After bringing the failed drive back to life, as a data recovery professional, you know now you need to recover the damaged file system by using data recovery tools; and maybe you know also you need to do a disk imaging in order to work from an accurate, stable hard drive image.

Unfortunately, traditional disk imaging tools and methods are designed for and work on good HDDs only, not the patient HDDs that are unstable or inaccessible because of media defects and instable head, which are common challenges of Stage 2 in practice. Even more, with those traditional imaging tools, the time involved and the ordinary user-level repeated-read access to the media bring a risk of damaging the disk and head, making data lost irretrievable.

But now there’s a better way: The disk probing equipment included in the Data Compass suite bypassing the disk-level problems such as multiple bad sectors, damaged surfaces, malfunctioning head assembly, or corrupted servo info, In the meantime you can use the default software or any other defined software you have been familiar with (R-studio, Winhex, any) to perform file recovery. Through the Data Compass, problem drives will become intact hard drives and ready for file recovery attempts..

What can Data Compass do?

Data recovery from physically damaged HDDs is what Data Compass designed for.

* Data recovery from HDDs with severe multiple BAD sectors, which appear because of platter surface scratch or malfunction or instability of the magnetic head assembly (MHA).

* Data recovery from HDDs that start to produce “clicking” sounds, which may be caused by corruption of sector servo labels or a MHA malfunction. If some heads or surfaces are damaged it is possible (before installation of MHA replacement) to create a copy of data using the remaining good surfaces or drive heads.

* Availability of tools for logical analysis of FAT and NTFS file systems in the software complex allows data recovery in cases, when a drive is functional and only logical data structure is corrupted.

* When used with malfunctioning drives, Data Compass complex often allows selective extraction of data necessary to your customers without reading all data from a drive (“recover data by file” without creating a complete disk image) saving a lot of time. In some cases, when drive malfunctions cause constant self-damage (like scratches on disks or instable MHA) these are the only means to accomplish this task. With the ShadowDisk technology adopted, users need not to worry about the drive degradation problem.

Customer Reviews Of Data Compass:

“The SalvationDATA Data Compass easily helps me get rid of SA bad sectors which can’t be repaired by other drive restoration products we’ve been using before, because it gives access to user data area directly by using its Analog technology which virtually boot the hard drive SA-independently.”

- Yimei Cao, Lead Data Recovery Engineer CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. www.cbltech.com

“Data Compass helps us to restore data from hard drives suffer from sever bad sectors, which are not able to be recovered from other tools in the DR market. Especially, by using the advanced Service Area (SA) emulation technology, it accesses the data from firmware defective hard drives directly. Also, multiple settings of the reading algorithm enables the optimization of data recovery from hard drives with poor performance of Head & Disk Assembly (HDA)”

- Zijian Xie, Research and Development Manager Computer Science Labs, UK. www.computersciencelabs.com

Data Compass with Data Compass Explorer is now the premier choice amongst the Data Recovery Industry for fast and effective extraction of data from hard drive’s with severe unreadable sectors, media degradation and failing read/write heads. It is now officially my favourite tool in my vast collection of data recovery solutions and it is only going to get better over time once the new functions are completed. I especially look forward to the head selection function and the future Seagate, Western Digital firmware bypassing options. I’m so impressed I am considering ordering several more in the near future.

Michael Owen, Managing Director Datatrack Labs Ltd. www.datatrack-labs.co.uk

“I’ve started playing with settings of Data Compass and found it quite easy to use. I’ve already carried out a couple of data rescue tests with success and I’m quite satisfied about the performance of the tool.”

- Filippo Corsi Computer Discount Siena www.computerdiscount.it

“I received my Salvation Data Compass last week and I would like to share my experience with you.When I saw the release of Salvation Data Recovery Data Compass I was a bit skeptical about the ROI of this product. Since I’ve been in Data recovery for over 4 years and I manage to do most of my job with my current equipment (PC3K ISA, HDD Duplicator etc…) After reading spec and cases study about this product I decide to go ahead and try it.”

- Francis Parent-Valiquette. www.tux-tech.ca

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