Misaligned Platters Data Recovery Or Why You Should Never Dismount Platters

Here’s a question for you. Why do you think that most data recovery centers do not prefer to swap the platters from a donor drive but would rather swap the head stack assembly? I’m speaking specifically about hard drives with multi platters and pretty much all the hard drives being produced today are multi plattered. […]

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6 Things You Should Consider When Purchasing A Hard Drive

Generally speaking, when consumers decide to shop for a hard drive, they tend to seek the most affordable solution. Although cost saving is attractive, it isn’t always the best measuring tool to use for such a vital piece of equipment. Here are the things you should be looking at when shopping for a hard drive: […]

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Hackers Are Using Dynamic IP Proxies. And The Russians Are To Blame

Jealous competitors or just plain bad guys – we call them hackers – will try to breach your website and leave behind damage in one way or another. Since hacking into a website is not easy these days from one static IP, hackers are a creative bunch. They have to means to hide their identities […]

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The Data Recovery Industry Is Plagued And Is Going To Get Worse

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 consumers. Well, in general terms that is always a good thing. However, in the data recovery industry more does not always […]

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Can A Hard Drive with Bad Sectors Be Fixed To Serve For Data Backup?

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 care about the data contained on that hard drive, then this is not going to work, at the least in the […]

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