Corrupted USB flash drives can be a nightmare for anyone who relies on portable storage. Imagine plugging in your USB drive only to find that your important files are inaccessible or damaged. This ...

You now have to back up your USB drive before you try to recover anything. You can do this in Disk Drill. Go to Extra Tools, ...

While it is not always possible to recover corrupted files in the event of a data loss, image files on your hard drive can generally be restored. Some programs may corrupt an image's file name -- in ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Some of my files are turning into files I can’t open. I get this message ...

Do you often find yourself in a situation where you accidentally delete files from your Windows machine and end up repenting on your gaffe? Well, now you don’t have to, thanks to Microsoft’s recently ...

If a file loses data, is closed out all of a sudden or was affected by a virus, it could be corrupted and unreadable in Microsoft Office. Whether it is a PowerPoint Presentation, Excel spreadsheet or ...

I have spent the weekend engaging in a spot of digital archeology. Using possibly the most rinkydink rig ever assembled, I was able to view files on a RAID5 array I had decomissioned back round about ...

Accidentally deleting files can lead to nightmarish scenarios. Even if files are deleted on purpose, there still may be a reason you’ll need to recover a past draft or version of a file. Thankfully, ...

Notepad is one of the oldest tools available on Windows 11/10. It hasn’t seen a significant update in many years, and that’s because there is no need. After all, it is fine as is. Now, folks who use ...