Damaged Hard Drive Recovery
July 22, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Hard Drive How To's
When a hard drive is damaged it almost always comes down to one of two things that are wrong. Either the electronics are bad or the heads have failed. Damaged hard drive recovery involves repairing the parts that are broken and then accessing the data...
[Read more...]How To Recover Data from Your Teens Cell Phone
July 9, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under How To's
I have a lot of customers who are wanting to be able recover data from their child’s cell phone. With all the news lately about teens being convicted of child pornography I find it to be a valid worry. In the case of MOST phones when you teen takes...
[Read more...]RAID Explained in Simple Terms
July 9, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under RAID Recovery Explained
I find that “RAID” is such a scary term to a lot of my end users or business clients who are not Network Admin’s. A RAID is in it’s simplest form more then one “physical” (physical means the actual device you would...
[Read more...]Missing Email in Outlook Express and How to Get it Back
July 9, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Email Recovery, How To's
Up until recently it had been the general thought that after an archive or compression in Outlook Express that if you had lost email you were just out of luck. I recently found that when Outlook is doing this compression/archiving that it move you original...
[Read more...]Computer Hard Drive Recovery Services
July 8, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under How To's
Unless you have a very new computer like one of those mini-laptops, then you have a magnetic media hard drive as storage. Only the very latest and small capacity computers are shipping with solid state storage currently. That is going to change over the...
[Read more...]Seagate Firmware Fix Does Not Work On All Hard Drives
July 7, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under IT News
By now most of you have heard that Seagate has issues with several of their newer Barracuda models. They released a firmware fix for the problem, but what they didn’t tell you is, the firmware fix only works if the hard drive is seen by the BIOS....
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