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Safari Mac Bug

John — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:07:52 +0000

Safari Mac Users need to disable Autofill within preferences. Apples browser defaults autofill to allow malicious websites access to your details from your address book without consent. This can potentially be used for identification fraud.

Data Recovery In Hampshire

straywasp — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:10:44 +0000

We are a specialist data recovery company in Hampshire recovering data from corrupt, defective and faulty hard disk drives. We are based in Copnor, Portsmouth and are an independent company, not part of a franchise. All of our work is carried out at our site, and not sent on to another company.

We offer data recovery on a national service. Some of the main areas we cover in Hampshire are Portsmouth, Southampton, Hayling Island, Isle of Wight, Gosport, Fareham, Basingstoke, Havant, Waterlooville, New Forest, Andover, Emsworth, Petersfield, Romsey, Winchester, Alton and Aldershot.

Our speciality is recovering data from hard disk drives, but we can also recover data from USB Pens, Camera flash cards and CDs, DVDs.

PC or Mac, we can recover either. Windows, Linux or Mac OS.

If you would like to use our data recovery service, please use the contact link near the top right of this page.

Our address is Dataquest International Ltd, 24 Domum Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 0QZ, United Kingdom.

Data Recovery in Ross-shire

John — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Further details on our National Coverage Article. We would like to inform our customers of the areas in Ross-shire we cover for data recovery. The list below is a small selection of areas in Ross-shire region. If your area is not included, then do not be alarmed as we cover all areas in Ross-shire. If you require further information then please use our web enquiry form at www.dq-int.co.uk

Dingwall
Stornaway
Tain
Alness
Invergorden

The Credit Crunch and it’s influence on Data Recovery

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:54:00 +0000

Dataquest has already started to see the influence the current state of the economy is having on the data recovery industry. We need to make sure that established and future customers are made aware of the options they have available to them when seeking out professional help for data loss. We are already aware that more DIY customers are attempting to recover their lost data themselves. This is where we need to work together with these customers to inform and educate them. This can a simple guideline on backup and basic data recovery.

WD Caviar Black -FAST 1TB

straywasp — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:48:00 +0000

Finally. A 7200rpm drive with 1TB of storage from Western Digital. (Didn’t we already have one of those?) Anyway, they are touting this as the fastest 3.5″ SATA drive on the market. It does have a 32MB cache and a 5 year warranty so it may be a good choice for those wishing to up their storage capacity. I am starting to warm to Western Digital as their recent offerings seem to be stylish, fast and stable. (And I have one in my iMac that i would hate to have a failure!)

Identity Fraud

admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:48:00 +0000

What happens to your hard drive once it is replaced under warranty?
This is the question we are being asked by our customers once we have recovered data from their hard drive. Is there a process in place which is used by resellers or drive manufacturers, that ensures your data does not fall into the wrong hands?
Watch this space for further information……..

New Website

straywasp — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:41:00 +0000

Our new website is under testing and will be going live soon. Watch this space…

Hitachi Talks of 4TB Drives

straywasp — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:15:00 +0000

Hitachi has apparently just started talking of their latest breakthrough in ridiculously HUGE capacity hard drives. These 4TB 3.5″ drives feature read/write heads that are 2,000 times smaller than a human hair. They also go on to mention that the same techology would allow a 1TB 2.5″ drive.

Americans Start Stockpiling Hard Drives

straywasp — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:32:00 +0000

It would appear that the ITC has launched a patent investigation concerning five manufacturers that could mean higher costs and supply difficulties in the states. The patents owned by a Californian couple cover the use of ceramic bonding tips on the internal wiring of the drives. Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Dell are all in the frame for importing the drives into America. In my opinion it looks like the patent only covers a very obvious progression in the manufacturing process which would likely have been reached independently. We should see how this pans out in the next few weeks.

Magnetic Wobbles Main Cause of Unstable Disks

straywasp — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:41:00 +0000

ITPro.co.uk reported yesterday that a new study has revealed some interesting information about why some hard drives fail. The main cause of drive failures is apparently a magnetic effect which causes the areas on the disc platters to change their polarity. This was previously thought to be the case but the new study goes into much more detail, even suggesting that the material used by manufacturers may have its part to play. This change in polarity then jumps to neighbouring tracks causing widespread data corruption. Known as magnetic avalanche, the process could be better described as magnetic wildfire or magnetic exlosion due to the fast and devastating effect it can have on our data. I wonder if this problem could be what is wrecking so many Seagate Momentus 2.5″ drives?

http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/120196/magnetic-wobbles-cause-disk-failure.html (Link now Broken, Provided for reference)