PC World Reviews DTI Data!

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 data. 

If you have any questions email support@dtidata.com or call 727-345-9665 Ext 236. If you need data recovery, give DTI a call.

Windows Explorer: Un-Hide Files

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 seem to be where we think it should be. This may be attributed to the fact that the file is hidden. In order to unhide these files here are the steps.

1. Open windows explorer (please see my other tutorial)

2. Click on “My Computer” in the left hand window.

3. Select one of your hard drives. In this case I have selected the “C” drive.

4. Now go up top to “Tools” and select “Folder Options”

5. Now click on the “View” tab along the top and you should see “Folder Views” and “Advanced Settings”

6. Scroll through the advanced settings until you come across something that says “Hidden Files And Folders” and under it should be radial buttons to allow you to select “Show Hidden Files” (see picture below)

7. Now just click the OK button. You may get a warning from Windows that this could be dangerous, because now you will have access to system files. If you think this is bad idea because you may delete them then I recommend that you don’t unhide these files.

That is all there is to it. In the next Windows Explorer tutorial I will go over how to see all of your USB mass storage devices this way.

Fujitsu 500 GB Hard Drive

Ok here is another review of a new Fujitsu hard drive from my personal fave in hard drive manufacturers. This is really kind of awesome, a 2.5” half terabyte drive. I don’t know how you can go wrong with that. It only uses minimal power, 1.8W for read write, because of the Fujitsu’s Green Policy Innovation Program. It is a SATA 3.0/Gbs which makes it great for data transfer and storage. It runs at 4200 rpm which is a bonus in my book, those super high speed drives seem to fail all the time.

Now, whether that is because it is just too fast or because of the heat that it generates I am unsure but I know the fail rate is much higher on those 9k rpm drives. They are listing the seek time at around 13 milliseconds. I think these drives would be perfect for using in an external USB chassis since it is likely they are not going to run to hot. I should probably note that this is also the largest laptop drive out there now. I know that this will please all of you power laptop users. My husband is always out of disk space on his Dell, and I think this will make a great Father’s Day gift! Because the drive was only released on February 25^th there are no real reviews out there and we haven’t gotten any in for hard drive recovery, so if anyone has one of these big boys let me know what you think.