How to Clone Hard Disks with ddrescue

When a hard drive starts to fail, you have a limited amount of time to take action, and many online tutorials recommend making a clone of the affected disk before it becomes completely unresponsive. At Datarecovery.com, we recommend contacting a...
August 20, 2015

Do I Need Hard Drive Data Recovery?

If you use a computer, chances are good that you’ll eventually deal with a hard drive failure. If you don’t have a working backup, you’ll need to determine whether you need a professional hard drive data recovery service or whether...
July 7, 2015

How to Recover Data from an External Hard Drive

External hard drives are helpful tools for storing large amounts of data, but like all other storage devices, they can fail (and because they’re mechanical, it’s a question of “when” rather than “if”). If your external hard drive crashes or...
July 4, 2015

Maxtor Shared Storage Device Data Recovery

This page demonstrates a common technique used to recover data from Maxtor Shared Storage devices.
July 17, 2014

Volume Slippage and Data Loss

An introduction to data slippage, an issue that often occurs when recovering failed RAID volumes.
June 24, 2014

Comprehensive RAID Array Recovery, Part 2

Part two. Be sure to read part one of our comprehensive RAID array data recovery guide.
June 24, 2014

A Guide to Disk Images And Their Role in Data Recovery

Datarecovery.com engineers often use disk images to protect media or to rebuild large multi-drive systems efficiently. This guide explains what disk images are, how they're used, and why they're often important in the data recovery process.
June 24, 2014

Email Data Recovery

Email Data Recovery Services from Datarecovery.com Email communication drives the daily operations of most modern businesses, and lost emails can present a significant roadblock in some situations. Our laboratories have developed numerous techniques for fast, dependable email recovery, and because...
June 24, 2014

Data Recovery for Virus-Damaged Hard Drives

Here's what to do if your computer is damaged by a virus.
June 24, 2014

Western Digital Data Recovery

While exceptionally good drives, Western Digital, like all other hard drives, occasionally fail. Sometimes these failures can be due to read/write head problems or service track corruption. Usually this damage occurs due to improper cooling, allowing the drive to reach...
June 24, 2014