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 […]
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 […]
Recovering a badly fragmented Outlook PST file after a few rounds with chkdsk The Final Installment
Welcome back! As before, we still have the problem where chkdsk was run on a RAID with a stale drive. We have had a brief explanation of how NTFS 5 works and how the data is stored on the volume. Lets take a much more detailed look as to how the data is stored in […]