Verifiable Data Reports
An advanced data recovery is truly a complicated process. How most users are surprised, the process starts on the first phone call when customer phones to one of our specialists. Most users hears that they must turn off the computer and disconnect the hard drive it it has failure. Then tyer are instructed how to prepare media for send – how secure container should be prepared. Then Data Recovery Corp specialist will gather data about the data loss case.
If your media has beed flooded with water or other fluid, the best way is to keep the media wet with wet paper towels in ahermetic plastic bag. Why to do it? In case of dry wet hard drive or other media, some elements may be damaged, and in case of hard drive it may be taken over corrosion.
So what data recovery experts will do with my media? you may ask. First of all, they analyze your media to ascertain the nature of the damage. If the damage type is physical – media is corrupted in first place, or is it logical type of damage – damaged are files, data structure, etc.
In case of logical damage to the data itself, is very likely to recover data with big success. In this case binary data is copied to separate media and data recovery service is done on media copy. Thanks to this action, in case of any unforeseen situation, the is no risk of totally loosing the data. In this type of service special recovery software and sometimes scanning devices are used. In some cases data recovery experts must do some manual editions of data in HEX mode.
If damage is physical, the case is more complicated and for sure recovery process will be unmanageable at home. Dependning on the type of damage, data recovery specialists try to fix the media e.g. by replace not working electronics, or in more difficult cases, they use external devices to read data directly – e.g. in case of broken hard drives, the platters are removed and data is read in special device.
The whole of such action must take place in a special laboratory, under conditions of high sterility. Without usage of specialized facility recovery process would be finished with failure and in most critical cases data would became unrecoverable.
After data is recovered it is never copied to original media. All recovered files are copied to CD or DVD media or external hard drive.
At the end of this article we would like to notice, that even the best data recovery specialists, may not be able to recover your data. In other words there are cases that are truly unrecoverable. This is why performing regular backup is so important.
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