by Digby Saunders | Mar 25, 2023 | Data Recovery, Hard Drives
SSDs vs HDDs: Which One Comes Out on Top? Until the late 2000s, when you bought a new hard disk drive or personal computer, your hard disk storage choices were limited to size and speed — perhaps 5,400 or 7,200 rotations per minute. Today, when you buy a new PC, you...
by Digby Saunders | Apr 3, 2022 | Data Recovery, EXT4, Hard Drives
How to use FSCK for Data Recovery with Linux. The fsck (File System Consistency Check) utility checks a Linux filesystems for errors or corruptions. fsck comes by with all Linux distributions and is similar to the CHKDSK command in Windows. The fsck utility is used to...
by Digby Saunders | Feb 14, 2022 | Data Recovery, Hard Drives
I am increasingly seeing laptops that were purchased in the last 18 months that have been bitlocker enabled but the owners were unaware of this nor did they have the RECOVERY ID. This is a major problem should anything go wrong and data recovery is required....
by Digby Saunders | Jan 8, 2022 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives
Logical Volume Manager is a disk manager which allows spanning partitions across many devices and enables partition resizing. It has been in the Linux kernel since 1999 and relying on its device mapper framework, is now supported by every modern distribution. It...
by Digby Saunders | Dec 16, 2017 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, Hard Drives, NTFS Filesystem, Raw Recovery
A client came to me with a failing 1 terabyte seagate hard drive and he desparately needed his Chief Architect files to be recovered. Chief Architect is a 3D design tool primarily for the design of houses which my client now did in his retirement , interestingly...
by Digby Saunders | Jul 10, 2013 | Backup Systems, Data Recovery, Hard Drive Electronics, Hard Drives
You have gone and purchased a Backup drive such as a Western Digital My Book Essential and backed up all your important data or you have had to transfer data from your computer’s hard drive because it has become too full. You now feel the warm glow of securing...
