Comments for Data Recovery Resources SNAP EXCHANGE and RAID How To Guides 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 22:03:43 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-11108 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:03:43 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-11108 Art, It is a RAID 0 configuration. You will need to know the stripe size and off set in order to rebuild the array. Art,

It is a RAID 0 configuration. You will need to know the stripe size and off set in order to rebuild the array.

]]> Comment on What is a Hard Drive Boot Sector? by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/19/what-is-a-hard-drive-boot-sector/comment-page-1/#comment-11107 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:02:31 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1090#comment-11107 Manu, Slave the drive into another computer and then use a piece of software like winhex to manually whack the boot sector. Manu,

Slave the drive into another computer and then use a piece of software like winhex to manually whack the boot sector.

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-11106 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:41 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-11106 James, Are you always "safely disconnecting" the essential before you unplug it? James,

Are you always “safely disconnecting” the essential before you unplug it?

]]> Comment on How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-11105 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:58:54 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/#comment-11105 Nathan, I do 90 percent of all the over the phone support, just give us a call 727.345.9665. Thanks Nathan,
I do 90 percent of all the over the phone support, just give us a call 727.345.9665. Thanks

]]> Comment on How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-11104 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:58:08 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/#comment-11104 Nathan, The slow down of the machine is the tell tale sign of the problem here. It is either bad sectors in a very important place like the Boot Sector (OS boot record) or it is a degrading head. In either situation you are going to want to try and clone the drive off if it is not a mission critical situation. If you can not live with out the data I would say it would be best to call a data recovery company like DTIData before you end up with a head crash and the data becomes unrecoverable. Nathan,

The slow down of the machine is the tell tale sign of the problem here. It is either bad sectors in a very important place like the Boot Sector (OS boot record) or it is a degrading head. In either situation you are going to want to try and clone the drive off if it is not a mission critical situation. If you can not live with out the data I would say it would be best to call a data recovery company like DTIData before you end up with a head crash and the data becomes unrecoverable.

]]> Comment on Data Recovery Tutorial: How to Slave a Hard Drive by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/comment-page-10/#comment-11103 Jacqui Best Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:54:21 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/#comment-11103 Mike, It will be like having another hard drive that you can access all the time. Kind of like and external except that you cant be removing it all the time if it is inside your computer. Mike,
It will be like having another hard drive that you can access all the time. Kind of like and external except that you cant be removing it all the time if it is inside your computer.

]]> Comment on Data Recovery Tutorial: How to Slave a Hard Drive by Mike http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/comment-page-10/#comment-11099 Mike Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:25:48 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/04/23/how-to-slave-hard-drive/#comment-11099 I have an old computer that is no longer used, but there are tons of data on the hard drive that I would like to be able to access using a second computer. However, I would like to connect the original hard drive to the new computer as a slave. So, question: if I slave the original hard drive on the new computer, then will this be just like using an external hard drive? In other words, I would like to have the old hard drive as an additional drive on my machine that I can access just like if I used an external hard drive (with the new computer's hard drive still in charge of running the OS like usual). Is this how it works? If this is the case, then I'll be able to just permanently use the old hard drive on my new computer as an additional disk. Sorry if its redundant, and thanks in advance for any help. ~Mike I have an old computer that is no longer used, but there are tons of data on the hard drive that I would like to be able to access using a second computer. However, I would like to connect the original hard drive to the new computer as a slave. So, question: if I slave the original hard drive on the new computer, then will this be just like using an external hard drive? In other words, I would like to have the old hard drive as an additional drive on my machine that I can access just like if I used an external hard drive (with the new computer’s hard drive still in charge of running the OS like usual). Is this how it works?

If this is the case, then I’ll be able to just permanently use the old hard drive on my new computer as an additional disk. Sorry if its redundant, and thanks in advance for any help.

~Mike

]]> Comment on Sony Handycam DVD Will Not Finalize by Jon B http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/09/14/sony-handycam-dvd-will-not-finalize/comment-page-1/#comment-11098 Jon B Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1371#comment-11098 Doesn't work. I've been using my handycam since 2007 and it's never given me this problem. All of a sudden, today when I tried to finalize a DVD-RW of my kids, it says "This function is currently not available." So I popped the mini DVD into my computer and created a virtual ISO image. Even from that ISO, it doesn't have the proper format inside the folders. To play, a DVD needs to have a VIDEO_TS and an AUDIO_TS folder structure, with proper files inside. This DVD-RW has a DVD_RTAV folder with a VR_MOVIE.VRO file inside. It is unplayable in any media player, including VLC. It is also unrippable from DVDFab, which I found to be capable of properly ripping any DVD (except this one). I can't finalize the DVD, I can't format it (it will delete the data) and I can't burn the videos off the disc. This is frustrating. Doesn’t work. I’ve been using my handycam since 2007 and it’s never given me this problem. All of a sudden, today when I tried to finalize a DVD-RW of my kids, it says “This function is currently not available.” So I popped the mini DVD into my computer and created a virtual ISO image. Even from that ISO, it doesn’t have the proper format inside the folders. To play, a DVD needs to have a VIDEO_TS and an AUDIO_TS folder structure, with proper files inside. This DVD-RW has a DVD_RTAV folder with a VR_MOVIE.VRO file inside. It is unplayable in any media player, including VLC. It is also unrippable from DVDFab, which I found to be capable of properly ripping any DVD (except this one). I can’t finalize the DVD, I can’t format it (it will delete the data) and I can’t burn the videos off the disc. This is frustrating.

]]> Comment on How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage by Nathan derr http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-11096 Nathan derr Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:27:36 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/#comment-11096 I've got a toshiba laptop that gave me the KSOD ( Black Screen of death). Tried the multiple F8 options with my boot cd and others that failed to work. I removed the Sata HDD and stuck it in an exsternal case and tryed connecting it to my Destop computer without much luck. The drive shows up but wont open, slows the computer down, etc. After a few minutes it shows up with a need to format HDD. Thank you I’ve got a toshiba laptop that gave me the KSOD ( Black Screen of death). Tried the multiple F8 options with my boot cd and others that failed to work. I removed the Sata HDD and stuck it in an exsternal case and tryed connecting it to my Destop computer without much luck. The drive shows up but wont open, slows the computer down, etc. After a few minutes it shows up with a need to format HDD.
Thank you

]]> Comment on How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage by Nathan derr http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-11095 Nathan derr Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:15:33 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/#comment-11095 Do you do any "over the phone" technical support? Do you do any “over the phone” technical support?

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by James http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-11085 James Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:05:20 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-11085 Stupid WD Mybook essential 1 TB it is now the second time the unit has all of a sudden when it is connected to the PC it can not be seen by the Pc's USB port. When you pull the drive apart and connect it to Via Sata connector you will find the Master boot record has been corrupted and the drive is seen as unalicated. I have had to use file recovery program (GetDataBack for NTFS) to recover my data . I suspect and hope it is the Sata to USB connector causing the issue as it also seem to have software on the unit. Contact WD and their are useless tried to redirect me to 3rd party recovery companies and hundred of $ to pay for a fix Stupid WD Mybook essential 1 TB it is now the second time the unit has all of a sudden when it is connected to the PC it can not be seen by the Pc’s USB port. When you pull the drive apart and connect it to Via Sata connector you will find the Master boot record has been corrupted and the drive is seen as unalicated. I have had to use file recovery program (GetDataBack for NTFS) to recover my data . I suspect and hope it is the Sata to USB connector causing the issue as it also seem to have software on the unit. Contact WD and their are useless tried to redirect me to 3rd party recovery companies and hundred of $ to pay for a fix

]]> Comment on Hard Drive Recovery: What does it mean? by Spašavanje Podataka http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/04/27/hard-drive-recovery-what-does-it-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-11083 Spašavanje Podataka Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:07:06 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1901#comment-11083 Yes, in order to save data we should clone every sector from broken hdd to good one. This is the only professional way. If there is a amount of bad sectors there will be some damaged files of course. Yes, in order to save data we should clone every sector from broken hdd to good one.
This is the only professional way. If there is a amount of bad sectors there will be some damaged files of course.

]]> Comment on What is a Hard Drive Boot Sector? by manu http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/08/19/what-is-a-hard-drive-boot-sector/comment-page-1/#comment-11080 manu Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:49:50 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1090#comment-11080 tell me anyone how to create boot sector problem or destroy the hard disk if i forgot the all passwords of the computer.BIOS and main password. tell me anyone how to create boot sector problem or destroy the hard disk if i forgot the all passwords of the computer.BIOS and main password.

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Art http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-11078 Art Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:12:09 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-11078 So I have a Mybook 1TB (one of the earlier ones) . . . although it seems to spin up, it's wasn't recognized by Win7 or OSX. So, I dismantled the unit (it's 2 500gb drives, of course) and plugged the drives in to the SATA slots left on my desktop. DiskManagement now sees them but how do I (software) duplicate whatever arrangement that originally made these "look" like a single 1TB drive? Here's the reading I get off Disk Management Disk 1: 200mb Healthy (EFI System Partition), 931.2 GB Healthy (primary partition) Disk 2: 465.76GB Unallocated So I have a Mybook 1TB (one of the earlier ones) . . . although it seems to spin up, it’s wasn’t recognized by Win7 or OSX. So, I dismantled the unit (it’s 2 500gb drives, of course) and plugged the drives in to the SATA slots left on my desktop. DiskManagement now sees them but how do I (software) duplicate whatever arrangement that originally made these “look” like a single 1TB drive?

Here’s the reading I get off Disk Management

Disk 1: 200mb Healthy (EFI System Partition), 931.2 GB Healthy (primary partition)
Disk 2: 465.76GB Unallocated

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10840 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:57:43 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10840 Om, Please call John @ 727.345.9665 ext 203, this will be the fastest way for you to get help. Thanks Om,
Please call John @ 727.345.9665 ext 203, this will be the fastest way for you to get help. Thanks

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10839 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:56:07 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10839 David, You are very welcome. Let us know if we can be anymore help. David,
You are very welcome. Let us know if we can be anymore help.

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-10838 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:55:19 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-10838 Wyatt, It sounds like you may have a "degrading" head. I would try doing smaller amounts of data on the transfers. Another thing you might want to try is taking the hard drive out of the enclosure to help deal with any heat issues you may be having. Wyatt,
It sounds like you may have a “degrading” head. I would try doing smaller amounts of data on the transfers. Another thing you might want to try is taking the hard drive out of the enclosure to help deal with any heat issues you may be having.

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10837 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:53:21 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10837 Om Joshi, Your best bet would be to call in and speak with John. Om Joshi,
Your best bet would be to call in and speak with John.

]]> Comment on My Files Have Disappeared by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/04/06/my-files-have-disappeared-hard-drive-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-10836 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:52:13 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=948#comment-10836 Lina, You are very welcome. Lina,
You are very welcome.

]]> Comment on How To Tell If Hard Drive Has Physical Damage by Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-10835 Jacqui Best Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:51:51 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/05/15/how-to-tell-hard-drive-physical-damage/#comment-10835 S. Narayan You can not save data from bad sectors. S. Narayan
You can not save data from bad sectors.

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by Om Joshi http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10828 Om Joshi Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:42:51 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10828 Hi, The article is very good. I need further help. so, I followed all the step and i have the new database up and running. Now i want to restore mailboxes from old DB to new. I tried recovery storage group but could not find the DB which is the D:\ drive. Can you please urgently help. Regards, Om Hi,

The article is very good. I need further help.

so, I followed all the step and i have the new database up and running. Now i want to restore mailboxes from old DB to new. I tried recovery storage group but could not find the DB which is the D:\ drive.

Can you please urgently help.

Regards,
Om

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by mobile geeks http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10827 mobile geeks Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:16:55 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10827 thanks for the article, I used it at a clients. thanks for the article, I used it at a clients.

]]> Comment on Starting Exchange Server with a blank Information Store by David http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/04/25/starting-exchange-server-with-a-blank-information-store/comment-page-1/#comment-10823 David Sat, 06 Aug 2011 03:39:03 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=188#comment-10823 I would like to thank you as I am working on a project with a dead exchange server corrupt database on the server and the backups. this helped me out alot. :-) I would like to thank you as I am working on a project with a dead exchange server corrupt database on the server and the backups.

this helped me out alot. :-)

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Sun http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-10820 Sun Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:18:30 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-10820 Open and remove the harddrives. If you are comfortable you my open your desktop and directly connect the harddrive, or buy 'SATA IDE USB Converter ' device and then connec the harddrive to your computer through USB. you can access all your files Open and remove the harddrives. If you are comfortable you my open your desktop and directly connect the harddrive, or buy ‘SATA IDE USB Converter ‘ device and then connec the harddrive to your computer through USB. you can access all your files

]]> Comment on Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer by Wyatt http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/12/03/western-digital-my-book-problem-fixed/comment-page-1/#comment-10819 Wyatt Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:04:06 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1198#comment-10819 I have a WD 500 GB external drive and am haveing many of the same problems as others. I finally managed to get my computer to recognize the drive by switching the firewire port I plug into and then bought a new external drive to switch everything over to. My problem now is that when i try to transfer data off the drive it starts the transfer then stalls and just sits there with windows saying its still transfering but really nothing is happening ie no change in how much data has been transfered after an hour. Any suggestions? I have a WD 500 GB external drive and am haveing many of the same problems as others. I finally managed to get my computer to recognize the drive by switching the firewire port I plug into and then bought a new external drive to switch everything over to. My problem now is that when i try to transfer data off the drive it starts the transfer then stalls and just sits there with windows saying its still transfering but really nothing is happening ie no change in how much data has been transfered after an hour. Any suggestions?

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