The hard drives that hold generations of albums from the music industry are increasingly becoming unreadable and potentially wiping out a portion of music history. Earlier this week, Mix published an ...

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

Zeterjons asked the Utilities forum how to rescue files off of a physically crashed hard drive, while making sure that other files on that hard drive are destroyed beyond rescue. [Email your tech ...

This means that a drive switches heads more often than switches cylinders, when doing sequential reading and writing... Therefore if you lose a head, it will render the entire drive unreadable.... You ...