This is a resource on Data Recovery. What makes data recovery all that big an issue?
To use a cliché, data is the lifeblood of business. Just as you cannot have life without blood, you cannot have a business without data (unless it’s so tiny as not worth being called a business).
In concrete terms, you want to keep track of your sales trends, high performers, margins, volumes, profits, cash flows, and so on. You also want to maintain dependable records of your contracts, correspondence, commitments, customers, receivables, payables, equipment, and etcetera.
Old style data on paper is too cumbersome to maintain. Extracting meaningful information from high volumes of paper records is a waste of time; by the time you have extracted it, it would have become obsolete. And you would spend a small fortune on the staff who accumulate the obsolete data.
So these days, we keep our data in computers. Unfortunately, computer data is lost not only in fires and floods but also through electricity problems, virus programs sent out by malicious individuals, small human errors that are magnified into huge problems by the too efficient computers, and, well, many other things (including 9/11).
Data loss has led to the death of businesses, small and big.
So a new business has emerged, the business of data recovery. Data recovery involves recovering LOST data.
As you will read in the many articles on this site, LOST DATA IS NOT REALLY LOST. It has most probably just become unreadable.
There are ways to make it readable again. It might require nothing more than using a simple utility that comes with your operating system.
In most cases, however, such simple solutions might not suffice. You might have to get specialist data recovery software. In more serious cases, even the software will not be enough. You will have to go to data recovery specialists with “Class 100 Clean Rooms” and other drive-manufacturer-approved facilities.
On this site, you will learn all about these things. You will learn when to use that simple OS utility; what kinds of data recovery software you might need and where to get them; about data recovery specialists, and what they do.
In the left column, you will find a list of data recovery resources available at this site. If you don’t find something you want on the topic of data recovery, tell us.
Data recovery cases
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FIRE Found after a fire destroyed a 100 year old home – All data Recovered |
CRUSHED A bus runs over a laptop – All data recovered |
SOAKED PowerBook trapped underwater for two days – All data recovered |
How do data recovery companies offer recovery service?
Generally commercial data recovery companies offer phone consultation. You can let them know you situation and they will evaluate your problems and then will propose their way to recovery your data. A few companies offer cost free evaluation.
Companies may serve you one of the following ways
- Remote Services - Data recovery performed remotely through secure modem or internet
- Clean roomServices- Data recovery performed in secure clean room labs - designed for opening hard drives and other devices
- On-Site Services- Data recovery performed at client location typically
- Custom Solutions- For complex situation data recovery services is provided creating customized recovery tools to extract lost data