If you’ve dropped liquid onto a hard drive — or dropped a hard drive into liquid — the prognosis for data recovery is good. That’s despite the fact that every component of a hard drive could be damaged by water...

SD (Secure Digital) is a flash memory card format used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and other electronic devices. It is an evolution of the MultiMediaCard (MMC) format, and includes several related technologies that can be adapted into the primary...

Data recovery specialists are engineers who repair hard drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), flash media, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems, and other storage devices with the goal of restoring stored data to a usable condition.  They’re also referred to...

If your hard drive seems to “spin up,” but your computer can’t recognize it, you’ve got a problem — but in many cases, the solution is fairly straightforward (the quickest and most likely solution is to check your data connections)....

Most of our customers want to recover data from damaged storage devices — but occasionally, clients ask us how they can permanently destroy their files.  That makes sense to us. Our data recovery specialists know how to recover data from...

Your computer might present the following error message when failing to boot its operating system:  “Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.” This error message is fairly self explanatory:...

One of the most common questions that we receive goes something like this:“Can you repair my hard drive — and if so, can I keep using it?” There are two answers here. First: Yes, hard drives can be repaired...

If you need data recovery, but you can’t quite afford it, you might consider putting your hard drive (or solid state drive, or other device) into storage until you’re able to get the money together.  Clients often ask us whether...

For years, “unsafely ejecting” a USB flash drive was a serious misstep — one that could lead to corruption and permanent data loss — but in 2024, it’s not as big of an issue.  Here’s why: Operating systems have implemented...

Windows 10 and 11 include a built-in file recovery tool, which is capable of restoring corrupt or deleted files in certain circumstances. It does not have a graphical user interface (GUI) — it’s a command-line utility — and like all...