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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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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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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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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Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer

Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236. Question: I have a 1TB... 

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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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Chkdsk is Not Designed For Data Recovery

In the previous two articles we have discussed how the RAID and some of the decisions the client made in trying to recover the RAID affected the PST file.  In addition I discussed that there may have been a stale drive in the array and which probably... 

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Hard Drive Recovery FAQs

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 –... 

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View It Now NTFS File System Viewer

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... 

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My Book is Not Being Seen by Windows

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.... 

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Hard Drive Recovery Myths Debunked

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”!... 

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Recover It Now – Fast Data Recovery – Remote Services

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... 

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Seagate Barracuda 7200-11 Hard Drive Recovery

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... 

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Hard Drive Recovery Breakdown – Heads Platters and Clicking

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... 

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