Recent content by TC Fulton

fzabkar I just want to say you're a good dude! There are so many egotistical know it all "data recovery" experts on the net cough cough HDDGuru forum!! You may be the only person that actually will give honest and thoughtful advice to anybody in need regardless of their expertise level. I would...

Darn DMDE won't work on Mac formatted disks :(

Lesson learned believe me, It's just been a nightmare. I was so happy that this data recovery place was able to get at least half the drive data recovered, but when I started to go through some of the music folders, the music tags on the left were very slowly popping up as I scrolled. I use a...

Depending on how big your drive is, the safest thing is to immediately clone it to an equal or bigger size external drive. Clonezilla is really good for pcs. :) http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-and-reliable-cloning-tools/

Anything but a refurbished WD drive! And I don't recommend WD externals that have the integrated SATA bridge, if that part of the pcb fails, you're in deep trouble. Seagates probably are not much better, but at least you can pop them out of the cases and connect direct to SATA, or even use as a...

Thx for the reply SuperSoph I'm a little confused though. Are the refurbished WD drives sold on New Egg rebuilt by WD, or some third party? I know at the time $45 was a great price, but I still believed it to be rebuilt to specifications by WD. If not, their ad was deceptive. This was the ad...

Hi, I bought a New Egg refurb WD Scorpio Black 750g 2.5 SATA about one year ago. Now before you say "well you did buy a refurb" I've had some good luck with refurbs before. The one previous lasted 5 years. Either way this was my main Macbook drive. Never had any issues, ran Onyx and Disk...