Thursday, December 25, 2008

Data Recovery Always an Option

So what made your computer’s hard drive go ‘BOOM!’? Was it a virus, a crackpot hacker, or even a natural catastrophe like flood or earthquake? Whatever it was, you probably know that it is better not to lose the data in the hard drive. It is good to know that almost all hard drives can be recovered so data recovery is always an option. At a non critical state, the data on the hard drive can be recovered using software. However, in a more advanced state like a critical mechanical failure, you would need to send your hard drive to the technician. Then the hard drive would possibly be taken apart, fixed, & rebuilt in order to recover the data.

Also note that the data you sent into the operating system recycle bin can be retrieved as well. The data recovery specialist can retrieve the data which seems impossible in the minds of the typical user. Data in hard drives using Windows, Mac, different filing structure & formats like NTFS & FAT32, RAID configurations; can all be recovered. A single hard drive failing in a RAID configuration is no big deal but having all the hard drives in a RAID configuration fail, then the situation is critical where both the software & hardware must be restored. All in all, data recovery is about helping you get all the data that you lost because of a hard drive failure.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are few users who think that once the physical media destroyed, the data can’t be recovered for them. They have no choice but to cry over the data loss and try to rebuild the data from the left ashes. This is a fact that you are saving something over the physical media so that it could prove precious for the time to come. But the real importance of those data comes into existence when we are not able to use or access it.

Abas KS said...

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