Samsung Spinpoint Being Mass Produced

Last week Samsung announced that it will be mass producing their high capacity laptop hard drives. Their Spinpoint series has either high capacity or high speed, whichever is more important to the individual consumer.

Some day soon they will have the best of both worlds by introducing a high capacity laptop hard drive that has the [...]

How To Choose Hard Drive Recovery Company

A Google search for hard drive recovery yields a lot of results. Most of the paid or sponsored results are newer fly by night companies that are not established hard drive recovery companies. The question you need to ask yourself if contemplating hard drive recovery services is “is this a legitimate company, do they have [...]

Has Your Computer Hard Drive Ever Crashed? Are You Challenged by Backups?

The following scenario’s have probably been repeated thousands of times, on computer systems of all kinds and sizes, operated by all levels of users from complete novice, to expert user.
· You log on and your computer will not boot to your operating system.

· You have installed some piece of new hardware, or some new software, [...]

File and Data Recovery Tools

Due to continuous technology growth many people are selling their old computers to by new ones, more powerful. But there are few things that need to be kept in mind when selling your old computer.
 It is obvious, that once you decide to sell your computer you wouldn’t like your private information remain on the hard [...]

Data Recovery Tools

Data recovery relates to the recovery of data on a computer that has lost all possible reason. Most operating systems in use today have some kind of repair tool built into it, even if these tools are very simple in nature. For example, Microsoft Windows comes with a chkdsk system, Apple Mac OS X has [...]

Let’s Know Computer Forensics Now From Here

Defining “computer forensics” is a more difficult task than it might first appear, partly due to some difficulty in defining what range of devices are referred to by the word “computer” but mostly due to issues raised by use of the term “forensics”.

At one stage the “computer” in computer forensics was easily identified as a [...]

Samsung Announces First External Hard Drive with Reduced Standby Power Consumption of 95 Percent

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, had announced an agreement with Micro Center to sell its external hard drives on Micro Center’s web site and in their retail stores nationwide recently.
Micro Center, a premier online and retail store with twenty-one stores in major markets nationwide, is uniquely [...]

Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins

Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer

Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at 727-345-9665 ext 236.

Question:

I have a 1TB Western Digital My book Hard drive. When I plug it [...]

Hard Drive Data Recovery

This is sort of a followup to another problem. However, the initial problem has been resolved. The guys at Powerquest directed me to an application which made the computer realize that these two messed up partitions of mine are still formatted with NTFS. So that made me happy. Temporarily. Until I realized there is still [...]