http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter Hard drive recovery data recovery resource center with how to guides for windows RAID Snap server file system repair NTFS partition recovery tools tips and tricks to recover data Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:48:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/27/hard-drive-recovery-what-does-it-mean/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/27/hard-drive-recovery-what-does-it-mean/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:33:15 +0000 David Mohyla http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1901 Hard drive recovery is a very broad term. However, data recovery companies use it to describe a situation where the hard drive itself is no longer functioning. A hard drive can have many different file systems from Windows, MAC, Linux or, even a very proprietary file system for a specific use. So, when we here [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/27/hard-drive-recovery-what-does-it-mean/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:18:54 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1894 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS HARD DRIVE RECOVERY VERIFICATION TOOL We receive a tremendous amount of calls asking how to tell if your hard drive is going bad. Sometimes it is very hard to tell if you need hard drive recovery by a professional because the drive will allow you access sometimes, or maybe [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/30/how-to-fix-bad-sectors-on-a-hard-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/30/how-to-fix-bad-sectors-on-a-hard-drive/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:30:08 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1871 The truth of the matter is; you can’t repair bad sectors on a hard drive. Receiving ‘Bad Read’ errors or I/O errors from a hard drive is not the type of problem that can be remedied or ignored. The following is an explanation of how hard drives are designed and how a bad sector revealing [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/30/how-to-fix-bad-sectors-on-a-hard-drive/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/18/failing-hard-drives-and-the-freezer-technique-revisited/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/18/failing-hard-drives-and-the-freezer-technique-revisited/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:33:31 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1859 Above is an example of a drive that has been completely frozen.   Normally you would put the drive in the freezer for about an hour. This was a common hard drive recovery trick called a thermo challenge. The only real worry was condensation either on the circuit board or even worse inside the drive [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/18/failing-hard-drives-and-the-freezer-technique-revisited/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/15/199-00-hard-drive-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/15/199-00-hard-drive-recovery/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:14:06 +0000 John Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1852   Lately, I have seen ads popping up in Google searches for very low cost hard drive recovery services. There are sites advertising complete hard drive recoveries for $349.00, $299.00, even as low as $199.00. I get a lot of questions about these companies almost every week and felt a blog post was in order [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/15/199-00-hard-drive-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/09/finding-hard-dirve-parts-for-an-ibm-deskstar-82-3gb/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/09/finding-hard-dirve-parts-for-an-ibm-deskstar-82-3gb/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:19:39 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1842 Among other duties I have around here finding parts for drives is one of them. We of course out source to other companies when I am unable to find the parts but it is always better and more more cost effective if someone in house finds them. The first step in finding the parts is [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/09/finding-hard-dirve-parts-for-an-ibm-deskstar-82-3gb/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/08/typical-data-recovery-scenario/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/08/typical-data-recovery-scenario/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:31:11 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1824 Ok so what happens is you have been working on a project, document, database, or maybe even the families genealogy. You have a few weeks of hard work into it. You have put in a ton of internet research and finding just the right pictures.  You get up to go grab your self a snack [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/08/typical-data-recovery-scenario/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/03/how-to-know-your-hard-drive-failed/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/03/how-to-know-your-hard-drive-failed/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:26:20 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1422 We have talked about this before, but failing hard drives never go away. Though “prevention is the best medicine” has been an adage that goes back centuries, it can still be ignored even in the digital age. DTI Data Recovery has been in the forefront of educating users on how to save their on everything from [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/03/how-to-know-your-hard-drive-failed/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/02/data-recovery-case-study-wd5000aaks/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/02/data-recovery-case-study-wd5000aaks/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:10:57 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1802 This might be the most popular drive sold in the past 5 years. It is fast and the storage capacity for the bang for your buck was huge! When they first came out you couldn’t get anything close in size for the pennies Western Digital was asking for the drive.  Over the years Western Digital [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/02/data-recovery-case-study-wd5000aaks/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/28/what-does-chkdsk-really-do-from-a-software-engineers-view/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/28/what-does-chkdsk-really-do-from-a-software-engineers-view/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:34:46 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1794 I wish I had a nickel for every potential client that has called the shop and explained to me that they have a hard drive that is locking up (bad sectors usually) and it won’t populate the file system. As I am listening I hear things like “I put it in an external enclosure and [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/28/what-does-chkdsk-really-do-from-a-software-engineers-view/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/25/hard-drive-recovery-diagnosis-easy-tips-and-tricks/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/25/hard-drive-recovery-diagnosis-easy-tips-and-tricks/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:04:36 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1783 Over the years we have discussed my progress in data recovery. I have recently integrated the physical recovery end in to my ever growing knowledge base. It used to be that when I spoke to customers and friends I was coming purely from a logical recovery background. An exceptional understanding of how data works on [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/25/hard-drive-recovery-diagnosis-easy-tips-and-tricks/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/18/external-usb-hard-drive-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/18/external-usb-hard-drive-recovery/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:34:46 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1759 USB drives have been around for several years now and because of that fact data, has been compiled that reflects the type of files a USB drive will store. In addition, I apply my experience, to the types of damage that a USB enclosure will sustain. The following is a method for not only helping [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/18/external-usb-hard-drive-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/08/data-mining-of-email-and-website-history/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/08/data-mining-of-email-and-website-history/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:09:24 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1727 Computers and other electronic devices that use storage media can be found in nearly every office and even in homes. Whatever type of storage is used, the data itself can not only be recovered, but restored. Businesses regularly and routinely record data on electronic media for processing, transmission, storage or other business functions. Today, most such [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/08/data-mining-of-email-and-website-history/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/28/pc-defender-removal-malwarebytes-combofix-registry-repair-safe-mode/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/28/pc-defender-removal-malwarebytes-combofix-registry-repair-safe-mode/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:47:41 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1687 This tutorial will help users with infected computers remove malware and adware such as PC Defender, run Malewarebytes, Combofix and simple registry repairs in safe mode, to fix a computer running Windows .  We have mentioned Malewarebytes and Combofix as great Freeware tools that can help remove adware and malware from your computer. However, there [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/28/pc-defender-removal-malwarebytes-combofix-registry-repair-safe-mode/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/14/microsoft-fat32-and-integrated-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/14/microsoft-fat32-and-integrated-data-recovery/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:39:07 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1665 With several years in the data recovery industry there are, like all things, a metamorphosis from one method of recovery to the next. In the beginning there were simple file systems and simple drives and a coarse data recovery method was used in order to retrieve data. This method was based mostly on the hardware side and not [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/14/microsoft-fat32-and-integrated-data-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/11/adware-and-spyware-removal-tutorial/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/11/adware-and-spyware-removal-tutorial/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:46:21 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1635 Adware are dangerous and nasty little viruses. You know the kind of virus where you find that you suddenly have some new program installed that is telling you that you have some type of Trojan virus and you need to go to some Spyware website to buy a program to remove it. Every program you [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/11/adware-and-spyware-removal-tutorial/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/12/29/business-continuity-disaster-planning/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/12/29/business-continuity-disaster-planning/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:15:33 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1623 An organization’s ability to recover from a disaster or disruptive event (natural disaster, human-made disaster) and resume operations as quickly as possible is referred to as disaster recovery or business continuity. Business Continuity Planning For an expedient disaster recovery to happen, an organization must have a strategic plan in place, usually referred to as a [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/12/29/business-continuity-disaster-planning/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/08/remote-fast-data-recovery-recover-it-now/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/08/remote-fast-data-recovery-recover-it-now/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:18:05 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1528 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 our engineers to remote into your system and in [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/08/remote-fast-data-recovery-recover-it-now/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/04/hard-drive-recovery-from-scored-platters/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/04/hard-drive-recovery-from-scored-platters/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:49:17 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1517 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 the platters. This happens when a hard drive is dropped, stops suddenly due to power failures [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/04/hard-drive-recovery-from-scored-platters/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/27/hard-drive-data-recovery-not-just-a-repair/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/27/hard-drive-data-recovery-not-just-a-repair/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:44:44 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1466 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, you really don’t want to use [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/27/hard-drive-data-recovery-not-just-a-repair/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/26/recover-it-now-how-does-remote-data-recovery-work/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/26/recover-it-now-how-does-remote-data-recovery-work/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:58:12 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1506 Recover It Now is a service offered by DTIData to try to save our customers time and money. In most cases we can put the drive back in to the state it was in before the failure happened. This saves time because you will not have to transfer the data off of the drive, make [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/26/recover-it-now-how-does-remote-data-recovery-work/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/20/data-recovery-software-recover-it-all-professional-for-windows/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/20/data-recovery-software-recover-it-all-professional-for-windows/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:51:57 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1493 Recover It All has always been DTIData’s main piece of data recovery software. It has been around a long time with updates coming in order to account to changes in the Windows file system. I thought I would give our customers an update on how the software works and the features currently in this powerful [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/20/data-recovery-software-recover-it-all-professional-for-windows/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/18/data-recovery-with-windows-7/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/18/data-recovery-with-windows-7/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:39:05 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/18/data-recovery-with-windows-7/ So after the Windows Vista debacle I was less then ready to jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon. For obvious reasons I wanted to take a wait and see attitude about the OS since with Windows Vista doing logical (software) data recovery was a huge chore that I generally could not gain access to the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/18/data-recovery-with-windows-7/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/29/five-things-you-need-to-know-when-choosing-a-data-recovery-company/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/29/five-things-you-need-to-know-when-choosing-a-data-recovery-company/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:32:51 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1372 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 they need to choose from, but the data recovery company! Most [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/29/five-things-you-need-to-know-when-choosing-a-data-recovery-company/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/22/recovery-it-all-professional-and-windows-7-file-system/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/22/recovery-it-all-professional-and-windows-7-file-system/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:49:38 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1404  So what exactly does Recover It All work on? It works with Fat 16, Fat 32, NTFS 4 and NTFS 5. In normal not geek speak that means it will work on any file system from Windows 95 thru Windows 7. It will only actually RUN in Windows 2k and higher. Recover It All is [...]

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