Free Data Recovery from Windows 7 Partition

Now day’s Windows data recovery becomes a very necessary task for tech people. They lost their data either because of RAW Partition format or due to accidental deletion. There are much more other reasons for data lose but after losing data and realizing its Importance people only blame their self for what they did. Anyways, whatever be the reason for data lose, you always need a reliable tool for successful and safe recovery like Stellar Phoenix data recovery.

What you should do to increase the chances of successful recovery

First, make Sure yourself that you really have lost your data by checking recycle bin and searching your files in all partitions of the hard disk. 

Avoid Use of Hard Drive: IT Experts always advise, if you have lost your important data from hard drive and now want it back then first remove it from the system to prevent data overwritten issue. Prevention of hard drive use prevents data overwritten issue and increases the chances of recovery as well.  

Where You Can Look for Data Recovery 

Google DropBox:  Have your data is really vanished from hard drive? Now, what you can do to get your precious files back. Just calm and think about the Google dropbox, might be your data is safely stored there. Check dropbox to search your lost files, if you don’t find your files there then go forward for another resolution.  

Check for Backup: Usually, we make a backup of our important data in external hard drives or somewhere else in the computer. Try to remind if you also have taken backup of your lost data, if don’t find backup in external hard drives or in the computer then don’t get upset. Just use the Windows 7 Backup and Restore Tool to recover your lost data. 

Just click on Windows icon and click on control penal and go to system and maintenance and then click on Restore and Backup. Then now click on restore my files. By doing this you will easily restore your all lost files.

Previous Versions: If this doesn’t help you then choose the previous version to restore your lost data. 

Case 1 : If you have lost some of your files from particular folders then do right click on that folder and click on Restore previous versions

Case 2:  If data lost from particular partition then do right click on that partition and click on restore previous version.

Test Disk Tool: If still you are unable to get your lost files back then use free test disk tool to recover your lost data. Test disk tool is the most powerful tool for recovering lost data from hard disk. Test disk tool undelete files from only FAT, NTFS and Ext file system partitions.

If test disk tool doesn’t help you in getting your lost data back then try Professional data Recovery tool. The safest method to restore deleted files from hard disk is with free data recovery software like Stellar Phoenix. Which will helps you to restore your deleted files with easy and quick recovery steps. You can download this tool from here. This tool works efficiently to recover lost or deleted data from hard disk drives and supports various Windows OS such as Windows 7/8/10, Vista, XP, etc.

What Does Blue Screen of Death Means?

Blue Screen of death occurs in Computer when Operating system stops responding and booting drive to starts system. When system faces fatal error or system crash then a blue screen appears on the computer with the message that your computer is in trouble and it needs to restart.

In other words, the Blue Screen of death or BSOD is always unsolicited screen which can appear at any time. This error occurs when Windows face issue from which it can’t recover.  This is the most annoying error that any Windows OS experience. This error comes out because of the low-level software crashing or faulty hardware.

Why Face Blue Screen of Death?

Blue Screen generally appears because of hardware or driver’s software problem. However, the standard software or applications don’t create these types of issues. For example, if an application crashes then it will do so without harming the operating system.

Let’s Read Some Most Common Causes that Make System Unbootable:

Windows Encounter “Stop Error” Message: A blue screen occurs when operating system receives a Stop Error.  This error stops windows to work and system may crash. In this situation Windows can only do one thing, it can stop the computer and restart itself. Most of the time this action leads data inaccessible, as programs don’t get the chance to save data.  User should continuously save their data to prevent data loss from any kind of problems.

New Hardware:  If you have just installed the new hardware on your system; it may cause blue screen of death issue due to manufacturing fault. Always make sure that you are running the appropriate drives for that device.

New Software: This may cause Blue Screen of Death rarely but cannot be avoided. If you recently installed any software and after installation facing error then immediately uninstall that software and see if the problem goes away.

Viruses and Malware: These may cause BSOD very occasionally but still it is counted as the major cause. To avoid this issue always make sure that your security software is up to date as possible and perform a full virus scan.

Ways to Fix Blue Screen of Death

1.    Remind if you changed anything recently: As per the study the most communal cause found for BSOD is the recent changes in systems hardware. This is related with new drive installation and upgrading.  Drives are software that allows external hard drives to communicate with Windows OS. If your computer has restore point then reload it and see if that can help you out.

2.    Check Computers Temperature: Sometimes it happen when overheating May leads malfunction and which directly tends to blue screen of death.  Overheating May occurs because of culprit in CPU and graphic card. Check CPU and Graphic card to know either they are working or not.

3.    Check hard Drive: As we know hard drives plays a very important role to run computer system successfully. But when it gets affected by viruses and malware then it stops working and make windows unbootable. You should check your hard drive and if find any issues then send it to repairing center or for software issue download any Windows drive recovery tool.

4.    Analyze the Crash Report: As old people said any problem comes with solution so analyze crash report might be you will get solution in it.

5.    Check Mother Board: It happens when motherboard gets damaged and requires replacement. Check whether your computer's motherboard is in the good situation or not.

6.    Reinstall Windows: To make unbootable system bootable just reinstall your Windows however this may vanish your all precious data but you can recover it with any free data recovery tool.

What is the Bad Sector in Hard Drive & How to Fix It?

A disk is made up of number of sectors which enable user to read and write on hard disk drive. It is the minimum storage unit of disk. All the files must store at least single sector. Basically bad sectors are those sectors which are damaged and are unusable part in hard disk. Bad sectors make operating system incapable to read or access information. If any hard drive has bad sectors then it will not allow user to access information which is stored in it.

Bad sectors can be categorized in two types: soft & hard. Soft bad sectors are those sectors that are not working properly while sectors that are physically damaged come under hard bad sectors. Bad sectors in a hard drive are the main cause of hard drive failure but these bad sectors are easily fixed by free utilities such as error checking disk tool, test disk tool, etc.  These utilities can easily find and mark them as unusable so that operating system skip those sectors in future and allow user to access their hard drive data.

When a disk utility detects bad sector in a hard drive then it remapped that sector as free and the file that was unreadable because of bad sector gets lost. To avoid data lose issue; you should always keep backup of your important data while using bad sector checking tools.

How to Fix Bad Sector in Hard Drive with Error Check Disk Utility

Before Running Check Disk Utility close all the running programs because if any program which is running has bad sectors then check disk utility can’t scan or fix bad sector of that program.

Step 1:- Click on Start and then click on Computer.

Step 2:- Do right click on the drive you want to check for bad sector and then click on properties

Step 3:- Properties Window will appear, Go-to Tools Tab and click on Check now button

Step 4:- After click on check now button, a new window will be appear that will provide two options: “Automatically Fix File System Errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sector”. Just check the box next to “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sector” option and then click on start.

 Step 5:- After clicking on start it will start scanning your drive and if find any bad sector then automatically fix them.

After completing the Disk checking program you will receive successful scanned message on your computer screen.

To view bad sector report you can click see details to read the bad sector report.

 

Alternate Method 

Use Command prompt to check your hard drive partitions

Step1 : Press Window + R and Type cmd and then enter

Step2 : Command Prompt Windows will appear type below command

chkdsk E(drive name): /F (type f to fix error) and then enter

It will scan the whole partition for errors and fix them to make your drive healthy

Have Lost Your Data Due to Bad Sectors of Drive?

If you have already lost your data because of bad sectors issue then don’t be so tensed. Your data is not vanished from hard drive and is still available for recovery. To get your lost data back, download Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery – free edition. You can save up-to 1 GB recovered data without any cost.

Have Formatted Your Hard Drive - What to Do to Recover Data?

Hard drives can be easily formatted to avoid various problems such as lack of security, storage capacity issue, drive not accessible, drive affected by malware and many more reasons. Most of the times user formats their hard drive to make hard drive clean and ready for new data storage. I know, most of the people take backup of their data before formatting the drive but some people just forget to backup as my friend did. He had formatted his drive without backup of all collage photographs. Thanks to Stellar Data recovery, we had managed to recover our all photographs using its Partition recovery software.

For instance let’s assume that you have formatted your hard drive with the assumption that you have backup of your formatted data. But after a moment you realize that the formatted hard drive had lots of your important files and now they are not present in backup. What you will do now? Possibly you will look into the recycle bin or try to restore your files from previous version. But what if you don’t find your files in recycle bin or in previous version? What cause of action you will take to get your files back?

Let’s know what you can do to restore your files from Formatted Hard Drive

First don’t panic and remove that hard drive from the computer, so that lost data cannot be overwritten by other files.

Second, install another hard drive into your computer or if you already have two hard drives in the system then install free data recovery software on the other one.

Connect formatted hard drive as the external one and run free data recovery software. But before downloading free data recovery software make sure that the data recovery tool is reliable and fully efficient to recover lost data from formatted hard drive. As we have already discussed above about the free data recovery software of stellar for successful recovery from formatted hard drive. So you can download it to recover your precious data from its professional website. After downloading stellar data recovery software you will find its interface very easy and user friendly.

It will give you option to select hard drive for recovery, just select your formatted hard drive and click on recovery button from right side penal.

This tool’s free version will allows you to scan the whole formatted hard drive and also give preview of your all lost files. After taking preview of deleted files you can click on recovery button to go forward for save process. With its free version you can save up to 1 GB data for free. If you want to recover data above than 1 GB limit then you can download its full version.