Navigating Ubuntu recovery mode: A quick guide

Ubuntu Recovery Mode is a powerful troubleshooting tool designed to help users diagnose and resolve issues that m.....

Recover lost data from a RAID 0 volume with Intel® Rapid Storage Technology

Should a RAID 0 volume fail, it’s likely to be a disconnected drive or wor.....

When one or more disks fail, the workload on the others increases and the chances of further failures become pronounced.

To avoid data loss, it’s importa.....

RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks enables the same data to be saved across multiple disks, yet appearing as a single logical drive.

NAS or Network A.....

RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, combines multiple hard drives together in order to improve efficiency, with varying effects.

There are thr.....

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Do you find that you’re often running out of hard disk space on your computer or laptop?

If this is an issue, it might be a good idea to think abo.....

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A hard drive head crash occurs when the drive’s read/write heads come into contact with the rotating platter. Caught in time, and data recovery is fairly straightforward. But if t.....

Cyber security is increasingly becoming a concern for businesses, particularly with the recent attacks on Sony and Target. Large corporations like these have a massive budget to deal wi.....

The average life of a hard drive depends on a lot of things, like the brand, type, size, and interface method, but you're looking at about four years on average. Online backup service Backblaze studied the drives in their infrastr.....

The first response of many people when they suffer data loss is to grab their phone, search for ‘data recovery at home’, and follow one of the many tutorials that are out th.....

If you are looking for more performance from your CPU a user can overclock an Intel or AMD processor. It’s a little like tuning your car engine, but beware overclocking will void any warranty. Also, overclocking pushes your CPU above its .....

Data Recovery

When facing data loss and unavailability, data recovery plays a crucial role. Data recovery services are very beneficial. They allow you to recover lost data in situations where your storage media or h.....

Freezing your hard drive in an attempt to recover the data is commonly discussed on forums. Whilst it may help in many instances, it can also cause further problems in others. The principle is that when the user spins up the hard drive from an .....

Many digital cameras offer storage built in, but this is mostly minimal and will only store a few photographs. SD cards are the go-to storage method for photographers, and can also be u.....

Over the past few years, both home and business computer users have come to rely on USB flash drives, also known as thumb drives or USB sticks. They’ve replaced the flimsy floppy .....

Are you one of these people that simply plug and unplug USB drives at will? Well, you’re not alone - most people do this, but it might not be the best idea.

Mac users will be very familiar with warnings about disconnectin.....

Hard drives fail – there’s no getting around that. Failure is inevitable in a device with moving parts and electronics. These platter spin at thousands of revolutions per minute, so eventual data loss is inevitable. Malware, especia.....

If you are getting the error message ‘You need to format the drive, before you can use it’ when trying to read back files from your memory stick, there is a solution that do.....

The variety in table structures, schemas and structures can cause great difficulty in overcoming damage to the database. So how do we do it?

First of all, a raw.....

If you’ve ever tried to open the chassis of your hard drive, you will most likely notice warranty stickers over the screw holes. Peel them off and you get that horrible ‘warranty void’ notice. It can often seem like salt is be.....

HGST has recently introduced the first 10TB hard drive. Whilst it still uses standard perpendicular magnetic recording, the high capacity can be achieved with HelioSeal. This replaces the air found inside typical hard drives with helium in a se.....

Seagate recently announced that its Hampshire development centre is to shut its doors. The hard drive giant had previously announced that it was aiming to cut 15% of its workforce by 2017, and is blaming the downscaling on the downturn in hard .....

What are Clean Rooms?

During the recovery process, data recovery engineers open each storage device to inspect for physical damage and repair delicate components. Tiny airborne particles can accumulate on the open hard disk drive p.....

Seagate’s ST3000DM001 which effects its Backup Plus and GoFlex 3TB external HDD has seen unprecedented failure rates in recent months. Seagate ST3000DM001 is the first 3TB hard drive to use three platters at 1TB each. Other models use 4 o.....

Ever heard of botnets? The chances are, you probably haven’t. They’re hidden and undetectable. Botnets are software robots, also called ‘bots’, that infect computers. Controlled by the creator, this army of botnets turn .....

Data recovery can be very expensive, so it’s no wonder many people try and find a clause in their insurance documents that will cover data loss.

Most standard homeowner’s policies do not cover data loss, but it woul.....

A common issue when upgrading operating systems is losing your Windows 7 profile. Even if you think your data will be safe, always back up your data before an upgrade.

User profiles are personal settings that establish how the .....

You might have had an error message pop up regarding a “cyclic redundancy error”. Known as a CRC, it indicates that the data on your drive cannot be read due to a malfunction. This is usually a sign of a failing hard drive.
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