Its great exploration of data recovery technology has brought users professional hard drive recovery services. MiniTool Solution Ltd. has released several data recovery products like MiniTool Power Data Recovery, MiniTool Power CD DVD Recovery, MiniTool Photo Recovery Genius, and MiniTool Power Email Recovery for Outlook Express, etc. They all have won great popularity among users, especially MiniTool Power Data Recovery. MiniTool Power Data Recovery is much superior to other kinds of data recovery software. It provides users with more hard drive recovery services. The following picture is the main interface of MiniTool Power Data Recovery: 

The following is the detailed introduction to hard drive recovery services of MiniTool Power Data Recovery: 

Accidental deleting of data happens a lot while we are using computer. There are two kinds of accidental deletion: if you accidentally deleted data but did not empty recycle bin, you can still recover deleted data easily. You can open recycle bin and find the data, and then right click it. In the shortcut menu, select "Restore" option to restore the deleted data. Another situation is that you have already emptied the recycle bin. At that time, recovery work is not so easy. What you need is "Undelete Recovery" functional module of MiniTool Power Data Recovery. It scans partition fast and finds out deleted data. With MiniTool Power Data Recovery, undeleting data can be convenient and fast. 

Formatting partition is also a common management operation for computer users. We need to format partition while we want to clear a large number of data or change file system of partition. But generally, important data will be lost after formatting. "Damaged Partition Recovery" functional module of MiniTool Power Data Recovery can help you recover important data back. This functional module scans the partition and finds out lost data fast so that it can recover lost data more efficiently. In addition, "Undelete Recovery" functional module still can recover lost data caused by virus attack or partition damage with high efficiency. It shows the powerful performance of MiniTool Power Data Recovery sufficiently. 

Partition loss might be rare situation for common computer users. But once it happens, the result can be destructive. Sudden power outage while resizing partition, or accidentally removing partition, and other reasons all cause partition loss. Partition loss leads to a great amount of data loss. Recreating partition cannot solve this problem, and we can relay on "Lost Partition Recovery" of MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover lost data. It scans disk and finds out lost partition, and then recovers data from lost partition. Thus we can reduce the losses of partition loss. 

Digital Media Recovery of MiniTool Power Data Recovery
The most precious data for common computer users, when data loss occurs, might be individual photos and media files. But scanning the whole disk with data recovery software wastes much time, and finding out the photos to be recovered among the numerous data that is searched out is also a troublesome thing. Try "Digital Media Recovery" functional module of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, which only scans media files. After scanning, it even classifies files according to different file formats. This saves much time and work amount. It is rather practical for common computer users. 

"CD/DVD Recovery" functional module of MiniTool Power Data Recovery realizes accessing storage CD/DVD that is not accessible, and finding out data in it to back up data or perform other operations to the data. 

As a new boot method of operating system which is likely to replace BIOS, UEFI has been admitted by many computer users in virtue of its high system boot speed and the default disk type of GPT which supports hard disk larger than 3 TB. However, after you install Windows 8 with UEFI, do you feel annoyed about how to manage GPT disk? If you do, the following content will be helpful. You can know a method which will manage GPT disk well.

Windows 8 built-in disk management tool has many defects, so it can not meet users' demands for GPT disk partition management. If you want to do well partition management on Windows 8 installed through UEFI, Windows partition magic will be the best choice. And here, we suggest MiniTool Partition Wizard. This free partition magic is fully in support of UEFI and GPT and has comprehensive functions. Users can use it to manage Windows partition well.

Please visit the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to download MiniTool Partition Wizard. Then install and launch it. We'll see its main interface, as follows.

Select any GPT disk partition and users will see corresponding partition management functions shown under "Operations" column, for example, Format Partition, Delete Partition, and Move/Resize Partition, Extend Partition, Merge Partition, Split Partition, Copy Partition, and change cluster size without damaging partition data. Besides, this free partition magic also provides functions to copy and wipe disk. It can meet users' almost all demands for GPT disk partition management. Seen from this, as professional partition magic, MiniTool Partition Wizard is undeniably the best choice for partition management on Windows 8.

With the stock currently fetching 11 times his 2015 EPS estimate of 69 cents, which is unchanged today, LSI has “one of the lowest valuations in our coverage group on cross cycle estimates,” writes Moore.

Within the traditional hard disk drive controller chip business, where LSI has only one-third of the market versus two thirds for competitor Marvell Technology Group (MRVL), Moore thinks LSI has a chance to take share in the coming 12 months:

LSI is coming off a difficult year in 2013, as Marvell took away most of the Seagatenotebook business, and has been gaining share within Seagate enterprise. The offset to that, the LSI wins within a new customer (we believe Western Digital in the 1 TB desktop platform), have been slow to materialize. But with management saying on the earnings call that a new customer would ship “10s of millions of units” next year (at a $3.50 or so ASP, we believe) there is likely growth potential in HDD next year. We would anticipate that this WDC share remains controversial until LSI actually shows up in teardowns, as Marvell’s execution in hard drive SOCs has been very strong over the years. But we do think that the improved profitability of the hard drive industry warrants the investment required to maintain a second source. We assume 25 mm incremental units next year at $3.50, for about 3% incremental revenue growth. We have also seen Seagate’s enterprise business oscillate between LSI and Marvell in recent years, with Marvell taking significant share in 2013. We think that Seagate plans around this oscillation to essentially have dual custom development teams at their disposal. At the 28 nm node, we do think that LSI takes some of that share back over the course of next year. Overall, we project 5% growth in LSI’s HDD business in 2014, healthy for a business that has served as the primary growth overhang on the stock.

As far as solid-state drives, or SSDs, LSI had a tough year as personal computer use of the drives remained muted because of stable pricing of flash memory chips, which held back broader adoption, he writes. And flash suppliers such as Toshiba cozied up to Apple (AAPL) and Marvell, while the third-party flash plug-in card market where lsi sells controllers came under pressure. But Moore sees brighter times for LSI in 2014 serving a bunch of companies looking for merchant silicon to act as drive controllers:

Samsung (which makes it’s own controllers) gained substantial share, shrinking the merchant market; we estimate that Samsung has just over 30% share. LSI does participate with Samsung on SATA solutions but it’s a minority of their business. But Micron, Intel, Sandisk, and Toshiba all rely on 3rd party SSD controllers (some of them SoCs from Marvell or LSI which use some of their own IP). Hynix has tried to use Linkamedia to build SSD controllers but has struggled to drive any traction in the market. The ASIC/semi-custom approach is likely to become more the norm within this space.

more than 10 percent of the media sent to Kroll Ontrack has been previously opened, diminishing the chances of a successful recovery by more than 45 percent. This represents a large volume of unnecessary data loss when you consider that Kroll Ontrack processes more than 50,000 recoveries a year.

“As soon as a hard drive is opened, the ability to recover data from the media can be diminished,” said Adrian Briscoe, general manager – APAC, Kroll Ontrack. “Recovering data from a physically damaged hard drive is considerably more difficult than a logical failure. As a result, opening a failed drive should only happen in a professional and certified cleanroom <http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com.au/data-recovery-cleanroom/> environment with a laminar air flow system.”

A hard drive is a sealed unit, specifically designed to keep any debris from entering while it is in use. The read-write heads inside that drive are designed to float over the platter surface while it’s spinning, usually at speeds anywhere between 5,400 and 15,000 rpm. When dust particles enter the unit while it is spinning at full speed, the smallest of particles can make their way between the heads and the platter surface, causing the heads to crash.

Ontrack Data Recovery engineers diagnose all received drives to determine the condition of the media and data in a data recovery lab. Common discovered issues include: multiple bad sectors, damaged surfaces and malfunctioning head assembly due to instability or severe head crashes. If the media is diagnosed with a logical failure (non-physical), engineers use specialised tools to rebuild and repair damaged data structures, and then access and extract the data. In instances of physical damage, Ontrack Data Recovery engineers open the device within a cleanroom environment and assess the physical condition of the circuit boards and moving parts through a comprehensive and rigorous diagnostic process.

Do not immediately reformat your drive: Your data is very likely still on the drive. In the event you reformat your drive it will be far more challenging to regain the information using data recovery software should the drive manufacturers and Apple fail to deliver a fix. If you can mount your drive, check its capacity using 'Get Info', which should confirm data remains on drive.

Check for software updates: Check for software updates to LaCie or WD (and possibly other maker's) supplied drive software tools. These updates will be distributed via individual manufacturer Websites and/or via Apple. You should also check for firmware updates for your drive.

Try another Mac: If you can arrange to use a non-Mavericks Mac you should be able to check to ensure your data remains available on the drive. In some cases (OK, in most cases, but not everyone will have a spare WD RAID array to achieve this) you should consider backing up your data to another drive.

Use your own Mac: If all else fails you could try to return your Mac to its pre-Mavericks state using the OS X Recovery tools and your Time Machine backup (if you have one), or a cloned version of your pre-Maverick Mac or other such backup (if you have one). If you lack a pre-install backup then please, please backup in future. Once you restore your old OS you should be able to access files on your drive in order to back it up elsewhere before upgrading to Mavericks again.

Wait and see: The important thing is not to panic. WD is clearly looking into the problem that (I suspect) is likely based on the firm failing to audit its applications against Mavericks developer guidelines (WD says its software is "not new")

I anticipate a future manufacturer and/or Apple software patch will address this flaw -- hopefully data will not be corrupted or damaged, unless user's attempt to reformat these drives before a fix is released.

Improved housing has been a theme in 2013, but how much closer is the market to full recovery? And what will the coming year bring? The fact is, just as the downturn had markedly different impacts on different markets, the impact of the recovery has also been uneven across the country. DataQuick has researched this uneven recovery in detail with a comprehensive analysis of 12 diverse U.S. Counties. The study evaluates recent performance and pinpoints the key supply and demand drivers that are impacting overall sales volume and property appreciation in each market. Based on recent performance and key drivers, the study also provides direction on what to expect in each market in 2014. 

The fact that big data systems and applications must be supported by a fast and powerful recovery strategy is undeniable. There is clearly a growing need for more efficient ways to move massive data volumes over a WAN and to manage backup restoration from a holistic, enterprise-wide perspective.

Three approachesMeeting the goal of reliable big data backup and recovery requires careful planning and a willingness to, well… think big. Local and remote copies, virtual snapshots, and replication are three approaches businesses can use to safeguard their big data.

Local and remote copies are typically a mix of disk file backups and database utility backups. Disk file backups usually cost less than vendor-provided tools. On the other hand, vendor-supplied utilities, such as DB2's Unload and Image Copy utilities, can help users create disk-file backups with less time and effort.

The virtual snapshot method preserves the complete state of a server, often with the click of a single button. This copy process can be extremely fast, and also offers the promise of very fast recovery times. On the downside, if the recovery to points a time other than when the snapshot was created, all recent database changes must somehow be applied to the snapshot. That can be a difficult and time-consuming project. Another drawback, particularly for big data adopters, is storage capacity. A snapshot can require a doubling of storage capacity -- a frightening prospect for most big data recovery adopters, regardless of the media used.

Replication requires creating and storing a set of complete database images at a secondary site on a near-real time basis. The remote site then becomes the primary site in the event of a calamity. This approach's main benefits are that data is automatically secured at a safe, second location and that the recovery point objective (RPO) typically reaches almost to the point-in-time of the disaster.

While a significant number of businesses continue to make copies of physical tape and store them off-site, more companies are replacing their physical tape systems with disk-based backup and electronic replication. Electronic replication not only adds the advantages of speed and automation, it also enables firms to perform faster, more frequent, and more realistic disaster recovery testing than physical tape libraries. To control cost, a common approach many big data users employ is creating a large tier of optimized backup disks for storing short-term data for as long as possible (say three to eight years), then using tape for storing legacy data and other less frequently accessed information.

The Data Recovery Geeks has been indispensable to business establishments and families alike for retrieving irreplaceable documents stored in hard drives that fail to perform anymore. For over 3 decades the Company stands tall as one of the few data recovery services in the industry in providing affordable services that never fails a customer request.

The Company’s service has proven indispensable to large-scale business owners that save all its important records in the computer like client records and invoices. Losing such important records due to a possible hard drive crash can incur huge loss to business Companies. While recovery of such data can be done by any experienced data recovery service Company, delaying the process can cause a lot of hiccups in the smooth running of the business. For example, business establishments have to spend a lot of time trying to explain to annoyed clients why they could not offer them service at the right time due to certain hardware failures. Along with wasting a good number of working days giving explanations to an endless number of annoyed clients, this also indicates possible security threat to the clients. In the long run, clients will have second thoughts on dealing business with the same Company. The Data Recovery Geeks stands a class apart from other data recovery service for its speed. The Company understands that simply recovering the lost data alone will not help. When it concerns immediate contact with clients than the retrieval needs to be done fast so that clients will not notice the hardware failure.

The emergence of Windows server 2008 brings a host of surprises to server operating system users in view of stability, security performance, manageability, and network services, resulting great popularity. Still many are lured but reluctant to employ Windows server 2008 due to fear of compatibility concern. For example, disk management software compatible with previous operating systems such as Windows server 2003 and Windows XP may be incompatible with Windows Server 2008. Therefore, I would like to recommend user a disk management software by the name of MiniTool Partition Wizard which perfectly supports Windows Server 2008.

Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista; therefore, it shares much of the same architecture and functionality. Since the code base is common, it automatically comes with most of the technical, security, management and administrative features new to Windows Vista such as the rewritten networking stack (native IPv6, native wireless, speed and security improvements); improved image-based installation, deployment and recovery; improved diagnostics, monitoring, event logging and reporting tools; new security features such as BitLocker and ASLR; improved Windows Firewall with secure default configuration; .NET Framework 3.0 technologies, specifically Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Message Queuing and Windows Workflow Foundation; and the core kernel, memory and file system improvements. Processors and memory devices are modeled as Plug and Play devices, to allow hot-plugging of these devices. This allows the system resources to be partitioned dynamically using Dynamic Hardware Partitioning; each partition has its own memory, processor and I/O host bridge devices independent of other partitions.

Developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., MiniTool Partition Wizard is a powerful partition magic with user-friendly interfaces, easy operations and incredible functions that is perfectly compatible with Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS4, and NTFS5. Furthermore, MiniTool Partition Wizard can also manage GPT partition and convert dynamic disk to basic disk.

Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to merge partitions: 

Select any partition and click "Merge" at the toolbar.

Select the partition to be expanded and click "Next".

Note that those two partitions to be merged must be NTFS partitions or use should employ "Convert FAT to NTFS" to first convert FAT32 to NTFS.

Select another partition to be merged to the previously-selected partition as a folder and specify a name for this folder. After that, click "Finish"

Now user could notice those two partitions have been successfully merged in this preview interface. Then, user should still click "Apply" to really execute all pending operations listed at the lower-left corner of this interface.