Archive for January, 2010

Hard Drive Data Recovery On a Desktop or Laptop Computer

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

When a laptop hard drive becomes " unbootable ", and you are unable to repair it, you can often save the data on the hard drive by using a "slave drive" recovery method on a desktop computer.

Data Recovery Glossary (Letter P)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

PC Personal computer. PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) A read channel using sampled data, active equalization and Veterbi detection to accurately retrieve the user data off the disk.

File Recovery From Inaccessible NTFS File System Partition

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Boot volume damage is a very critical situation that may prevent your Windows computer from being started and may cause volume and file loss.

Mac Recovery: Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery software recovers lost and deleted data from HFS+, HFSX file systems on Mac OS X 10.4 and above, which includes LEOPARD. Recover Lost Data When: A volume has been formatted or reformatted Volume is inaccessible after re-partitioning or any sort of corruption causing inaccessibility to the volume Volume is not getting mounted Files and folders are accidentally deleted, Apple partition map is corrupted Apple catalog file is corrupted Drive has been initialized Disk verify and repair fails Any sort of corruption causing inability to boot your operating system Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software Features: Simple and intuitive user interface Supports recovery of deleted files from "Journalized Volume" only Powerful volume search that helps to locate lost or missing volumes from drives Two methods of disk volume processing to yield best data recovery results Extremely fast, disk recovery and scanning algorithms Presents recovered hierarchical data tree and find option similar to Mac OSX “Finder” Selective find and save option Save Scan Information feature helps to avoid rescanning a drive, this features comes in handy when evaluating demo version. The save scan information can be used with full version to recover data without rescanning the drive Preview features helps in evaluating the files before recovery of files Preserves the date, name and other attributes of recovered files after recovery Universal application compatible with both Intel and PowerPC Supports raw recovery of files using signature search in case of severe corruption to the volume System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 and above (including Leopard) Intel or Power PC based Apple Macintosh 256MB RAM Enough storage to save your recovered data, and application after installation Live connection to internet Useful Links: More Details: Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software Demo Download Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software FAQS Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software Screenshots Related Posts Mac Data Recovery Softwares (0)

Data Recovery Glossary (Letter M)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

MB (Megabyte) One megabyte as 1,000,000 (one million) bytes. MFM (Multiple Frequency Modulation) A method of encoding analog signals into magnetic pulses or bits.

Incident Response and Computer Forensics (Second Edition)

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition by Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Matt Pepe. Paperback: 507 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne; 2 edition (July 17, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 007222696X ISBN-13: 978-0072226966 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds Popular: Description: A strong system of defenses will save your systems from falling victim to published and otherwise uninventive attacks, but even the most heavily defended system can be cracked under the right conditions. Incident Response aims to teach you how to determine when an attack has occurred or is underway–they’re often hard to spot–and show you what to do about it.

Data Recovery Glossary (Letter L)

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Landing Zone The heads move to this location on the inner portion of the disk when commanded, or when the power has been turned off. User data is not stored in this area of the disk. Laser Textured Media Laser textured disks minimize the wear and friction on a hard drive.

My File Recovery Software Worked!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

File recovery (or 'unerase' software) is the one software tool that you purchase, hoping that you're never going to need it, but when the time comes, you want to know that it's going to work! Most of the time, when you delete a file accidentally, you can open the recycle bin and 'restore' it without any trouble, but this isn't always the case. * Sometime deletions by-pass the recycle bin, such as when the files you delete are on a memory stick.

How to Upgrade Hard Drive Firmware?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Firmware is a type of software stored directly inside hardware components, such as hard disk drives or motherboards, that tells the hardware how to interact with your computer’s operating system. You would typically only need to upgrade your hard drive’s firmware if you installed a new motherboard or upgraded to a new operating system that the drive was not originally intended to interact with.

Data Recovery Glossary (Letter I)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) A type of drive where the interface controller electronics are incorporated into the design of the hard drive rather than as a separate controller. Index Pulse Signal A digital pulse signal indicating the beginning of a disk revolution. An embedded servo pattern or other prerecorded information is present on the disk following index