For all of you tweeters out there, DTI has started updating our visitors with new software upgrades, new products and new articles pertaining to data recovery, backup and storage. Stay up to date on all things happening with the team at DTI by … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery Of Magnetic Media Explained
December 18, 2009 By
By now you all know that DTI data is a hard drive data recovery company that not only repairs damaged disks, but also provides data recovery software. We offer full version freeware, RAID diagnostics and file system viewers for our customers. We get … [Read more...]
Exchange Data Recovery Guide
December 18, 2009 By
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, … [Read more...]
Recovering from a RAID Controller Failure
December 18, 2009 By
There are many reasons why a RAID goes down. A technician will normally assume that one or more of the drives have failed. This is a common diagnosis as the diagnostic lights on each of the drives may be blinking, the lights may have gone amber, … [Read more...]
Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer
December 3, 2009 By
Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236. Question: I … [Read more...]
RAID 5 Stale drive detection
December 2, 2009 By
Over the course of a week I receive several calls regarding the recovery of a RAID 5 array. In the course of the initial interrogation of a client I ask several questions regarding the state of the array, what has been done to recover the array and … [Read more...]
Network Attached Storage NAS and Other Nightmares
November 24, 2009 By
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been a boon for storage technology. What a great windfall for the industry. Grab yourself an Open Source operating system, stick it on a prom, get yourself an inexpensive motherboard, some hard drives … [Read more...]
Recovering a badly fragmented Outlook PST file after a few rounds with chkdsk The Final Installment
November 24, 2009 By
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 … [Read more...]
Data Recovery Forum Questions Answered PST Recovery and Hard Drive Not Detected
November 24, 2009 By
So I trolled the Internet for topics to write about and found tons of forums with very good questions not being answered so I am going to post the questions and then give you the best possible answer I cam up with. Q: Yesterday I was cleaning out … [Read more...]
Do It Yourself Dual LCD Monitor Stand
November 20, 2009 By
Cheap Do-It-Yourself Dual LCD Monitor Stand OK, so I was really wanting a dual monitor stand for my two LCD flat panel monitors, mainly to get them up off the desk more to give myself more desk space and to raise them up higher. The cheapest I … [Read more...]
Speed Clone For Windows Released
November 11, 2009 By
DTI Data Recovery continues its excellence in software development by releasing Speed Clone for Windows. The new Speed Clone download package includes the Windows version as well as a bootable DOS ISO for cloning hard drives that are registered in … [Read more...]
Windows Surface Scanner Freeware Utility
November 4, 2009 By
Several times a week DTI Data receives calls from clients describing a situation where their computer seems to ‘freeze’ or ‘lock-up’ on boot up.  No matter what they try the system will no longer boot and they receive a Blue Screen of … [Read more...]
A Recovery Solution from the NTFS File System
November 2, 2009 By
I started programming almost thirty years ago. I cut my teeth on the ATARI 400 and stayed in that venue for almost two years. After awhile though, I came to realize that although the ATARI and its design were simple and powerful, if I were to … [Read more...]
NTFS File System and PST File Data Recovery
September 22, 2009 By
As discussed in the previous articles we have a RAID that had some problems. These problems were exacerbated by the fact that a chkdsk was run on the file system and changed some of the attributes of the PST file we are trying to recover. … [Read more...]
Chkdsk is Not Designed For Data Recovery
September 9, 2009 By
In the previous two articles we have discussed how the RAID and some of the decisions the client made in trying to recover the RAID affected the PST file. In addition I discussed that there may have been a stale drive in the array and which … [Read more...]
Outlook PST Data Recovery
September 9, 2009 By
Last time I gave a brief description of a RAID that we received here at the shop. I also shared some of the things the client had done to try and get their RAID back online. I also explained that chkdsk had been run. What made this RAID unusual was … [Read more...]
Recovering Fragmented Outlook PST After Running chkdsk
August 26, 2009 By
The following saga is the story of the recovery of a single Outlook PST (Personal Information Store) file. It was accomplished using a simple hex editor some diagnostics, and the courage of David when he slew the Philistine Goliath. Well, maybe … [Read more...]
What is a Hard Drive Boot Sector?
August 19, 2009 By
A common misunderstanding is that because a hard drive is not a boot drive it does not have or need a boot sector, this just isn't the case. All DOS based (Windows) hard drives have a boot sector. It is often also confused with the MBR (Master Boot … [Read more...]
RAID Partition Repair Recovery Freeware
August 11, 2009 By
Below is a video to help users with our RAID partition repair tool. RAID data recovery is serious business and should be left to professionals, but that being said, so many people have RAID configurations in their home computers that we decided to … [Read more...]
Avoid Data Recovery Scams Choose DTIData
August 3, 2009 By
Most of the people that read this blog know how I feel about companies that claim they are data recovery firms with years of experience, clean rooms or for that matter, operate outside of their garage! We have been preaching this for a while. There … [Read more...]