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File Name: Stellar Phoenix CDRom Data Recovery Software
Version: 2.0
Publisher: Stellar Information Systems Ltd
Media Supported: CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
OS: Windows NT/2000/XP
Price: $49.00 (Single User)

Stellar Phoenix CDRom Data Recovery Software is a easy to use and powerful software avails CD data recovery from damaged or defective CDROM, CD-R and CD-RW. Provides recovery of data and file, lost due to unreadable, scratched, corrupt or defective CD media. Phoenix CD Data Recovery Software supports ISO9660 and Joliet file system.

Key Features:

• CD data recovery after TOC or volume descriptor (primary or secondary) damage
• Recovers data from the CD…

Before you start to fix a hard drive, make sure you have an up-to-date backup. After that, let us do some simple diagnostics and repairs. Both Windows and Mac OS come with built-in hard-drive utility that scans your hard disk for errors and attempts to fix them.

Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive

For Windows
1. Double-click on My Computer to open the My Computer window.
2. Select the Drive that you want to diagnose and repair.
3. Choose Properties from the File menu. You should see the Properties window for the drive that you selected.
4. Choose the Tools tab.
5.…

What is DeepSpar Disk Imager?
DeepSpar Disk Imager is a disk imaging tool built to solve disk-level problems and to recover bad sectors on a hard drive.

Main Features of DeepSpar Disk Imager:

• DeepSpar Disk Imager is able to retrieve up to 90 percent of bad sectors that are partially corrupted and cannot be cloned/imaged by ordinary means.
• While system software, such as BIOS or OS, tries to prevent you from retrieving and copying corrupted data, DeepSpar Disk Imager bypasses it to give you access to all available data, good and bad.
• Special vendor-specific ATA commands are used that pre-configure the hard drive for imaging,…

MHDD is the most popular freeware application for low-level HDD diagnostics.

Interfaces Supported:
MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).

What can MHDD do?
This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform Low-level format, bad sector repair, different tests and tens of other functions.

Platform:

· Intel Pentium or higher CPU
· 4 megabytes of RAM
· DR-DOS, MSDOS version 6.22 and higher
· Any boot device (USB, CDROM, FDD, HDD)
· A keyboard

IDE/SATA Controllers:

·…

Eraser 5.86a
- secure file deletion
Eraser is a secure file deletion tool that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with sophisticated patterns (Gutman, USDoD and others). You can simply drag and drop files and/or folders onto the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Windows Explorer right-click extension or use the built-in scheduler for automated wiping of unused disk space, browser cache files etc. Easy to use and secure!
Download: Eraser 5.86a

Startup Delayer 2.5.138
- delay the startup of programs
Startup Delayer allows you to configure which programs to start first and which…

whether you are concerned about your online privacy or have suspicions that someone may be spying on your PC activities! From here you’ll find a solution that you can download and try, use it for free! All softwares has been downloaded and tested.

These Anti Spyware/Adware softwares can detect serious spy activity like keyloggers, activity monitoring software, web site loggers and also common Adware, web bugs, tracking cookies and many other items that are frequently encountered on the web.

1. WinSock XP Fix 1.2
- fix XP internet connectivity
WinSock XP Fix offers a last resort if your Internet connectivity has been corrupted…

Samsung Announced that it is now sampling a SATA-interface mini-card solid state drive (SSD) with some of its customers, for use in the expanding netbook marketplace. The Samsung SATA mini-card SSD expands the use of SSDs from not only being a primary storage medium, but also as a complementary drive to boost the performance of PCs with dual drive capabilities.

Samsung’s new mini-card form factor, with a highly robust interface, makes an already rugged SSD even less susceptible to damage from jarring, jostling and dropping.

Featuring a mini-PCI Express (PCIe) form factor with a SATA 3.0Gb/s interface, the highly cost-efficient mini-card SSD is…

What is the MBR?

A master boot record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector ("LBA Sector 0") of a partitioned data storage device such as a hard disk. (The boot sector of a non-partitioned device is a Volume Boot Record. These are usually different, although it is possible to create a record that acts as both; it is called a multi boot record.) The MBR may be used for one or more of the following:

• Holding a disk’s primary partition table
• Bootstrapping operating systems, after the computer’s BIOS passes execution to machine code instructions contained…