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RAID Data Recovery Review
Just wanted to pass along a quick note and say thanks for your help. Our server crashed and it killed out business. My (former) IT guy said he had been making backups but when we reviewed the data it was obvious we were missing the last 5 months. This was unacceptable. I did some searching [...]
My Hard Drive Is Clicking And Is No Longer Recognized
Q: My computer no longer recognizes my hard drive. It just makes a steady clicking sound over and over. I tried running data recovery software to see if that would give me my data back, but nothing seems to be working. Can your company help? A: If the data is valuable do not apply power [...]
Is It Better To Use Data Recovery Software First?
Q: I have a hard drive that is clicking and making weird noises. It’s a USB drive and the computer beeps like it knows the drive is connected, so I’m pretty sure the hard drive is working. Is it better to just use data recovery software first, or send it directly to a data recovery [...]
I’ve Already Scanned My Drive With Data Recovery Software, Is My Data Unrecoverable?
Q: I had a Quickbooks file that suddenly became damaged after a power outage. I used some data recovery software and it didn’t help find a usable version of the files I’m looking for. Now when I try to open the file I get an error message, they just come back with an “unrecognized format” [...]
Recovering Unrecoverable Data
Data recovery in cases where the drive may have already been deemed a lost cause is something we see almost daily. We often receive drives where our customers have come to us as kind of a last resort. They may have already sent their drive to another company, and have been told that there was [...]
Hitachi SMS 100 Data Recovery – How It’s Done
One device we’ve received more and more of over the last year has been the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 or simply SMS 100. These devices are configured in a RAID 6 to offer some form of double redundancy. In theory this should make a catastrophic failure much less likely since in this type of [...]
Scored Platters – The Data Recovery Barrier
There are different levels of hard drive failure. You can have something as relatively simple as corruption within the file system, or something much more serious, such as a severe head crash. When the latter occurs it’s usually a result of something traumatic, like the drive being dropped, but it can also be due to [...]
Western Digital MyBook Encryption
Data security is something we see hard drive manufacturers trying to implement more and more over the years. Many drives offer the choice of adding password protection and some offer the ability to encrypt data. The theory behind encrypting external hard drives is that if your drive is stolen, the data can’t be accessed outside [...]
