Data Recovery Ireland

Homelessness in Ireland is a problem which has been in the media spotlight recently. But homelessness has always been a problem. We realise that the causes are deep-rooted and multi-faceted but some help is better than no help. The charity we decided to donate to this year was the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin 7. […]

Problem Recently, a user from Athlone was using his HP Elitebook laptop connected to his mains power. (His battery was no longer able to hold a charge). Unfortunately, when rushing to his answer his phone, he accidently tripped over his laptop’s power lead and almost instaneously his system powered off. No worries, he thought. This […]

One of the most insidious types of disk failure on conventional hard drives is due to bad sectors. A bad sector is a sector on a hard disk that cannot be read, written or corrected by the drive’s ECC (Error Correction Code) mechanism. Typically bad sectors develop slowly over time and the average computer user […]

Some of the Drive Rescue team were at IP Expo in London earlier in the month investigating some of the newer drive technologies. (Drives which we might be recovering from in a couple of months time…) Below are some snippets from the exhibition. Western Digital Sentinel DX4200 4-bay NAS device which runs Windows Storage Server […]

In our last post, we discussed about Bitlocker encryption, which is native to some Windows operating systems. However, if you’re an Apple owner and have encryption enabled on your system – you’re probably using Filevault version 1 or 2. (There are other Mac encryption applications out there like Sophos SafeGuard, but these tend to have […]

  Bitlocker is a common encryption application available in Windows 2008, ultimate and enterprise editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. It protects a computer owner from data theft in case of the loss of a system, or a storage device and protects against outside attacks through a network. Bitlocker uses an Advanced […]

                A Dublin-based digital marketing agency were using a G-Tech NAS to store their Photoshop and Final Cut Pro files. There was over 2 years worth of design work backed-up onto the device. Last Monday morning, the folder shares for the device were not accessible from any of […]

    The Iomega Stor Center is a common NAS device used in Irish workplaces and homes. It is fairly robust, intuitive to use and can be easily configured to work with any network. But, like any storage device, it is prone to failure – like one Dublin-based software development company discovered last week. They […]

Last week Ultan O’Carroll of the Data Protection Commisioner’s office gave an excellent presentation on best practice policies for data protection. Below is a quick snapshot of some key points. Knowing your data – “If there is anything you need to know – know what data you have and categorise it in some way – […]

Last week, we got a call from a Dublin physiotherapist`s practice. Their Dell Poweredge server, configured in RAID 5, had failed. Their I.T support technician identified the problem immediately. However, for him data recovery from a RAID 5 server was unknown territory. For this blog post, here is an abridged version of the RAID recovery […]