Digital Camera Memory Recovery

As an industry leader in data recovery for flash media such as digital camera memory cards, we feel like we might be able to help a few of you from ever loosing your data in the first place.  If you’re on our blog because you just experienced a data disaster – you accidentally formatted your memory card, deleted important images, or the card simply stopped working – STOP immediately and set the card aside.  Continuing to use the card increases the chances that you are overwriting images, and many recovery software programs can actually make the problem worse.  Contact us for help.Read on for some tips to prevent data loss from digital camera memory cards (such as SD, SDHC, and CF cards).Before each use, format your cards in the camera you plan to use them on (not the computer). ...

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Keep the external enclosure!

There is a relatively new phenom in the hard drive industry. Hard Drive enclosures have become a crucial part of the recovery process with some external USB hard drives. If your external drive encrypts the data for you, then be sure to keep the enclosure with the drive when you send it in for repair/recovery and make sure you make a note to keep the enclosure intact and with the drive. If you are unsure whether or not your dirve might be encrypted, be on the safe side and keep the enclosure.For example, these popular drives will encrypt the data stored on them:Western Digital My Book EssentialWestern Digital My Book EliteMy Passport EssentialMy Passport Essential SEMy Passport Essential EliteDon’t assume the professional you’ve entrusted your drive to knows that the enclosure could make or...

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The Dangers of System Restore Discs

So as most of us have witnessed, most manufactures of computers come with fancy ways to restore your computer back to its factory defaults as it shipped when you first got it.  They can have small system partitions on your hard drive that contain the files needed to restore  you computer back to the way it was when you first bought it.  On other occasions they will also send out the CD/DVD’s necessary to do the same thing.  This is very handy for when you want to start out fresh again since sometimes a system can accumulate tons of stuff you no longer want and have no idea on how to get rid of it all.Other times your system starts to get the famous blue screen of death while booting causing you to not be able to get into windows due to corrupted system files.  System...

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Making things easy for the customer

Data Recovery and Computer Forensic Examinations are relatively new concepts compared to the Rubik’s cube.  The services we provide are incident driven and are usually only needed when a disaster occurs.  The person experiencing the disaster usually has very little time to research and explore.  Thus, it requires them to go off of a referral, scan the internet, or pull out the yellow pages without really understanding what is all involved in the service and what are the potential outcomes after the service has been provided. With all new concepts, a degree of education has to take place for customers to understand the value.  Visualization is one of the best vehicles in offering education to customers.  What happens when you’re discussing data recovery or computer...

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