Data Recovery Ireland

A couple of weeks ago, an I.T. support administrator for a Dublin finance company called us. He was in a spot of bother. Last week, their RAID array on their HP Proliant server failed. Luckily, they had a complete back-up and no data had been lost. The I.T. admin decided to replace the four Western […]

Firmware is low-level software stored on the PCB and System Area of a hard disk drive.  It contains the most basic parameter information needed for the disk’s operations and provides the lowest level direct hardware control. One can think of the firmware equivalent to the disk’s operating system. It contains the manufacturer’s parameters needed to […]

The owner of a small logistics business in Athlone recently contacted us. His business distributes freight from and to Athlone to Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick five days a week. Last week the hard drive in his laptop experienced catastrophic failure. However, two weeks previous, he had made a backup of his “My Documents” folder […]

NAS devices have never been so popular. They are compact, relatively easy to administer and can often perform the same storage functions of a traditional server. There are numerous brands of NAS widely available in the Irish market to cater for most storage requirements and budgets. Some of these manufacturers include Drobo, LaCie, Buffalo, Iomega, […]

We have been helping a lot of users recently recover data from external and NAS drives. A lot of these cases had two factors in common. 1) There was sudden partition loss and 2) the user had recently upgraded to Apple’s new Mavericks operating system. We immediately began to surmise that maybe Mavericks was becoming […]

CCTV is almost everywhere these days. The prediction that George Orwell envisioned in his novel “1984” that surveillance would be ubiquitous has proved to be remarkably prescient. CCTV is often watching us wherever we go – whether we like it or not. Walking down the streets of Ireland’s cities and towns CCTV cameras are easy […]

Last week Drive Rescue had the pleasure of attending the Gigaom Structure Europe conference in London.There were lots of interesting speakers from a wide variety of I.T. disciplines and industry sectors. There were some great talks from the CTO’s of Ericsson, Netflix and BMW. From a data storage technologies perspective, perhaps the most interesting speakers […]

Here at Drive Rescue we come across some unusual cases. It is one of reasons why data recovery is such an interesting job. There is always a new and different challenge. Last week was one such case. A lady who was finalising her PhD thesis was getting into her car. Her phone rang. She placed […]

We recently performed a successful data recovery operation for a multinational bio-tech company based in south-west Ireland. In one of their laboratories, there was a desktop PC which experienced hard drive failure. Recently, their laboratory staff noticed the system getting slower and less responsive to use. Last week, it shut down on them and would […]

  We recently got a call from a Dublin based tour guide company. They organise trips around the capital and Ireland.  They are now coming into their busiest season. They have tourists arriving from all over the world to enjoy the Irish culture and hospitality.   Unfortunately, last week, one of the reservations agents experienced […]