Back in 2004, we created one of the first client extranets in the data recovery industry. This allowed customers to interact with the lab and see real notes from the technicians as they were working on their damaged media. Many data recovery companies followed suit and created their own type of client portal. As of …
There is a relatively new phenom in the hard drive industry. Hard Drive enclosures have become a crucial part of the recovery process with some external USB hard drives. If your external drive encrypts the data for you, then be sure to keep the enclosure with the drive when you send it in for repair/recovery …
“A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.” – John Argenti, author and founder of the Strategic Planning Society In military school it was taught to always have a plan, a contingency plan, and an emergency plan in place before moving forward to achieve the objective. …
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So as most of us have witnessed, most manufactures of computers come with fancy ways to restore your computer back to its factory defaults as it shipped when you first got it. They can have small system partitions on your hard drive that contain the files needed to restore you computer back to the way …
If you have engine failure in your car, do you immediately turn to the internet to look for ‘how to fix my car’s engine?’ Maybe so, but do you then attempt to take the valve cover off yourself and replace the valves and head gasket yourself even though you have never done anything like that …
As an industry leader in data recovery for flash media such as digital camera memory cards, we feel like we might be able to help a few of you from ever loosing your data in the first place. If you’re on our blog because you just experienced a data disaster – you accidentally formatted your memory …
Data Recovery and Computer Forensic Examinations are relatively new concepts compared to the Rubik’s cube. The services we provide are incident driven and are usually only needed when a disaster occurs. The person experiencing the disaster usually has very little time to research and explore. Thus, it requires them to go off of a referral, …
It’s the end of the year and the holidays are over and you are getting back into your regular schedule for the New Year. So, why not make it a New Year’s resolution to get your data storage in order? In this day and age almost everyone uses one or more computers and potentially several …
It is almost 2011 and the data recovery world has changed drastically in the last several years with the increasing demand and decreasing price of solid state flash-memory based devices. Data recovery on flash media circa 2005-2006 consisted of the physical repair of damaged circuit boards on devices such as USB Thumb Drives, SD Cards, …
It’s midnight and you’re working against a deadline, trying to finish your taxes or edit those last wedding photos and suddenly, the unthinkable happens. Your computer can no longer see your hard drive. What happens next? If you call a lot of data recovery companies you may get a series of annoying menus, a far …