Overheard in the tech blogosphere » recovery

Overheard – motherboard tattoo

Margaret Rouse — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:38:14 +0000

“Odds are your PC came with a recovery disc, a CD with all the programs and drivers that were installed on its hard drive when it was new. The odds are also that you have absolutely no idea where that disc is.”
David A. Karp, Build an XP-SP2 Recovery Disc

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is motherboard tattoo.

If you bought your PC at BestBuy, you’ll want to read what David has to say about getting a full install of Windows — who knew???

The first ingredient, the Windows XP CD, may prove the most troublesome, simply because many manufacturers omit it in lieu of some sort of customized “express install” recovery disc. If Windows came preinstalled on your PC but the manufacturer didn’t provide a full Windows XP CD, contact the company and ask for one (you did pay for it, after all). In most cases, you’ll get one for free, no questions asked.

Overheard – D2D2T (disk-to-disk-to-tape)

Margaret Rouse — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:12:10 +0000

With D2D2T, you can transfer your data to disk at night at a much faster rate than to tape, and then migrate that data to tape, as you need to.

Phil Pascarelli, D2D2T: is it quite right for you?

Unlike tape emulation, which replaces a tape drive with a virtual hard disk equivalent, D2D2T allows users to manage the storage of data closer to an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) model. Users can specify the destination and duration of stored data as well as its replication and archive life. In addition, D2D2T offers an excellent data recovery option, allowing instant retrieval of lost or corrupted data. D2D2T is also able to address compliance legislation-based storage requirements.

Video: Recovering data from solid-state hardware

Margaret Rouse — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:34:48 +0000

Scott Moulton explains how he recovers data from flash drives.

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