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 ...

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 ...

Master database file or MDF file is a primary database file that contains fields, tables, indexes, stored procedures and other data in SQL Server. Like other data files, this file is also susceptible ...

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 ...

Personal Storage Table (PST) is an Outlook database file that stores mail items, such as messages, contacts, attachments, notes, tasks, etc. These mail items also include important business ...

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, ...

My friend's iBook G4 has some pretty serious file system corruption: files would disappear before her eyes when she would try to drag them somewhere or open them...<BR><BR>The iBook does still boot in ...

Julia is a writer in New York and started covering tech and business during the pandemic. She also covers books and the publishing industry. Cassie is a former deputy editor who collaborated with ...