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/2012/01/24/troubleshooting-basic-hard-drive-problems-does-not-show-up-in-my-computer/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2012/01/24/troubleshooting-basic-hard-drive-problems-does-not-show-up-in-my-computer/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:41:00 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=2071 Hard Drive Problem #1: The hard drive is not showing up in “My Computer” or in Windows Explorer (not to be confused with internet explorer). Generally, I get phone calls where the customer states that the computer is no longer seeing their hard drive. I always try to ascertain if that is actually what is [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2012/01/24/troubleshooting-basic-hard-drive-problems-does-not-show-up-in-my-computer/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/12/09/ipod-touch-4th-generation-giveaway/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/12/09/ipod-touch-4th-generation-giveaway/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:58:11 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=2061 It’s that time of year again! DTI Data is proud to announce our 2011 iPod Touch Holiday Giveaway! If you or someone you knows could use a free iPod Touch this season, make sure you enter before the drawing. There will be two drawings: the first will take place on Friday December 16th, and the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/12/09/ipod-touch-4th-generation-giveaway/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/08/29/water-damaged-hard-drive-recovery-shipping/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/08/29/water-damaged-hard-drive-recovery-shipping/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:22:24 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=2044 As Hurricane Irene approaches our shores we thought it a good idea to revisit the topic of how to package your hard drive for shipment after it has been submerged in water. This is a very important topic and we covered it in depth during an interview on Digital Gumbo on WWLTV in New Orleans [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/08/29/water-damaged-hard-drive-recovery-shipping/feed/ 0 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/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/2011/03/11/vmware-and-doublespace-the-old-meets-the-new/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/11/vmware-and-doublespace-the-old-meets-the-new/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:22:02 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1848   Ever hear of DblSpace (dos hard drive compression)? Maybe you heard of DrvSpace? I know, how about Stacker, everyone has heard of Stacker. No? Well if you haven’t heard of these it might be because these file system handlers were used in the heyday of MS-DOS 6.??. These file systems and handlers were used [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/11/vmware-and-doublespace-the-old-meets-the-new/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/2011/03/02/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/2011/02/18/determining-configuration-forraid-five-or-raid-zero/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/18/determining-configuration-forraid-five-or-raid-zero/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:24:46 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1747 Reading the title makes it sound like something that should be easy. I should be able to just pull out the drives in the order they are presented in the hardware, mark them as 0 through whatever and be done with it. However it has been my experience that when determining the RAID configuration, there [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/02/18/determining-configuration-forraid-five-or-raid-zero/feed/ 0 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/2011/01/12/data-recovery-and-disaster-recovery-explained/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/12/data-recovery-and-disaster-recovery-explained/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:58:42 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1646 Every company that uses computers to carry out their business, needs to have a solid disaster recovery plan. One item often left out is data recovery! Data Recovery is one of those services that no one thinks they will ever need until it is too late. The fact is, when disaster strikes, problems can occur [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/12/data-recovery-and-disaster-recovery-explained/feed/ 1 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/2010/11/30/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-terminal-services-remotely/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/30/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-terminal-services-remotely/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:24:16 +0000 John Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1550 So, after delivering a new server to a client and getting it setup on the network, joining the domain and configuring the nightly backup, I decide to take off and finish the rest of  the tasks remotely. Not until I drive back to the office and attempt to log in do I realize I had forgotten to [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/11/30/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-terminal-services-remotely/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/2010/09/22/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 [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/22/recovery-it-all-professional-and-windows-7-file-system/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/16/tutorial-how-to-slave-a-sata-hard-drive-via-usb/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/16/tutorial-how-to-slave-a-sata-hard-drive-via-usb/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:57:15 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1385 So a few years a ago I wrote a post on how to slave an IDE hard drive internally into a tower. While this is still very useful information, with so many people not having access to the internal tower or with people trying to use their laptops or even worse someone else’s laptop/desktop computer [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/16/tutorial-how-to-slave-a-sata-hard-drive-via-usb/feed/ 13 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/08/02/using-recover-it-all-data-recovery-software-on-usb-firewire-external-hard-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/08/02/using-recover-it-all-data-recovery-software-on-usb-firewire-external-hard-drive/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:29:53 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1312 This video from Jacqui Best our tech guru explains how to use Recover It All. It not only gives a concise explanation on the inner workings of the program, but goes into detail on the best way to use it when recovering external hard drives! Download now! Recover It All Demo will show you your [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/08/02/using-recover-it-all-data-recovery-software-on-usb-firewire-external-hard-drive/feed/ 1 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/2010/04/07/dti-data-10th-anniversary-celebration/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/04/07/dti-data-10th-anniversary-celebration/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:57:00 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1238 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 a great decade for DTI and its customers and we are [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/04/07/dti-data-10th-anniversary-celebration/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/03/08/hard-drive-data-recovery-from-bad-sectors/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/03/08/hard-drive-data-recovery-from-bad-sectors/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:19:12 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1251 One of most common hard drive data recovery scanrios is when we are faced with multiple bad sectors on a hard drive. Since we have released our popular Windows Surface Scanner, I have gotten a ton of emails about what to do when your drive has a bunch of bad sectors. What do bad sectors [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/03/08/hard-drive-data-recovery-from-bad-sectors/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/01/27/failed-hard-drive-recovery-from-stuck-heads/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/01/27/failed-hard-drive-recovery-from-stuck-heads/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:07:49 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1244 One of the most common problems facing computer users is a failed hard drive. We see all types of failed hard drives, but the most common fatal problem revolves around broken heads. If there are any issues with the platters, often times it will be the heads that fail. They are fragile and don’t stand [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/01/27/failed-hard-drive-recovery-from-stuck-heads/feed/ 6 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/01/25/sata-hard-drive-recovery-reversed-cable-causes-smoke/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/01/25/sata-hard-drive-recovery-reversed-cable-causes-smoke/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:18:10 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1240 When connecting a SATA drive, you might think that the interface is pretty straight forward, but you would be amazed at how many damaged hard drives we get in due to reveresed power cables. The video below shows the result of two very bad things that happened to a SATA hard drive. First off the [...]

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