Apple has sold 220,000,000 iPods. Many of these use a standard hard disk drive and the remaining use solid state memory. In the case of Apple iPods using a standard hard drive that drive as with any hard disk drive is susceptible to corruption resulting in a logic crash that shuts down access to all [...]

Accessing files on a crashed Windows based PC internal hard drive is a fairly straightforward task. The access can be accomplished in two different ways. In cases where one is not trying to retrieve deleted files one can simply connect the hard drive as a slave unit to a working PC and use that PC’s [...]

The key to choosing the best digital photo recovery program is to understand and recognize those features which must be included in order to affect successful rescue of lost, damaged or deleted image files. Many general purpose data recovery programs can recover photos that have been transferred or stored in simple loss allowed image file [...]

It is amazing to consider that even a small camera memory card can hold 1000 times more information than a 3.5 inch floppy disk. When we consider that some of the first Sony digital cameras actually used these floppies as portable storage media it is no wonder that the resolution limitations were in place. Those [...]

In the world of Microsoft NTFS stands for the new technology file system. What this new system represented when it was first brought forth was a new way to store and retrieve files on hard disk drives and other digital Storage Devices. Indeed it is an extremely efficient system as it is faster and less [...]

Suppose you have private information stored on your computer’s hard drive or another type of digital media storage device. Now consider what you would do if you wanted to permanently remove those records from existence anywhere. You could of course delete the file. You might choose a simple path such as placing the file in [...]

What would you think is the difference between the process required to recover a single accidentally deleted file and 100,000 files? Depending on the location of these the difference can only be one factor and that factor is time. If you directed a data recovery program to look through a simple folder holding 20 files [...]

There are two ways by which a program may recover Outlook PST file information. One is effective and the other is comically flawed. One of the major causes of breakdown of the Microsoft Outlook inbox is exceeding the size limit allowed by that program for messages within the database. The database in this case being [...]

When one uses Windows based data recovery software to access files locked away on a crashed PC the process is fairly straightforward. If the files in question have not been deleted or reformatted one need only connect that PC hard drive to a working PC as a secondary drive. The working PC then opens the [...]

There are companies that for 20 years have specialized in the process referred to as data recovery. In older times this process would have involved the dismantling of the computer, removal of its hard drive and further dismantling that hard drive so as to scan the magnetic disk inside for file information. The primary reason [...]