City of Albany Cyberattack New York’s Capital, Albany, New York – Hit by Ransomware Attack Last updated September 30th, 2019 The City of Albany Cyberattack occurred on March 30th, with city officials working over the weekend to respond to the incident. The City of Albany cyberattack has made damages to the City of Albany and … Read more
Damaged Hard Drive with Fingerprint Contamination A client recently lost data on a portable hard drive due to mechanical failure. The external portable hard drive contained the only copies of data the customer needed and had data going back years with multiple computers worth of information back to 2005. The drive was a Seagate External … Read more
Top Five Cloud Backup Mistakes That Lead to Data Loss In this post, I discuss the five most common cloud backup mistakes and how to avoid them. Using off-site or cloud backup is an essential part of any data backup process. Cloud backup made everything easy and automatic, right? Yes, howere none all of them … Read more
Top Five Disaster Recovery Mistakes Data Recovery is a big business, and data loss happens every day. These are the top five disaster recovery mistakes businesses make. Disasters can strike at any time. Sure, you can always purchase a new computer, server, hardware, but the key to ensuring survival for your business is robust data … Read more
Here’s What You Should Know if You Are Shopping For Data Recovery If you are reading this you might have found yourself in the position many home users or small business owners do – uncomfortable and having suffered a serious and unexpected data loss. Shopping for data recovery is bound to happen as traditional hard … Read more
Dropped Hard Drive How to Recover Data from a Dropped Hard Drive Hard drives are very sensitive to any form of external force. Often the drives I get have been dropped on the ground from a height of more than a few feet. This is especially true with external hard drives. External hard drives, also … Read more
Microsoft Suspends Windows 10 October 2018 Update Due to Data Loss Last updated October 9th, 2018 Microsoft has halted the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major bugs experienced by users, including one that’s leading to the removal of certain user files which results in data loss if you do not … Read more
Are you falling for the top five data recovery myths? As soon as people began storing data on hard drives, hard drives began failing and data began to be lost. Here are some of the more common data recovery myths that I get asked about and educated customers on. I thought it time to quash … Read more
Clicking hard drive noise what causes it? If a dropped hard drive is clicking and it isn’t working anymore, it is likely that the platters, arm or hard drive head were damaged and misaligned from the impact. Also clicking issues can stem from a drive with physical issues from age or normal wear and tear. … Read more
Why You Should Never Open a Failed Hard Drive Small Particles Cause Damage When a failed hard drive is making a clicking or isn’t spinning there is a temptation by many customers to open the drive itself. A hard drive that is in need of data recovery should never be open. The cover of your … Read more