CBL Pictures: What Are These?
Mar 24
Likely unfamiliar to younger people and not seen in ages by our older readers…
How did Toronto Police Recover the Deleted Rob Ford Crack Video?
Nov 1
In a story stunning Toronto yesterday and spreading beyond Canada into news media around the globe, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair admitted that a video showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be a crack pipe had been recovered. The video, never been seen by the public, has been the subject of a great deal of speculation since some photos from it were reported in the press earlier in the year. Mayor Ford received a torrent of allegations about its supposed contents and flatly denied it even existed. A bombshell of sorts yesterday when the Police Chief exclaimed that evidence seized in a series of police raids contained electronic devices and computer hard drives that after months of investigation contained the video in question. According to Blair, the footage is “consistent with what has been described in the media,” but he will not further describe what depictions are there. So how did the police department get the deleted data of the mysterious video files from the hard drives?
Thinking Outside Borders: Data Recovery Making a Difference
Jul 26
As thanks a happy customer donates to Doctors Without Borders after CBL successfully retrieves her data.
At Platter Chatter we like to focus our writing on issues of data loss, prevention, keeping business running through disasters and recovering critical data in emergencies — stuff that we live and breath at CBL Data Recovery. However, there are lots of moments of joy and good news when data is recovered.
The Day His Infallible RAID Array Failed
Nov 7
Have you ever asked yourself, “What would I do if I lost everything that I’ve stored on my computer for the last 15 years?” Well, one CBL Data Recovery customer did.
Heads and Tales: Data Loss Demystified for JargonMaster - Part 2
Jul 24
By Thursday – just two days before Christmas – discs started arriving from CBL. “There was a lot of great stuff on that first batch of DVDs,” Sharwood says. “In fact, they did too good a job: I’d reformatted the drive a couple of months earlier and CBL...
Heads and Tales: PR Firm Turns to CBL to Retrieve Data
Jul 19
“The day it happened couldn’t have been worse from a timing perspective,” said David Bosworth, a senior public relations consultant with C2E Consulting describing the experience of losing access to all the files on his desktop PC when his four-year-old, 120GB hard drive crashed.
“It was one of the busiest times...
