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 […]
Hard Drive Recovery FAQs
We have been getting a lot of questions about the different types of hard drive recovery and what users can do when they have a data loss situation. There are two main types of hard drive or data loss problems users run into: Software Failure – this can be caused by viruses or file corruption […]
Hard Drive Recovery and Remote Diagnostics… Old School gone retro…
When I first started writing hard drive recovery software, many, many, years ago Microsoft file systems were pretty straight forward. It was a simple FAT, with some file entry tables scattered throughout the drive with a few key system components. In addition, the file system was designed to be fairly virtual. In other words, if […]