Access – The process of retrieving data or reading and writing data on a storage device.
Access Time – The measurement of time it takes a device to locate and retrieve data or information.
Active Partition – The single partition of many that houses the booting Operating System on typical Microsoft Windows configured computers.
Active Termination – To […]

The term defragment: To reorganize a computer file to eliminate fragmentation.
Data on a computer hard disk drive is written on the first available sector; so many files that have daily updates or saves tend to be heavily fragmented or portions of the file written throughout the disk.  Microsoft devised a way for those files to […]

Our data recovery engineers frequently run across this scenario from many computing mobile users.  The first question by our recovery experts is always “how much liquid”.  A small amount of liquid that lands externally in most cases is harmless as it can be quickly wiped up.  However the notebook or laptop also has many open […]