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/2011/08/16/online-data-backup-service/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/08/16/online-data-backup-service/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:42:52 +0000 David Mohyla http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=2035 As home and business computer users have to cope with a rapidly increasing amount of information, data storage is becoming one of the most important aspects of computing. For storing hundreds of family photos or sprawling databases, the large capacity of modern hard drives makes life easy. As we take storage space for granted, this [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/08/16/online-data-backup-service/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/07/28/not-formatted-would-you-like-to-format-now/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/07/28/not-formatted-would-you-like-to-format-now/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:46:38 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1318 This is a common problem with external hard drives like the Western Digital My Book. The reason is that we as a USB using public do not “Safely Remove” the hardware before we turn off or unplug the devices from our computers.  A lot of the time this is due to the fact that Windows [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/07/28/not-formatted-would-you-like-to-format-now/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/18/recovering-from-a-raid-controller-failure/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/18/recovering-from-a-raid-controller-failure/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:36:16 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1213 There are many reasons why a RAID goes down.  A technician will normally assume that one or more of the drives have failed.  This is a common diagnosis as the diagnostic lights on each of the drives may be blinking, the lights may have gone amber, or in some cases the drive may not be [...]

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]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/20/do-it-yourself-dual-lcd-monitor-stand/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/20/reload-windows-restore-cd-hard-drive-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/20/reload-windows-restore-cd-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:42:21 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=964 I have been doing technical support for DTI Data Recovery for 3+ years now and there has been one constant problem across those years. Here is the scenario, a user will plug in an external hard drive and back off all of their important data to that drive in preparation of a format/reload of windows. [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/20/reload-windows-restore-cd-hard-drive-data-recovery/feed/ 6 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/my-files-have-disappeared-hard-drive-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/my-files-have-disappeared-hard-drive-recovery/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:22 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=948 Recently I have had a situation where customers are calling to tell me that they have files that seem to have disappeared. After going through the usual questions, like are you sure you didn’t delete them, or maybe someone else deleted them? I will usually ask if there had been a virus discovered on the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/my-files-have-disappeared-hard-drive-recovery/feed/ 14 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/01/07/how-to-remove-laptop-hard-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/01/07/how-to-remove-laptop-hard-drive/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:03:16 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=844 So here is a little tutorial on how to remove a laptop hard drive. I only have Dell’s in my little arsenal but the method should be the same across the board no matter what laptop you have. The only exception I will make that is with the dell I use for this it is [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/01/07/how-to-remove-laptop-hard-drive/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/system-area-hard-disk-partition/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/system-area-hard-disk-partition/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:03:01 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=504 So here is the deal, I would say in about 99 percent of the calls I take, I talk about the “System Area Of The Hard Drive” and I am sure that must seem like techno babble to most people. Because of the specialization of this field of technology, a lot of the terms we [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/system-area-hard-disk-partition/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/07/06/hard-drive-recovery-slave-laptop-hard-disk-usb-enclosure/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/07/06/hard-drive-recovery-slave-laptop-hard-disk-usb-enclosure/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:38:06 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=223 This article and video will show you how to use a USB enclosure to slave a laptop hard drive. Many times laptop – notebook hard disk drives come in here that we are able to recover with data recovery software. This video will help you use a USB enclosure to get data off of a [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/07/06/hard-drive-recovery-slave-laptop-hard-disk-usb-enclosure/feed/ 10 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/05/21/spyware-viruses-malware-part-2/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/05/21/spyware-viruses-malware-part-2/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 19:47:09 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=221 Spyware, Viruses, and Malware – What you may not know. (Part 2 – How they work and how to locate them.) Welcome back to my series of articles that pertain to Spyware, Malware, and Viruses and what you may not know about them. In my first article, I gave you and overview and some information [...]

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]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/29/spyware-and-malware-what-you-may-not-know/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/18/how-change-files-hidden/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/18/how-change-files-hidden/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:18:49 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/18/windows-explorer-how-to-change-files-from-hidden/ Windows Explorer: How to change files from Being Hidden In my last windows explorer tutorial I explained how to open Windows Explorer, now I will start showing some of the functions people need to know. A lot of time a file we are looking for just doesn’t seem to be where we think it should [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/18/how-change-files-hidden/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/26/windows-explorer-how-open/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/26/windows-explorer-how-open/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:09:33 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/26/windows-explorer-how-to-open-it/ A lot of times when I am speaking to customers I need them to make changes to their files or look at their files in a specific way. I will often tell someone to open Windows Explorer and tell me what they see. In many occasion I have had customers open Internet Explorer instead. Because [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/26/windows-explorer-how-open/feed/ 11 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/13/how-to-remove-unwanted-programs-windows-xp/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/13/how-to-remove-unwanted-programs-windows-xp/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:59:03 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/13/how-to-remove-unwanted-programs-windows-xp/ This is just a mini tutorial on how to uninstall software you no longer want or need and is taking up valuable room on your hard disk. So, step by step this is what you need to do. 1.    Click Start 2.    After the start menu pops open you will need to click on the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/13/how-to-remove-unwanted-programs-windows-xp/feed/ 19 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/10/30/how-to-set-up-computer/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/10/30/how-to-set-up-computer/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:15:36 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/10/30/how-to-set-up-computer/ If I were a Technician how would I set my machine up to keep my data safe from Spyware, Malware and viruses? Although this article actually has little to do with actual “data recovery” if you are attacked by any of these issues it may cause you to need data recovery services. Also, I thought [...]

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]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/10/17/why-defrag-hard-drive/feed/ 6 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/raid-0-1-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/raid-0-1-data-recovery/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:43:38 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/raid-0-1-data-recovery/ Go with RAID 0 or No? So recently I got myself a brand spanking new computer. I can finally play Vanguard without lag! So, anyway it was set up with a RAID 0 with a 64k stripe for speed since it is my gaming machine. The RAID contained two 80GB Maxtor SATA drives. A RAID [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/raid-0-1-data-recovery/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/06/15/basic-computing-guide-internet-protocol-tcp-ip/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/06/15/basic-computing-guide-internet-protocol-tcp-ip/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:54:43 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/06/15/basic-computing-guide-internet-protocol-tcp-ip/ Welcome to a new series of “Beginners Guides” that DTI Data is publishing to better assist novice to intermediate technicians and end users who are looking for a more clear understanding of basic computer, networking, and security knowledge. These guides may seem very basic for a lot of our viewers, but we recommend that everyone [...]

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