Picture the scene, you have just bought a new 1TB hard drive, installed it into your computer, fired it up, formatted it and see that itās only 0.9TB in size. What happened to the rest? Have you lost data or is the hard drive broken? This is a common question we hear at Daveās Computers … Read more
While Daveās Computers will always be around to recover your data, it would be better for everyone if you didnāt lose it in the first place. One easy way to do that is to treat your hard drives the right way. While designed to be reliable and robust, there are some practical things you can … Read more
We talk a lot about backing up your Windows hard drive to prevent data loss and to speed up recovery but we rarely mention Mac. While Apple computers are more stable than Windows can be, it isnāt immune to failure or to faults. Today Iām going to show you how to create a bootable clone … Read more
After putting together āCan you repair a broken hard drive?ā last week, I began wondering if there are some practical things you can do to maximize the life of a working drive. Data recovery is a big part of what we do here at Daveās Computers in New Jersey but we really wish it wasnāt. … Read more
You only realize how much you depend on your computer when something goes wrong. Or how much data you store that you never want to lose until your hard drive stops working. The data recovery experts here at Daveās Computers in New Jersey contend with these issues every day. Perhaps the most common question we … Read more
With Black Friday behind us and Christmas not far away it is a popular time for selling old tech to make room for the new. If youāre buying a new laptop, desktop or even hard drive and plan to sell your old one, you need to learn how to prepare your old laptop or computer … Read more
One of the most āpopularā causes of data loss is ransomware. Here at Daveās Computers, many of the data recovery requests we see are from virus or malware infections, especially ransomware. It is one of the worst types of attacks on the internet and a cause of a lot of angst for computer users. They … Read more
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 … Read more
If you work in a quiet room, hearing the rattle and whirr of a hard drive (HDD) can quickly become an annoyance. As the inside of a PC case can act as an echo chamber, the smallest noise can be amplified exponentially until all you can hear is that mechanical noise as your computer … Read more
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