data loss

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today I would like to talk about the other side of data recovery, protecting company data from loss or theft. We specialize in that other kind, when you accidentally lose or delete data and need data recovery to help get it back. This side of the equation is protecting your data so it cannot fall […]

Depending on the type of business you’re in, losing data can either be an inconvenience or a very serious matter. Either way, it isn’t a scenario any organization wants to be faced with. Yet the majority of new or smaller businesses have no idea what to do if disaster strikes. That’s where a disaster recovery […]

Data recovery has been an industry since shortly after IBM computers became widespread in the 1980s. As soon as people began storing data on hard drives, hard drives began failing and data began to be lost. Thereafter, an industry was born. As someone who has been a part of that industry for many years, I […]

If you have ever performed an in-place upgrade of Mac OS X, you will already know that it is quite a polished and reliable procedure. While it happens rarely, we have seen a number of MacBooks and Macs in Dave’s Computers having suffered that very thing. That’s what prompted this quick tutorial on how to […]

Data loss is something that affects all of us either as home users or within an enterprise. Whether it’s your personal family photographs or a copy of your resume to essential corporate data or PFI, data loss is serious business. It is something no computer user can ignore. As data recovery experts, Dave’s Computers has […]

Data breaches are all over the news, and it’s not just mega-corporations like Sony and Target – health insurance companies and even government agencies have been the subject of hacks and data loss. As a small business owner, you might not think you have to worry as much as these high-profile organizations. However, every business […]