Hard Drive Failure – What NOT to Do

By now everybody has had a bad experience with a hard drive. When most people run into problems with their computer, the last thing they think of is the hard drive! If you are a gambler like me, you play the probabilities. The most likely problem you... 

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Using Recover It All Data Recovery Software On USB Firewire External Hard Drive

This video from Jacqui Best our tech guru explains how to use Recover It All. It not only gives a concise explanation on the inner workings of the program, but goes into detail on the best way to use it when recovering external hard drives! ... 

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Computer Acting Up? Check Your Hard Drive For Free With Windows Surface Scanner New Version

DTI Data is happy to announce the release of an updated version of our most popular freeware: Windows Surface Scanner! The new version now allows for reports to be printed as to where the bad sectors are, but more impressive is the relationship section,... 

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DTI Data Recovery Rescues ZION and Humanity!

The other day we received a great testimonial from Harry Lennix the Matrix’s Commander Lock. He was very pleased with the hard drive recovery we performed for him! We treat all of our clients like they were stars, and everyone’s data is important... 

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Clicking Disk

By far the most common problem we hear about are clicking hard drives. Most data recovery companies automatically assume that a clicking hard drive means physical hard drive data recovery. While in most cases the clicking sound is indicative of a head... 

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Knocked External Hard Drive Off Desk – Fell To The Floor

One of the most common calls we get is when someone has knocked their external hard drive off of their desk or counter. I have heard cats knocking the hard drives off, kids and users tripping over external hard drive cables. If an external hard drive... 

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DTI Data 10th Anniversary Celebration

We are very happy to announce that 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of DTI Data’s hard drive recovery service. Even though we had been selling software since 1994, it was in 2000 that we opened our main hard drive recovery facility. This has been... 

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Hard Drive Data Recovery From Bad Sectors

One of most common hard drive data recovery scanrios is when we are faced with multiple bad sectors on a hard drive. Since we have released our popular Windows Surface Scanner, I have gotten a ton of emails about what to do when your drive has a bunch... 

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Western Digital WD5000AAJS Hard Drive Recovery

Western Digital WD5000AAJS hard drive recovery usually entails repairing the heads. Like many drives the WD5000 has a parking mechanism that is meant to protect the platters so the heads don’t impact upon them. This doesn’t help if the heads... 

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Failed Hard Drive Recovery From Stuck Heads

One of the most common problems facing computer users is a failed hard drive. We see all types of failed hard drives, but the most common fatal problem revolves around broken heads. If there are any issues with the platters, often times it will be the... 

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SATA Hard Drive Recovery Reversed Cable Causes Smoke

When connecting a SATA drive, you might think that the interface is pretty straight forward, but you would be amazed at how many damaged hard drives we get in due to reveresed power cables. The video below shows the result of two very bad things that... 

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Challenges

When performing hard drive data recovery, it is often a physical problem that requires the disk to be opened. We open hard drives in our clean room to prevent dust and static charges to interfere with the media. Our most commonly faced problem is head... 

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DTI Data Recovery Now On Twitter

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 following... 

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Hard Drive Recovery Of Magnetic Media Explained

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 a... 

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Online Data Recovery Training

DTI Data Recovery is happy to announce its new online data recovery training course. Exclusive to our resellers, this course has trained hundreds of companies to make money with data recovery services. For 1 month only, DTI Data Recovery is opening this... 

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RAID Partition Repair Recovery Freeware

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 give... 

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Avoid Data Recovery Scams Choose DTIData

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 was... 

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Damaged Hard Drive Recovery

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... 

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Computer Hard Drive Recovery Services

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... 

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Seagate Firmware Fix Does Not Work On All Hard Drives

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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