Toshiba laptop drives MK, GAS, or GAX most common reason for failure is due to the bearings seizing within the hard disk drive. The spindle motor and the bearings within the hard drive are getting stuck. This is one of the most common reasons for … [Read more...]
Windows Vista Data Recovery Software 1: DART Undelete
February 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
DTI Data Recovery is happy to announce that it's software DART Undelete has been fully tested on all versions of the Windows Vista Operating System. DART Undelete was developed in DTI's data recovery labs by Dick Correa, our head programmer. Built … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery Profile: Western Digital
February 15, 2007 By 82 Comments
Hard drive recovery profile: Western Digital. Every now and then we are going to profile products from the major hard drive manufacturers. This is the first in the series of a closer look at Western Digital. I have to throw in a disclaimer that we … [Read more...]
Free Data Recovery Software: Undelete & Partition Repair
February 13, 2007 By 12 Comments
DTI Data is offering 2 fully functional data recovery software products for free! These are not demos, trialware, or evaluation copies. FAT Fast File Undelete and NTFS Partition Repair Tool are full versions of top of the line data recovery … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery: Platter Replacement – Old News!
February 12, 2007 By 7 Comments
Hard Drive Recovery Platter Swap: Hardly A New Technology. Recently I came across a news article about how another data recovery company "broke the platter replacement barrier". I didn't realize other companies saw hard drive platter swapping as a … [Read more...]
Backup Solutions 2: Small Network Attached Storage
February 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
Greetings! I am working on a whole series of article that deal with data safety. As an employee of a hard drive recovery service I see a lot of data recovery case studies. The fact is everyone faces data loss at one time or another. My post about How … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery: Why Use A Service
February 10, 2007 By 4 Comments
Hard Drive Recovery. Three words that encompass so much. In my post about why hard drives fail I explained how hard disk manufacturers are burdened with the fact they are producing a product destined for failure. We know that inherently a drive will … [Read more...]
RAID: What it is and how it works
February 9, 2007 By 2 Comments
Definition: RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. It involves the configuration (setting up) of two or more hard disk drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives originally were only … [Read more...]
Backup Solution 1: External Hard Drives
February 9, 2007 By 2 Comments
Greetings everyone! Here is the first in my series of backup solutions. As a data recovery company, dtidata.com sees a lot of hard drive failures. As I said in my post: Speed Kills with Hard Drives Its Heat, I went over how heat affects hard disk … [Read more...]
Hard Drives: A Destiny Of Failure!
February 8, 2007 By 8 Comments
Hard disk drives will always and ultimitely FAIL! Even with all the new technologies that arise such as perpendicular recording, the most basic element of hard drives, their ability to store data, is a lost cause. Faced with the daunting task of … [Read more...]
Speed Kills? With Hard Drives It’s Heat!
January 27, 2007 By 11 Comments
A few months ago I bought an internal thermometer for my computer. I was told by Malcolm our hard drive recovery engineer that the most common reason for hard disk failure was heat. I was shocked to find the internal temperature of my machine was 120 … [Read more...]