Professional hard drive recovery software & services from DTIDATA

08/30/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Reviews of Data Recovery Software

Data recovery is an emerging market and can be considered as one big important part of enterprise disaster recovery plan. Large enterprises or government establishments do have disaster recovery plans and strive harder for stringent backup measures. Unfortunately small establishments and SOHO users still rely on unsafe measures for safeguarding there data.

In similar context DTIDATA is not a new name for people who already have faced a catastrophe of data loss. Providing excellent recovery services since 1992, this data recovery firm offers competitive, cost effective hard drive recovery services and data recovery software. They have developed a proprietary data recovery technology i.e.”Adaptive Logic”, which displays there skills and technological abilities to innovate and provide extremely reliable data recovery services. This effective technology makes those not possible cases possible to recover. DTIDATA offers free upfront flat rate price quotes on all hard drive data recovery. They offer guarantee for recovery and provides an option of “no recovery no charge”.

Most importantly, the drive should not have been opened somewhere else before giving to DTIDATA as recovery would not be possible and recovery results cannot be guaranteed. Some of the prominent drive crashes and failures that are supported by DTIDATA

  • Physical malfunctioning of hard drive (firmware problems)
  • RAID drive recovery
  • Direct or Network storage server failures
  • Virus Corruptions and Deletion
  • Damage from Lightning, Flood, and Fire
  • Employee Sabotage or Deletions
  • Power Supply Burn Out or Failure 

Notably DTIDATA is equipped with class 100 clean rooms that are well suited to perform recovery from physically crashed hard drives. Moreover, not many companies in US actually have this facility for hard drive repair.

Apart from reliable service DTIDATA offers do it on your own data recovery applications. All applications and recovery components are in house developed and are result of years of experience gained after performing numerous data recovery cases.

There product portfolio includes wide spectrum of data recovery applications to perform recovery on Windows, Novell etc. They have categorized and developed utilities based on the requirement of a novice or an expert user. The DTIDATA website offers try before buy option so that user can check for the chances of recovery and later can purchase the software to recover lost data after the assurance provided by the demo version of the software. The applications are system independent and can be executed from a removable drive as well to minimize or reduce the chances of overwriting.

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Computer power cords from Americord

07/21/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Misc & Non Recovery Posts

If you are an individual looking to but that special power cord and are not able to locate the same on ebay or other shopping websites, try Americord.com. Americord is a specialist producer of computer power cords, heavy-duty power cords, extension cords, electronic power adapters, and portable lighting.

If you are a supplier, manufacturer or an OEM firm there is lot for you to choose and do bulk orders. The website caters to everyone who is in need of computer or general use cables, wires etc. This UL/CSA approved company accepts custom orders as well, if the components you are looking for is not listed, they can manufacture required components within 3-5 working days.

The americord.com website has online web store for you to purchase or orders items through internet. They always are running lot of discounted and clearance sale, where you can get lot of items in discounted cheap prices.

Apart from doing mass production for regularly used computer cords and power cables, Americord also features the capability for special orders. At their manufacturing plant, they can create new moulds and dies to make the perfect size, fit, and specifications for anything you need.

Americord is the right place to order special cables for your requirement. You can buy the products online. They also accept order though phone between Monday to Friday during business hours. All the stock items are shipped within 24 hours, the communication that includes order and shipping details from their support department is reliable.

How raw recovery works?

07/21/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Technical Computer Internals

You must have heard for this term with many data recovery applications, “RAW” recovery. What exactly it means? Instead of a direct explanation of this term, it is mandatory for us to understand how it is related to data recovery.

FAT or NTFS are the two file systems that are supported by Microsoft Windows, FAT file system is dependent on file allocation tables, whereas NTFS depends on Master file tables called MFT. MFT and FAT holds the allocation information for a file or a folder. There are various sorts of situations, which may damage these file and folder allocation information. If this information is lost, there is no information for any data recovery software to locate the file.

The loss of this critical information is dangerous and as most of the data recovery companies are scratching there head for various ways to get lost data recovered, this method of performing raw scan came into existence. This is method which is the backbone of all file recovery applications, photo or music recovery software.

Therefore, it is extremely clear that when file system is completely damaged so that it is not possible to get the allocation for files, which are stored on the drive and there is no way to identify them. RAW recovery is extremely beneficial and pulling such files out of hard drives. RAW recovery for me should not be dependent on any file system as it works on unique file signatures (every file has a unique ID or signature).

Well the other most important part of file recovery of raw scan is in depth knowledge of the file type, by putting the signatures of all file types and giving a tentative size to look for will not be always successful. This in depth knowledge of file helps in identifying correct file size. Thus, the best file recovery software is the one that is able to identify a file using a signature and knows various other ways to get the file size.

In the end, the only limitation with file recovery would be recovery of files without the actual file names before they were lost. However, getting the main content and some more rework in terms of renaming should not be a complain as much worth information has been restored.

The mobile ring tones factory

07/14/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Misc & Non Recovery Posts

Mobile phone is one of the best technological inventions of 21st century. Primitively mobile phones started with analog digital beeps and sounds and added various variations in them to create ring tones, similar to what we used to get in old times handy video games. Today the scenario has completely changed, now you can set various types of ring tones like true tone ring tones, polyphonic ring tones, music ring tones etc. A ring tone on mobile phone lets you know if a call has come, through the ring tone that you set. You can set any ring tone that give pleasure to you. If you have problems in finding the song you are searching for, I would like to recommend you a website.

Ring Tones Factory is a website, which offers an extensive assortment of ring tones. This website offers a large collection of free ring tones, wallpapers, graphics, and games for our mobile phone. There is no restriction on any of the cell phone providers. You will have your mobile stuffs downloaded to your cell phone in few seconds. The most prominent thing is that we need not to buy nor we need to have any third party application for this.

The website provides top 40 hottest ring tones in various categories to choose. The categories from which you can choose from are rock, jazz, Christian, classical, film, etc.

So, visit this website, register an account, and get your favorite ring tones as well as other mobile stuffs.

Secrets of hard drive data recovery

06/30/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Data Recovery Techniques

Most of us wonder what do the people in data recovery labs do to recover data from your drive. If you see data recovery as a process, it does not involve any planned actions, as it is always a reaction based on the cause for data loss.

Let us categorize it in two major categories

a) Physical Crash – where drive is not getting detected by the BIOS of your PC and the drive has either electronic, mechanical failure or some kind of damage such as accidentally dropping the drive, fire, flood or any other external cause.

Recovery from such cases involves an attempt from an experienced recovery professional to make drive working by any means. If drive has electronic failure, the engineer would try to look for similar electronic board in the inventory to make drive working. If the cause is mechanical which is mainly head making clicking sound, is broken or is jammed are repaired by opening it in a class 100 environment and it is not necessary that it has to be a clean room and it is impractical to have a clean room for such small device.

I have heard of many tricks people try to make drive working in such cases, for e.g. dropping drive from a small height on a soft surface to ease any jam. Freezing the drive if drive has quick heating problems, let me tell you these attempts are extremely dangerous and can make the drive permanently damaged.

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Most Popular RAID recovery tools

06/20/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Data Recovery Techniques

RAID systems are considered the safest storage where data is stored in strips to improve performance and parity to regenerate lost data. HP (Compaq), DELL, IBM, delivers some of the most popular RAID servers etc. In recent years network storage has gained popularity such as NetApps, Snap Server, buffalo tech and many more. These NAS servers have inbuilt RAID storage and is accessible from a high-speed network to all its users assigned by the administrator of the storage.

Despite having the hardware protection, these servers comprising RAID devices do fail and data loss does happen. RAID recovery is not an easy job to perform, even if you know about some of the recovery tools available in the market. Taking the drives out from the failed RAID array and attaching them to another machine maintaining the same order would be difficult for novices.

Then approach the most difficult portion of RAID recovery, which is reconstructing the RAID. There could be various causes to a RAID failure.

  • RAID reinitialized accidentally by the administrator causing a new array to be formed and losing old data and configuration.

  • One of the drive has failed and RAID is not coming up

  • Drives going offline suddenly and not being mounted due to power surge or mishandling.

  • RAID card causing RAID to fail

The most important portion in RAID recovery (specifically RAID 5) is to identify correct parity order and stripe size, and also the block size (the size of a cluster formed when we format a drive, sectors combine to form a logical unit which is know as block or cluster).

Below mentioned are some of the useful names, which might be able to help you, reconstruct RAID and thereafter you may use a cloning application to create a single volume, which can be mounted as actual RAID volume. Once the volume is mounted, recovery becomes easier.

  • File Scavenger (Quetek Consulting Corporation)
  • R-Studio – RAID Tools
  • RAID Reconstructor – GetDataback (Runtime Software)

U3 compatible data recovery software

05/25/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Misc & Non Recovery Posts

If you are wondering about this new term U3 technology, you might ask what U3 technology is?

Visualize that you are having all your important applications, software in the same flash drive that has your important files stored. Storing and carrying away your software on the same flash drive that carries your files. That is what you can do with a U3 smart drive. You can plug this flash drive into any PC launch the applications to work, play a game, message friends, send email, and edit photos plus more. Most importantly, when you unplug it, you are not leaving any personal data behind.

U3 technology has been launched by SanDisk and is a revolutionary technology for the users who are looking for portability of having both data and applications.

Implication of U3 in data recovery

Imagine a laptop with a single partition, where important data is accidentally deleted or missing. Installing download or working on the drive would cause overwriting and your important data could be overwritten and permanently lost.

U3 flash drive having data recovery software would be extremely beneficial in those similar circumstances, running the application from the U3 device and recovering data to the same flash drive would be extremely handy. The U3 flash drive would become a handy recovery tool, which could be taken to any PC for recovering lost data and would become extremely powerful device for the administrators.

Discounted prices, quality hard drives from DiscounTechnology

05/21/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Misc & Non Recovery Posts

Native individuals or companies operating in or around San Diego should feel relieved when one of your hard drives from RAID array has gone bad and you need a replacement drive, Disocuntechnology can deliver the drive early the following morning if the requirement is extremely urgent.

DiscounTechnology.com, are a value-added reseller of information technology equipment, hardware and systems. Their range of products include SCSI hard drives, SATA & IDE desktop & laptop / notebook hard drives, drive caddies/trays, SAS (Serial attached SCSI) HDDs, mini-PCI wireless devices, SCSI RAID controllers, hot swap hard drives and other storage components.

In the field of enterprise storage, they offer Seagate, Cheetah, Maxtor, Atlas, Fujitsu, IBM & Hitachi UltraStar SCSI hard drives. However, they also offer Dell PowerVault SCSI attached arrays, Dell PERC RAID controllers, Adaptec SCSI controllers, hard disk caddies, SCSI drive trays, SCSI active negation terminators, interface adapters, cables including VHDCI and HD68 cables.

You can buy equipments from their online store, the website has online shopping cart mechanism installed and it even is offering low shipping rates for international customers.

Although DiscounTechnology.com is an authorised Cisco, Juniper/Netscreen & FatPipe Networks resellers, apart from selling storage devices. In case you do not see what you were looking on there website get in touch with them, they might be able to provide, what you were looking for.

Paraben launches mobile forensic tool

05/17/08 | by technodirty | Categories: News

Paraben Corporation, a digital and computer forensic expert company has released a new product called Cell Seizure Investigator Stick (CSI stick). CSI stick is a mobile forensic hardware tool kit.

The device is similar to a thumb drive and helps to create an image of the mobile, whether is logical or physical information of the drive. The device currently supports 330 Samsung and Motorola model of phones, Nokia and LG phones research and development is under progress as per the press release issued by the company.

This forensic tool surely is a one-step forward and a great tool for law enforcement agencies to create a secure replica of a mobile phone.

The package includes:

  • One CSI Stick Base Unit
  • Two Motorola Tips
  • One Samsung Tip
  • One Remote Charger
  • Carrying Case

Review – Carrot Ink, an affordable site for ink cartridges replacement

05/17/08 | by technodirty | Categories: Misc & Non Recovery Posts

Are you looking for best option for your printer ink cartridge, a cost effective refilling option, a site where you can shop for almost all major printer models ink cartridges? Then here is a great site that might of interest to you, Carrot Ink.

We always curse the times when our ink cartridge runs out and we need to buy an expensive, genuine cartridge to substitute it? Well, you can give your worries a toss, because you can get easy on the pocket, excellent ink cartridges from CarrotInk.com at unbelievably low prices. In fact, high quality Carrot Inks sell for 30-70% less than that of the name brands.

Ink Cartridges for Printer

You can purchase products marketed and manufactured by companies like Apple, Canon, Dell, HP, Epson, Xerox, Lexmark and others. You can also purchase specific products like Epson ink cartridges, HP 56 black, Canon ink cartridges, C6656AN, HP C6656 and many more.

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