Category Archives: Data Recovery Software
Two Recommended Data Backup Utilities
1. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings and personal files. From an intuitive graphical interface, users can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC Continue reading
How To Completely Clean Data From Your Hard Drives And SSDs? (Part I)
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here’s how to wipe them clean. Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive, but keep this in mind: the act of erasing a file does not remove it from a storage device. Continue reading
How To Completely Clean Data From Your Hard Drives And SSDs? (Part III)
Wiping Drives and Free Space with SDelete SDelete is a free program from Microsoft’s TechNet Sysinternals collection. It runs from the command line, and can be used to wipe drives, wipe files, or wipe free space. Time Needed: Varies; from a few minutes to several hours, depending upon size and speed of drive and computer Software: TechNet Sysinternal’s SDelete Available from http://technet.microsoft.com Media: Can be run from Windows desktop 1. Continue reading
WD My Passport AV 320 GB Portable External Media Drive
WD ® introduced its new My Passport™ AV portable media drives. Designed specifically for video storage and playback, the new My Passport AV portable media drives deliver a plug-and-play experience for digital media enthusiasts. Continue reading
Backup Software: Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0
Norton Ghost 15.0 protects your applications, settings, folders, files and everything else on your PC with professional grade backup and recovery . So you can quickly restore your PC and recover lost or damaged files. Key Benefits: Creates full system and file backups — Safeguards your system, settings, applications, and files with flexible, comprehensive backup protection Continue reading
Causes Of Data Loss
Survey data from companies that specialize in data recovery may be used to investigate the primary causes for how data actually gets lost. Continue reading
Mac Recovery: Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software
Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery software recovers lost and deleted data from HFS+, HFSX file systems on Mac OS X 10.4 and above, which includes LEOPARD. Continue reading
Data Recovery Glossary (Letter I)
IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) A type of drive where the interface controller electronics are incorporated into the design of the hard drive rather than as a separate controller. Index Pulse Signal A digital pulse signal indicating the beginning of a disk revolution. An embedded servo pattern or other prerecorded information is present on the disk following index Continue reading
Swap Hard Drive PCB Board
If you’ve ever installed a hard drive, you may have noticed the green board on the bottom of the drive, and have probably made a few educated guesses as to its purpose and use. The green board is known as the hard drive’s PCB, or Printed Circuit Board, and it’s one of the most complex and intriguing parts of a hard drive. When hard drives fail, occasionally it’s due to a malfunction of the PCB board. Continue reading
Data Recovery Glossary (Letter E)
EIDE (Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics) The primary interface used by desktop PCs to handle communication between hard drives and the central processing unit. The equivalent interface system in most enterprise systems is SCSI. Embedded Servo Control The embedded servo control design generates accurate feedback information to the head position servo system without requiring a full data surface (which is required with a "dedicated" servo control method) because servo control data is stored on every surface Continue reading