Drives Fail In Patterns.
Here Are The Patterns.

Short, practical articles from the people who build DRE Pro: what goes wrong with hard disks, SSDs, pen drives and cards, what to do in the first ten minutes and how the software actually works.

10 articles

A microSD card held between two fingers
Software Guides

Quick Scan, Deep Scan Or RAW Scan: Which One To Run

Quick Scan, Deep Scan, RAW Scan or Lost Partition Recovery. What each one reads, which situation calls for which and how long they take.

17 October 20263 Min Read
A student working on an older laptop
Software Guides

Moving Windows To A New SSD Without Reinstalling

Move a working Windows from a hard disk to a new SSD with Migrate Windows. What it copies, what to check before you start and what to do after.

13 October 20263 Min Read
A laptop on a table, open to a drive health screen
Software Guides

Reading A Drive's Health Report Before It Fails

Drives keep a health report on themselves. How to read the percentage, temperature and S.M.A.R.T. values and which failing signs to act on now.

10 October 20263 Min Read
An NVMe SSD fitted to a motherboard
Hard Drive Issues

SSD Data Recovery: Why The Clock Runs Faster

SSDs erase deleted blocks on their own through TRIM. Why SSD data recovery is a race, where TRIM does not reach and what to do in the first hour.

7 October 20263 Min Read
A wedding photograph, the kind of file nobody can shoot again
File Recovery

Corrupted Photos And Videos: Why They Break And How Repair Works

Grey photos and videos that will not play are usually repairable. How JPEGs and MP4s break, what repair does during a scan and what it cannot do.

5 October 20263 Min Read
A man working at a laptop with an external drive beside it
Disk Imaging

What A Disk Image Is And When To Make One

A disk image is a sector-by-sector copy of a drive in one file. Why to make one before scanning a weak drive, and how DRE Pro makes and scans it.

3 October 20263 Min Read
An opened hard disk showing the platter and the read head
Data Recovery

Why A Quick Format Does Not Erase Your Files

A quick format replaces the drive's index and leaves your files where they were. How formatted drive recovery works and what you can expect back.

1 October 20263 Min Read
A pen drive about to go into a laptop port
Hard Drive Issues

Pen Drive Asks To Be Formatted. Do Not Click Yes

Windows offers to format a pen drive it cannot read. Click Cancel. The files are still there, and this is how pen drive recovery gets them back.

28 September 20263 Min Read
An external hard disk connected to a laptop
Hard Drive Issues

Hard Disk Not Showing In This PC: Check These Before Anything Else

An external hard drive not detected in This PC is often a cable or a missing drive letter. What to check, what never to click and when to scan.

25 September 20263 Min Read
A laptop on a desk, the usual place a file goes missing
File Recovery

How To Recover Deleted Files On Windows 10 And 11

Deleted a file on Windows 10 or 11? Where to look first, why speed matters and how a Quick Scan and a Deep Scan bring deleted files back.

22 September 20263 Min Read

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