Rescue Software

June 26th, 2010

Nothing is worse than when you have worked on a paper for school or a project for work and you discover the next day that everything is missing from your computer.  It can put you in a panic.  All the hours that you spent working on the paper or project seems like a total waste.  This problem causes a lot of stress for individuals.  When something is missing from your computer the first step is to check every file.  Often times we save things accidentally in different places and fail to remember where we saved them.  However, occasionally documents become completely lost from your computer.  The best way to try and find these documents is by calling a computer-programmer to come look at your computer or by purchasing rescue software.

Rescue programs, rescue applications, and rescue utilities are a form of software that helps you find lost documents on your computer.  They can serve as a huge relief for people who have lost an important document on their computer.  When a paper appears to just be “gone,” the best way to try and recover it is by purchasing rescue software at your local electronics or computer-programming store.  The software costs about the average price of any advanced software program.

To help avoid simple mistakes and possible ways of losing your document, make sure that you save your work often.  As you are typing your document you should be saving at least with each additional paragraph.  This will help ensure that in case the computer accidentally restarts or “crashes” that your work will still be available.  If you are working on a computer that is linked through your business or through a school system it is even more important to make sure that you save often.  Computers that are hooked up to large networks are much more likely to suddenly shut down and have the network crash than personal home computers.  Saving your documents often is an easy thing that can make a huge difference during a misfortunate situation.

However, if you have been saving your work and you still cannot find the file where your document is saved, then it is best to buy rescue software under these circumstances.  Rescue software helps your computer to relocate some of it’s lost data.  It is completely safe for your computer and will not harm existing files.  While the software does not guarantee that all of your document will be saved, is does offer significant hope for individuals who have lost their work.

The Rescue Disk website has additional information that you might find useful.

Rescue Disk

May 11th, 2010

A Rescue Disk can be used to recover lost files and restore operating systems quickly.  There are many ready made disks available or you can build your own.  I have created and use both a bootable DOS disk and a bootable Linux disk.  The DOS disk is used to quickly restore a failed or corrupted operating system or troubleshoot and correct a failed system.  The Linux disk is used to quickly partition a hard drive or correct a number of system problems quickly.  They both work well and can do many of the same operations.  I prefer the DOS because it loads and operates very quickly.  Also DOS can run FDISK MBR and correct other problems related to boot issues like FIXMBR corrects.

I also use DOS and imaging software to restore failed or corrupted operating systems quickly.  Using DOS and Norton Ghost I daily restore over 35 lab computers in about 10 minutes.  This provides a fresh, fast, and highly optimized computer each day for my students.  My students have full admin rights in order to perform their labs, so daily restoring is a must to keep the computers operational.  Otherwise, I would be spending hours troubleshooting the operating systems.  We have discovered that over 95% of all the computer problems are software related.  So using images to restore has made a huge difference in the lab and at home.  I have also used Partimage which is a free Open Source program that runs on Linux.  Partimage is a Norton Ghost clone and runs very quickly.  I teach the students imaging basics using Partimage and I also have YouTube videos where I go over imaging basics.