Recent content by RolandJS

Most DR utilities will unearth every thing it finds, very often unearthed are many files, same name, some variance in size, different dates and hours, from an original to many copies. That is one reason for the huge number of findings.

A question for Jared: "...files are mostly duplicated with .Id_XXXXX..." Jared, is it possible that the recovery picked up all previous deleted versions along with the most recent version of the documents? For example, I edited my advice.htm three times this week, both deleted copies and the...

Jared Thor-Hammer, did you put the hammer down? :)

I'm real new to this donor drive concept, in layman and befinners' terms, how and why does it work?

Tell me more about your shorting tool, what it does and why -- I'd like to learn from you! :)

And, don't forget the room has to be larger than life to include the camera crew.

I'm not sure that cheaper (on one hand), (and on the other hand) reliability , versioning, sureness of backup operations, sureness of restoration (whether a whole hard-drive, a NAS or RAID, a particular partition, a particular set of folders and files, etc., can exist in the same sentence.

Admin/mods -- this is one of my worst threads ever! If you want to close and archive this thread, please be my guest!

+1 jared's idea of a full backup! Having backups saved me several times from having to reinstall, rebuild, reload, reconfigure when something went very wrong.

Sub par does not necessarily mean scammer; I've run across businesses that make mistakes and do a poor job, and I've run across businesses that only desire to make money and purposely do a poor job.

In other places I've been parroting the advice of making a clone or full image of the source HD onto any reliable target HD before doing one of two things: 1) send source HD to a DR company/specialist; or 2) Start DIY DR. If a person has this clone, that does lessen the data loss impact of bad...

I want to acquire more knowledge, I don't have a problem; I'm hoping others will give me the benefit of some of their experiences. :)

SMART, sector re-allocation...imminent HD failure; cloning or full imaging time One set of famous buzz word, jargon, used by newbies and intermediate end-users: "SMART", "sector re-allocation", "sector allocation..." and so on. I realize that although this is hard-drive in the process of...

One example of buzz words, jargon...courtesy of Dr_Luke (Bold & underline mine; bold I call jargon, underline represents the physical damage.) http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... cters.html ...you (Roland) need to understand the problem before you can offer a solution. The drive spins...

Buzz words, jargon, for common HD physical failures As a beginner of data restoration and data recovery, I would like to have a quick-list/terse description, from your experiences, of the jargon, buzz-words, used by end-users, newbie to intermediate, that often indicate to you common imminent...