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Tips for Effective Photo Recovery

The ease of taking images and getting it printed made digital camera become more popular among professional photographers. Digital Cameras have significant capacities and features that can capture images of family functions, moments with your loved one, etc. Digital camera makes use of memory card to store images, and other media files. You may be [...]

What to do after mistakenly emptying your recycle bin

One of the reasons we find ourselves needing to recover files from emptied recycle bin storage is that we very often have a duplicate of a file and feel we don’t need both, so we place one in the recycle bin. If our original file becomes corrupted we look into the bin for our spare. [...]

A solution to upgrade your outdated Outlook email files

In 2007 Microsoft updated its popular email client Outlook to a new version. Prior to this time Microsoft Outlook was beset with many problems. And the least of this was a two GB size limit for the storage of data. The new version increase the allowance of room in the Outlook database to 20 GB. [...]

Restoring lost partition files on an NTFS computer

NTFS partitions are generally only damaged due to logic crash failure. However occasionally human error may play a role in shutting down a drive in such a way as to create a need for NTFS partition recovery. Normally an error in reformatting is based upon a solid state or hard disk drive being changed from [...]

Higher level features found in some Windows file recovery software

What is the difference between conventional Windows recovery software and a data recovery program that is superior. File recovery programs are measured by their ability to recognize more file types and to recover a great volume of damaged files. Obviously when working with a Windows PC a great majority of files created will be made [...]

Retrieving files from flash memory storage

I have often wondered what the differences between the internal workings of an SD card, USB flash drive or an MMC card were. The primary difference between these is the ability to adapt for different formats or shall we say formatting. As the SD card is an evolution of the earlier MMC card the formatting [...]

Reformatting drives and recovering data afterwards

I have at home a laptop computer that sat unused for 18 months. One day when I went to turn it on I was greeted with an extremely bright blue screen holding only words telling me that my computer had suffered a fatal error. At that time I knew nothing about data recovery and because [...]

Finding files both deleted and formatted over

There is a problem in the world of data recovery that I like to refer to as the double delete. When trying to rescue lost files I have found that this is the most difficult task of all. The problem occurs when you are forced to recover formatted partitions that previously held areas in which [...]

An easy way to solve MS Outlook issues

Microsoft makes a pretty good tool to repair PST damage. Considering that the tool is designed to facilitate corrupted PST repair for their program Microsoft Outlook it only stands to reason that they would make a viable repair option. But in truth using scan PST, which is the name of the Microsoft tool, to repair [...]

Finding missing files on a compact USB memory stick

You may not realize it but a USB flash drive is almost a computer of itself. These devices ranging in size from 1 to 32 GB have built into them static ram and read only flash memory. Once power is applied to the device it boots up just like a PC hard drive. And unfortunately, [...]