Data Recovery Blog
A selection of our articles, written by us and not Ai generated. These are generally details of some of the recoveries we’ve completed, or other associated info.
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Apple iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program
We at Dataquest have been aware of the problem with 1TB Seagate drives for some time. It is pleasing to see that Apple are also recognising the problem and are offering their customers a free swap out. These drives are mainly seen in iMacs, but you may also get them in the Mac Pro so make sure your back ups are up to date.
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Android Users Maleware Trojan
A new Trojan called jSMSHider is targeting custom Rom’s. This malware predominately affects third party custom Rom’s. At the moment is appears to be the Chinese market that is seeing this malware.
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OS X Lion
Apple have announced it’s new and most advanced operating system to date. Due to release in July and with over 250 new features, including Multi-touch Gestures. OS X Lion is a snip at around £21, surely the buy of the year so far.
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Dataquest part of Novatech’s New Managed Services
Dataquest’s specialist data recovery services incorporated in Novatech’s bespoke IT & Telecomms hardware solutions. Novatech can now offer their customers the complete worry free IT Solution. In partnership with Novatech, Dataquest will provide their customers with 24/7 Data Recovery support. Novatech Blog (Dead link removed)
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Mac Hard Drive Quick Diagnosis Fail Guide
For Mac users who cannot get their Mac to boot, this is a quick guide to find out the level of the problem with your internal hard drive. If on start up you get to the Apple logo and beyond, then this means that your Mac can read the internal hard drive. For this to happen the drive will have carried out it’s own start up process when you pressed your mac power on button. This therefore tells you that your drive is functional to a point, but has some reading problems. If however on start up your Mac shows…
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SSDs Not Secure
Some tests carried out by the “Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory” have revealed some serious flaws with SSDs ability to be securely erased. When using standard tools designed for spinning disks, the results were understandably bad. They also tried the built-in “Security Erase Unit” command and the results of this were generally not good. After being securely erased, most of the SSDs still contained some large fragments of the test files. Some secure erasure software would be similarly inefficient for hard disks anyway, as things like remapped or bad sectors can still contain readable data which may not be erased during the…
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More Seagate Momentus Drive Failures
We are still seeing these drives failing even after nearly 4 years. This just shows that there is no specific time stamp when these drives are going to fail. So anyone out there who still owns a original mac book with its original drive needs to make sure a regular back up is in place. See Our Previous Post
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PGP vs 10.6.5 Don’t Update
Users of PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac are advised agains the recent system update to Snow Leopard 10.6.5. Reports of users getting stuck in a reboot loop after the update have been appearing on PGP forums. The official advice is to first decrypt, then install the update, then encrypt again. More details of this can be found on Threatpost, with links for people that have already performed the update and are now locked out of their systems.
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Free Mac Antivirus
Sophos have recently announced a free version of their Antivirus software for Mac. The software has low system requirements and will find and quarantine Mac and Windows viruses, trojans and worms. One word of caution comes from a Mac user who lost his entire Time Machine backups while using the new software. Sophos have been quick to mention that their software has been used on Macs for many years, and by hundreds of thousands of new free users without problems. What this really shows is that if you delete files from you mac then your Time Machine volume is no…
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Safari Mac Bug
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. Read more