Water Damaged Hard Drive Recovery Shipping

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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 … [Read more...]

Online Data Backup Service

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 … [Read more...]

VMWare and DoubleSpace The Old Meets The New

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  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 … [Read more...]

Finding Hard Drive Parts for an IBM Deskstar 82.3GB

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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 … [Read more...]

Tutorial: How To Slave A SATA Hard Drive Via USB

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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 … [Read more...]

Now Offering Local Computer Networking and It Solutions

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DTIData is proud to announce the launch of our Networking Division DTI Networks in the Tampa Bay area. We offer both Microsoft and Cisco certified technicians in order to meet all of your IT needs. Contact us today at 727-612-6482 to set up an … [Read more...]

Do It Yourself Dual LCD Monitor Stand

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Cheap Do-It-Yourself Dual LCD Monitor Stand OK, so I was really wanting a dual monitor stand for my two LCD flat panel monitors, mainly to get them up off the desk more to give myself more desk space and to raise them up higher.  The cheapest I … [Read more...]

Removing Attachments from Outlook Messages

Here is a simple trick that not a lot of people are aware of. If you are anything like me, you probably keep ALL incoming and outgoing email, just in case you need to go back and reference something either you sent to somebody or they sent to you. … [Read more...]

Reload Windows Restore CD Hard Drive Data Recovery

I have been doing technical support for DTI Data Recovery for 3+ years now and there has been one constant problem across those years. Here is the scenario, a user will plug in an external hard drive and back off all of their important data to … [Read more...]

How To Use Windows Disk Manager Video

Below is another new video from Jacqui Best on how to use Windows Disk Manager. This useful tool that is part of all Windows operating systems, can be very useful for data recovery software users, as well as for people that may need hard drive … [Read more...]

Windows Explorer: Un-Hide Files

Windows Explorer: How to change files from Being Hidden In my last windows explorer tutorial I explained how to open Windows Explorer, now I will start showing some of the functions people need to know. A lot of time a file we are looking for just … [Read more...]

Windows Explorer: How to Open It

A lot of times when I am speaking to customers I need them to make changes to their files or look at their files in a specific way. I will often tell someone to open Windows Explorer and tell me what they see. In many occasion I have had customers … [Read more...]