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Why Choose DTI Data Recovery
Why Choose DTI Data? DTI DATA offers flat rate pricing as well as "no fix, no fee" pricing. If we don't recover your data you are not charged anything! Including: hard drive recovery, RAID and Laptop data recovery. Call us Toll Free 1-866-438-6932 or 1-727-345-9665 for a FREE quote on data recovery. You can also use our online quote form. Know Your Data Recovery Company! Anybody can claim … [Read More...]
DATA RECOVERY SOLUTIONS
Hard Drive Recovery: What does it mean?
Hard drive recovery is a very broad term. However, data recovery companies use it to describe a situation where the hard drive itself is no longer functioning. A hard drive can have many different file systems from Windows, MAC, Linux or, even a very proprietary file system for a specific use. So, when we here at DTIData receive a call from a user that is unable to access their data we have to determine if the hard drive needs to be recovered or repaired to a state where we can then access … [Read More...]
Windows Hard Drive Recovery Verification Tool
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS HARD DRIVE RECOVERY VERIFICATION TOOL We receive a tremendous amount of calls asking how to tell if your hard drive is going bad. Sometimes it is very hard to tell if you need hard drive recovery by a professional because the drive will allow you access sometimes, or maybe it just seems a little slow. What we decided to do to make things easier for our customers and for technicians is to come up with a piece of software that would allow you to scan a hard … [Read More...]
How to Fix Bad Sectors on a Hard Drive
The truth of the matter is; you can't repair bad sectors on a hard drive. Receiving ‘Bad Read’ errors or I/O errors from a hard drive is not the type of problem that can be remedied or ignored. The following is an explanation of how hard drives are designed and how a bad sector revealing itself on your system is a slippery slope to disaster. First of all, virtually every hard drive manufactured has bad sectors on it before it leaves the factory. A utility is run on the hard drive to find … [Read More...]
Failing Hard Drives and the Freezer Technique Revisited
Above is an example of a drive that has been completely frozen. Normally you would put the drive in the freezer for about an hour. This was a common hard drive recovery trick called a thermo challenge. The only real worry was condensation either on the circuit board or even worse inside the drive itself. This used to be a viable way to recover data. In fact I had a whole system built to ensure that I could run the drive in a very cold environment. This would ensure I would not get … [Read More...]
$199.00 Hard Drive Recovery
Lately, I have seen ads popping up in Google searches for very low cost hard drive recovery services. There are sites advertising complete hard drive recoveries for $349.00, $299.00, even as low as $199.00. I get a lot of questions about these companies almost every week and felt a blog post was in order to answer some questions I receive frequently. Can I really get my data back for $199.00? There are two types of hard drive recoveries. A “logical” recovery is performed on a … [Read More...]
RAID and SERVER TECHNOLOGY
Determining configuration for RAID Five or RAID Zero
Reading the title makes it sound like something that should be easy. I should be able to just pull out the drives in the order they are presented in the hardware, mark them as 0 through whatever and be done with it. However it has been my experience that when determining the RAID configuration, there are several considerations that must addressed before an accurate RAID setup can be resolved. First of all there are many systems that present the drives in the opposite order they are configured … [Read More...]
DTI Data’s Many Options For RAID Data Recovery
DTI Data has been in the RAID Data Recovery business for a long time. We focus on RAID 5 data recovery, which is still the prelevant system in storage devices such as DELL PowerEdge Servers. Many RAID systems such RAID 50 is still built off of the basic RAID 5 configuration. A RAID 10 is built off of a straight RAID 0 which is a striped array and offers no truly sound backup if one or more drives fail in the array. DTI Data offers many solutions to recover or even repair RAID arrays, whether … [Read More...]
Stale Drive Detection for Windows NTFS Raids
Greetings and Salutations! My name is Richard Correa and I am a Software Engineer and data recovery specialist for DTI Data. Over the years I have written many tools to help the technician resolve several of the problems they may encounter during their daily endeavor to recover a clients data. One of the most complicated, yet rewarding recovery situations is the RAID. Although somewhat simple in its design the implementation of the RAID, especially the RAID 5, has suffered many design … [Read More...]
Disaster Planning Overview Creation
Most businesses these days depend heavily on technology and automation. Continued operations of a business/organization depend on being aware of potential disasters before they strike. Having a strategic disaster recovery plan to minimize disruptions and recover operations quickly is key. A smart disaster recovery plan should include a set of actions to be taken before, during and after a potential disaster. The plan should be periodically tested, to make sure there is continuity of operations … [Read More...]
SAN and NAS the Difference from a User Perspective
So I was asked the other day by our SEO content writer what is the difference between SAN and NAS. Now, usually I pride myself in the ability to spout off random techno babble, in order to explain what would normally be a difficult concept easily to an end user. Yet in this instance I was stumped. They are about “network” storage so what is the difference? After a little time roaming the internet and reading some technical documents it comes to 2 simple concepts. The wires and the … [Read More...]
EXCHANGE DATA RECOVERY
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 about it was that viewing the properties of the drive letter under windows showed 140 GB in use even though the only other file on the drive was the Priv.stm streaming file which was 60 GB in size. Luckily for me that it was a network drive, … [Read More...]
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 SO badly to get the database mounted again before anybody notices that you don’t do the MOST important step when recovering any data, making a backup and working off of the backed up copy rather than your live data. That being said, here are … [Read More...]
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 data is stored in a virtual database and how this helped me recover the PST file. There are two types of databases. Static, and virtual. A static database is allocated before run time, and the size stays the same. In addition, the record … [Read More...]
Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store
Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store There are some situations where starting Microsoft Exchange with a blank database may be necessary. In my line of work, I run across a large amount of businesses that have had their Exchange Private Information Store corrupted and the whole organizations Email capabilities halted as well. Quite often, getting the users back up and running takes precedence over getting the data back. Don’t get me wrong; the data is still extremely … [Read More...]
Exchange Server Tools: Use ExMerge To Import PST Files
Exmerge is a very usefull tool that can import PST files back into your Exchange Server Information Stores. Here is a tutorial from our Exchange Engineer John Best on how to use ExMerge. Using ExMerge to import PST files 1. Place all of the PST files that you want imported into a single Folder 2. Make sure the Exchange Information Service is started 3. You need to make sure the account you are logged in with is an administrative account and … [Read More...]
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