Hard Drive Recovery FAQs
June 16, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions
We have been getting a lot of questions about the different types of hard drive recovery and what users can do when they have a data loss situation. There are two main types of hard drive or data loss problems users run into: Software Failure –...
[Read more...]View It Now NTFS File System Viewer
May 1, 2009 by Dick Correa
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, File Systems Explained
I have worked with Microsoft file systems since DOS 3.3. From FAT12, to the current NTFS 5.0 Microsoft has always strived to make their file systems fast and reliable. However, there has always been one major drawback. Their file systems have always...
[Read more...]My Book is Not Being Seen by Windows
April 6, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hard Drive How To's, Storage and Backup How To's
Ok so the most popular external drives on the market have to be the My Book and The Passport. I get a ton of calls every week about them, and I don’t believe it is because it is not a good product but more because they are being SO widely used....
[Read more...]Hard Drive Recovery Myths Debunked
March 19, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hard Drive How To's
If you have had a hard drive problem then sure enough you have done some searching on the Internet and seen some startling revelations about hard drive recovery. My personal favorite is :it is safe to put your hard drive in the freezer over night”!...
[Read more...]Recover It Now – Fast Data Recovery – Remote Services
February 3, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hot Deals, IT News
Need fast data recovery? Recover It Now is DTI Data’s new remote and fast data recovery service that brings the hard drive repair lab to you! Recover It Now remote data recovery service is a no fix no fee service. That means you only pay us if we...
[Read more...]Seagate Barracuda 7200-11 Hard Drive Recovery
January 22, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, IT News
By now most of you have heard about the problems that a firmware upgrade has caused with the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive line. Both 500 GB and 1 TB hard drives have just stopped working without notice. After the drive up and dies and you re-boot...
[Read more...]Hard Drive Recovery Breakdown – Heads Platters and Clicking
December 28, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions
Hard drive recovery is the repair of physically damaged hard drives including heads, platters and a clicking sound. Even though clicking is by far the most common noise that a hard drive will make when failing, there are a few other noises such as whining...
[Read more...]Blue Screen Of Death How To Restore Windows Config Missing Corrupt
December 17, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, System Restore How To's, Windows Operating System How To's
Blue Screen of Death C:\windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt. Windows Blue Screen of Death If you have turned your PC on and received this message the problem can be solved with the following steps. However, before beginning, it is very important...
[Read more...]Hard Drive Recovery Freeware Software
November 25, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, IT News
DTI Data is one of the few data recovery companies that not only operate a clean room, is a certified partner of the only hard drive manufacturer that lists authorized data recovery companies and creates and supports their own hard drive recovery software!...
[Read more...]Recovering Folder Relationships Using DOS Clustering Design
November 18, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, File Systems Explained, How To's
In my last installment I described what a file entry record would look like if it were in fact a cluster holding file entry data. I went over the fact that the first two entries of the folder cluster would be a period followed by ten spaces, and...
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