The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Recently, we came across an old advertisement for a 10-megabyte hard disk manufactured in 1983 by XCOMP, Inc. While the capacity hardly seems surprising for the time, the price tag was unexpected—just $3398!

Designed for use with computers that ran under DOS or CP/M operating systems, the drive used the same kind of technology that many modern drives use, where sets of read/write heads float on a cushion of air over the platter surface.

Every month or so, DriveSavers receives a handful of low capacity drives like these and others made by Miniscribe, Microscience and Rodime for data recovery. Although it’s been more than twenty years since these devices were manufactured, DriveSavers maintains an inventory of over 20,000 parts that includes drives that are unlikely to be found anywhere else which allows us to recover data typically thought to be lost forever.

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Memory Card Lost Files Recovery 4.8.3.1

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Full Description:

Professional compact flash card data retrieval program is an easy to use, read only and non destructive tool designed and developed to recover undetected audio video songs, music, mp3, photos, still images, snapshots, erased files folders from all type of memory cards including compact flash, multimedia memory card (MMC), sD (secure digital) card, smart media and xD picture card. Memory card lost files recovery software also facilitates to undelete deleted picture directories information.

 Micro sD card data restoration utility provides unique and alternate solution to salvage any type of digital files folders having jpg, jpeg, wav, midi, gif, riff, tiff, 3gp, mpeg, bmp, mov or other file types stored in your digital media. MMC card files rescue application regains access to inaccessible data, formatted or damaged memory card documents in a very short time and also recovers data when memory card being pulled out while the device was running.

Software provides thumbnail preview of all recoverable data (in tree like hierarchy structure) before actual recovery and facilitates to save restored data at user specified location on your storage media. Memory card lost files recovery wizard does not require any special technical skills for its operation as it provides a very simple GUI for both technical and non technical users.

Smart card data retrieval utility supports all leading brands of memory cards (Casio, HP, Kodak etc) available in any storage capacity including 4GB, 8GB and even higher capacity drives. Features: * Memory card lost files recovery utility salvages data even if Drive Not Formatted is displayed on computer screen while accessing your memory card through windows based OS. * Application efficiently restores data corrupted due to most common instances including accidental formatting, software/hardware malfunction, human error, virus attack, damaged file system etc

. * Software ensures retrieval of documents in the same format in which they were lost. 

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The Process For Hard Drive Data Recovery

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Before your hard drive can be rebuilt, it must be evaluated. The evaluation process will give the technician a chance to go through your hard drive and determine what caused the failure.

What they need to do hard drive data recovery. This is a very extensive process that involving a series of steps performed by the hard drive data recovery technician.

First things first, the hard drive data recovery technician must determine if the problem is logical, physical, or possibly a combination of both. Physical failures result in hardware malfunctions, while the logical problems lie in the software.

Once the hard drive data recovery technician has found the problem and the cause, he can plan out the repair process and what he needs to do to hard drive data recovery.

If the hard drive data recovery technician is able to gain access into the hard drive, he or she will then create a mirrored image of the drive and continue the process. The data structure will come next, where the technician will determine just how much of the data can be saved.

This step in the evaluation can be the most time consuming, as the hard drive data recovery technician or technicians will have to go through each sector step by step for hard drive data recovery and located what data can be retrieved and what data cannot be retrieved.

Once the evaluation process has been completed, the results will be given to you. The hard drive data recovery technician will normally go over everything with you, and explain the options you have available. This is where they will discuss pricing, as well as how long it will take. They will also let you know how much data can be retrieved, and what they think caused the problem.

You can always get a second opinion if you choose, or go ahead and use the hard drive data recovery technician. In the rare event that no data can be retrieved, the hard drive data recovery technician will tell you that nothing can be done for your hard drive. Keep in mind that before they do anything to retrieve data, they will always contact you first to find out what you want to do.

Normally, most data can be retrieved in as little as 48 hours. The evaluation process may take a few days, as it is more time consuming and planned out than the actual hard drive data recovery process. The evaluation process can take longer depending on the parts that are needed, or if other technicians need to be involved with the process.

If the hard drive data recovery technician has all of the necessary parts on hand and the experience, it normally doesn’t take long. On the other hand, if the hard drive has a lot of hardware and mechanical problems - it can take a few weeks before you find out anything.

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