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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Dropped External Hard Drive – What You Should And Shouldn’t Do

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 this happens, I’d like to spend some time explaining what can happen to a hard drive when it is dropped. I’ll […]

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Pricing & Cost Estimates. What is Involved?

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 price ranges, looking at failure symptoms and the additional factors that can impact a price quote for data recovery. In this […]

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Why It Is Important To Keep Backups Offline Or at Offsite Location?

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 loss or damage to a hard drive. In fact, the changes have seen a lot of investment into backup solutions such […]

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