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 … [Read more...]
RAID Data Recovery Overview
We have been getting a lot of calls about RAID data recovery lately. As more and more computer manufacturers utilize RAID systems in home computers, RAID failures rise exponentially. It used to be that RAID data recovery calls that we received were … [Read more...]
FREE FAT32 Data Recovery Software
FAT32 file recovery? Why would I need that? Ninety nine point nine percent of all file systems that reside on XP and Vista are NTFS 5. Why in the world would someone take the time and effort to develop a free piece of software to recover files … [Read more...]
Don’t Compress Email In Outlook Express
We have a really great piece of data recovery software called E-Recovery For Outlook Express, that will restore deleted emails. The software is very easy to use, you just select the email folder the emails were deleted from and then we show you what … [Read more...]
The Decline Of Data Recovery Services
After the fallout of the tech boom of the late 1990’s, Internet marketers had few money making options left. The get rich quick scheme based on a potentially good idea was no longer feasible. However, one market did stand alone, unwavering; the data … [Read more...]
How To Set Up Your Computer The Right Way
If I were a Technician how would I set my machine up to keep my data safe from Spyware, Malware and viruses? Although this article actually has little to do with actual “data recovery” if you are attacked by any of these issues it may cause you to … [Read more...]
Why Use Data Recovery Experts
Why Use Data Recovery Experts? Before attempting any form of self data recovery from information gathered from web sites that offer suggestions about hard drive recovery, you need to be informed about what data recovery is and why it takes an expert … [Read more...]
Undelete Files With Bad Sectors
Using Dart Undelete XP with drives that have bad sectors. Hard drive manufacturers have the monumental task of designing a device to store data knowing that by design, the device will fail. The shear physics of a hard drive make it doomed to failure. … [Read more...]
Why You Should Defrag Your Hard Drive
I more then likely average about 3 to 4 calls a day from people who have formatted and reinstalled their operating system. Usually by using the manufactures (i.e. Dell) system restore feature, not realizing that this will bring the machine back to … [Read more...]
Where To Copy Recoverd Data To
Where To Copy your Recovered Data? I recently had a call from a customer who had tried used our DART File Undelete software to recover their data. Unfortunately once he saw his data, he then clicked copy and selected to copy it back down to the … [Read more...]
Data Recovery Content
If you operate a technology blog or website than you know how hard it can be to constantly keep your site updated with the latest content. DTI Data Recovery is happy to announce that we have several content plans that can keep that content rolling … [Read more...]
How Defrag Works
One of the very important questions I ask people when we are trying to do a raw file extraction on their drive is how long it has been since they defragged their hard drive. On most occasions they can't remember. The reason that it is important to … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
RAID O or RAID 1 Choices In New Computer
Go with RAID 0 or No? So recently I got myself a brand spanking new computer. I can finally play Vanguard without lag! So, anyway it was set up with a RAID 0 with a 64k stripe for speed since it is my gaming machine. The RAID contained two 80GB … [Read more...]
RAID Data Recovery Variables
The first rule of RAID data recovery is "due no harm". In fact that is DTI's rule on all types of hard drive recovery, from laptop disk repair to multi drive arrays. Work should never be performed directly on media that stored the data. Any type of … [Read more...]
RAID Hard Drive Data Recovery
A RAID system comprises of 2 or more hard disks that are combined to provide the storage capacity of both drives across 1 volume. The exception to this is RAID 1 which is a mirror. In other words the second drive is a duplicate of the first. If one … [Read more...]
DTI News: Dave Mohyla Quoted In CRN
DTI Data's President and founder Dave Mohyla was quoted in CRN recently in their Margin Maker series. The article was about storage solutions and trends with Dave being quoted as an expert on storage recovery. The article is talking about how drive … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: Computer Overheating
Overheating is a serious problem for people, cars and especially computers and hard drives. In my post Speed Kills With Hard Drives Its Heat, I talk about how heat can be very bad for hard drives. Today we are going to look at the world outside of … [Read more...]