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James Walsh's Articles in Data Recovery

  • Importance of Regular Data Backups
    We have all heard the old adage – a stitch in time saves nine. There are very few areas where this fits in so perfectly as in the case of data backup. Every minute, someone in some part of the earth, is experiencing data loss.
  • Hard Drives Explained
    Computers have become irreplaceable in today’s digital world. One of the most important jobs of a computer is to store data. It has a certain amount of fixed internal memory which is essential to store information. A computer’s internal memory consists of a hard disk drive.
  • A Tape Drive is for Life
    In the good old days, audio buffs were obsessed with their Japanese tape recorders. Corporate organizations, today, depend on their tape drives.
  • Top Causes of Data Loss
    The relative significance of data as a generator and precursor of business is constantly on the rise. The reliance of institutions, organizations and businesses on data is increasing everyday by leaps and bounds.
  • How Serious are the Consequences of Data Loss?
    Man has become so dependent upon computers that to think of a life without them is well impossible. In fact computers have begun to influence our way of functioning to a great extent. So much so that in the case of an electricity outage, many people stop working as the computers cannot be operated upon at that time.
  • Employ DIY Software
    Digital devices are being used by big businesses, corporate organizations, small time retailers and individual personal users. The most important and volatile component of digital device usage is data storage.
  • Risks of DIY Software
    Data loss is a digital device user’s worst nightmare. As more and more digital data is stored on storage media, there are growing instances of data loss. Data recovery is a vast industry whose graph has been on an upward swing in this past decade. This is because almost every computer user has faced the data loss in some form or the other.
  • Mobile Phone SIM Card Data Recovery
    Our lives have been taken over by mobile phones. We can never be too far from anywhere, because we always stay connected. The mobile phone has revolutionised the way we live in the 21st century. This little device carries and stores enough data so we can have an extensive address book, store pictures, send e-mail and literally live life on the move.
  • Is an Ominous Scratching Sound Coming From Your Hard Disk?
    We have a tendency to take things for granted in life. Somehow we tend to presume that everything will continue to be as simple and uncomplicated tomorrow as it is today. Unfortunately though, this is not always the case. At times things undergo drastic changes even before we are able to realise what is happening.
  • The Wonder that We Call Desktop PC
    Before the advent of desktop PCs, our world has been more or less flat. Though being inheritors of Newton and Einstein, we had been confined to the archaic Catholic concept of a flat earth so far as our day-to-day life was concerned, owing to many technical and scientific limitations.
  • Rescuing Deleted Files
    Data loss is the most frequent phenomenon in the world of Information Technology. The slightest error or oversight can result in valuable data being lost. However, though it is time-consuming and might be expensive, the good news is that data can almost always be recovered.
  • Hospital Data Security
    The tentacles of data loss have penetrated almost every sphere of society. The Healthcare Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) argues that data needs to be protected in every healthcare institution.
  • Losing Memories Due to Data Loss
    There is no denying that the digital revolution has changed our lives. Our memories have even more colour and what’s more we can even add details that may not have existed. However, as the saying goes, if it is too good to be true, there’s definitely a catch.
  • Effect of Data Loss
    Data is so important to the functioning of a modern setup that data loss can have stupendous implications for any organisation. Governments make special archives to store data. It may be in the form of historical records or records related to properties. It may be birth and death records or those of a medical nature.
  • Is Monopoly of Hard Disks as Primary Data Storage Devices Under Threat?
    Man has been constantly looking for new and innovative ways to store information. Starting from barks of the trees to stone tablets man moved on to papyrus. In the modern-day world, high end storage devices are being used. Most of them utilise hard disks to store information in an encrypted form.
  • Future of the Hard Drive
    Society is witnessing another technological change. Computer users are slowly steering away from reliance on the hard drive to the more rapid, technologically advanced and reliable flash drive. Industrial concerns and service organizations are opting for the flash drive claiming that it is safe with no opportunity for a full data loss.
  • Why is Data Recovery Highly Expensive?
    If you are regular computer user; working on computers since long, you might have experienced data loss at some point of time or other. Data loss is not a big problem if:
  • Virus Threats to Your Data
    Computer viruses pose a huge threat to companies these days. Just as the technology has evolved over the past few years, so have the nature and extent of these viruses. Formerly, the virus writer had to be an experienced programmer to understand the logics of creating viruses.
  • Are DVDs the Ideal Backup Media?
    Nowadays, backup of data has become essential. Thus, when computer users decide to backup their data, the next important question they face is what medium to opt for. There are many media that are available in the market for this such as CDs, DVDs, flash drives and portable hard drives.
  • Why Does a Hard Drive Go Bad?
    While purchasing a new hard drive, perhaps you never thought that it may crash. Yet a hard drive is primarily a mechanical device, bound to fail at one time or other. You will be surprised to know that 44 percent of all data loss occurs owing to hard drive failure. Every hard drive has a definite life span, ranging from 3 to 6 years
  • Tape Backups – A Good Choice?
    The tape is by now an almost ancient medium of data storage. But we are still holding on to it, just as we are still using good old paper and pen.
  • How to Recover Documents, Files and Photos
    Once I was on a business trip scheduled to make an important presentation in our client meeting. Just before attending the meeting, I was rehearsing the presentation when, all of a sudden, my computer crashed. I was devastated and did not know how I could make the presentation the next day. It was impossible to recreate the presentation or even to approach a data recovery expert as I had very little time left. I was quickly trying to figure out the options before me, while I suddenly remembered something. I had e-mailed the presentation to my account before the trip. I immediately borrowed a computer, downloaded my presentation and saved my career.
  • State of the Forensics Industry in the UK
    Data forensics is a highly specialised industry by its very nature; therefore, its size cannot be judged by the labour force employed by it. For that matter, turnover is not a very reliable way to judge this industry either since the requirement of such a niche skill will never be as large as the requirements for a storage medium or an operating system. While the data recovery industry is often related to forensics, the terms are not synonymous. The number of people needing data recovery will be greater than those who need a digital detective at any given point of time.
  • Lost Data – What not to Do!
    There are many inquisitive and troubled souls out on the internet trying to find solutions for PC malfunctions.
  • Computer Crash: All is Not Necessarily Lost
    Imagine You Suddenly Lost Everything on Your Computer. Would You Consider Data Recovery?

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