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/2011/08/29/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/2011/03/09/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/2011/02/25/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/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/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:53:29 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198 Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236. Question: I have a 1TB Western Digital My book Hard drive. When I [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/feed/ 30 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/data-recovery-questions-answered-pst-recovery-hard-drive-not-detected/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/data-recovery-questions-answered-pst-recovery-hard-drive-not-detected/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:05 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1175 So I trolled the Internet for topics to write about and found tons of forums with very good questions not being answered so I am going to post the questions and then give you the best possible answer I cam up with. Q: Yesterday I was cleaning out the rubbish from my PC, as it [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/24/data-recovery-questions-answered-pst-recovery-hard-drive-not-detected/feed/ 8 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/19/what-is-a-hard-drive-boot-sector/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/19/what-is-a-hard-drive-boot-sector/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:40:34 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1090 A common misunderstanding is that because a hard drive is not a boot drive it does not have or need a boot sector, this just isn’t the case. All DOS based (Windows) hard drives have a boot sector. It is often also confused with the MBR (Master Boot Record) which makes things a little more [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/19/what-is-a-hard-drive-boot-sector/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/22/damaged-hard-drive-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/22/damaged-hard-drive-recovery/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:07:32 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1068 When a hard drive is damaged it almost always comes down to one of two things that are wrong. Either the electronics are bad or the heads have failed. Damaged hard drive recovery involves repairing the parts that are broken and then accessing the data stored on the platters. The image below shows details of [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/07/22/damaged-hard-drive-recovery/feed/ 6 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/western-digital-my-book-is-not-being-seen-by-windows/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/western-digital-my-book-is-not-being-seen-by-windows/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:24:45 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=955 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. So lets start with [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/western-digital-my-book-is-not-being-seen-by-windows/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/03/19/hard-drive-recovery-myths-debunked/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/03/19/hard-drive-recovery-myths-debunked/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:36:21 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=926 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”! Better yet, there are sites that actually recommend putting your [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/03/19/hard-drive-recovery-myths-debunked/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:24:48 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=883 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 as to name it’s new 2TB hard drive the  Caviar Green series. Before I get [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/feed/ 2 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/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:00:38 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=582 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 factor is the size of the hard [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/feed/ 11 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/08/how-platter-swelling-affects-a-hard-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/08/how-platter-swelling-affects-a-hard-drive/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:10:32 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=276   Okay, I know this is not about how to read bad parity in a drive in order to find a stale drive in a RAID five.  This is an important subject, however, and I also think it is important to know why heat and a swelling platter can cause hard drive damage.   In [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/08/how-platter-swelling-affects-a-hard-drive/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/23/my-data-failure-nightmare-the-beginning/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/23/my-data-failure-nightmare-the-beginning/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:54:49 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=233 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 3 times in that [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/23/my-data-failure-nightmare-the-beginning/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:49:08 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=241 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 drive separate and even though [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/11/what-file-system-components-are-affected-by-fdisk/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/11/what-file-system-components-are-affected-by-fdisk/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:34:31 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=272 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 of data recovery software do not, and cannot [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/11/what-file-system-components-are-affected-by-fdisk/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/09/when-my-main-gaming-machine-has-serious-hard-drive-crash/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/09/when-my-main-gaming-machine-has-serious-hard-drive-crash/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:41:36 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=237 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 0, running 2 Seagate 80gb SATA [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/09/when-my-main-gaming-machine-has-serious-hard-drive-crash/feed/ 0 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/2008/06/02/recovering-data-from-a-laptop/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/06/02/recovering-data-from-a-laptop/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:53:41 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=222 Last month I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1720 with all the RAM and processing power that I could get. I also picked a 320GB hard drive to store my data files. Being involved with data recovery in one way or another for the last nine years has certainly prepared me for what happened last week. [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/06/02/recovering-data-from-a-laptop/feed/ 4 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/19/hard-drive-recovery-software/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/19/hard-drive-recovery-software/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:10:40 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/19/hard-drive-recovery-software/ There are a lot of websites and blogs that talk about hard drive recovery. Most of the content out there is really just fluff, written to drive hard drive and data recovery type ads in Google AdSense. These ads can make webmasters and site owners a lot of money. The problem is there is quite [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/12/19/hard-drive-recovery-software/feed/ 3 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/hard-drive-failure-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/hard-drive-failure-data-recovery/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:32:11 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/hard-drive-failure-data-recovery/ When your hard drive fails it is more than likely a physical problem. In most cases noise will accompany hard drive failure, clicking and scraping are common sounds that a hard drive will emit while it is failing. It is important to back up all your files if your hard drive is making any noises. [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/18/hard-drive-failure-data-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/05/hard-drive-recovery-techniques/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/05/hard-drive-recovery-techniques/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:47:05 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/05/hard-drive-recovery-techniques/ Hard drive recovery is one part of the overall process of data recovery. Data recovery involves many steps that vary depending upon the actual circumstances of the hard drive failure. When the disk is physically damaged it will need to be repaired. This stage is referred to as hard drive recovery Hard Drive Recovery Techniques: [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/09/05/hard-drive-recovery-techniques/feed/ 3