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| FIRST OF ALL..... DON'T PANIC! |
| No matter how reliable modern data storage devices
become there is always going to be a point at which they fail. More
often than not the failure is not of the hardware, but of the software
which controls the structure of the data on the physical medium.
Regardless the requirement to recover the information often remains and
that's what we do. We can provide an on-site support service or do the
work at our offices, the choice is yours. |
| Whether its a Hard Disk, RAID Disk Array, NAS Storage, Tape,
Cartridge, Memory Stick, Memory Card, Flash Card or floppy diskette...
we can work with it and in most cases recover some data. |
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| With Random Access Devices such as Hard Disks, Memory sticks/cards
and so on, the data is stored in small chunks called Sectors. These
Sectors are grouped together into Blocks, and 1 block is the smallest
allocation unit that the operating system can work with. Physical Disks
are often divided up into partitions (which form logical disks) and
these partitions are known to the operating system as separate file
systems (in Windows, a drive letter C: or D:, for linux/unix a mounted
directory such as /usr/data). In most operating systems there is a
master directory of files, and a table of allocation for the entire
partition and then each files data is stored in a chain of blocks with
each block pointing to the next.
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| Because when you move or delete files or even format the medium the
original data remains in its raw state, the is almost always an
opportunity for some sort of recovery. The method to that recovery
varies greatly on the type of medium and the circumstances surrounding
the loss, but in general we will begin by making a complete mirror copy
of the medium to work with. Next we will run tools to identify what data
is contained on the disk, and where it is stored. Finally we will make
an assessment as to the best method for recovery and then undertake it. |
| So, whether you've dropped your laptop in a lake, or thrown your
workstation out of the office window.... we can probably help recover
the data. The big question that you have to answer is how much is the
data worth ? We may be able to recover data from almost any situation
but the more work we have to do the more its going to cost and there
comes a point at which it is no longer cost effective to proceed.. this
is why we give you our best advice before we proceed with the recovery.
In some cases Data Recovery is an incorporated provision of your IT
Support Agreement with us so ask your account manager. |
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