Hard Drive Recovery: Should I Attempt It?

On January 13, 2009, In Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

Hard drive recovery procedures are delicate, because they involve a high degree of risk to lose your data permanently. This is why it is not recommended that less experienced people try to retrieve their data using data recovery tools such as software or utilities. If undelete is enough to get your files back, then you can safely use it, even if you’ve just started with computers. If not, think twice before running any program you may have downloaded from the web, even if you paid for it. It is much safer for your data to make use of professional hard drive data recovery services, thus extracting data from your crashed hard drive for future use.

Why Shouldn’t You Attempt Data Recovery

Logical hard drive recovery implies several procedures which are done with the help of a special software. If your files are gone because of a drive failure, the software cannot be run from the same disk, so you need a second one links to the faulty drive. Then the file system is scanned, the errors are found and repaired. In case this fails, there is a more detailed procedure called low-level scan, which takes and searches each and every sector of your drive, attempting to retrieve the corrupted or lost files.

Physical hard drive recovery is required when you lost your files because you dropped your hard drive on the floor, or it was subject to floods or fire, or any other type of physical damage. This recovery can be done either mechanically or electronically. Usually, you need another hard drive, identical with yours (brand, storage capacity, printed circuit board), as you are going to use parts of it to put together your original drive again.

Briefly, such operations require a dust-free environment, and this is why you cannot do them at home. Data recovery companies use minimum Class 100 Clean Rooms to restore defective drives and recover the data.

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Data Recovery: What To Avoid

On January 12, 2009, In Data Recovery Services, By admin

Data recovery can help you get your data back, no matter if you lost it to a computer hard drive failure, crash, or due to some human error like deleting or overwriting files by mistake. Another reason for losing data can be power outages or failure in operating of certain software programs. In case this happens to your PC, laptop, camera storage card, mp3 player, USD pen drive, or any dat5a storage device, you must not panic, because you still can have your data recovered, but you should better be following these rules, in order to maximize the effect of data retrieval software or services:

  • Do not run that disk drive anymore. Overwriting files may result in permanent data loss.
  • Do not browse the web for data recovery solutions, and do not attempt to run any software that you may find, which claims to recover your information. You risk to lose it for good.
  • Do not use the regular disk tools such as ScanDisk or Disk Defragmentation. You’ll do more harm than good.

The safest way to getting back your files , be them photos, documents or music, is to use a certified data recovery solution, which you’d get from a trusted source, together with detailed instructions for use. Even better, you can let the specialists do the data retrieval for you. Most of the times, they require payment for their services only if they are successful. As nobody wants to work for free, you can be sure they’d attempt their best to give you your lost data in the shortest possible time.

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Data Recovery Tips

On January 12, 2009, In Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

Data protection should be one of your main priorities, no matter if you run your own business or you work as an employee. In both cases, you don’t want to lose your data, because this could mean either the end of your business or of your career with your current employer. However, things happen, so you may find out one day that some of your files are missing or are corrupt. First of all, don’t panic, try to assess the situation if you can, or ask for professional help in case you don’t have a clue where to start your investigations. Keep in mind that data can be retrieved, but for maximizing the success of this operation, you have to make sure to follow a few steps:

  • Have regular backups, either weekly or even daily, if you have a big load of work each and every day. Whenever you do some important task, make a backup before you start and another one after you finish your job. In this way, you’ll make sure that if something wrong happens during your work, you can get back to the initial status of your computer. If everything goes well, it is important to backup your data for safety reasons, in order not to lose such a significant amount of work and progress.
  • If your computer refuses to start, check if you have any USB devices or cards inserted in the USB slots or in the cards reader. Sometimes they may give errors when starting the computer, as it tries to boot from these hard drives. If this is not the case, do not attempt things you don’t know the possible results of, in your wish to get the computer started. You may do more harm to your hard drive data which is already endangered by the malfunction. Take the computer to an authorized service.
  • If suddenly you start to hear odd noises like clunking at computer start up, turn it off as fast as you can and ask for specialized help. Such noises may mean something is wrong with your hard drive.
  • Never assume the worst case scenario. You need to know that in lots of situations data stored on the hard disk is recoverable, no matter what your computer has been going through, be it a fire or a flood, or falling down from the 9th floor.
  • Do not attempt any form of data recovery on your own. The only exception to this rule are data recovery specialists, who have the tool and the knowledge to retrieve that data and not harm even more the drives.
  • Do not use the computer, even if you manage to make it start. Overwriting your lost data may make the recovery process even tougher if not impossible in some cases. Get in tough with a data recovery services provider and wait for them to fix things for you. Usually, such services are not expensive, and taking into consideration the loss that may be caused by your missing data, I could even say they are cheap.

These are only a few data recovery tips, which I hope will help you get your data back safely.

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Recover Lost Data: an Easy Task?

On January 8, 2009, In Deleted Files Recovery, Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery, By admin

One of the biggest needs of computer operators is to recover lost data, either after they’ve done a foolish mistake, or after a hard drive crash. IT managers and other computer specialists can go crazy because of their colleagues’ requests for data recovery. Reasons matter less, what’s important is that it is not always possible to get the valuable data back.

Where to Seek for Data Recovery Help

Getting help with data recovery is not so simple. Depending on the cause of your data loss, on the moment this loss occurred, you may need a certain type of computer specialist or another one. It is one thing if your data got lost because of a hard drive crash and another one if you just deleted your file and made sure to empty your recycle bin. It is completely a different situation if you’ve overwritten a file with another one containing the wrong content. In this last case, I’m afraid nobody could ever help you get your initial file content back. However, for the other cases there are solutions.
But let’s take a look at computers infrastructure first. A hard disk is built in such a way that information you think you delete is not actually erased from the drive itself. In time, it will be overwritten with other things you put on your disk. When you delete a file, you delete only its label, and this thing signals the computer that the respective sectors of the hard drive are available for future use. Hard disk drives and USB memory drives have evolved a lot since computers were invented, so now they can reach incredible storage capacities. Were you able to imagine that some day you’d be able to store a TB of information on a hard disk? Unfortunately, the bigger they are, the more prone to bad sectors and data losses they are.

How to Deal With Operating System Data Recovery

If you only need a Windows, Mac or Linux data recovery, this is easier task. There are software programs which can help you. Such data recovery software can be fairly inexpensive, so you can deal with problems such as virus infections, malfunctioning of software, accidental format of disk drives, mistakenly deleted files and folders, or unexpected shutdown like in the case of power supply interruptions. Many of these programs will offer you a trial version or a money back guarantee, so if you cannot obtain your files back, you won’t have to pay a single dollar.

How to Deal With Hard Drive Crash Data Recovery

In case of such operation failures of your hard disk, you need to make use of specialized data recovery services, because you won’t be able to access your harddrive anymore. Maybe your computer won’t turn on at all. A hard drive can suffer damages to the write/read head, to the spindle or to the motors. It may have its circuits affected by natural elements like water or fire. There are many things that can go wrong with a hard disk, so that’s why it is important to handle it to experts who know what to do for a correct and timely diagnose of the fault. They have the so-called “clean rooms” where the technicians work on your drive to extract the information. They can do any type of hard drive crash data recovery, regardless if your hard drive is IDE, SATA, SATA II or SCSI, or even if it’s a laptop hard disk. The “no data no charge” system applied by such data retrieval companies means that if they don’t succeed to extract your data from the drive, you won’t pay a dime for their work.

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Disc and Data Recovery

On January 2, 2009, In Data Recovery Services, By admin

Data recovery is probably an issue that most computer users never think of before experiencing their first data loss occurrence. Then they start thinking and re-assessing the situation, but in some cases it may be too late to change something in the computer configuration. Knowing good data recovery services is like having good insurance for your house: you wish to never make use of it, but in case you need it, then you are grateful you did it.

Let’s recap what happens when you realize your data is lost: you seek for it in the folder where you knew it was stored, then you try to use the search function once, or twice, or even several times before realizing that your precious and important data is not on your hard drive anymore. In that moment, panic starts to appear, you sweat out of the blue, then you start thinking of consequences of your data loss. You start to feel sorry for not doing regular backups as all computer specialists advised you to do, you start to figure out that unexpected really happens and that you were totally unprepared to face it.

If you are new to computers, then you should be aware that your data is never safe, that all drives can break from time to time, and that although there are chances that you get your data back, in some situation data recovery is simply not possible anymore. Data on USB flash drives, or on mp3 players like iPod or any other brands, data on Cds and DVDs are not safer, either. All storage devices are prone to crash one day, therefore you should keep your very important data stored on many such drives and refreshed ev ery now and then. Make backup copies, them backups of the backup copies. Storage drives are now mch cheaper than they used to be not very long time ago. Take advantage of this fact and keep data backups in more places.

You know, data recovery is possible, but data loss prevention is better.

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