Memory cards are in everything. We use them in our phones, tablets, cameras, GoPros, drones, PDAs, MP3 players and lots of other devices. Memory cards are popular because they are cheap and can pack a lot of storage into a tiny device. But what happens if you accidentally format the card or delete a file? … Read more
Dave’s Computers in New Jersey is a data recovery specialist trusted by hundreds of companies and individuals around the area to repair computers and recover data. With an increased appetite for keeping data, our services are now more popular than at any time before. Dave’s Computers in New Jersey can recover data from hard drives … Read more
Microsoft Outlook is very good at what it does but what if you don’t need the entire Office suite? Outlook isn’t a standalone product so if you don’t have a copy of Office or Office 365, you don’t get to use it. The good news is that you can transfer your emails across from Outlook … Read more
If you’re into computer games, you will likely have a Steam account and a few Steam games installed into your computer. What happens to those games if you upgrade your computer or need to replace the hard drive? This is a question that we had to answer this week with a customer in our New … Read more
Here at Dave’s Computers, we perform data recovery for all kinds of customers in all sorts of situations. One conversation I had last week with someone whose laptop hard drive had stopped working was about the dos and don’ts of data loss. When a drive fails, what should a user do and what should they … Read more
With data and data loss being in the news a lot over the past week, I think now is a good time to run over the major causes of data loss and what we can do to mitigate against them. I think there are five main causes of data loss. Virus and malware Human error … Read more
We had a customer come into Dave’s Computers last week who had a corrupt OST file on his computer. It was preventing him accessing his Outlook email and thus preventing him contacting people via email from Outlook 2016. He also thought it would inevitably result in the loss of all his email data. This is … Read more
A couple weeks ago, I spoke about turning an old internal hard drive into external storage. This article seemed to go down well if the number of emails I received about it is anything to go by. But one reader asked about when a Windows computer doesn’t detect that external drive. What do you do … Read more
If you keep up with the news, you will know that our Customs and Border Protection agency has gotten a little overzealous with their ability to check our electronic devices. It isn’t just foreigners, we apparently have no rights when crossing our own borders even though we are American citizens. So how can you keep … Read more
Ever heard of digital hoarding? Digital hoarding is where you download or digitize lots of data and just keep it on your hard drive until you run out of space. It is the modern equivalent of never throwing anything out at home, but on your computer. I must admit to having been guilty of … Read more
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