As Information Technology has found application in almost all aspects of our lives—personal, corporate, public and private sectors alike—there is inevitably a deluge of data. According to IBM, the global volume of data doubles every two years.
The reasons for this exponential growth of data are numerous. For instance, companies nowadays go into all sorts of business analytics in order to understand the psyche of their consumers and of their competitors. This intense research necessitates larger storage and handling of massive amounts of historical data.
Some of the most common USB memory stick problems include:
With most USB memory stick problems, your data can be successfully recovered by a data recovery specialist either by repairing the damaged or faulty memory stick, or by removing the memory chip and decrypting the the data using highly sophistcated, dedicated hardware.
Attempting to repair a problematic USB memory stick either as a DIY fix, or even using a local IT company can often cause further problems, resulting in higher recovery costs or, in worst case scenarios – a complete loss of all your data.
Don’t gamble with your data.
Give yourself the best possible chance of retrieving your precious data by only using a professional data recovery specialist at the earliest possible opportunity.
Common symptoms of a USB memory stick not working include:
Data can be successfully recovered from broken or damaged USB memory sticks that are not working by a data recovery specialist either by repairing the USB memory stick
or removing the memory chip and decrypting the the data using highly sophistcated, dedicated hardware.
Attempting to repair a USB memory stick which is not working either as a DIY fix, or even via a local IT support company often causes further problems, resulting in higher recovery costs or, in worst case scenarios – a complete loss of all the data.
Don’t gamble with your data.
Give yourself the best possible chance of retrieving your precious data by only using a professional data recovery specialist at the earliest possible opportunity.
When a USB memory stick is not recognised by your computer’s operating system, this is normally an indication that there is not sufficient power being supplied to the USB memory stick, often caused by any combination of:
Data can be successfully recovered from broken or damaged USB devices which are not being recognised by your computer by a data recovery specialist either repairing the USB memory stick or removing the memory chip and decrypting the the data using highly sophistcated, dedicated hardware.
Attempting to repair these sort of problems either as a DIY fix, or even via a local IT support company often causes further problems, resulting in higher recovery costs or, in worst case scenarios – a complete loss of all the data.
Don’t gamble with your data. Give yourself the best possible chance of retrieving your precious data by only using a professional data recovery specialist at the earliest possible opportunity.
There may be an occasion when you need to thoroughly wipe out all data from your hard drive. Your hard drive may have been corrupted and you need to clean it before reinstallation. You may have secret, confidential or valuable company information in your computer which must never be discovered by anybody. You may be submitting it for repair and want to make sure nobody can access the data stored in your drive. Or more commonly, you may want to donate, sell or dispose of your hard drive but are afraid that somebody might steal data from it.
It is now fairly common knowledge that hitting that delete button ironically does not permanently delete data, neither does simply emptying the Recycle Bin. The fact is that digital information is still retained on your hard drive and can be extracted using software.
When an old hard drive gets too old, small capacity or faulty to be of use, people often simply throw them away like ordinary rubbish. Today, however identity thieves and hackers can take that tatty old hard drive and turn it into a treasure trove which they can use to steal your credit card number, bank records, passwords and other personal information. This is one of the easiest and simplest methods of identity theft and it is so easily avoidable.
A bad sector is a term used to refer to a computer problem where data cannot be written onto a sector of the disk, cannot be accessed by the operating system or just cannot be used due to permanent damage. A sector is a segment or subdivision of a track on a magnetic or optical disk.
Bad sectors are generally detected by disk utility software such CHKDSK, SCANDISK and badblock. When these bad sectors are detected by utility software, they are blocked from usage and the operating system “skips” on them.
With the rise and rise of the iPod and other MP3 players it is increasingly common for people to have digital music collections well into the gigabytes (and more) stored on a hard drive or MP3 player. However, like all digital media, if you accidentally delete these files, what do you do?
