Hard drive recovery is the repair of physically damaged hard drives including heads, platters and a clicking sound. Even though clicking is by far the most common noise that a hard drive will make when failing, there are a few other noises such as … [Read more...]
Windows Wants To Format My Hard Drive
December 8, 2008 By
Just about the worst thing a Windows user can be told is that Windows wants to format one of your hard drives. This is becoming more prevalent with external hard drives, that can not only be told it needs to be formatted, but can disappear … [Read more...]
External Hard Drive Data Recovery Review – Seagate FreeAgent Pro
December 2, 2008 By
When looking at external hard drives, most reviewers only look at capacity, pricing and performance. DTI Data Recovery looks at these things, but has a focus on the stability of the external hard drive and its ability to withstand heat and not need … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery Freeware Software
November 25, 2008 By
DTI Data is one of the few data recovery companies that not only operate a clean room, is a certified partner of the only hard drive manufacturer that lists authorized data recovery companies and creates and supports their own hard drive recovery … [Read more...]
Recovering Folder Relationships Using DOS Clustering Design
November 18, 2008 By
   In my last installment I described what a file entry record would look like if it were in fact a cluster holding file entry data. I went over the fact that the first two entries of the folder cluster would be a period followed by ten spaces, … [Read more...]
Using FAT32 File Entry Record For Recovering Folders Using Software Logic
November 12, 2008 By
 In my last installment I described the file entry record and its on-disk format. I used a 'C' structure to denote the different fields of the record and defined which five are most important to us when trying to recover a FAT32 file system … [Read more...]
Recover It All ON SALE! Save $50.00 On Powerful Data Recovery Software
November 10, 2008 By
DTI Data Recovery is pleased to announce that it's most powerful data recovery software is now on sale for $49.99! Recover It All is professional data recovery software that has many features and a powerful scanning engine. Recover It All runs on any … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery Prices
November 6, 2008 By
One of the most asked questions is "how much does hard drive recovery cost"? It totally depends on the situation. To understand hard drive recovery prices, you have to understand the different types of services. When you have a problem with your hard … [Read more...]
FAT32 Recover File Entry Table On-Disk Layout Using a C Structure
October 30, 2008 By
In my last installment Recovering FAT 32 With File System Markers, I offered a brief outline of a case that destroyed a FAT32 file systems major components. This was done by formatting the drive using an operating system that is not native to the … [Read more...]
Recovering FAT32 With File System Markers
October 24, 2008 By
In my last installment, Recovering FAT 32 with File Entry Records, I talked about USB and Fire Wire devices and how they are susceptible to damage. In addition I spoke about the file system used to store data on these devices as being FAT32 in order … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Form Factors Explained
October 9, 2008 By
This is the first article in a series that will explain how hard drives work, why they fail and what you as users can do to protect your data. When looking at hard drives the first step is to identify what it's form factor is. Simply put, the form … [Read more...]
How platter swelling affects a hard drive
October 8, 2008 By
 Okay, I know this is not about how to read bad parity in a drive in order to find a stale drive in a RAID five. This is an important subject, however, and I also think it is important to know why heat and a swelling platter can cause hard drive … [Read more...]
Western Digital Hard Drive Pricing
September 29, 2008 By
We are asked all the time which are the best hard drives to use? Since we are a hard drive recovery company we get to see all the major hard drives up close and personal. While there are certainly some hard drives that we see more often, that is more … [Read more...]
System Area Of The Hard Disk A Look At A Partition
September 29, 2008 By
So here is the deal, I would say in about 99 percent of the calls I take, I talk about the "System Area Of The Hard Drive" and I am sure that must seem like techno babble to most people. Because of the specialization of this field of technology, a … [Read more...]
Remote Logical Hard Drive Recovery
September 29, 2008 By
I have over the past few years had customers with hard drives that I knew I could fix their problem easily if I just had access to the drive. In these situations I will usually offer the customer a logical recovery, which entails them sending us the … [Read more...]
My Data Failure Nightmare, The Beginning
September 23, 2008 By
So here is the deal, recently IÂ have been having serious data issues. Like a bad dream it would seem I have lost my main data areas in three different machines in the last 4 months. On a side note one of the machines (my main one) lost its hard … [Read more...]
Partition Types in a Soft Spanned Set
September 22, 2008 By
 Last time I explained the basic premise of a spanned set. I used the example of a clients RAID that contained 3 36 GB SCSI drives. In a standard set each one of the drives would use one partiton for the entire drive and then the set would be … [Read more...]