Data Recovery Articles & Case Studies

Almost every day I see a new company opening a business storefront location to offer ‘professional’ data recovery services. You would think that the more competitors in the marketplace, the better it is for...

Oddly enough, this question happens to have a rather straightforward answer. Let’s get to that with an example. Let’s say that you are planning to fix the bad sectored drive with CHKDSK. If you...

Dropping a hard drive does not always produce an obvious failure immediately. A drive may continue to spin, appear normally in the computer, or even allow files to be opened after the impact. That...

I wrote a blog post earlier related to how expensive data recovery can be and the reasons why. In this particular post, I plan to elaborate further on the actual estimation process giving actual...

Businesses and individuals are increasing their reliance on backing up their hard drives. It’s something that has taken a lot of education as to the importance of having data storage in case of a...

Many data recovery centers or donor distributors offer matching donor guides, however, most of the time they miss a few important aspects that often result in a bad match. Since some donor drives are...

These types of errors can mean a number of different things. While they may hint at a serious hardware failure, these errors can also indicate that you simply have a minor software corruption or...

You are likely to hear a number of different answers to this question. They are going to range from “it can’t be done” all the way to “it is an easy peasy ten-minute job”...