File Recovery Projects

Differentiating partitions and hard drives

Invariably people confuse a computer partition and a computer hard drive. They are under the impression that these two things are one and the same. While they are often terms used synonymously a partition and a hard drive differ in that the partition is simply a section of a component located on a [...]

Photo recovery performed on the Mac OS

As with any application saved or loaded onto a Mac computer photo recovery tools must be designed to support that particular OS. Simply put, don’t try to find deleted digital photos on a Mac with a tool built for Windows. Now as obvious as this may sound it might surprise you to learn two things. [...]

Scanning small digital storage drives for data recovery

Whether you need help with memory card recovery to find lost digital photographs on a reformatted SD card or whether you are searching for an MP3 that mysteriously disappeared from your iPod the data recovery utility that you will use to accomplish these tasks is the same. Actually many of these unique and specific [...]

The viability of generic data recovery tools for digital photo retrieval

If you think that you can recover deleted photos using a general purpose data recovery program you are sadly mistaken. Those programs which are very effective for scanning and recovery of digital image file types such as jpegs are of no use when attempting to recover digital photos that have been stored in the [...]

How our need to recover lost data can come about

The need to recover lost data arises for several reasons. The foremost of these is human error in the form of accidentally deleting files. Very often we simply click on delete instead of save and data is lost. Other times we might momentarily think we wish to delete a file only to [...]

Basic situations requiring deleted file recovery on PCs

The need to recover deleted files arises in quite a few different ways. The most frequent of these occurs due to common human error. People simply sometimes delete files they meant to save. Of course we are not always aware we are deleting files. For example if we place a file in a folder and [...]

Vulnerabilities found in Mac computers similar to Windows PCs

Most Mac users love their computers and swear by the notion that Mac computers are impervious to virus attacks, hardware freezing and data loss. This belief is ridiculous because a Mac computer is just as susceptible to file loss and data corruption during startup or shutdown as any Windows based personal computer. And [...]

Differences in MS Outlook and Outlook Express

I think the greatest difference between Microsoft Outlook Express and the larger e-mail client Microsoft Outlook is that when messages are lost using Microsoft Outlook Express the cause tends to be human error. When emails and other information is lost from the Microsoft Outlook application the root cause traces itself back to problems with [...]

A common problem with PC and Mac file deletion

Whether your choice of computer is a PC or a Mac, there is one dilemma shared by users of both. Mac computers use the Mac OS X operating system. Windows based PCs use any of the current versions of Windows OS such as XP, Vista or Windows 7. Both of these share a system of [...]

The essential elements of succeeding at data recovery

There are two important keys to successful data recovery. The first is to take note of where the missing files you’re searching for were last successfully located. We say successfully located because looking for a lost document or image file on your computer’s internal hard drive when the transfer to that drive has [...]