Data Recovery Articles

Computers » Data Recovery | By Andrew Stratton @ Thursday, 31st May 2007 @ 9:37 AM

In response to an explosion of major corporate benefits and accounting scandals in recent years, Congress passed two laws regulating the storage and reporting of internal data. The first impact was felt in corporate America by the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. The Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions of HIPAA mandated national standards for electronic health care transactions and identifiers for providers, health insurance pl... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Andrew Stratton @ Thursday, 31st May 2007 @ 9:36 AM

Most business owners today would wind up in "rubber rooms" in a hurry were it not for their Information Technology (IT) people. How many CEOs out there actually speak or understand "Techie" or the reasons why they need what IT says they need? No one's challenging the importance or value of a good IT Department in today's business world - but top management really should understand at least the basic reasons IT makes the choices and decisions it makes. So, in pl... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Andrew Stratton @ Wednesday, 30th May 2007 @ 7:02 PM

There's a certain appeal, granted, to having all your business data - customer files, order information, organizational data - right there on tape, disc or zip drive on your own servers in your own offices or stored nearby. Media based technologies once were, in fact, the most popular means for backing up crucial business data. However, these solutions have an escalating total cost of ownership and simply don't provide the most secure data protection available today. As the bus... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Joseph Simcic @ Sunday, 27th May 2007 @ 12:28 AM

When you have a Windows XP system and your system restore won't work, don't worry. It could be something small. Have you thought about how a system restore works? Do you understand what it does? How should you really protect your data? Computers work in funny ways and if we are not sure what they are doing how can we truly protect ourselves. It is evident that more and more people are using computers and digital media but are not giving much thought to how they will backup their ... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Sunday, 29th April 2007 @ 12:32 AM

With several companies and businesses relying on computers for storing their reports, files, and information sheets, protecting systems is no longer enough to emerge at the top of the industry. Data recovery is the latest in counteracting loss of data whether its due to bad weather, hardware failure, malicious intent, or human failure. Before, much confusion and inconsistencies in information about data loss made data loss and data recovery the most misunderstood concept in the computer i... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Joseph Simcic @ Thursday, 26th April 2007 @ 12:36 AM

As you start reading the beginning of this article you find yourself wondering why you haven't found this information sooner. You don't realize it yet, but in the next 2 minutes you're going to learn how to use a tool that is free to use and free to download from Microsoft. You will have control over your data like never before. Are you ready to get started? One of the largest software companies has given us a tool to use to help us backup our data and keep it synchroniz... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Thursday, 26th April 2007 @ 12:32 AM

With the advent of the computer age, our generation is inevitably linked with computer technology. Whether we like it or not, computers loom everywhere. They run and facilitate every industry. Be it in the train we take to go to work, the credit card we charged our payments with, atm cards, banks, electric power facilities, plants, etc. - name it and computer will come to mind. It is imperative then that we take all necessary steps to ensure that computer data are well-protected. It is a... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Tuesday, 24th April 2007 @ 2:51 PM

Hard drive recovery is an important tool to combat data loss. Many threats to computers could lessen data accessibility. It could be as simple as file deletion. Or, as catastrophic as hard disk failure. Whatever it may be, the necessity for hard drive recovery in both circumstances is foremost. The number one rule in hard disk recovery is if you accidentally delete files; do not to write anything more to the hard drive. This data recovery rule applies in every circumstance. If you delete... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Tuesday, 24th April 2007 @ 2:51 PM

Data loss can cause severe financial problems for corporations. To prevent such fiscal crisis, most companies invest heavily in hard drive recovery products. With most companies and businesses relying on computers for storing their reports, files, and information sheets, protecting systems is no longer enough to emerge at the top of the industry. Data recovery is the latest in counteracting loss of data whether its due to bad weather, hardware failure, malicious intent, or human failure.<... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Joseph Simcic @ Friday, 20th April 2007 @ 12:11 PM

How can I backup and restore my desktop? Data loss is inevitable when you don't have a good backup solution in place. What can cause this data loss? - Hard drive crashes - Software malfunction - Even operator error Have you ever heard of a software malfunction happening? It happens even on the most secure and pristine computers in the world. Think about putting a computer backup system in place if you want to prevent costly downtime, data and software loss.... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 12:26 AM

A lot of myths surround the concept of data recovery. You hear people having it out with their computers when they accidentally deleted important files from their hard drives. Or you see someone post in data recovery forums asking how they should go about reloading data that was lost when their computer crashed. So-called experts would reply, You made back-ups, didnt you And of course, you didnt, so there goes your final history project down the drain. The theory is: Whats gone is gone.more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Monday, 16th April 2007 @ 12:30 AM

Every data recovery plan starts with a corporate policy, which would outline what comprises a critical system. Whatever constitutes a critical system, the need to identify it decides what action you need to take to prevent massive system failures and ensure an efficient data recovery process. Once these policies have been specified and agreed upon, they must be turned into actions by the corporate IT department. The first step of the process usually involves evaluation whe... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Sunday, 15th April 2007 @ 12:27 AM

Imagine this scenario. Youre working on your computer for a big project. Its due in a few days. But your system locks up. You tried to reboot. But the computer wont even start. Wonder what happened? You got it right. You just suffered a disastrous hard drive failure! Or, maybe youve encountered this situation. You delete some files in your computer only to find out that youve deleted something really important and urgent. In cases like this you can do three things: panic, use data reco... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Friday, 13th April 2007 @ 12:23 AM

When we talk about data recovery, we basically encounter several terms that are not common to us like file recovery, disaster recovery, mail recovery and a lot more, especially to those who have not experienced data recovery problems. In many computer services nowadays, data recovery is not really the common case. All you need to do, if this case happens to you, is to contact your data recovery specialist to avoid further damages. But what exactly is data loss and data recovery? For th... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By T J Madigan @ Monday, 9th April 2007 @ 5:50 PM

Computers, like the double-edged sword, carry with it the seeds of good and evil- depending on how you see and use it. If youve been using the computer for a certain amount of time, you probably know by now that there no such thing as safe data where computers are concerned. Whether you are a first-time author, a budding entrepreneur writing the layout of your business plans or an ordinary computer user, experiencing computer failure is no stranger to you. Every now and then, we encount... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Daniel Millions @ Friday, 30th March 2007 @ 3:09 PM

All companies of today make great use of the technology available to them and rely on their data. Most businesses however, don't have the budget to invest in network storage or large servers, which is what the bigger companies use to transfer information and create a backup of the information they rely on to carry out their operations. Smaller businesses have a limited budget. When most encounter a disaster they never seem to recover, normally going out of business. Past disasters... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Tom Sample @ Tuesday, 27th March 2007 @ 6:15 PM

Disk recovery services are very searched for and that is because more and more people have a computer as their means of working. We are more or less forced knowing computers, and therefore we depend on their good functioning. But what if one day, when trying to boot your computer, it simply doesn't work? It doesn't seem to be able to "see" your hdd and anything else for that matter. Like any other mechanism, a computer needs all its' parts in good shape to be able t... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Ray La Foy @ Thursday, 22nd March 2007 @ 10:54 PM

Data recovery services are in great demand nowadays. More and more people have a computer as their working tool. We are more or less forced to start working and knowing computers. But what happens when one morning, when trying to open your computer, it simply doesn't boot? It doesn't seem to be able to recognize your hard disk drive. Desperate and full of hope, you take the hard disk and insert it into your friend's computer. Unfortunately, it's the same story. And you... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Jon Wuebben @ Tuesday, 20th March 2007 @ 7:05 AM

Way back in the day, before computer data recovery was ever a major concern, floppy disk drives were introduced as a read-only device for large IBM mainframes. They were very large, used 8 inch diskettes recorded on only one side, and had a storage capacity of less than 100 kilobytes. In 1973, they had a capacity of 250 kilobytes and became read/write capable. These disc drives became a model for many years to come. Eventually, more data could fit on the discs and you could reliably reco... more...

Computers » Data Recovery | By Jon Wuebben @ Tuesday, 20th March 2007 @ 6:55 AM

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. This technology is typically a reliable storage option for computer users and has better read/write speeds vs. single drive servers. If a drive fails, they also have better fault tolerance and usually, superior data protection. However, there are times when you could be faced with a data raid recovery situation. Why are these systems so ideal for data protection? They allow data to be written to multiple hard disk drives so that a fail... more...