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In
this guide-
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Background on data recovery services
+ The data recovery process
+ Important features and functions of data recovery
companies
+ How to find the best data recovery service for you
This
short guide was created to help you understand the basics
of data recovery and how to find the best data recovery
service for you. We do not sell any data recovery products
or services ourselves, so you can be assured that all
of the information in this guide is independent and
unbiased.
Background
on data recovery services
If you have lost any computer data, whether it's information
on a hard drive, laptop drives, backup tapes, a RAID
(Redundant Array of Independent Disks) system, or even
information within an email program or database, all
hope is not lost! Regardless of whether you are a home
computer user that got infected with a nasty virus,
or a Fortune 500 company with a corrupted database,
there are companies that specialize in recovering data
from all types of computer media, and from all sorts
of damage, including:
-
crashed hard drives
- computer viruses
- formatting/partition errors
- human (accidental deletion, sabotage) events
- corrupted files
- fire, flood or physical damage
Data
recovery can be done from most computer-related devices
(tapes, disks, etc), from most manufacturers (Dell,
IBM, Sony, etc.) and from most operating systems (Windows,
MAC, Novell, etc.).
The
data recovery process
Data recovery is performed using a combination of commercial
and custom hardware, firmware, and software data extraction
tools. The custom tools are often reverse-engineered
or created in conjunction with the computer device manufacturers,
and are sometimes customized for individual recovery
projects. Most data recovery services use a similar
general process to recover damaged data from computer
devices.
Often,
the first step in data recovery involves an imaging process
that creates a duplicate of the target device (or devices)
on another safe disk (all work is then
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