Data Recovery Resources and RAID How To Guides
Hard drive recovery and data recovery resource center with how to guides for RAID, NAS, file system repair
What Did the First Responders Really Do? A common occurrence that many consultants experience is a discrepancy between what first responders "claim" they did and what the analyst actually sees that happended upon examination. More often than not, … [Read more...]
Recover It Now is fast data recovery services that can help customers get their data back in minutes! DTI Data Recovery is a pioneer in remote data recovery. As long as the hard drive is seen by the BIOS you can slave the hard drive which will allow … [Read more...]
Hard drive recovery from scored platters used to spell death for recovering data. DTI Data Recovery has special techniques to recover damaged hard drives, specifically from scored platters. A hard drive can get scored platters when the heads impact … [Read more...]
One of the main questions we get from users calling in for hard drive data recovery is "do you repair the drive"? In cases when the hard drive has a physical problem, we do have to repair the drive to MOVE the data onto stable media. That being said, … [Read more...]
If you do a search for "data recovery company" on Google there will be 17.5 million results, not including the ads from the companies that don't rank in the search engines. How does a consumer choose between all these websites? It isn't the website … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 to … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 a … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 fail … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]