Lately, I have seen ads popping up in Google searches for very low cost hard drive recovery services. There are sites advertising complete hard drive recoveries for $349.00, $299.00, even as low as $199.00. I get a lot of questions about these companies almost every week and felt a blog post was in order […]
VMWare and DoubleSpace The Old Meets The New
Ever hear of DblSpace (dos hard drive compression)? Maybe you heard of DrvSpace? I know, how about Stacker, everyone has heard of Stacker. No? Well if you haven’t heard of these it might be because these file system handlers were used in the heyday of MS-DOS 6.??. These file systems and handlers were used […]
Finding Hard Drive Parts for an IBM Deskstar 82.3GB
Among other duties I have around here finding parts for drives is one of them. We of course out source to other companies when I am unable to find the parts but it is always better and more more cost effective if someone in house finds them. The first step in finding the parts is […]