Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

Never assume that data is unrecoverable - no matter how extreme the damage. Ontrack Data Recovery engineers have retrieved data from devices damaged in Hurricane Katrina and the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, and numerous other disasters.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

Encryption continues to be the topic on every CIO and IT person’s lips nowadays. No one wants to end up in the news as the next victim of a privacy breach or the next company that didn’t protect its customers’ information. If you conduct a news search using the words “personal data breach,” you’ll be alarmed at the number of instances where personal information such as social security and credit-card numbers have been exposed to possible theft.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

Regardless of the format, people are trusting their pictures to a different media than traditional film – and with that new media, comes new problems. Instead of overexposure or a damaged roll, you have to deal with corrupted data and hardware failures. Most digital media is formatted with the FAT file system for data storage and organization.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of us are looking forward to spending time with our family and friends. These special times, which used to be captured on film, are now recorded digitally on a video recording device or a camera. We revealed the top causes of memory card disasters from digital camera users desperate to recover their memories.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

This article will take a look at this micro-technology, its history and future; you’ll be surprised to find out how prevalent this technology is and how long it has been around. As always, we will take a look at recovery options for these devices.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Data Experts

Hard drive technology has been around since the Fifties. The large multi-platter based systems, IBM 305 RAMAC, were only used in large mainframe systems. It wasn’t until the Seventies and Eighties that hard drive storage became more available. This was due to cost reductions, innovation from magnetic media formulations, storage capacity, performance, and manufacturing techniques.

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