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Today, many people store lots of useful and valuable information in their computers. It can be memorable photos, favorite songs, emails, or reports and projects needed for school or work. And because of the many important data stored in the computer’s hard drives, you wouldn’t want to do something to erase those files. But sometimes, it just can’t be helped as hard drives can crash, servers can fail, and laptops can be accidentally dropped. Fortunately, there is such a thing as data recovery. Data recovery is a process of recovering important information that was lost as a result of a Read the rest of this entry

Is it harder to recover data that has been lost form an external hard drive than an internal one? According to the experts who continually work hard to recover data from each of these sources there is no difference. They are both quite complex but there are a few additional steps to consider when you are trying to recovery data from an external hard drive. There are a few things you need to keep in mind when you are looking at recovering data on an external hard drive. It has to be attached to a system so you can monitor the recovery process. Most IT departments have an extra work space for this purpose. If not you can likely use any of the other desk top computers in the facility. This really isn’t going to affect the quality of the data recovery process. It is simply a Read the rest of this entry

Disasters can be easy to deal with, or seem like an overwhelming task. We can t always avoid disasters, but with planning and preparation we can control disaster response. Right now most companies have a No Recovery strategy which equals no data restored. After surveying 50 companies located in Los Angeles with 20 to 30 employees we found that they did not have any type of recovery past a Tape Backup. In most cases they had the office manager put in the tape. In some cases the backup was not running and thus they had NO backup. Frighten as this may sound your company may be one of them. Does your company have a good disaster recovery plan? Let’s see what is a disaster recovery plan to begin with. First there are all types of disasters. A hacker can cause data loss on your Read the rest of this entry

This was a question that was recently put by forward on a TV consumer show. One guy had his hard disk crashed and lost all data. He was able to get his hard disk replaced because of a warranty.To retrieve the data he had it sent to a data recovery company to get it recovered. The price tag was about $ 1500. But, he also wanted to have that extra cost covered by the same warranty.I m not a lawyer, but I believe it is quite clear that any warranty from any hard disk manufacturer doesn t include restoration of data. That said, with the long life time and high durability of today s hard disks they could very well afford this when it is caused by a hard disk failure.As long as the hard disk only have a mechanical or electronic fault and it have not been exposed to water or fire the Read the rest of this entry