Category Archives: Drive Cleanup and Recovery
Extra defense against Microsoft email client failure
I do a great deal of technical writing and as such hard have added to my Microsoft Word dictionary thousands of special terms that the untrained version of Microsoft Word will not recognize. This same unique language is used in … Continue reading
Safe and simple repair of DBX mail files
If you’ve been looking for a program built for DBX repair you may wish to consider the latest offering from Remo software. Remo’s program, designed to repair DBX files from Outlook Express uses the latest wizard style technology that will … Continue reading
Establishing data recovery requirements before looking for files
When recovering lost data one must differentiate between several different types of data recovery processes. The reason for this is that basically some types of data recovery are far more difficult than others. For example, to recover lost data from … Continue reading
Accessing Outlook database tables after corruption
The Microsoft PST file extension stands for personal storage. As with all early Microsoft file extensions like DOC, the underlying purpose of the file type is fairly simple to ascertain. What one may not be aware of is that the … Continue reading
Solid reasons to use Outlook Express for mail management
Perhaps the best feature of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express is that they allow one complete control over the look and feel of their email messages. Templates can be designed so that messages are invoices, reminders or social letters. When … Continue reading
What to do after mistakenly reformatting a drive
You might be wondering why would anyone need to recover formatted partition areas? The main reason that we find ourselves needing to recover lost partitions on Windows based PCs is that we have somehow or another accidentally reformatted that section … Continue reading
Recovering different types of word processor document files
You may not be aware of it but many very expensive data recovery programs do not have the ability to recover deleted document file types that are extremely common. These file types such as RTF and Abiword files are in … Continue reading
Tracking down missing email messages for recovery
When you need to recover deleted emails, you want to begin by asking yourself the same question one asks when attempting data recovery of any kind. “Where was my file last seen?” in the process to recover deleted mails the … Continue reading
Using file shredders for genuine data deletion
People are very surprised when I tell them that deleting a file in no way removes the files information. All that actually happens when you delete a file is that the file name is set aside and the space the … Continue reading
Deleting data to make it unrecoverable
There’s deleting files and then there is really deleting files. Obviously simply placing a file in your Windows recycle bin does not permanently delete the information. Anytime you wish you can open your recycle bin and restore any or all … Continue reading