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Recovering Data From a Previous Version of an Excel Spreadsheet
You’ve accidentally made changes to an Excel spreadsheet, and you want to roll them back. Good news: It’s not an especially difficult…
R&D
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Data Recovery Knowledge
What Is Hard Drive Platter Contamination?
Hard drive platter contamination occurs when foreign particles (or contaminants) reach the platters that store your data. The platters are thin discs…
Ransomware Recovery
Ascension Confirms Ransomware Attack, Ongoing Recovery Efforts
Ascension, which operates 140 hospitals across the United States, has confirmed that an ongoing service outage was caused by a ransomware attack. …
Secure Deletion
Before Recycling a Hard Drive, Read This
You should never toss a hard drive into a dumpster. Hard drives are recyclable, and given that we create more than 59…
Data Recovery News
Will Hard Drive Prices Rise Due to AI?
An analysis from Trendforce predicts that global prices for hard disk drives (HDD) will rise significantly in the near future, spurred in…
Flash Drive
Dashcam Data Recovery: Is It Possible?
If you need to recover data from a dashcam, you’ve probably got a very good reason (and we’re guessing that it involves…
Article
When Is A Hard Drive “Not Safe” To Use?
If you’re wondering whether your hard drive can reliably store data, there’s a good chance that it cannot: any hard drive that…
Cryptocurrency
Sky-High Bitcoin Transaction Fees: What Crypto Traders Should Know
Bitcoin transaction fees rose to an all-time high on Saturday, April 20, 2024, reaching an astounding $128.45 USD before dropping back down…
Data Recovery Knowledge
Why Is NAND Data Recovery from Cracked Chips Impossible?
Data recovery laboratories can restore data from fire-damaged hard drives, flooded servers, and ransomware-infected RAID arrays, but if you break a memory…
Ransomware Recovery
DragonForce Ransomware Group Posts Audio of Conversations with Victims
In an apparent attempt to compel its victim to pay up, the ransomware gang DragonForce has published a recording of a phone…
Data Recovery News
What Is the Master Boot Record?
The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector on hard drives or other storage media on PC systems. It includes information…
Ransomware Recovery
Should You Pay For Ransomware? Never. Here’s Why.
Ransomware payments reached an estimated $1.1 billion in 2023, per a report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. It’s no wonder that ransomware is…
Cryptocurrency
What Is “Bitcoin Halving” Day?
Bitcoin halving is a built-in feature of Bitcoin that cuts the rewards for mining by 50%. This occurs after 210,000 blocks of…
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