If you missed Part One, read it here. In most cases, DriveSavers offers free evaluations of failed devices, like hard drives, before the actual recovery is attempted. If free evaluation is offered, I recommend you take advantage of this opportunity. First, we physically examine the equipment to determine its condition and…

What should you do when your hard drive fails? If you are one of the unfortunate many who haven’t taken precautions with a backup, then you’re most likely going to need professional help. That’s especially true if the data in question is valuable and hard or impossible to recreate. There…

An independent study by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, has unveiled a Data Security Checklist for vetting third-party data recovery service providers. The study, “Security of Data Recovery Operations,” conducted among IT security and IT support practitioners, is the first national study published on the…

We spend a lot of time at DriveSavers reminding our customers what they can do to prevent data loss, but today we’re looking at what not to do. Here are the Top 7 “No-Nos “ Don’t turn on any drive that is clicking, whining, grinding, wheezing or making any unusual…

By all accounts, no one in the television audience of 39.3 million people could probably tell that the father and daughter team of Terry and Oorlagh George had anything to worry about. Standing on the stage at the annual academy awards ceremony, they beamed with joy holding their gold Oscar statuettes in…