Check Your RAID Consistency Before A Rebuild
Over the years one of the most consistent problems with RAID recovery is the rebuild. I would estimate that nearly 40 percent of the RAIDs that we cannot recover are due exclusively to the fact that a technician executed a rebuild before verifying the...
Read the story »RAID Configuration and Parity Check
The function set for the inaugural offering of RAID Diagnostic Toolkit is very basic. This post will explain how to choose a set of ’streams’ to build a ‘RAID set’. Initially the software does not have any options for stripe size,...
Read the story »RAID Five Steps to recovering your data
In one of my articles I tried to define the mathematics of a RAID 5 stripe and how it relates to data recovery. Using the eXclusive ORing truth table we can continue to run the array even when one drive has dropped out of the array. This...
Read the story »SNAP RAID Recovery Part II Drive Set Definition
One of the many attributes of a RAID 5 that make it popular is that if a drive goes down in the array the RAID will remain functional. In such a case the following events should occur. An alarm should sound. An alarm that would wake the dead. ...
Read the story »SNAP Server Data Recovery 3 Spanned RAID 5 Arrays
Recently, it was my task to take sixteen drives, spanned across three RAID fives, and recover a set of hundreds of AVI files. These files were used for research and although not time sensitive, were critical to the conclusions of the research. We have...
Read the story »SNAP Data Recovery Through The OS Inode
This week is the final offering of our topic Recovering a single file from a SNAP Server Operating System. We have learned what a Super Block is, a cylinder group, and some of the important data elements in those data structures. We have learned how to...
Read the story »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...
Read the story »Exchange Server Data Recovery Overview
I have been managing DTI Data Recovery’s Exchange Server Support Hotline for over 3 years now. I receive a lot of calls about a lot of different types of Exchange Server problems. We also have a detailed Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Blog that...
Read the story »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...
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The function set for the inaugural offering of RAID Diagnostic Toolkit is very basic. This post will explain how to choose a set of ’streams’ to build a ‘RAID set’. Initially the software does not have any options for stripe size,...
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Over the years I have recovered many drives configured with NTFS. One of the leading reasons that data recovery is performed on these hard drives is an anamoly developed in the Master File Table. This area of the drive is the single most important...
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DTI Data Recovery is proud to announce that it’s Free NTFS Partition Repair software was positively reviewed by PC World! You can read the article on PC World’s website here. Hopefully this data recovery software will help you recover your...
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Spyware and Malware protection and removal and what you MAY not know! I have had the luxury of being in some sort of IT Industry in one way or another for the last 17 years of my life. I have worked in fields from standard PSTN Telecom, to basic PC building...
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Windows Explorer: How to change files from Hidden In my last windows explorer tutorial I explained how to open Windows Explorer, now I will start showing some of the functions people need to know. A lot of time a file we are looking for just doesn’t...
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A lot of times when I am speaking to customers I need them to make changes to their files or look at their files in a specific way. I will often tell someone to open Windows Explorer and tell me what they see. In many occasion I have had customers open...
Read the story »Hard Drive Recovery Software
There are a lot of websites and blogs that talk about hard drive recovery. Most of the content out there is really just fluff, written to drive hard drive and data recovery type ads in Google AdSense. These ads can make webmasters and site owners a lot...
Read the story »Hard Drive Failure Data Recovery
When your hard drive fails it is more than likely a physical problem. In most cases noise will accompany hard drive failure, clicking and scraping are common sounds that a hard drive will emit while it is failing. It is important to back up all your files...
Read the story »Hard Drive Recovery Techniques
Hard drive recovery is one part of the overall process of data recovery. Data recovery involves many steps that vary depending upon the actual circumstances of the hard drive failure. When the disk is physically damaged it will need to be repaired. This...
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