My Book is Not Being Seen by Windows
April 6, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hard Drive How To's, Storage and Backup How To's
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....
[Read more...]Hard Drive Recovery Myths Debunked
March 19, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hard Drive How To's
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”!...
[Read more...]Storage Wars – Hard Drives Reach 2TB – Good or Bad
February 10, 2009 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Hard Drive How To's, Hard Drive Reviews, IT News
Seagate Constellation 2TB And in this corner… The hard drive Storage Wars have been heating up lately as Western Digital and Seagate battle it out for not only the largest capacity disks, but they are also going green! Western Digital went as far...
[Read more...]How To Remove A Laptop Hard Drive
January 7, 2009 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Basic Computer How To's, Hard Drive How To's
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...
[Read more...]Hard Drive Form Factors Explained
October 9, 2008 by Michael Stankard
Filed under Hard Drive How To's, Hard Drive Reviews
This is the first article in a series that will explain how hard drives work, why they fail and what you as users can do to protect your data. When looking at hard drives the first step is to identify what it’s form factor is. Simply put, the form...
[Read more...]How platter swelling affects a hard drive
October 8, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under File Systems Explained, Hard Drive How To's
Okay, I know this is not about how to read bad parity in a drive in order to find a the stale drive in an RAID five. This is an important subject, however, I also think it is important to know why heat and a swelling platter can cause hard drive...
[Read more...]My Data Failure Nightmare, The Beginning
September 23, 2008 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Data Recovery Solutions, Hard Drive How To's
So here is the deal, recently I have been having serious data issues. Like a bad dream it would seem I have lost my main data areas in three different machines in the last 4 months. On a side note one of the machines (my main one) lost its hard drive...
[Read more...]When good RAIDs Go Bad, A Technicians Worst Nightmare
September 19, 2008 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Hard Drive How To's, Hard Drive Reviews, RAID Recovery Explained, Storage and Backup How To's
The next machine with a bad hard drive was my server. This server has been running as a server in our home for about 8 years. HAH! Now that is not to say that we haven’t done upgrades, because we have. We have always kept the “data” area of the...
[Read more...]What File System Components are affected by FDISK
September 11, 2008 by Dick Correa
Filed under Hard Drive How To's, How To's, Software How To's
As I have mentioned before we have all either by design or by accident fdisked an NTFS file system. In doing so all of the files become inaccessible and the assumption for many years was that they could not be recovered. Many of the more recent pieces...
[Read more...]When My Main Gaming Machine Has Serious Hard Drive Crash
September 9, 2008 by Jacqui Best
Filed under Hard Drive How To's
Ok so here is what I have, 3 broken machines, all with bad hard drives. I am not talking about a little logical damage to the drive where recovery is a possibility with software. Oh no these are full blow physical recoveries. In machine one I have a RAID...
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