Hard drive failure is an inevitable fact of life — whether its your own fault or just an unfortunate byproduct of age. There will also come a time in your life when you’re going to want to recover a ...

SPONSORED REVIEWS. Have you ever lost a whole partition on your hard drive or SSD? Although it is very uncommon for this scenario to occur, facing this disaster and losing precious data on my SSD has ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

If you've recently lost favorite photos and videos or important documents stored on a drive, you might be able to get them back with free data recovery software. It's all too easy to accidentally ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Hard drive freezes can be due to a variety of reasons, ranging from issues with your operating system to mechanical problems with the hard drive. Whatever the reason, such freezes can be debilitating ...

This is a long story, sorry, but I just want anyone who cares to try to help me out here know what's up. A good friend of mine had her MacBook Pro die on her last December. She did some ...

This is a blog on the work of the Value Recovery From Used Electronics Project, organized by iNEMI (the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative). The focus of this project is to move ...

Eliot and I caught Scott Moulton’s talk on Hacking Hard Drives for Data Recovery. You can catch his slides here – but most of the content was in the talk. It was a great walk through of hard drive ...