Showing posts with label Recovery and Backup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recovery and Backup. Show all posts

How To Recover Lost Password Of Memory Card


So many  times it happens that you forgot the password of your memory card. you lost so much data,stored in sd card.  You struggles so much to remember to your password.but you couldn't found it.ok.
In this post i m going to tell you that how you can recover the lost password of your memory card.
It is possible only if you have Nokia’s s60 phone,6610,N70,N73,E63,N95,E71.
For this trick you have to download the application called “Fileexplorer”.
Download it.
Now follow these steps:
Just Open FExplorer and access the c: drive.
Here u will find a file named ‘mmcstore’
Now Rename the file to: ‘mmcstore.txt’
The file will now open in notepad
You  will get your password written in the notepad file.Only few s60 phones have microSD slots. so you have  to get a MMC card reader .insert your memory  card in it and insert the MMC in your phone.
If you Just want to format your card , then just get a microSD card reader and format it.
What Else you can do with FExplorer??
How to reset the operator logo :
1) go to the following dir :
c:\system\apps\phone\oplogo
2) delete any file in this directory
3) restart the phone
To make a screenshot on a Nokia 3650, 6600 :
1) use the pencil key + ’0?
2) the screenshot is saved in C:\NOKIA\IMAGES\FE_img\
To make a screenshot on a SX1 :
1) use the shift key + ’0?
2) the screenshot is saved in C:\NOKIA\IMAGES\FE_img\
Here are some shortcuts :
<KeyPad 1> : copy
<KeyPad 2> : show path (scroll with joystick left/right)
<KeyPad 3> : PageUp
<KeyPad 4> : cut
<KeyPad 5> : not yet used
<KeyPad 6> : top of the list
<KeyPad 7> : paste
<KeyPad 8> : not yet used
<KeyPad 9> : PageDown
<KeyPad 0> : Mark / Unmark a file
<KeyPad *> : go to root
<KeyPad #> : file properties
<KeyPad C> : delete a file
Hope this will useful to all of you.

Recover the lost administrators password in Windows XP


Slightly more work needed if you lose or forget the Windows XP administrator password.

1.First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeated as the computer starts up.

2.Then (in safe mode) click Start and then click Run. In the open box type "control userpasswords2" without the quotes - I have just used quotes to differentiate what you have to type.

3.You will now have access to all the user accounts, including the administrators account and will be able to reset the lost password.

4.Just click the administrators user account, and then click Reset Password.

5.You will need to add a new password in the New password and the Confirm new password boxes, and confirm by clicking OK.


All done, you have recovered the lost adminitrators password!

All (Ctrl+Alt+Del) Permanently deleted files Recovery solution

Sometimes we delete the files permanently, and realize that deleting them is like a Blunder...

For all those folks,
Here is the solution

Software called "Kissass Undelete" , can bring those files from the hard disk or your flash drive.
Conditions : Only if the data on that drive is not re-occupied(or written). that means the space which was available after the deletion is not been occupied after the deletion.

Click Here to download the .

1)
To start searching for the files,
Select the drive from the Left panel of the Windows and Click the scan button.
the Scan might take upto 10 secs.

2)
When the files search has been completed, it will show you the results with the name, typ, size and the last modified date of the searched file.

3) Now you can select the file to be recover. This is an Open source application and available for All Windows OS(Windows XP/Vista/ 7)

Recover a Corrupted System File


If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it's found, open a command prompt and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:\SETUP\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.

If the file isn't found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:\Windows D:\I386\Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Again, if the destination or CAB file pathname contains spaces, surround it with double quotes.

Backing Up the Registry

Backing up your registry from time to time is a pretty good idea. Well, there's an easy way!
For Win 98 & ME...
1. Click Start /Run and type in "regedit" (no quotes).
2. Next, click the Registry menu, Export Registry File ...
3. Select a location from the resulting box and give your backup registry a
name. I use:
like this...Regbackupfile14-11-2006.
That's it! All backed up.
For XP users...
1. Click Start /Run and type in "regedit" (no quotes).
2. Next, click the File menu, Export
3. Select a location from the resulting box and give your backup registry a
name. Something like:
Regbackupfile14-04-2007.
Just a quick note: by default, Windows backs up the registry when you shut down your machine. The above is probably best used for those (like myself) who like to tinker with registry settings.
Now, how to restore the registry you just backed up...
First, if Windows gets an error when loading your registry, it will automatically revert to its backup, so it should never give you any kind of trouble loading.
OK, but what do you do if you've been playing around in your registry and have *really* messed stuff up?
Click the Registry menu (in the Registry Editor) and select Import Registry . Then just point the computer to your back up file.
Oh, one more thing. You can also add the registry to your regular backup routine (you do have a backup routine, don't you?). Your registry is in two hidden files called "User.dat" and "System.dat", located in the Windows folder. Just add those two files to your normal backup.

Ntfs Cluster Size, better harddrive performance

Cluster is an allocation unit. If you create file lets say 1 byte in size, at least one cluster should be allocated on FAT file system. On NTFS if file is small enough, it can be stored in MFT record itself without using additional clusters. When file grows beyond the cluster boundary, another cluster is allocated. It means that the bigger the cluster size, the more disk space is wasted, however, the performance is better.

So if you have a large hard drive & don't mind wasting some space, format it with a larger cluster size to gain added performance.

The following table shows the default values that Windows NT/2000/XP uses for NTFS formatting:

Drive size
(logical volume) Cluster size Sectors
----------------------------------------------------------
512 MB or less 512 bytes 1
513 MB - 1,024 MB (1 GB) 1,024 bytes (1 KB) 2
1,025 MB - 2,048 MB (2 GB) 2,048 bytes (2 KB) 4
2,049 MB and larger 4,096 bytes (4 KB) 8
However, when you format the partition manually, you can specify cluster size 512 bytes, 1 KB, 2 KB, 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB in the format dialog box or as a parameter to the command line FORMAT utility.

The performance comes thew the bursts from the hard drive. by having a larger cluster size, you affectively have a larger chunk of data sent to ram rather than having to read multiple smaller chunks of the same data.

Recover Your Damaged CDs

I learn an old technique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of data. Here we cover some special technique of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one.

First some tools will be needed:

1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.

First step - preparing the CD

Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
micro surface of the scratch. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratches loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and it's lost forever.
But if it is loosed try anyway. With this tip 80% of the small scratched CD's could be
recovered.

Second Step - testing the CD

With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?

Third step - making the new CD

With the main copy system of windows explorer you can do it. Just create one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, and copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But it's not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.

Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and try to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...