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 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:13:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/02/01/missing-exchange-data-file/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/02/01/missing-exchange-data-file/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:38:38 +0000 John Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1247 I had a customer recently that called saying his Network Attached Storage (NAS) device had crashed and now his Exchange Priv.edb was missing. He tried running checkdisk on it, tried several undelete and file recovery programs with no luck. The weird thing about it was that viewing the properties of the drive letter under windows [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/02/01/missing-exchange-data-file/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/18/exchange-data-recovery-guide/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/18/exchange-data-recovery-guide/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:37:27 +0000 John Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1215 First and foremost, DON’T PANIC.  I cannot remember how many times I have seen somebody (myself included) do something completely idiotic and often times irreversible because they didn’t take the time to think things through.  For example, wanting SO badly to get the database mounted again before anybody notices that you don’t do the MOST [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/18/exchange-data-recovery-guide/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/pst-raid5-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/pst-raid5-recovery/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:06 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1176 Welcome back!  As before, we still have the problem where chkdsk was run on a RAID with a stale drive.  We have had a brief explanation of how NTFS 5 works and how the data is stored on the volume.  Lets take a much more detailed look as to how the data is stored in [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/pst-raid5-recovery/feed/ 4 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/22/ntfs-file-system-pst-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/22/ntfs-file-system-pst-data-recovery/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:07:35 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1111 As discussed in the previous articles we have a RAID that had some problems.  These problems were exacerbated by the fact that a chkdsk was run on the file system and changed some of the attributes of the PST file we are trying to recover.  Normally when this happens the file becomes irretrievable and is [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/22/ntfs-file-system-pst-data-recovery/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/chkdsk-not-designed-for-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/chkdsk-not-designed-for-data-recovery/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:13:04 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1101 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 caused the client to do something that normally [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/chkdsk-not-designed-for-data-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/outlook-pst-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/outlook-pst-data-recovery/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:12:12 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1100 Last time I gave a brief description of a RAID that we received here at the shop.  I also shared some of the things the client had done to try and get their RAID back online. I also explained that chkdsk had been run. What made this RAID unusual was that the client had replaced [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/09/09/outlook-pst-data-recovery/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/26/recovering-fragmented-outlook-pst-file-after-chkdsk/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/26/recovering-fragmented-outlook-pst-file-after-chkdsk/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:43:47 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1095 The following saga is the story of the recovery of a single Outlook PST (Personal Information Store) file.  It was accomplished using a simple hex editor some diagnostics, and the courage of  David when he slew the Philistine Goliath.  Well, maybe not so dramatic, but it was pretty cool. As fate would have it I [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/26/recovering-fragmented-outlook-pst-file-after-chkdsk/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/09/missing-email-in-outlook-express-and-how-to-get-it-back/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/09/missing-email-in-outlook-express-and-how-to-get-it-back/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:14:26 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1059 Up until recently it had been the general thought that after an archive or compression in Outlook Express that if you had lost email you were just out of luck. I recently found that when Outlook is doing this compression/archiving that it move you original folders/ dbx’s to the recycle bin and rename them  with [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/09/missing-email-in-outlook-express-and-how-to-get-it-back/feed/ 6 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:45:48 +0000 John Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188 Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store There are some situations where starting Microsoft Exchange with a blank database may be necessary. In my line of work, I run across a large amount of businesses that have had their Exchange Private Information Store corrupted and the whole organizations Email capabilities halted as well. Quite [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/feed/ 23 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/11/13/do-not-compress-email-outlook-express/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/11/13/do-not-compress-email-outlook-express/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:52:05 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/11/13/do-not-compress-email-outlook-express/ We have a really great piece of data recovery software called E-Recovery For Outlook Express, that will restore deleted emails. The software is very easy to use, you just select the email folder the emails were deleted from and then we show you what we see for recovery. NOTE: If you have deleted the actual [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/11/13/do-not-compress-email-outlook-express/feed/ 9 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/11/exchange-server-tools-use-exmerge-import-pst-files/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/11/exchange-server-tools-use-exmerge-import-pst-files/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 20:28:56 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/11/exchange-server-tools-use-exmerge-import-pst-files/ Exmerge is a very usefull tool that can import PST files back into your Exchange Server Information Stores. Here is a tutorial from our Exchange Engineer John Best on how to use ExMerge.     Using ExMerge to import PST files 1.       Place all of the PST files that you want imported into a single [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/11/exchange-server-tools-use-exmerge-import-pst-files/feed/ 8 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/08/exchange-server-data-recovery-eseutil-isinteg/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/08/exchange-server-data-recovery-eseutil-isinteg/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 22:32:09 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/08/exchange-server-data-recovery-eseutil-isinteg/ ESEUTIL and ISINTEG are Exchange Server built-in tools that can help recover corrupt PRIV, PRIV1, Pub, and Pub1 edb and stm database files. It is important that prior to running ANY Microsoft Utilities to back up your latest copies of your Information Store files to another partition, network drive or external hard drive. If you [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/08/exchange-server-data-recovery-eseutil-isinteg/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/02/create-clean-priv1-edb-exchange-is/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/02/create-clean-priv1-edb-exchange-is/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 22:43:55 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/02/create-clean-priv1-edb-exchange-is/ Many times during support calls the client is unable to restore from their Exchange Server backup. At that point if all the Microsoft Utilities like ESEUTIL or ISINTEG have failed, the client has no choice but to send their corrupted Exchange priv priv1 edb stm to a data recovery company. How To Create A Blank [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/02/create-clean-priv1-edb-exchange-is/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/17/exchange-server-dirty-shutdown/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/17/exchange-server-dirty-shutdown/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:24:11 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/17/exchange-server-dirty-shutdown/ 24 Hour Exchange Server Support I run DTI Data’s 24 hour Microsoft Exchange Support Hotline. While I often jokingly refer to it as our “suicide hotline”, that is close to the truth. When that phone rings at 2 AM I know someone is having a serious Microsoft Exchange problem. I am often asked why we [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/17/exchange-server-dirty-shutdown/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/26/restore-deleted-outlook-express-emails/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/26/restore-deleted-outlook-express-emails/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:15:39 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/26/restore-deleted-outlook-express-emails/ Ok so this is a major issue that I run into all the time. Someone has a ton of emails they have accidentally deleted from inside their Outlook Express, or they are trying to get back emails someone else may have deleted maliciously. We actually have a really great piece of software what will recover [...]

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