2024-04-25

January 2010

Hard Drive Data Recovery On a Desktop or Laptop Computer

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When a laptop hard drive becomes “unbootable“, and you are unable to repair it, you can often save the data on the hard drive by using a “slave drive” recovery method on a desktop computer. As long as the laptop hard drive has not been mechanically broken and the disk is still “readable“, you should be successful in accessing and preserving the valuable data on the drive.…
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Mac Recovery: Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software

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Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery software recovers lost and deleted data from HFS+, HFSX file systems on Mac OS X 10.4 and above, which includes LEOPARD. Recover Lost Data When:A volume has been formatted or reformatted Volume is inaccessible after re-partitioning or any sort of corruption causing inaccessibility to the volume Volume is not getting mounted Files and folders are accidentally deleted, Apple partition map is corrupted Apple catalog file is corrupted Drive has been initialized Disk verify and repair fails Any sort of corruption causing inability to boot your operating systemDisk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software Features:Simple and intuitive user interface Supports recovery of deleted files from “Journalized Volume” only Powerful volume search that helps to locate lost or missing volumes from drives Two methods of disk volume processing to yield best data recovery results Extremely fast, disk recovery and scanning algorithms Presents recovered hierarchical data tree and find option similar to Mac OSX “Finder” Selective find and save option Save Scan Information feature helps to avoid rescanning a drive, this features comes in handy when evaluating demo version.…
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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter M)

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MB (Megabyte) One megabyte as 1,000,000 (one million) bytes. MFM (Multiple Frequency Modulation) A method of encoding analog signals into magnetic pulses or bits. MR Heads (Magneto-resistive Heads) MR heads were developed to increase area density and improve drive performance. MR heads use separate read and write elements, as opposed to traditional inductive thin-film read-write heads.…
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Incident Response and Computer Forensics (Second Edition)

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Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition by Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Matt Pepe.Paperback: 507 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne; 2 edition (July 17, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 007222696X ISBN-13: 978-0072226966 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2 pounds Popular:Description: A strong system of defenses will save your systems from falling victim to published and otherwise uninventive attacks, but even the most heavily defended system can be cracked under the right conditions.…
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How to Upgrade Hard Drive Firmware?

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Firmware is a type of software stored directly inside hardware components, such as hard disk drives or motherboards, that tells the hardware how to interact with your computer’s operating system. You would typically only need to upgrade your hard drive’s firmware if you installed a new motherboard or upgraded to a new operating system that the drive was not originally intended to interact with.…
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Swap Hard Drive PCB Board

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If you’ve ever installed a hard drive, you have noticed the green board on the bottom of the drive. The green board is known as the hard disk drive’s PCB (Printed Circuit Board). What A Hard Drive PCB Does? The PCB is more than a simple way for a hard drive to contain power; it often contains part of the firmware of a drive, which lets the hard drive know how to operate properly and how to read data from the platters.…
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