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/2012/02/10/basic-hard-drive-problem-you-need-to-format-the-disk/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2012/02/10/basic-hard-drive-problem-you-need-to-format-the-disk/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:26:00 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=2103 A common hard drive fault that I think most of us have run in to at what time or another is : “You Need to Format the Disk in Drive:”.

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]]> 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/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:18:54 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1894 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE WINDOWS HARD DRIVE RECOVERY VERIFICATION TOOL We receive a tremendous amount of calls asking how to tell if your hard drive is going bad. Sometimes it is very hard to tell if you need hard drive recovery by a professional because the drive will allow you access sometimes, or maybe [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/06/windows-hard-drive-recovery-verification-tool/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/2011/01/31/stale-drive-detection-for-windows-ntfs-raids/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/31/stale-drive-detection-for-windows-ntfs-raids/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:33:00 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1718 Greetings and Salutations! My name is Richard Correa and I am a Software Engineer and data recovery specialist for DTI Data. Over the years I have written many tools to help the technician resolve several of the problems they may encounter during their daily endeavor to recover a clients data. One of the most complicated, [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/01/31/stale-drive-detection-for-windows-ntfs-raids/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/2010/08/02/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/2009/11/11/speed-clone-for-windows-released/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/11/speed-clone-for-windows-released/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:43:10 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1136 DTI Data Recovery continues its excellence in software development by releasing Speed Clone for Windows. The new Speed Clone download package includes the Windows version as well as a bootable DOS ISO for cloning hard drives that are registered in the BIOS. It also has the original Speed Clone that works off of a floppy. [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/11/speed-clone-for-windows-released/feed/ 5 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/04/windows-surface-scanner-freeware-utility/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/04/windows-surface-scanner-freeware-utility/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:05:57 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1130 Several times a week DTI Data receives calls from clients describing a situation where their computer seems to ‘freeze’ or ‘lock-up’ on boot up.   No matter what they try the system will no longer boot and they receive a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).   Normally we will recommend that before they spend money on data [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/11/04/windows-surface-scanner-freeware-utility/feed/ 15 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/11/12/using-fat32-file-entry-record-recover-folders-software-logic/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/11/12/using-fat32-file-entry-record-recover-folders-software-logic/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:32:39 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=711   In my last installment I described the file entry record and its on-disk format.  I used a ‘C’ structure to denote the different fields of the record and defined which five are most important to us when trying to recover a FAT32 file system where all the main file system components have been destroyed or [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/11/12/using-fat32-file-entry-record-recover-folders-software-logic/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/21/recovering-fat32-with-file-entry-record-data-only/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/21/recovering-fat32-with-file-entry-record-data-only/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:38:25 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=627 External USB hard drive devices have been a real ‘boon’ for the hard drive recovery industry. From the fact that they dissipate heat poorly, they are susceptible to vibration, and your dog walking past your computer happily wagging its tail can knock your precious data on the floor and destroy those irreplaceable pictures you took [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/21/recovering-fat32-with-file-entry-record-data-only/feed/ 3 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/2008/04/21/data-recovery-master-file-table-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/21/data-recovery-master-file-table-recovery/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:47:36 +0000 Dick Correa http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/21/data-recovery-master-file-table-recovery/ Over the years I have recovered many hard drives configured with NTFS. One of the leading reasons that data recovery is performed on these hard drives is an anamoly developed in the Master File Table. This area of the drive is the single most important set of data stored on your system. The Master File [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/21/data-recovery-master-file-table-recovery/feed/ 4 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/01/01/restore-data-dell-compaq-hp-system-restore/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/01/01/restore-data-dell-compaq-hp-system-restore/#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:51:35 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/01/restore-data-dell-compaq-hp-system-restore/ I take a lot of time to evaluate, what the most frequent Technical support calls I receive are. After a thorough evaluation I have noticed that I receive an inordinate amount of calls referencing the go back or system restore feature that many of the new computers are preloaded with. This is one of the [...]

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