Gone were the days when a data recovery technician was just one of those highly trained IT men who does a monthly clean-up on your hard drive and writes back your corrupted files. The giant leaps and bounds which technology has taken now renders many things, not least of which technicians, obsolete.
Your data forms the lifeblood of your business. On it depends your company’s daily operations, consumer relations, reputation, customer contacts, accounts records and more. So when you experience data loss, you run the risk of losing everything you’ve carefully built through the years. You want and need to recover this data at all costs and such services require a professional data recovery company to give you the best possible chance of rescuing your critical business data.
Most of us think that the moment we hit that “delete” button, the data is gone and lost to oblivion. Not so. Even if the file cannot be seen in the directory structure, it actually exists in a safe memory area. In case you change your mind and need it back, it can be pulled out from storage.
The next time you hit the delete key (granted that you’re not tweaking with your Windows operating system) you can be sure the file directly goes to the Recycle Bin. This is a funny leeway Microsoft gives us in case we are fickle-minded and want the deleted files again. Then we simply have to rummage through this digital rubbish and easily recover our deleted files.
CD’s and DVD’s work in practically the same manner. Both store data as a series of reflective marks on the surface of the disc. The thin plastic or metal foil layer of the disc gets hit by the laser beam of the writing drive. The laser energy thus produced creates tiny bumps in a spiral pattern similar to that of a long-playing album.
Automated backup has a number of advantages over its manual counterpart but is not in any way perfect or fail proof. Consider the following facts.
Tapes are not fail-proof. It is a rather frustrating fact that many expensive tape backups fail just when the need for them arises. The tape media may simply have undergone normal wear-and-tear or they may have become dirty and badly needed cleaning. A case in point is how the tape backups of Alaska’s Department of Revenue became unreadable, endangering the $38-million oil account and the 800,000 electronic images therein. It had to be rebuilt by 75 employees and a number of data recovery specialists.
The way in which data is stored on disks is systematic and logical. When you “save” data to the disk, it will do so in a logical manner.
When we receive a faulty hard drive here at Kingdom Data Recovery, the first thing we do is to carry out an evaluation of it. A proper evaluation will help determine the right course of action to recovering as much data from the hard drive as possible.
As a rule there are three general causes of hard drive failure—logical, electronic and mechanical. Each different type requires specific data recovery techniques.
Websites offering online storage are abound, some are free while some are fee based. Before you start moving your photos and other data to these attractive locations, consider the following pro’s and con’s of online storage.
Data recovery companies like Kingdom Data Recovery usually find our hands full at the start of difficult seasons. The bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer are not uncommon culprits behind data damage. In addition to hard drives being mechanical and prone to general wear, tear and all other mechanical accidents, they are also prone to being harmed by extreme weather conditions.
