DeepSpar has posted a great two-part article on the risks of software only attempts to recover data.  If you are a technician who is in the habit of connecting a client's failing drive to a Windows system as the first step of diagnosis, you definitely will want to...

With data recovery, your main goal is to get the patient drive cloned/imaged to a healthy drive or image file. If you cannot do this with relative ease, it is, for sure, a sign that something is wrong with the drive. In order to allow us all to be on the same page,...

Own an Apple computer system such as a Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, Mac Server or a MacBook Air?  Although all theses systems use Apple proprietary hardware and Mac OS operating system, they all still use the same hard drives and solid state drives that you...

If you and/or anyone you know has ever had a box store technician tell you that your data is not recoverable or that it will be very expensive to recover your files, they are likely not giving you the correct information. Their in-store resources for diagnosing a...

John sent the 2 hard drives from his server to a data recovery lab in Toronto when his server did not boot following a power outage. The lab reported back that the drives were damaged as a result of the power surge and that it would cost him more than $10,000 to...