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A Blog from CBL Data Recovery

Data Recovery Myth Busting: Hard Drive Platters


17 November 2010

We come across misconceptions about what we do all the time.

Some keep coming up time and time again, and we thought that we better take charge and dispel some of the ideas out there.

ancient hard drive cave art

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Strobeshnik hard drive clock


8 March 2010

We can definitely appreciate coming up with creative uses of old hard drives here at CBL.

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Data is Resilient, Don't Underestimate Haiti Recovery Effort


15 January 2010

Natural disasters around the world like the recent earthquake in Haiti all have serious impacts on the communities they affect. At CBL we have stood by emergency personnel and offered our particular expertise in restoring mission-critical data to ravaged areas and we are ready to assist again.

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CBL Pro-V Data Recovery Software Now Features Windows 7 Compatibility


11 November 2009

With the official release of Microsoft Windows 7 the following question was inevitable: Can I run your data recovery software on Windows 7?

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Video: Scams report reminds Not All Data Recovery Firms Are Created Equal


31 July 2009

Video of the week goes to this brief investigative report FOX News in Los Angeles did on data recovery companies. The report covers customers’ experiences with some local data recovery firms and the questionable analysis of a crashed hard drive with data loss. It exposes potential risks to your privacy, data and pocketbook.

Watch the video after the jump

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Video: Behind-the-Scenes of a CBL Lab


17 March 2009

CEO of CBL Data Recovery Technologies takes you behind the scenes touring one of our worldwide labs. Video after the jump.

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CBL Adventures: Part 3


10 March 2009

Sometimes lives literally depend on successful data recoveries. Take for example a 25 drive RAID array that crashes on New Year’s Eve and you have a disaster on your hands.

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CBL Adventures: Part 2


6 March 2009

Mud and water was not enough to prevent CBL from recovering engineering schematics for a town in Venezuela. After the jump, watch video of CEO Bill Margeson telling the story of this data recovery adventure.

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CBL Adventures: Part 1


4 March 2009

President, co-founder, and CEO Bill Margeson describes an encounter with Russian hackers and a CBL data recovery project.

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The Computer Mechanics talk Backup and Data Loss


13 August 2008

You Can’t Use it if you Lose It: A prequel episode of The Computer Mechanics where they talk data backup and data loss

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Dawn of the Tera Era


28 July 2008

Hitachi is forecasting the dawn of a new age in storage technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era”. Watch below with sound!

Visit http://www.hitachigst.com/teraera

Video: The evolution of drives and data recovery


27 June 2007


CBL Data Recovery CEO, Bill Margeson, talks about the evolution of the hard drive, common hard drive failure symptoms and data recovery techniques.

From the set of CH-Morning Live, Hamilton, ON, Canada