Data Recovery Tips

Regardless of the particular data recovery software that you are using, data recovery is a fairly automatic process. You recover the files or you do not. Here in this website we will discuss and give you some data recovery tips which may help you get the most from your data recovery process :

• The most and important data recovery tip for you is - always keep a current backup of your work in progress. Even if you have to reinstall an operating system and applications from scratch, you can easily restore the backup of your work and keep going. If you have no backup, and you are unable to recover the data, you may need to start from scratch. Periodically, you should practice restoring you backups to verify the media and restoration process. Backups would not do any good if you do not know how to restore them.
• Always make sure that, the suspect drive is specified correctly in the CMOS Setup. Changing a drives geometry can render the drive inaccessible - until the original drive geometry setting are restored. This happens frequently when moving hard drives from one system to another system.

cant delete access denied in Windows XP

Have you got this message ? Saying "Cannot delete file: Access is denied" in a small window.

OK. Restart your computer and press F8 to start computer in Safe Mode. then delete your file or files. And restart again your PC.

Thats all.

Windows 7 - DVD Driver Installation

1. If you have an IDE master/slave setup, confirm that your drives are properly jumpered (cable select can cause this problem)
2. Check your Bios and see if you are using IDE emulation for your SATA settings. If so change this to AHCI
3. Locate the system drivers for your motherboard and slipstream them in with vlite
4. Get a 4gig USB drive for 8 bucks (4 kingston microSD with usb adapter at newegg) and follow the instructions of Windows 7 installation and upgrade.

computer repair shops in chicago

List of Computer repair shops in Chicago :

1. Abco Typewriter Sales Svc
   307 South Blvd
   Oak Park, IL
   708-386-3690


2. Ace Computers
   1425 E Algonquin Rd
   Arlington Heights, IL
   847-952-6900


3. All Computer Medics
   727 N Addison Rd
   Villa Park, IL
   630-941-8600


4. All Things Computer
   3046 Desplaines Ave
   Riverside, IL
   708-447-8754


5. American Micro Systems
   17030 Oak Park Ave
   Tinley Park, IL
   708-342-0200


6. Apple Store
   679 N Michigan Ave
   Chicago, IL
   312-981-4104


7. Apple Store
   402 Oakbrook Ctr
   Oak Brook, IL
   630-573-7008


8. Apple Store
   2171 Northbrook Ct
   Northbrook, IL
   847-205-2020


9. Apple Store
   303 Woodfield Mall #K
   Schaumburg, IL
   847-240-6280


10. Apple Store
    109 Orchard Ctr #109
    Skokie, IL
    847-679-1801


11. Arx Computers
    Northbrook, IL
    847-962-4661


12. Best Buy
    1000 W North Ave
    Chicago, IL
    312-988-4067


13. Best Buy
    350 W Army Trail Rd
    Bloomingdale, IL
    630-582-1070


14. Best Buy
    1432 Butterfield Rd
    Downers Grove, IL
    630-620-9040


15. Best Buy
    7401 Lemont Rd
    Downers Grove, IL
    630-663-0171

Computer Repair Shops in USA

List of Computer Repair Shops in US :

1. Computer repair shops in Chicago
   

There is no Audio when playing an audio CD in the DVD drive

This is a very common problem, specially during new DVD drive installation.

DVD movie stops when my Computer returns from a screen saver

For example, if a screen saver starts while a DVD movie is playing, you will only hear the audio. When you try to return from the screen saver ( by moving the mouse, for example ) the player may stop playing the DVD movie entirely.

To recover from this problem, you may need to exit and restart the player applet ( such as Windows Media player ) This is typically related to a problem with operating systems like Windows XP, and you may be able to fix this problem by updating Windows from the Microsoft website. In the meantime, you should disable the screen saver through the Display Properties dialog box. In some cases, the movie player may have an option that will prevent a screen saver from running during DVD playback.

DVD drive not detected

There are several possible reasons why a DVD drive may not be detected. First check the power connector attached to the drive, and make sure that the drive is not being powered from a Y-splitter power cable. Next step is, check the signal cable. Both SCSI and EIDE/UDMA signal cables must be attached securely to the drive. SCSI interfaces are complicated a bit by termination, so verify that any SCSI bus is properly terminated. Make sure that the drive is jumpered properly for its SCSI ID or EIDE/UDMA master or slave relationship. Finally, make sure that the DVD drives are installed and running. Check the drives under the Sound,Video and Game Controllers (or CD-ROM) entry of your Device Manager.

Audio is not being played by the sound card

In most cases, there is a problem with the CD audio connections or system mixer settings. Start with your disc and verify that the CD you are trying to play actually contains Red Book audio (don't try to play data CD's). Next, try playing the music CD with a set of headphones attached to the CD-ROM drive directly. If there is no audio from the headphone jack, adjust the volume control. If there is still no music, the drive is probably defective and should be replaced immediately.
Try playing WAV or MIDI files through the sound card(for example: try the Sounds icon in the Control Panel) and verify that the card's volume setting is adequate. If you cannot play any sounds at all, there may be a problem with the sound card or its drivers rather than with the CD-ROM drive. Open the sound card's mixer applet and verify that the CD audio cable is appropriate for your sound card and CD-ROM drive and see that it's attached securely at both ends. Try another CD audio cable.

Single mouse click works but double click is not working

This kind of problem occurs almost always, because the 'double-click speed' is set too high in the windows 98/Me/XP mouse properties dialog box. So, try to lowering the double-click speed. Under Windows 9x/Me, click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel. Double-click the Mouse icon, and adjust the Double-click Speed slider under the Buttons tab. With Windows XP, click Start -> Control Panel -> Printers and Other Hardware -> Mouse.

Problem : No Audio when playing an audio CD in the DVD drive

This is one of the common problem, during a new DVD drive installations. May be you did not connect the 4 wire CD audio cable between the DVD drive and the sound board. If so, the cable may be reversed or defective. Of course, if your are still using your original CD-ROM/R/RW drive and the CD drive is connected to the sound board, there will be no CD audio from the DVD drive. If the DVD drives audio cable is connected to the sound board, make sure that the CD audio input of your sound boards mixer applet is turned up to a reasonable level.

If you wish to continue using an existing CD drive as the CD audio drive, then you can still use audio from the DVD drive by using a patch cable to feed the headphone output signal from the drive to the sound cards line in the jack. Then, adjust the sound cards line in mixer so that you can hear audio from DVD headphone. Also, you can upgrade the sound card to a model that provides two different CD audio channel inputs.

USB pointing devices do not work in Safe Mode

After you try to start your computer in Safe Mode, your computer may not respond to any keyboard commands, or you may receive an error message such as "Windows did not detect a mouse attached to a computer,You can safely attach a serial mouse now". The problem occurs if you are using a USB keyboard or mouse, But your system BIOS does not support USB devices in the real mode. Windows does not support the use of a USB keyboard or mouse in Safe Mode or in real mode unless the computers BIOS supports these devices. To work around this problem, use a standard keyboard or mouse instead of a USB keyboard or mouse. To correct the trouble permanently, upgrade the motherboards BIOS to a version that provides real mode USB support.