What you need to know about Android’s ‘factory reset’ function

11 August 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Upgrading your Android device? Are you still sporting an HTC Dream (Google G1) or a tablet running Android Honeycomb? Probably not, as technological obsolescence means that as mobile devices have...

04 August 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Migrating to a new desktop operating system

On 29 July 2015 Microsoft released the new Windows 10 as an evolution of Windows 8 and - as this always happens when a new operating system (OS) is launched - many begin to wonder whether to switch...

07 July 2015 00:00:00 EDT

How to Migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Office 365

If your company are looking to migrate mailboxes from Microsoft exchange servers then follow our guide that provides best practices to follow before going ahead with the migration. Steps to follow...

26 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Using SMART tools to predict HDD failure

In a previous blog - MTBF: Can it help predict hard drive failure? - we noted that the best-known methods for predicting hard disk drive (HDD) failure aren't what you'd call scientific. Grinding and...

19 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Mean Time Between Failures: Can it help predict hard drive failure?

Here at Ontrack, we're well aware that data loss can affect anyone. For many of us, it comes in the form of hard disk drive (HDD) failure - an umbrella term for mechanical, electronic and logical...

15 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Data recovery - step by step process

So what is the process of data recovery? A bit like recreating a loaf of bread from a kilogram of breadcrumbs. When we received the disk drive from the US space shuttle Columbia (the American space...

14 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Private investigation: The File Systems

The logical data structure on the disk is managed by the file system. FAT (File Allocation Tables) used to be a very popular file system known from DOS. Nowadays they’ve been replaced almost...

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