How do hard drives work?

October 31, 2023

Data is stored on a hard drive in binary code, using 1s and 0s. The information is spread out on the magnetic layer of the disk(s) and are read or written by the read heads that 'float' above the...

October 30, 2023

How to recover photos from an SD card?

It is not unusual to face the loss of files, especially photos stored on a memory card. A simple mistake when handling is enough to delete your photos. Thankfully you can recover your photos thanks...

October 26, 2023

Hard drive not recognised or not detected? Here is what to do

When a drive is not recognised due to defective areas on the unit, you can proceed with a software recovery. If it is the internal drive hosting the operating system, safely power down the machine,...

October 25, 2023

Hard drive history, structure and operation

The hard drive is one of the most vital elements of all modern computers and is at the heart of our work: data recovery. Our 30+ years of experience has given us the opportunity to work on almost all...

August 15, 2023

What are the types of Veeam backups?

There are three backup types that Veeam uses: Full Backup A full backup to a VBK file is where at least one file is used for full block copies for virtual machines. Multiple VMs can also be stored in...

August 04, 2023

Background information about RAID

What is RAID? Redundant Array of Independent (originally Inexpensive) Disks (RAID) storage has revolutionized enterprise data storage technology, building in the peace of mind of redundancy (from...

August 04, 2023

RAID recovery by Ontrack at all levels

Data loss can occur at different levels. Because of the vast amount of experience and patented technology gathered by our global team of data recovery experts, Ontrack is able to perform data...

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