Jul

11

Smart Recovery Free Memory Card Recovery

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July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Removable memory cards are becoming increasing popular.  And with that popularity comes the unwanted data loss on those drives.  PC Inspector’s Smart Recovery allows you to reclaim those videos, photos, or audio files with ease.

Jul

3

Undelete Plus Free File Recovery

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July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

Have you ever accidentally deleted a file that you needed?  Man, that’s painful.  And it always seems to be that document that you need in 10 minutes for a meeting.  You know, the power point presentation that took you a week to compile.  Undelete Plus can help you recover that deleted file, even if it’s [...]

May

21

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

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May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

From time to time I have need to work with some clients remotely on some data issues. I won’t go into it, but we simply couldn’t boot one client’s machine. So, I headed over to the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows to test drive it. Now, mind you, I had never used [...]

May

14

SugarSync Online Syncing App

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May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I was recently messing around with some linux data utilities and they are really cool.  But I realize that most people don’t want to mess around with those kind of things.  They want simple and easy.  And they want access to their stuff from wherever.  That’s the result of a modern lifestyle.  So, why not [...]

Mar

27

iPod and iPhone Data Recovery

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March 27, 2008 | 8 Comments

With the advent of mobile devices that store ridiculous amounts of data, loss of data has become a big problem. Unfortunately, most people tend to dump loads of information on these devices and not have a backup. Of course, Murphy comes calling when folks do that and BAM, you start receiving error messages, [...]

Feb

5

Recovering Laptop Hard Drive Data

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February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many ways to get data off of a non bootable drive.  One such technique is to utilize Live CD’s that run an operating system independent of the hard drive.  That way you can grab what you need from it and push it over to a network drive.  But, in my mind, an even [...]

Dec

7

MySql Innodb Recovery Kit

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December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to point you to this interesting new project release.  It’s an Innodb MySQL recovery toolkit.  Here are the procedures, via the howto:

Split your tablespace to pages with page_parser
Find your index_id values of a primary indexes for your pages.
Take one page from your most valuable table directory.
Create table definition for this table [...]

Oct

22

Free Mac Backup

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October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have numerous friends who are Mac addicts (sorry, couldn’t resist the pic!). Yep, they’ve gulped down the Apple juice. But one consistent feature of most computer users is that they do not backup their data. There’s no shame in it - just pain. Think about the pain of losing all [...]

Oct

4

Linbox Rescue Server

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October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Linbox Rescue Server is a really neat linux application that could save your tail.  This package is similar to another product that I posted about on my PaulTech called SpiceWorks.  SpiceWorks is a Windows based product while Linbox only runs on linux.  Linbox can monitor your various assets on the network, perform full system [...]

Oct

1

Fixing Scratched CDs and DVDs Cheaply

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October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

They should employ kids to test any kind of software or hardware in my humble opinion. They should have them working at NASA, the FBI, Microsoft, Apple, etc. That’s because if ever there was a way to break something, kids will find it. Take optical disks for instance. It seems that [...]

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