Many companies and people rely on QuickBooks to manage their money and accounts. If you have had data loss to your QuickBooks file this article can help you get your data back. If your hard disk can't be accessed you might need hard drive recovery … [Read more...]
Beginners Guide To Computers: The Internet Protocol TCP/IP
June 15, 2007 By
Welcome to a new series of “Beginners Guides†that DTI Data is publishing to better assist novice to intermediate technicians and end users who are looking for a more clear understanding of basic computer, networking, and security knowledge. … [Read more...]
Verifying DMI Pool – Computer Hangs On Restart
May 29, 2007 By
If your computer hangs on restart and you can't get past the Verifying DMI Pool window, it is possible that you have a virus or some other type of start up problem. Verifying DMI Pool… and then the computer locks up. In the past week I have … [Read more...]
How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage
May 15, 2007 By
Does my drive have Physical Damage? I get asked this question a ton. The answer is not always as easy to answer as you would think. In many cases identification is easy. For example, if the drive is clicking, or smoke is coming out of it, there … [Read more...]
Building The Partition Record Using Recover It All Professional
May 7, 2007 By
There are times when the operating system may not recognize the correct partitioning of the hard drive. This may be due to a virus overwriting the original partition record, an accidental 'fdisk', operating system anomaly, software anomaly any other … [Read more...]
File Recovery How To Use A Sector Editor To Find Lost Data
May 1, 2007 By
A lot of times when I am talking to customers who are in a catastrophic data recovery situation, I tell them they can use a sector editor in order to find a majority of their missing TEXT from their Microsoft Word and Excel documents. This article … [Read more...]
Building a Boot Sector With Recover It All Professional
April 24, 2007 By
NOTE: This walk through is good for a SINGLE partition hard disk, running an NTFS operation system. You will need to contact technical support for situations out side of that. The boot record is one of the keys to initializing the operating … [Read more...]
Data Recovery Tutorial: How to Slave a Hard Drive
April 23, 2007 By
This is a tutorial from Jacqui Best about the proper procedure for slaving your hard drive prior to running data recovery software on it. This would also be the procedure to follow if you were to run speed clone to sector clone a noisy drive or if … [Read more...]
Recover Deleted Partition With DART XP
April 18, 2007 By
Unlike a lot of software companies, DTI does NOT outsource their tech support. My staff answer the software support calls from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM 7 DAYS A WEEK. That's right we really answer the phones at night and on weekends to help clients use … [Read more...]
Running Data Recovery Software Off Of A Bootable CD
April 5, 2007 By
A lot of times you can not when attempting a recovery with software you can not move the hard drive from the machine it is in. The following is how to make a Bart PE CD that will run Recover It All Professional. The first thing you need to do is … [Read more...]
Data Backup Solutions External USB Hard Drives
April 3, 2007 By
External USB hard drives and what they are really for. I would say that a large portion of our physical data recovery business comes from hard drives inside USB external enclosures. For someone who has been dealing with hardware and technology for … [Read more...]
Multiple Partition Data Recovery Recover It All
March 6, 2007 By
Customer had two partitions, a boot partition and a data partition. He had tried to restore the boot partition from back up with GHOST, because of corruption in Windows XP. When he did the restore, something went drastically wrong in the partition … [Read more...]
Chkdsk Don’t Run Check Disk Until You Back Up Your Data
March 5, 2007 By
I would say that I get about four to five calls a week that start out with, "My hard drive crashed what can you do for me?" I always answer this question the same way, By crashed what exactly do you mean happened to the hard drive? From here the … [Read more...]
Windows Vista Versions: Which Is Right For You?
February 21, 2007 By
The 5 Versions of Windows Vista What is Right for You? With the recent release of Windows Vista there are still many questions about the different versions, and which one is right for the consumer. I have been in the IT field for over 15 years and … [Read more...]