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Deleted photos from an SD or microSD card can often be recovered, as long as nothing new has been written over them. This guide covers what to do in the first few minutes, the mistakes to avoid, and when it makes sense to bring in a lab.

Deleted, formatted, corrupted, undetected or snapped: here is what decides whether you can recover data from a USB flash drive, the safe first steps, and the mistakes that make recovery harder.

Your LTO tape won't restore? Learn the logical, physical and drive-related causes, the mistakes that make tape recovery harder, and the safe first steps to take before you get a professional evaluation.

A "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)" message means your computer could not read some data correctly. Here is how to tell a loose cable from a failing drive, which checks are safe, and when to stop.

Why do two data recovery quotes for the same drive look so different? This guide explains what drives data recovery pricing, what a fair quote should include, and how to avoid mistakes that make recovery harder and more expensive.

Your external hard drive is not showing up in Windows. Here is how to find the cause with safe checks, read Disk Management correctly, and avoid the "fixes" that destroy data.

A clicking hard drive is usually a warning of a mechanical, firmware or power problem. Here is how to tell normal sounds from failure, what to avoid, and when to get professional help.

A North York kitchenware manufacturer's CNC machine stopped when the hard drive in its 1996 control computer failed. Here is how we recovered the data, imaged it onto a new disk, solved a calibration problem on site and left the plant with a spare drive.