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 ...

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...

If you accidentally delete important files or photos, your hard drive crashes, or some glitch damaged data on your SSD, all hope is seemingly lost. Fortunately, advanced data recovery software exists ...

All digital storage devices can fail. This is just the nature of our current technologies. When a storage device fails and it contains data that wasn’t backed up on another storage device, the owner ...

What happens when a routine security patch cripples both your data recovery tools and, in some cases, the very storage hardware they’re meant to protect? That’s the question facing Windows users this ...

Have you ever upgraded your PC from one generation to the next and wondered where the performance-boost was to be found? Certainly, our CPU’s continue to get through tasks faster and faster, but when ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive recovery can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more ...

A new industry special interest group has been formed to work on the unique challenges faced by those trying to recover data from faulty or damaged solid state storage. With an eye on developing tools ...

We've all been there... that heart-wrenching moment when something has happened on your PC and you think you've lost it all -- documents, photos, videos, precious files that you thought you'd have ...

Update 3/24/2023: Secure Data Recovery provided us with a little more information on the defective HDDs tested. It said that 37 percent of the Western Digital and Seagate drives analyzed featured SMR.