This is a long story, sorry, but I just want anyone who cares to try to help me out here know what's up. A good friend of mine had her MacBook Pro die on her last December. She did some ...

All electronic components eventually fail at some point, especially hard drives. Hard drives do not always work at their best at all times, unexpected disk errors or unwanted delete actions can make ...

We all hope it never happens, but sometimes you may lose important data from your computer. You might have deleted something you didn’t mean to, or disk formatting or partitioning issues may have been ...

Ever encounter a failed storage drive or delete an important file by mistake? Here's what you need to do. Step 1: Figure out if you can do it yourself or need to call in the professionals. Data ...

I recently had a 40GB Maxtor HDD bite the dust on me. It isnt recognized by the BIOS, but oddly the IDE check on boot-up does see it, and says it fails. I have an identical 40GB drive that I attempted ...

Often users format their hard disk intentionally or unintentionally to get rid of some unknown errors. At times, they lose their entire data which is stored in that hard drive. After losing the data ...

Eliot and I caught Scott Moulton’s talk on Hacking Hard Drives for Data Recovery. You can catch his slides here – but most of the content was in the talk. It was a great walk through of hard drive ...

Data recovery is rarely budgeted for. On top of that, it’s a topic many IT pros don’t know much about. When faced with the shocking reality of data loss, the crucial moments that follow will determine ...