Basic Do & Dont
As data loss case is submitted in our system, we always try to contact our client, in order to avoid the case to get worse. Data Recovery Corp can only suggest these commandments, that you should apply when you lose your data.
Firstly, pay attention to your media, specially your hard drive and hard drives you use in your RAID solutions. If you notice any of mechanical damage or malfunction signs, you must drive off your medias as quick as it is possible. Most typical symptoms of such a damage are worrying and unusual noises that coming from your drive (e.g. knocking, swapping, clunking, clicking), slowdowns and / or frequent crashes of operating system. If you keep on working on such a broken media, possible of data recovery service will be lowered. Also using data recovery software on such medias may make thing worst.
Secondly, when you lose your data, even in case of accidental data loss (e.g. accident delete of files) you must turn off the computer as soon as possible by turning the power down, not as usual "Close" option in your operating system. Longer your computer and inside it works after data loss, there is bigger chance that larger deterioration of media may appear in case of it's mechanical damage. Also if you lost your data from operating system partition you may find it unable to recover after using "Close" / "Turn off" function.
Next you should contact data recovery experts company, e.g. Data Recovery Corp at number that you see in header section of the web page. Of course, if you are sure that your media has only logical damages and you posses proper data recovery knowledge you may take attempt to recover your data on your own. But would you risk chance that you will damage your media worse or erase / overwrite your data?
What is more, do not use software operating system or other utility tools that automatically try to repair you partitions such as "ScanDisk" or "chkdsk". These software is not a data recovery software and it's attempts in fixing file system structures may bring your operating system back to life without a chance of recover your lost data. Such behave may to occur when the software will overwrite your lost files or meta data that is crucial to recover your lost files.
And what is last but not least never and under any circumstances do not allow to fix or open your media accept data recovery company. Such actions like hard disk drive case opening makes most simple data loss cases the most complicated.
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