How to recover a Pen drive from Read Error

Here I would like to share my some of experience. Some days before I faced a problem with ma Pen drive. I copied 4 word documents which contained images and were little Larger in capacity. Say about 2 to 4 MB in capacity. Actually it is not my Pen Drive. I borrowed it from one of ma friend. It was 2 GB in capacity and Kingston in Brand.

All files ware copied smoothly. No errors were found. Everything was fine until I took it to the office. When I tried to get the documents back to ma office PC, then I came up with an error message. “Cannot read from source disk” at the middle of file copy process. Mmh! That is the problem. I stoped there. And think.. think.. think… Finally I got an idea. Lets see weather it worked for me or not.

First, I scanned the drive using Scan Disk. Here is how I did it.
Go to my Computer. Then right click the Pen Drive icon. In menu that appear select Properties.

Then the property dialogue box will appear. There select tools TAB and press Button.

And in next dialogue select the two check boxes. And press start.

This will completely check the drive and attempts to recover any data that is located on a damaged (Bad sector) area of the Drive.

This is what I did. Yap! It was successful to me.

But in some occasions even this wont work. That is because of Disk Error. If there is a disk damage or bad sector this would happen. In those occasions we can get only the datas which are on non bad sector areas. If it happen, we must secure those areas without any files would be copied again to those areas for our future safety.

I stop here today. It is getting dark in my Friday evening. I’ll discuss how to recover the bad sectored or damaged Pen Drive on next weak or before when I have fresh time.

Installing Multiple Language - Unicode

Windows comes with many language support including right to left languages. For example, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, thai, etc. For using various language in our application we must enable keyboard support to be used in windows for any languages.

These Languages are called unicode. The speciality of this unicode is, if we Installed and used these keyboard to type somthing, the reader dont need to install any seperate fonts to read the text. It will be automatically displayed in the readers PC with appropriate font.

Installin Additional Language support

1. Open the Regional & Language Option
Start - > Settings -> Control Panel -> (Double Click) Regional and Language option


2. Select the check box Install files for complex script and right to left languages.
3. You will be prompted to insert Windows XP CD. Then, insert it and wait untill installation finishes.
4. Reboot your machine and follow..

5. Follow thw Step 1.

6. In regional and language option window click Deatails
You will get the following dialogue box (Text Services and Input Languages)


7. Click Add..
8. following dialogue box will apperar. Choose the language you want to use.


9. Click OK
(Text Services and Input Languages) will now show up like following

10. Click Apply & OK.

Now your windows task bar will appear as follow. A new language bar is added to your Task bar. You can click on it and and select the appropriate language.

Now your computer supports unicode keybord !!!!!


Some Usefull Links

* What is Unicode?- Unicode Resources
* Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
* Arabic Keyboard Language Keyboard Support for windows operating system
* Unicode fonts for Windows computers

Office 2007 - What are New?

Hi,

I talked tO you 2 days ago abOut the new realease and past days Of MS Office.
To day I am gOing tO give you sOme new thOughts behind Office 2007, the new
reLease.

Go thrOugh............


"In Office 2007, we've done something else that we've never done before:
given you a choice of skins for the user interface. If you don't like the
default blue skin and would prefer something more neutral, we've got you covered
with the striking new black skin.


On Windows Vista, of course, we fully support glass in both skins. I'll get you
some screenshots of that in the not-too-distant future."

Jensen
Harris

Thursday, March 09, 2006

The Microsoft Office 2007 is the most recent version of Microsoft productivity
suite which is formerLy knOwn as Office 12. On november 30th 2007, it was
reLeased tO Business customers in the initiaL beta cycle. And made avaiLabLe tO
retaiL custOmerOn January 3oth 2007 which was the same day Of the fOrmaL tO
retaiL custOmer Of Windows Vista.

MicrosOft has remOved MS FrontPage entireLy. It is nO Longer being deveLoped.
And its repLaced with Microsoft SharePoint Designer .

What are New with Office 2007 (MS Office 12)?

User Interface

Office 2007 cOntains a number Of new features, the More notabLe Of which is the
entireLy new GraphicaL user Interface caLLed RIBBON that bLends MENUs and
TOOLLBARs tOgether.

"I started here as a designer many moons ago and now lead a team of user
experience designers and researchers that are infinitely more talented than I
could ever dream of being. We're the interaction design experts that Steven
mention in his
blog
back in December .

As designers, we are pretty... geeky. We have some pretty developers too...
pretty designee that is. Actually, the developer and designer relationship in
Office is nothing like Beauty and the Geek at all. Maybe it's the mutual
admiration of their respective craft. Maybe it's the recognition of how far the
industry has to go toward bringing the beauty out of the geek. Maybe it's a
shared acknowledgment that beautiful products go beyond the skin.


Somehow, some way, we've managed to establish and grow a pretty meaningful
relationship over the years. It's a bond that has culminated in our most
attractive release of Office ever. As it turns out, you can't have high design
without deep engineering. That's right--you can't have beauty without the geek."


Brad Weed,
Product Design Manager of the Office Design Group

Office Button

Office 2007 buttOn Located On the tOp Left Of th ewindOw, repLaces the "FiLe"
Menu & prOvide access tO functionaLity cOmmOn accrOss aLL Office appLications,
incLuding Opening, Saving, Printing & sharinga fiLe. ChOosing coLor scheme is
aLsO pOssibLe with the buttOn.

Ribbon

OfficiaLLy knOwn as Microsoft Office Fluent. The Ribbon is designed tO make the
features Of the appLication mOre discOverabLe and accessibLe with fewer mOuse
cLick as cOmpared tO menu-based User Interfaces untiLL Office 2007.


Contextual Tab

These tabs are intended tO appear when certained Objects are seLected. It shOws
Options specific tO the seLected Object. Take, fOr exampLe, SeLecting a picture
fires up the Picture Tab.


Live Preview

And anOther interesting feature is this. When the user Mouse Over in any
fOrmattin buttOns, the tempOrary fOrmating is appLyed tO the fOcused Text. The
tempOrary fOrmat remains untiLL the Mouse taken away frOm the bUttOn.

Mini Toolbar

Which pOps up near the seLected text whenever sOme text is seLected, provides
easy access tO mOst used fOrmatting cOmmands.


Zoom Slider

It aLLows dynamic & rapid magnificatiOn Of a document. And it is pLaced in the
bOttOm right cOrner.


Smart Art

Smart Art is a new grOup Of easiLy editabLe and fOrmatted diagrams. It cOntains
115 preset graphic layout templates.


File Format

Office Open XML. It is a new fiLe fOrmat MicrosOft Office has been cOnstructing.
It is based On XML & uses ZIP cOntainer. For micrOsOft wOrd dOcument it is saved
as ".DOCX" which was saved in previOuse versiOn as "DOC". And fiLe that cOntains
Macro wiLL be saved as ".DOCM". And aLso can save the fiLes in ".DOC" format tO
use with prteviOus versiOn of MS Word.

User Assistance System

With the new reLease Of Office 12, The Office Assistants have been cOmpLeteLy
remOved and are repLaced with the imprOved versiOn Of heLp system. It apears &
diappears Like nOrmaL tOoLtips.

Colloboration Features

It is a feature fOr coLLobratiOn & data Sharing. And it features server cOmpOnents which wOrk in cOnjunctiOn with ShardPoint Services.


Theme & Quick Style

Microsoft introduces a new Document Theme & Quick Style. It defines the Color,
Fonts and graphic effect Of a dOcument. The fiLe fOrmat ".THMX" is shared
between Word, ExceL, PowerPoint & OutLOok.

It is enOugh fOr nOw. I wiLL taLk mOre in the futre.

I WeLcome your comments.