Back in the late ’80s I bought a dedicated word processor. My main criterion at the time was something that seems silly now: I wanted printed output that would be indistinguishable from a typewriter. So I got a Brother WP-500, which featured a daisywheel printer. This enabled me to produce doc...

Suppose you have worked on a project for hours and stored it on your hard drive. The next time you turned on your PC, to be horror-struck - virus has wiped out your hard drive. This is just one instance, there can be many such unforced data loss leaving you on knifes edge. Maybe you [...]...

DiskDigger is a data recovery software that can be used to recover deleted files that have been accidentally deleted. The software concentrates on the recovery of the three file types images, documents and multimedia unlike other data recovery applications who display all files that can be recovered...

It all happened so quietly, so unexpectedly. It began as flickering, something one dismisses as a quirk.The next quirk was that the photographs I use as my screen saver disappeared--utterly.When I next booted up, they'd returned. And then on Monday came the belligerence. The disk simply didn't want ...

I’ve been wanting to write about Ma.gnolia’s catastrophic data loss last week ever since it happened, but wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to approach it. Larry (Ma.gnolia founder and the sole person who maintained the site) is a good friend of mine, and Ma.gnolia was one of Citizen ...

No matter if you have taken all the required precautions, when a server or a hard drive fails you can guarantee that the search for a company to sort out the problem will be the foremost thing on most peoples minds, but how do you choose the best comapny to do the job for you? [...]...

Computer data can be very important to us, especially those of us who make a living on the computer. Over the last several years, the computer has grown on all of us, making our lives so much easier. For that very reason, it’s easy to tell that if we lost our computer data, it would [...]...

Filed under: Hardware, Features, Troubleshooting There is no shortage of stories here on TUAW (and elsewhere) that extol the benefits of backing up your data. Apple even makes it ridiculously easy to do so -- with Mac OS X 10.5, Time Machine, a blank drive, and some spare time, you're set. Neverthel...

Windows only: DriveLook, a free utility from the makers of the ultra-handy DriveImage XML, scans your hard drive and searches for strings of text to save your lost data. The app initially starts as unlicensed, somewhat disabled software, but you can grab registration information from the DriveLook p...

Forensic data recovery software is different from common data recovery tools as its main purpose is the recovery of information rather than files. This can obviously be the same when trying to recover images but it can be something completely different when recovering text. The forensic data expert ...