Here is another scary screenshot from SpinRite. What happens when each of those partially recovered sectors are from a critical database file. After the sector has be remapped (partially recovered), there is no way to go back and get anything that was lost. This is called data loss, not recovery. Sp...

I suppose you could say that, but I'm quite pleased to have helped make a happy client and still make a few bucks while doing it. I get a lot of referrals from Apple and don't mind having to work a little harder from time to time to keep those referrals coming my way.

End user dropped their phone in water. After drying out, the phone would only power on to an Apple logo. We were able to get the phone to power on correctly, but it would reset itself every few minutes...not long enough to run a full backup or scan with data recovery software. In order to recover th...

WD® Adds High Performance Network Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions for Expert and Business Users to My Cloud® Line

Does this make the McCloud product line a more viable option for business?

I was just made aware of a two part article by DeepSpar on the risks of software recoveries. Take a read and post your thoughts below.

The Risks Behind Software Recovery Attempts - Part 1
The Risks Behind Software Recovery Attempts - Part 2

Yeah...seems like people will believe it works just because it says it will, even though the evidence shows that it is snake oil.

A while back, I posted a blog about SpinRite at the following link - SpinRite - A Data Recovery Program? The other day, we had a drive that was failing MHDD testing. For the fun of it, we ran SpinRite on the drive to see how it would do. It ran for a day and when it completed, it reported the drive ...

Jeff,

Thanks for the kind words and welcome to our new forum.

Feel free to post any questions you might have...or just post anything you'd like to share.

Thanks...sometimes the older jobs are the hardest as we don't see them as often any more.

Model: WD2500JS-40TGB0 Client Symptoms: System not booting Previous Recovery Attempts: Various Mac OS and Linux boot CDs to read data. One computer store even said that they could recover files for $80, without seeing the drive. Recovery Force Diagnosis: Drive has media damage, firmware damage and ...