The dos and don’ts of data loss – Must Read for Our New Jersey customers!

May 23, 2017

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 […]

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The biggest causes of data loss and how to prevent them

May 18, 2017

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 […]

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Data recovery on undetected hard drives

May 4, 2017

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 […]

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Help us with data recovery by not hoarding

Apr 11, 2017

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 […]

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Did you celebrate World Backup Day?

Apr 3, 2017

March 31st was World Backup Day. Did you celebrate it? Did you even know World Backup Day was a thing? You could be forgiven for not knowing as it’s mainly geeks like us at Dave’s Computers that even knew such a thing existed. We wish more people knew about it though as it encourages everyone […]

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Five automatic ways to protect company data

Mar 20, 2017

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 […]

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How to perform data recovery if your computer won’t boot

Mar 13, 2017

You turn your computer on in the morning ready for a day of work or school and nothing happens. No noise, no beeps, no action at all. Or you hear the POST beeps and the computer won’t get past the loading Windows screen. What happens to all your files? What do you do now? […]

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Prevent data loss with a disaster recovery plan

Mar 6, 2017

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 […]

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Data recovery at home with Windows 10 File History

Feb 27, 2017

Dave’s Computer’s data recovery service is one of our most popular. Both businesses and individuals come to us having lost or accidentally deleted data on their hard drives and need us to get it back for them. We are always happy to help our Hillsborough neighbors but we think it only fair to tell you […]

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Data recovery myths that really need to be busted

Feb 7, 2017

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 […]

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