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...
View ArticleHard 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....
View ArticleRecovering Data From A Laptop
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...
View ArticleSlave A Laptop Hard Drive To USB
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...
View ArticleWhen My Main Gaming Machine Has Serious Hard Drive Crash
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...
View ArticleWhat File System Components are affected by FDISK
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...
View ArticleWhen good RAIDs Go Bad, A Technicians Worst Nightmare
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....
View ArticleMy Data Failure Nightmare, The Beginning
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...
View ArticleHow platter swelling affects a hard drive
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...
View ArticleHard Drive Form Factors Explained
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...
View ArticleHow To Remove A Laptop Hard Drive
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...
View ArticleStorage Wars – Hard Drives Reach 2TB – Good or Bad
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...
View ArticleHard Drive Recovery Myths Debunked
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...
View ArticleMy Book is Not Being Seen by Windows
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...
View ArticleDamaged Hard Drive Recovery
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...
View ArticleWhat is a Hard Drive Boot Sector?
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...
View ArticleData Recovery Forum Questions Answered PST Recovery and Hard Drive Not Detected
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...
View ArticleWestern Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer
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...
View ArticleFailed Hard Drive Recovery From Stuck Heads
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...
View ArticleHard Drive Recovery Diagnosis Easy Tips and Tricks
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...
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