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If you lose your photos that have been stored in your camera’s memory, on a memory card, on a flash drive, or even on your PC or Macintosh computer, you can use free photo recovery software to try to access your files. Depending on the type of media, how many photos were lost, and exactly what happened to the files, you may even pay for what you believe to be better quality photo recovery software. In some cases, especially if files have just been accidentally deleted and no new data has been written on the disk, these inexpensive or free programs can get your photos back for you. But what if your photo recovery software doesn’t work? Some photo recovery…

One of the key benefits to an SSD (Solid State Drive) is that there are no moving parts, which virtually eliminates the chances of mechanical failure, makes access times faster, and makes the drive quieter. But this design feature also makes SSD data recovery a complex science that is difficult — if not impossible — for regular computer users to do themselves. This leaves most people in need of a professional SSD data recovery firm if their data is lost due to reformatting your SSD drive, deletion of files, corruption of files, partition corruption, power surges or in very rare cases, shock or water damage. What should you look for in an SSD data recovery firm? 1. Proven experience –…

If you’re a corporate executive or work in medium-to-large business, you may use a raid data server for data storage. But you may never think twice about how it works. When it crashes, though, you know there’s trouble. And, as reliable (after all, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks) as they are, there’s a lot that can go wrong with these complicated devices.  Let’s take a look at how a raid server works.  A raid array is designed to: – protect your data against loss with an added level of duplication – provide higher input/output speeds In some cases, a raid array also provides additional storage capacity. Since this set-up does not offer data redundancy, though, you lose…

When they were first introduced many years ago, flash drives were commonly called “thumb drives,” “key drives,” or sometimes by their more proper name, “USB drives.” It was easy to see how they got these nicknames. Flash drives aren’t much larger than your thumb, and people often carried them around on key chains. Also, you inserted them into the USB port of your computer much like you insert a key into a keyhole. Back then, flash drives held, at most, 2MB of data, and were primarily the domain of IT experts. “Computer geeks” wore these odd-looking drives on lanyards around their neck, soliciting strange looks from the people whose computers they worked on when they inserted one of these mystical devices…

You’re not running a business on your computer. You don’t even trust the Internet to pay your bills. Most of the files on your hard drive are photos of the grandchildren, school papers from those night classes you took, and family recipes. But now your computer isn’t booting up and you’re not sure what to do. The contents of your hard drive aren’t worth a lot — but they mean a lot to you. At 24HourData, we understand that not every hard drive recovery involves sensitive corporate data, top secret government files, or financial statements for a Fortune 500. But that doesn’t mean the data isn’t important. While we often work with big and small businesses, government institutions, and health…

Many people use an external hard drive that connects to their PC or Mac for easy and convenient data back-up. This may seem like a good, cost-effective data back-up solution, especially for individual users and small business owners. But consider these facts about external hard drive data storage: – If you store your external hard drive in the same location as your computer system, it is subject to the same dangers, including floods, fires and theft. If someone steals your computer, what’s to stop them from taking your external hard drive, too? – If files become infected with a computer virus on your PC, those same files will still be corrupt and unreadable when you back them up to your…

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When a Hard Drive makes a clicking sound that is a sure sign that you have mechanical issues with your drive. Clicking is a symptom that should be an alert to immediately power down your hard drive. Continued use of a clicking Hard Drive could result in your data being unrecoverable. There are several reasons a Hard Drive can start clicking. The most common cause of Hard Drives clicking is failed heads. Failed heads are the main reason to power down your drive when you hear clicking. The reason being is that a failed head can easily cause surface damage to the platters that store your data. This is called media damage. Media damage if severe, will render your data…

Many people mistake their External Hard Drive as a backup drive. In the world of Data Recovery we see people come in everyday for recovery on their backup drives.The question is always asked, if this is your backup drive then where is the data that was being backed up? The fact is if your data is not at least in two places there is no backup. Purchasing an External Hard Drive is a great idea. However, if you are using the drive to extend your storage capacity you better purchase an additional drive for backup. Data Backup is critical not only for businesses, but also for individuals. The question is not if your drive will fail it is when. If…

Every year in March, April, and May we see an increase in drives needing to be recovered from power surges. Many companies and individuals alike do not protect their systems from surges of electricity caused by lightning strikes. We highly recommend using a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) with any computer system. Protecting your data from power surges and sudden shut down is vital. Power surges can cause havoc with controller boards on any drive. Solid State Drives seem to be more affected by power surges and loss than hard drives. Now that we are in the season of rain and thunderstorms, make sure you protect your data with a UPS or at least a surge protector. Thunderstorms are much more…