Fields Data Recovery Blog

We've already discussed the importance of regularly backing up your important data. As many individuals that need to back up important data will find that they need to store vital files on mediums ...

Both the PS4 and Xbox One have been available for several weeks, and with the console wars now in full swing analysts, critics and journalists have considered various factors, including functionali...

Imagine a poorly organised library. Dozens of books, journals and other texts have been filed away incorrectly and the thing that you'€™re looking for is one of them. You can still find it if you're ...

This morning, we were reminded of something rather surprising that was originally brought to Fields Data Recovery's attention in August of this year: two-thirds of all data stored on primary storag...

As with most mechanical items, hard drives have a limited shelf life and will fail eventually. Whilst the title of this article is a question that our data recovery engineers are regularly asked, h...

So, you'€™re tired of your old hard disk drive and its moving parts. You'€™re trading it in for a sleek, fast and silent SSD. Here are a few tips on what you should look for:

Hard drives may have gotten a lot tougher in recent years, but dropping one, or a device containing one, is still more than capable of damaging a drive to the extent where the data stored within it...

TDK have announced some fantastic news for techies and some not so great news for the R&D departments of data recovery companies: new technology could be used to produce hard drives that store ...

Generally, most people assume that the fee that Fields Data Recovery will charge to recover lost data can be directly attributed to the amount of data stored on the relevant drive. In reality, this...

Over the last 18 months, we'€™ve observed a significant growth in the number of customers looking to recover data from failed or faulty USB drives. Considering the seemingly ubiquitous nature of thes...

Software updates, jailbreaking, clumsiness; these are just a few of the things that can leave you needing a data recovery expert to analyse your smartphone'€™s storage media -€“ and you wouldn'€™t be alo...

Struggling hard drives, much like any other piece of machinery, have their ways of letting us know that something is wrong. If you'€™re computer seems slower, is freezing for no apparent reason or yo...

Not so long ago, we had very little choice over what type of data storage would be used in our devices. Today, though, this has changed with laptops, desktops, tablets and numerous other devices ut...

Data recovery is our thing, from hard drives to SD cards; smartphones to games consoles, we can recover lost data from any number of devices and have been doing just that for over 20 years and this is our very first blog post!