Some people think they’re free from hard drive and other storage media failures. Actually, they are, for a while. It’s one of those laws of the nature you can’t avoid, everyone will have a hard disk failure in their life at least once, given they use computers. A hard disk drive is a set of spinning disks and as such it’s prone to mechanical damage. It cannot be avoided as…

Hard drives and optical media used for data storage today are operating with moving parts inside the device. This design is flawed due to many reasons, but as long as we’re forced to use this technology there will be data losses due to damage of the moving parts. Hard disk drives are utilizing a technology where the head hovers over a magnetically treated disk surface to read data as blocks…

The general definition of a proxy is someone who has authority to act on behalf of another, such as when a stockholder submits a proxy ballot in lieu of attending a stockholders’ meeting. A proxy browser acts on behalf of the requesting computer. The server hosting the proxy browser opens the URLs so the requester can have a safer browsing experience. Using a proxy web browser allows a web surfer…

The best way to prevent data loss both on PC and Mac is to back up data. On Windows you have to do it manually unless you purchase software made particularly for this, while OSX 10.5 and 10.6 comes with a built in solution to the problem. The time machine. Apart from the fancy sounding name it has a few great features that can and probably will prevent data loss…

Pen drives use memory chips to store data like memory cards do, and as such have no moving parts whatsoever. This makes data recovery to be limited to software related data loss usually, but data recovery experts offer their service to burned, soaked and otherwise physically damaged usb flash drives as well. Data recovery is not a cheap service and you’re probably puzzled what to look for, but following these…

To recover data from hard drive you will either need some professional help or some pieces of software you can trust. I personally don’t recommend taking data recovery in your own hand as the causes to data loss are often hidden or hardware related, and you can’t really do much with any piece of software on a dead hard disk. Here are some tips to make sure you get some…

Memory data card recovery is a little bit different from normal or conventional data recovery services because in this case there is no moving part that can cause a mechanical failure. In most cases there are software issues with the unit that you can solve for yourself if you’re feeling adventurous, but I’d suggest you not do that at home. 1. A memory card is a memory chip with controller…