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How to recover data after HTFS and EAFS corruption

SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Open Server is a UNIX operating system that supports two file systems HTFS (High Throughput File System) and EAFS (Extended Acer File System). An HTFS file system is the journaling file system that is primarily used by latest versions of SCO open server.

Author: Shaun Pattrik

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Data stored in HTFS file system is considered to be safer in comparison to the non-journal file system. Another most commonly used SCO open server file system is EAFS. While EAFS is a widely used file system, a major drawback of this file system is that it does not provide the same level of security as HTFS does. Corruption in these file systems primarily occurs due to improper system shutdown, virus infection and more. Two major hazards that you might encounter after any of the file system corrupts are unmountable hard drive and data inaccessibility. To overcome the hazards created after file system corruption, you will need to use efficient SCO Data Recovery software.

In most cases of the file system corruption, you encounter an error message such as “Failed to mount /d filesystem”, “Permission denied error on /etc in root filesystem” and more. To troubleshoot such error messages, the best solution is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, in case of absence of an updated backup or backup failing to restore the required data, the best solution to restart your system is by reinstalling the file system. These file systems acts as pointers to all the files and folders saved on your hard disk. Reinstalling any of the file system will completely erase all those entries and makes the hard drive data inaccessible.

To recover your data after reinstalling the file system, you need to opt for an effective SCO Data Recovery application. These SCO Data Recovery utilities incorporate high end scanning methods to comprehensively scan and recover your lost data. Built with highly interactive and intuitive user-interface, these applications are self-explanatory without any prior data recovery experience. Such recovery utilities recover data even after FSCK command is unable to resolve corruption in system data structures.

Stellar Phoenix (SCO Open Server) Data Recovery software is a feature rich SCO OpenServer Recovery application. This read only SCO OpenServer Recovery software works with HTFS and EAFS file systems. It supports recovery from SCSI, EIDE and IDE hard drives and is compatible with Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME and 98.

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Shaun Pattrik has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching with Stellar Info. system Ltd which offers open server data recovery, Sco data recovery, HTFS recovery. For more information please visit: http://www.sco-data-recovery.com/

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How to recover data after HTFS and EAFS corruption