpad.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

NO DISPLAY AFTER TURNING THE COMPUTER ON.

Today, I would like to help you how to fix this problem.

Have you ever encountered such problem when after a couple of hours using your computer for some works, turning it off to have some rest, and after some couple of hours rest, when turning your computer on to get some work running again, you can't find any display on your screen?

You even tried to turn off all the power switches being connected to your computer, and unplugged the source from the outlet. And finding after that your computer won't be of help since after turning it on again, no display would even seen on the screen.

Its kinda frustrating and can get us a bit nervous thinking that we cannot afford to buy a new monitor since its far expensive. Now, the good news is, we can fixed it through some technical observations and manipulations.

Have you heard a beep after a couple of seconds from turning your computer on? If you don't, then you can try open the cover of your system unit, pull out the ram seated on its slot, and try to clean it by erasing the gold part of the ram. But of course, you need to turn your computer totally off to avoid electrocution. After doing this, clean the ram slot using some smooth brush and gently brush the ram slot and noticing its clear from dust and dirts, put back the ram and set to it that it is gently and properly seated to its slot.

Upon doing this, try to plugged all the necessary cords to the power outlets, and turn on your computer. If you hear some beeps after turning the computer for a couple of seconds, and then you'll find a display or posts in your monitor, this means the computer is already running in good state and that you've done a great job.

There were some instances that this problem has anything to do with your videocard, but we will try to sort it all out on our next meeting..


BASIC ERROR MESSAGES AND HOW TO FIX THEM INSTANTLY.

Hi, this article will let you know some of the most basic and known problems being encountered by ourselves at present. Regardless to what the model or what platform our computers are running, we should able to do some technical precautions in avoiding the following problems.

Non-System Disk or Disk Error Message
1.  If you are getting this message when you boot up your computer, it usually means there is a media
        inserted on a certain drive (CD/DVD/USB Flash Drive) on your computer. Having such medias may 
        interfere your computer booting process. Remove the media from its drive and restart your computer. 
        This could fixed the problem.

Computer Annoyingly Rebooting and Crashing Randomly
2. This may cause by a virus or an overheating may be the cause of this problem.
         You need to update your anti-virus and then scan for viruses to get rid of the problem.
         If overheating may be one of the reason, check to ensure, the vents in the computer's system case 
         were not block and that there is a good air flow inside & outside your computer.