by Digby Saunders | Jan 28, 2024 | Data Recovery, Mac Data Recovery, NTFS Filesystem
Introduction to Solid State Drives (SSDs) Solid State Drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular in recent years as a faster and more reliable alternative to traditional hard disk drives. Unlike HDDs, which use spinning disks to store and retrieve data, SSDs use...
by Digby Saunders | Mar 8, 2019 | Data Recovery, NTFS Filesystem, Raw Recovery
The Problem It is not often that I am asked to go on site to perform a recovery. But in this case a large mining and exploration company had suffered a power outage and one of their HP dedicated servers was now not booting and they wanted me to come in and recover...
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 9, 2016 | Data Recovery, Deleted Files, NTFS Filesystem
I recently received a call from a distressed farmer who had driven 4 hours from Southern Cross because his GPS device attached to his tractor had received a power surge and would no longer boot up. These devices are used by farmers to track where chemicals have been...
by Digby Saunders | Oct 6, 2013 | Data Recovery, FAT filesystem, NTFS Filesystem
File Systems File systems describe the records and indexes that an Operating System (Windows , Linux) use to retrieve and store data on the hard drive. Before we talk about the simplest filesystem FAT it is important to note all windows based hard drives contain 2...
