How to Backup Hard Disk with Least Time Taken

I saw a cartoon the other day. A man called his computer supporter:” my hard disk is making noise. What can I do?” The other side answered:” do you back up?” Then he jump back in terror from the computer for a distance and asked:” why back? Is it gonna blow up?”

Of course the support was asking whether the man had made hard disk backup for his computer, but it seems that the man was totally computer-proof.

Usually technical supporters will suggest you restore your computer when you are blocked removing computer problems yourself. This is the most effective way to remove all non-hardware problems, and of course the precondition is that you have made hard disk backup.

Now I'd like to introduce a new way to backup hard disk that enables you to make hard disk backup timely, regularly and whenever you want----using a Windows system restore software.

This is a new concept of hard disk backup. First let’s see how traditional backup program works: reboot first, and then you may need to change BIOS as start from CD, and then start to backup, and then wait for minutes and minutes, and then reboot computer, change BIOS back, at last, reboot. This results in that people seldom make hard disk backup, and then it results in that their backup is not up-to-date, and at last they are afraid of restoring computer when it’s down because they will lose all new added data. And you may use Windows System Restore, but it won’t backup your installed programs, documents and other files, anything that doesn’t belong to the operating system won’t be backed up.

On the other hand, system restore software takes snapshots to backup hard disk. There is no reboot, and all is done in five seconds. This feature perfectly solves the problem of traditional backup program. You can backup hard disk instantly whenever you want and thus all new added data is included in backups.



See the picture? Just type the name of snapshot and confirm, and then the hard disk backup is done. When your computer is down, you can use it to restore your computer backup to normal.

Besides manual operation, you can also set schedule to make hard disk backup.



Daily, weekly, monthly and on certain time point, events trigger and on every system boot, these will help you make all your current data backed up.

There is no reason to deny restore is the fastest and most thorough way to remove all computer problems. It saves time and efforts. Now that there is a convenient way to make hard disk backup timely, backup yours now.

Original on www.system-tools-software.com: How to backup hard disk timely.

Best Way to Recover Files

When we talk about file recovery, generally we mean using software to recover files. Before we go to find the best way, let’s figure out why deleted or lost files can be recovered and how. To make theoretical and full understanding of files recovery, we will have to introduce the data structure and storage theory on hard drives from basics, and that’s too complicated, so let’s explain it in a popular way.

A file on drive may be not stored in a whole lump; it’s distributed in some small pieces and connected by something like a chain. To visit the file, we only need to find the head of the chain. When we delete the file, actually we just delete the head of the chain. We can’t see the file any more via our operating system if without the head.But in fact, the rest and main part of the file is still where it is. Though when deleting the file, we can find that the space it takes is released while actually it isn’t. It just like it announces that the place is free for others to occupy. Only when this space is overwritten by other files is the previous file really deleted, erased and gone. This is the very point that recovery software makes use of to recover files. It just adds a new head for the remaining part of the file and let you see it again through operating system.So if you delete a file on a drive, as long as your later operations on this drive don’t take the place of that file, you can recover it through software. But if unfortunately they do, then just say farewell to the file. One thing is certain that if you cover a file with another that is with the same name, the previous one is sure to be deleted forever, unrecoverable.

In fact, the rest part of a file takes most space but if without the head, it’s meaningless.

Now we know how file recovery software works, and smart as you must be aware that you cannot guarantee 100% file recovery through software, at least not currently. How can you be sure that you haven’t taken any operation on a drive where you deleted a file earlier and want to recover it?

The way above can save some emergency, but there is too much randomicity involved. So next we are going to talk about a method that can guarantee 100% file recovery.

Here we use a program called Wondershare Time Shuttle. One of its features can perfectly realize 100% file recovery.

The principle of Time Shuttle is kind of like protection. All data on Time Shuttle involved drives are well protected and the rest part of a file we mentioned above is also kept not to let others to occupy. Thus no matter what you have done on the drive after you delete a file on it, you can easily get it back, no need to worry whether its place have been overwritten. Even if you cover a file with another file with the same name, you can get the old version back!

And this is merely one feature of Time Shuttle. There are still more it has. Download it and it will bring you great pleasant surprise!