Monthly Archives: March 2012

Flash & SD media make simple backups or diagnostic startup disks for your Mac.

SD cards can be a cheap and convenient way to backup your Mac. With most current Mac laptops shipping with built-in SD card slots, you can quickly add a storage device that doesn’t take up a lot of space or … Continue reading

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Recovering data from alternative storage media devices

Data recovery applications like our award-winning Data Rescue have more visibility and success stories recovering data from standard hard drives. However, Data Rescue can recover data from a variety of storage devices. If the storage device has a HFS+, NTFS … Continue reading

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Top Data Recovery software for the average user

Prosoft Engineering’s data recovery software “ Data Rescue 3 and Data Rescue PC3 “ allow you to recover your data without an engineering degree. Among the tons of software available for both Mac and PC platforms the question becomes, which … Continue reading

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Developing a plan to protect your digital assets

Everyday we seem to capture video from events, take pictures, and purchase all sorts of media. We store these digital files on our hard drives and rarely consider the consequences if one of our storage devices fail. This is why … Continue reading

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Best Practices before using Drive Genius 3

Prosft Engineerng offers Drive Genius 3 as a way for any Mac computer user to maintain, monitor and manage your hard drives. However, risks factors do exist when using any hard drive utility like Drive Genius, Apple’s Disk Utility or … Continue reading

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Drive Genius 3 is a great tool to clone your Mac and VMware drive

Drive Genius 3 is widely known for its defragging and repair tools, but it has a great clone tool built in called “ Duplicate “. This is extremely useful for VMware or Parallels users to have the ability to make … Continue reading

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