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Overwritten file data recovery
A lost novel and an overwritten file We recently had a query from an author about a half-written novel which had been lost from their computer. Their daughter had accidentally edited the file containing the novel, and replaced the entire contents with a school project of almost the same size. The writer had already sent […]
Categories: Data Recovery, Hard Drives
Moving to a larger hard drive
There are various reasons you might wish to replace your hard drive with a larger one. You might be running out of space on your drive, and in the case of a laptop you almost certainly don’t have the ability to add a second drive. Or you might be getting signs that your old drive […]
Categories: Backing up, Hard Drives
Dropbox for critical documents
We recommend keeping at least 3 copies of critical documents, at least one of which should be physically removed from the others. One way to achieve this is via an online backup service such as Dropbox. I personally use Dropbox, because it performs two important tasks. Firstly, it automatically synchronises files between multiple PCs, while […]
Categories: Backing up
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Floppy disks on the rise
Recently we have received more enquiries regarding transferring data from floppy disks onto modern media. Many people still have important data stored on floppies, and often find that they have no means of accessing the data. Most of the floppy disks we see are 10 to 20 years old, and often exhibit problems such as […]
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Fake SSD drives
There’s an interesting story on reghardware about a fake 500Gb SSD drive purchased in China. It turns out that the drive just contained a 128Mb USB key and some clever software to enable data written to the drive to be recorded in a loop. Sadly no chance of recovery of the lost data with a […]
Categories: Data Recovery, Hard Drives
SMS Backup on Android Phones
There is an issue with all the stored SMS messages spontaneously disappearing on some Android phones such as the HTC Desire. I recommend SMS Backup+ available for free on Android Marketplace, for automatically backing up your SMS messages up to GMail. It creates a label “SMS” which contains all your messages, including MMS, and allows […]
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