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USB Enclosure? Priceless!
While you can always set the jumpers on a hard drive you want to recover and slave it in an exsisting system, it is much easier to use a USB enclosure to connect a hard drive to your system for...
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What is a “head crash”?
A “head crash” is a term that describes what happens when the read/write heads of a hard drive touch the spinning platter causing damage to the magnetic coating that contains the data. A hard drive is...
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My disk is clicking so I need advanced recovery right?
Not neccesarily. If your disk is clicking that generally indicates that you have a problem with the read/write heads attempting to scan the surface of the platter. If you hear a clicking, grinding or...
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Western Digital Data Recovery
We offer data recovery on all types of hard drives including Western Digital. Western Digital, often referred to as WD, has been making hard drives since the early 80’s and make good hard drives....
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My Hard Drive Is Making A Funny Noise
Don’t panic! But also don’t power up your computer again! Does this mean you have lost everything? Not necessarily! We have discussed this in earlier blog posts as sometimes relating to a head crash....
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Data Recovery for Laptops and Cameras
We often get asked if we can recover data from laptop hard drives, and the answer is YES! Just because it’s packed in a little tighter and harder to find, hard drives in laptops work like hard drives...
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Retrieving Digital Information
We are in the age where most of the world’s information is in digital form, all encoded as little 1’s and 0’s firing in circuit boards. So how much of this information ever makes it out of the digital...
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Hardware and Software of Curiosity Mars Rover
Hard drives hold some of the most valuable information to us, and most DriveFish customers can attest to how fragile they can be. So you can imagine a hard drive in a computer being sent to Mars would...
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What Brand of Hard Drive Is Best?
Another common question we get is, “what is the best brand of hard drive to buy?” Naturally people are frustrated that something just happened to their drive, and would like to know if purchasing...
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Happy Backup Day!
It is national backup day everyone. Is your data backed up? Recently? Good. We appreciate the opportunity to help our customers, but we would like to prevent you from having to need our data recovery...
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