Data Recovery Articles & Case Studies

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...

A dropped hard drive is never a good thing. That is, of course, unless you dropped it on purpose for whatever reason. Before I get to the details on what you should do when...

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”...

Have you ever wondered how and why file fragmentation occurs? Fragmentation is a reference to the condition of a disk where files are divided into pieces scattered around that disk. Fragmentation naturally occurs when...