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DTI Data 10th Anniversary Celebration
We are very happy to announce that 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of DTI Data’s hard drive recovery service. Even though we had been selling software since 1994, it was in 2000 that we opened our main hard drive recovery facility. This has been a great decade for DTI and its customers and we are not going to stop now! DTI 10th Anniversary Special! To...
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Speed Clone For Windows Released
DTI Data Recovery continues its excellence in software development by releasing Speed Clone for Windows. The new Speed Clone download package includes the Windows version as well as a bootable DOS ISO for cloning hard drives that are registered in the BIOS. It also has the original Speed Clone that works off of a floppy. Speed Clone is a powerful tool...
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Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer
Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236. Question: I have a 1TB Western Digital My book Hard drive. When I plug it in to either the USB or FireWire ports the computer...
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Storage Wars – Hard Drives Reach 2TB – Good or Bad
Seagate Constellation 2TB And in this corner… The hard drive Storage Wars have been heating up lately as Western Digital and Seagate battle it out for not only the largest capacity disks, but they are also going green! Western Digital went as far as to name it’s new 2TB hard drive the Caviar Green series. Before I get into how 2TB hard...
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DTI Data 10th Anniversary Celebration
We are very happy to announce that 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of DTI Data’s hard drive recovery service. Even though we had been selling software since 1994, it was in 2000 that we opened our main hard drive recovery facility. This has been a great decade for DTI and its customers and we are not going to stop now! DTI 10th Anniversary Special! To...
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Backup Solution Western Digital My Book Review
A while ago I wrote a post about Western Digital Hard Drive Recovery that outlined different WD hard disks. I had mentioned the My Book as being one of the best solutions. Now that I have been using them (I bough 2 more) I wanted to give everyone a review. While DTI doesn’t officially recommend any products, we can tell you our honest opinions....
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Recovering from a RAID Controller Failure
There are many reasons why a RAID goes down. A technician will normally assume that one or more of the drives have failed. This is a common diagnosis as the diagnostic lights on each of the drives may be blinking, the lights may have gone amber, or...
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RAID 5 Stale drive detection
Over the course of a week I receive several calls regarding the recovery of a RAID 5 array. In the course of the initial interrogation of a client I ask several questions regarding the state of the array, what has been done to recover the array and most...
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Network Attached Storage NAS and Other Nightmares
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been a boon for storage technology. What a great windfall for the industry. Grab yourself an Open Source operating system, stick it on a prom, get yourself an inexpensive motherboard, some hard drives and...
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Missing Exchange Data File
I had a customer recently that called saying his Network Attached Storage (NAS) device had crashed and now his Exchange Priv.edb was missing. He tried running checkdisk on it, tried several undelete and file recovery programs with no luck. The weird thing...
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Exchange Data Recovery Guide
First and foremost, DON’T PANIC. I cannot remember how many times I have seen somebody (myself included) do something completely idiotic and often times irreversible because they didn’t take the time to think things through. For example, wanting...
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Recovering a badly fragmented Outlook PST file after a few rounds with chkdsk The Final Installment
Welcome back! As before, we still have the problem where chkdsk was run on a RAID with a stale drive. We have had a brief explanation of how NTFS 5 works and how the data is stored on the volume. Lets take a much more detailed look as to how the...
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View It Now for SNAP OS 4.X
The original SNAP NAS devices were developed by SNAP Appliance. The operating system that was used was a flavor of BSD in concert with the file system UFS. Although the file system looks very similar to the original UFS there were some subtle changes...
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Analyzing RAID parity
Last time I discussed how to find the RAID data offset for a SNAP OS 4.x RAID handler. To put it briefly it was just a simple matter of finding Cylinder Group zero on the first drive in the array and back tracking 48 sectors. Once the RAID data offset...
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Finding SNAP OS 4.x RAID Data Offset
If you are in this business long enough you will see everything, or will you? Two weeks ago I received a SNAP RAID OS 4.x for recovery. I have done a lot of these and I am pretty familiar with the data offsets, how the drives are setup, and where...
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DTI Data is happy to announce the release of an updated version of our most popular freeware: Windows Surface Scanner! The new version now allows for reports to be printed as to where the bad sectors are, but more impressive is the relationship section,...
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DTI Data Recovery Rescues ZION and Humanity!
The other day we received a great testimonial from Harry Lennix the Matrix’s Commander Lock. He was very pleased with the hard drive recovery we performed for him! We treat all of our clients like they were stars, and everyone’s data is important...
[Read more...]By far the most common problem we hear about are clicking hard drives. Most data recovery companies automatically assume that a clicking hard drive means physical hard drive data recovery. While in most cases the clicking sound is indicative of a head...
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Online Data Recovery Training
DTI Data Recovery is happy to announce its new online data recovery training course. Exclusive to our resellers, this course has trained hundreds of companies to make money with data recovery services. For 1 month only, DTI Data Recovery is opening this...
[Read more...]I have been doing technical support for DTI Data Recovery for 3+ years now and there has been one constant problem across those years. Here is the scenario, a user will plug in an external hard drive and back off all of their important data to that drive...
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My Files Have Disappeared
Recently I have had a situation where customers are calling to tell me that they have files that seem to have disappeared. After going through the usual questions, like are you sure you didn’t delete them, or maybe someone else deleted them? I will...
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Failed Hard Drive Recovery From Stuck Heads
One of the most common problems facing computer users is a failed hard drive. We see all types of failed hard drives, but the most common fatal problem revolves around broken heads. If there are any issues with the platters, often times it will be the...
[Read more...]Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236. Question: I have a 1TB...
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Data Recovery Forum Questions Answered PST Recovery and Hard Drive Not Detected
So I trolled the Internet for topics to write about and found tons of forums with very good questions not being answered so I am going to post the questions and then give you the best possible answer I cam up with. Q: Yesterday I was cleaning out the...
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