S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology; often written as SMART). S.M.A.R.T in short is the history of the hard drive and the events it has logged during the course of time it has been Powered On (POH – Powered on Hours). S.M.A.R.T has a very broad range of events that can be recorded that may vary depending on the hard drive manufacturer. However, all ATA hard drives record the attributes of the most relevant information. We’ll outline what we consider relevant to the health and operational readiness of your hard drive below: Power On Hours. Raw Attribute 09 = The numb ..read more

Recently we had an architectural company come into our lab with an 8TB external hard drive that had used to store their operating system, data, and exchange Windows backups.  The criminals had deleted and performed a quick format of the device after encrypting all their primary storage data.  Unfortunately, no one thought to detach the external drive or turn off the scheduled backups.  So, a new backup of the system volume was written to the drive prior to us receiving the device for data recovery. The new backup on the newly formatted drive overwrote important data that would h ..read more

PNY, Kingston and other Solid-State Drive manufacturers using the Phison controller may experience a change in the model of drive. The drives may also show incorrect size. The data on the drive will be inaccessible. Using manufacturer online tools may repair the problem but all data will be lost. If you are looking to recovery your data, you have come to the right place. EXIF_HDL_ID_1 Solid State Drives use complex algorithms to limit wear and prolong the life and performance of the drive. We usually see this type of failure when firmware and lists that translate Physical Block Address (PBA) t ..read more

Data recovery company DTI Data Recovery a leader since 1998. If you Google ‘Data Recovery Company’, your head will spin from all the results. This was not the case when Google first started in the early 2000s. At that time your recovery choices would have been limited to DTI Data, Vogon, IBAS, Actionfront, Drive Savers, less than a dozen companies were performing data recovery. Choosing a data recovery company can be a daunting task. Many data recovery companies claim to be the first, the best, the fastest etc. Of course they do, that’s marketing. In our 22 years of service we have seen ..read more

Data Recovery Scenario: The client reported that while unplugging the drive from the USB port that resided on a shelf above the client’s desk the drive was dropped and fell approximately sixteen (16) inches. The client, realizing that this incident may have damaged the drive plugged the drive back in to see if the drive was recognized. Upon initialization the drive spun up, whirred a bit and then vibrated. The drive did show up in disk manager as “unallocated”. Technicians initial response and diagnosis: All drives that have had any type of sudden shock or impact are immediately given to a cle ..read more