Accidentally deleted an important document, picture or other file on a thumb drive or memory card? These tools can help you get it back. As USB thumb drives and memory cards have grown larger and ...

Ever encounter a failed storage drive or delete an important file by mistake? Here's what you need to do. Step 1: Figure out if you can do it yourself or need to call in the professionals. Data ...

One of the hardest concepts for anyone to accept is the fact that all drives fail. Every storage medium, including your phone, USB stick, HDD, SSD, or CD/DVD, will eventually fail. This is not a ...

CBL Data Recovery has identified a concerning trend in data recovery requests, indicating a decline in the quality of newer memory chips used in microSD cards and USB flash drives. The German firm ...

Whenever Windows 7 had problems, you could just insert your Windows 7 installation CD and run its recovery tools. Most Windows 8 users, however, don't have an installation CD. Here's how to make a ...

Encrypt Stick locks your sensitive information on a flash drive and lets you export vaults of encrypted data for easy recovery should the flash drive ever come up missing. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

The lifespan of data on a USB flash drive depends on many factors: Under ideal conditions, data should remain preserved on a high-quality USB stick for at least 10 years or even longer. But what ...

The loss of stored personal information is hardly a new thing. Customer lists can be inadvertently left behind in trains, and gusts of winds can blow away filled-out questionnaire forms. Back when ...