Now let me introduce to some of the DVD recovery software available. Bad Copy Pro is a software tool that can automatically recover lost files from your DVD/CD back into your hard drive. It is not much expensive and has a success rate of about 80%. Multi Data Rescue is another DVD recovery software. However, this tool is not for novices. Only specialists can perform the necessary data recovery tasks. Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier is another data recovery tool. This tool can also recover data from damaged or scratched disks. If you find that the rescue session is taking a huge amount of time, you can pause the rescue process and resume it later. If you are using Linux operating system, you can use the ddrescue tool for your data recovery needs. This is a command line tool, offering plenty of features.

Prior to the data recovery, look for the amount of scratches on the writable surface of the disk. You can make the disk playable again, by treating the scratches.

If you are a student at a computer institute, or an office executive using computers, chances are high that you are unable to find the right file at the right time. Proper preservation of your computer files is highly important. This will not only save your time and valuable data, but also ensure record-keeping compliance as mandated by companies and government bodies. Here are some file management and archiving practices, which you can practice to get a fair idea about the process.

Here are a few beginners’ tips for file preservation:
•    Create a new folder for each project you work on. Create subfolders (thereby creating a folder hierarchy) for each of the various items necessary for that project. For instance, if you are doing a web development project, you might have an ‘images’ folder to store the graphics files and a separate ‘webpages’ folder to store the HTML files.  
•    Always try to name your files in lower case. File extensions in particular are
case-sensitive.
•    Never use spaces in file names. Sometimes computers interpret spaces as ‘%20’. Therefore, a file named ‘New York’ may take the form ‘New%20York’.

After document archiving, let us know a bit about email archiving. Email today is the most undisputed and popular mode of business communication. According to a study by Gartner Group, 97% of all business communication is carried over emails. This underscores the fact that emails form a good part of a company’s business records. As per a business estimate, up to 83% of a company’s critical data lies embedded within emails. To take care of the email preservation business, Email Archiving System (very much in sync with DMS) is the need of the hour.

An Email Archiving System (EMS) extracts the message contents and the attachments thereof from all incoming and outgoing mails and indexes them in a read-only format. The indexing process ensures that the emails can be retrieved into their original state when required later. As an EMS stores the emails in compressed format, the mail server gets back a lot of its space.