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TiggerOnSpeed understand how frustrating it is when your data, your business and your reputation is on the line and at risk.
Data Recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, wrecked or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally.
TiggerOnSpeed have experience in recovering data from:
- CD/DVD
- Compact Flash
- Hard Disk Drive
- MicroDrive
- Multimedia Card
- Secure Digital Card
- Smart Media
- USB Memory Stick
- XD-Picture Card
Data loss can be very costly, not only in monetary terms but also in downtime and productivity. Your business and reputation depends not only on the data that is stored within your servers and workstations, but also on the media used therein.
Physical damage. A wide variety of failures can cause physical damage to storage media. A CD/DVD can have their metallic substrate or dye layer scratched off; hard disks can suffer any number of mechanical failures, such as head crashes and failed motors; tapes can simply break.
Physical damage always causes at least some data loss and in many cases the logical structures of the file system are damaged as well. This causes logical damage that must be dealt with before any files can be rescued from the failed media.
Logical damage. Far more common than physical damage is logical damage to a file system. Logical damage is primarily caused by power outages that prevent file system structures from being completely written to the storage medium, but problems with hardware and drives, as well as system crashes can have the same effect. The result is that the file system is left in an inconsistent state. This can cause a variety of problems, such as strange behaviour (e.g. infinitely recursing directories, drives reporting negative amounts of free space, system crashes or an actual loss of data).
Some kinds of logical damage can be mistakingly attributed to physical damage. For instance, if a hard drive read/write head began to click, it may be reported as internal physical damage. This, however, is not always the case and may require a rebuild of the controller card instead. Once the firmware on this device is restored the potential is for the drive to be accessible once more.
Deleted and overwritten data. When a file is deleted from an operating system such as Windows and, if applicable, removed from the recycle bin, the data is not lost. The operating system simply removes the label acting as a pointer to the file in question and does not touch the actual data. The space allocated for the file is then made available as free space, and as the computer is used, new data may be written to that same space.
Many computer users and seasoned IT professionals consider data loss to be not only terminal but also a fact of life. Life doesn't have to be like this - there is a solution.
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