Are There Better Ways to Destroy Smart Phone Data Than With a Hammer?
First - is it possible to destroy smart phone data with a hammer? Over the years of recovering data, the engineers at Ontrack have witnessed some pretty rough devices come through. With so many...
Recovering Data from Solid State Drive (SSD) | Ontrack
The Solid State Drive (SSD) is continuously becoming more and more prevalent and is starting to become the norm as home computing devices. Image source:...
Top 10 DIY Data Recovery Fails
For anyone looking to brave a do-it-yourself (DIY) project, the internet has a wealth of knowledge, even for DIY data recovery. Whether it is baking a dinosaur cake or fixing the kitchen sink, you...
9 Ways to Avoid Summer Data Loss Scenarios
Over the years, we have noticed a trend of increased data loss during the summer months. Extreme heat and summer storms are often the culprits behind these losses. We have put together some helpful...
New Petya Ransomware Strikes Around the Globe
New Petya Ransomware Makes Disruptive Debut Spanning back to the early 1990s and making a brief reappearance in early 2016, a variant of Petya Ransomware (also called Petrwrap) has resurfaced once...
How to React When Your Data is Corrupted?
Have you ever seen a corrupted digital picture or you were unable to open a file inside an application due to data corruption? You are not alone. Data corruption is far more common than one might...
How Ontrack Recovered the Data from Space Shuttle Columbia
What Exactly Happened to Space Shuttle Columbia? February 1th, 2003, after 17 days in space, Space Shuttle Columbia was to land at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:16 am and complete the STS-107...