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Donor Drives in Data Recovery What Is a Donor Drive? A donor drive is a fully working hard drive used as a parts source for a failed drive. The goal is to find one that matches as many characteristics of the bad drive as possible. Ideally, an excellent donor drive will be an exact match across … Read more
Legal Data Recovery Solutions: Computer and Mobile Device Forensics for Attorneys In the realm of legal tech, computer forensics and mobile device forensics play pivotal roles in investigating digital evidence crucial to legal proceedings. Data Recovery along with computer forensics, are often referred to as computer forensic science, is the comprehensive examination of computers and … Read more
Do Genius Bars located in Apple Stores perform Data Recovery? If your Apple computer, iPad or iPhone happens to be having issues or needs data recovery, the first thing that most people thing of is to contact Apple Support. Within the limited 1-year warranty or with if you purchased Apple Care, Apple will help you … Read more
How Can I Tell If My Hard Drive is Broken? Modern hard drives (hard disk drives (HDD), or hard disk) a operating lifespan of 3-5 years by their warranties. I think that after 5 years, a traditional hard drive, should be replaced with a new storage device. Hard drives consist of one or more platters … Read more
Data Recovery after a mistake using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool Last updated Jan. 10th, 2023 The Media Creation Tool allows you to create a Windows 10 installer onto a flash drive (or as a .ISO for DVD creation) so you can use it to install or reinstall Windows 10. Unfortunately if the wrong … Read more
Apple Won’t Tell You How to Get Your iPhone’s Data Back Imagine you’re trip to the Adirondacks and you drop your phone in a lake, or you are at home and your phone ends up in the pool. All those photos and videos are lost. Your iPhone has become water damaged. You didn’t have a … Read more
Mixing Modular PSU Cables Can Kill Hard Drives Mixing Modular PSU Cables Can Kill Hard Drives or Solid State Drives (SSDs) requiring data recovery services to get the data back. Interchange a modular cable usually leads to frying a drive. I cover what a modular power supply is, why you shouldn’t mix cables, and the … Read more
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 – Early 2013) 7+17 Pin Drive This case covers a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 – Early 2013) 7+17 Pin Software Data Recovery for a customer who was located in Niskayuna, NY. He reached out for data recovery. This SSD used the Apple proprietary 7+17 Pin connector. The Generation 2A drives were manufactured by … Read more
macOS Big Sur is bricking the 2013 and 2014 Macbook Pro Many owners of 13-inch MacBook Pro late 2013 and mid-2014 are reporting the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their computers. Macrumors has a large the running and to date users have been reporting the issue since Thursday. Other sites like Reddit are reporting … Read more
Why are Home Users and Businesses are not going to Cloud Backups? Businesses have been slow to move to the cloud because of a lack of technical expertise, and they have concerns over data loss and compliance breaches. Home users often do not have cloud-based backups set up at all or correctly because of the … Read more