Should you start up your computer and instead of the familiar Windows welcome screen be greeted with a bright blue Windows error message screen you may safely assume that your computer’s hard disk drive has suffered a logic crash. What this means is that important files used to start up your computer and allow you [...]
If you hope to recover digital photos from your computer’s internal hard disk drive or any memory card connected to your camera there are several software tools you may need to assist you. Plus, you are going to need a little common sense so that you can play detective and track down your lost or [...]
If you are using Microsoft Word and suddenly are faced with a power outage you’ll be surprised upon restarting your computer to learn that in the very instant that power was cut from your PC Microsoft Word automatically saved a version of your work. Just restart your computer and open Microsoft Word. In the left [...]
You might ask, why would anyone ever purposely delete a partition? There are actually two reasons to delete a partition and they are somewhat intertwined. Whenever we go to reload our Windows operating system we are prompted by the text Windows installation procedure as to whether we would like to install the operating system on [...]
In looking over potential companies to purchase an external hard drive from I noticed there are but a few worthwhile selections. These are Western Digital, Maxtor, and Transcend. To be frank, my experience with Western Digital external hard drives also known sometimes and book drives has been somewhat disappointing. The unit’s work well under perfect [...]
Often I am asked why Windows recovery tools will not work on Mac computers. Aside from the fact that many versions of Mac computers use processors that are completely incompatible with Windows binary code, the greater issue lies in access to hard drive storage. The Mac OS X operating system accesses files on the hard [...]
Certain types of digital media storage remain popular due to their ability to handle complicated file types without access corruption. An example of this would be a memory stick or a memory stick pro. Though created some 10 years ago, these particular solid state digital media devices are still very popular with digital photo enthusiasts. [...]
Crashed hard drive recovery can be solved in several different ways. These vary in complexity and the one you choose should depend upon your overall degree of computer technical expertise and skill. The need for crashed hard drive recovery usually arises when we attempt to start up our Windows PC and instead of seeing the [...]
The best way to recover data is to simply go to our backup files and copy from them our lost information. If one has created an image clone of their entire hard drive on a regular basis, the whole disk drive can be reloaded in under an hour. Very rarely do we have the presence [...]
Basically photo recovery takes place in two different locations. These will always be your computer’s internal hard drive and the digital media or digital device you are downloading image files from. Usually in the case of better quality digital cameras this is a memory card known as an SD card. In order to recover deleted [...]