You’re booting Windows, and you see a screen that reads: Getting Windows ready Don’t turn off your computer You wait patiently — but eventually, your patience wears thin. How long should you wait for Windows to install updates before performing...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are typically categorized by their interface or by the technology used to store data. In this article, we’ll provide a brief definition of each “type” of hard drive and how categorization plays a role in the...

Data exfiltration refers to any malicious attack that steals data from the victim. It’s also known as “data theft,” though the term “data exfiltration” is more specific to the data on networks or larger-scale IT systems (as opposed to the...

Many modern hard drives have a Read Only Memory (ROM) chip on their printed circuit boards (PCBs). The ROM contains firmware, which allows the hard drive to communicate with your computer.  Within the data recovery industry, the term ROM chip...

If you’re considering an investment in cryptocurrency, make sure you’re purchasing through a trusted resource — and if a new “friend” tells you about a trading site, be extremely careful.  Over the past four years, security experts have seen a...

While solid-state drives (SSDs) are quickly becoming the go-to option for internal data storage, external hard drives are still popular with consumers, and for good reason. If you need to store a large number of files, an external hard drive...

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...

The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report (PDF) shows the dramatic growth of the ransomware industry — and details some of the techniques that bad actors use to compromise critical IT systems. It’s important to note that these statistics are not...

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...