The consequences that arise as a result of losing one's vital data are usually unimaginable. Most of the time when data is reported to have been lost due viruses attacks, logical problems such as formatted media, inaccessible partitions and physical problems such as hard drive crash and media damages, chances are the data is fully recoverable but only when the right procedures are followed.The immediate events that follow on realizing the catastrophic loss is what drives down the chances of recovery. The immediate events that follow on realizing the catastrophic loss is what drives down the chances of recovery.
As a matter of fact, a typical case of data loss, whether personal or corporate, involves the end users who report these cases to the support engineers or the users with technical knowledge. The realization of losing that vital information drives the involved parties into panic mode and this is where matters go from worse to worst. Take for instance a scenario where an employee has been working on a project for the last three months, he/she is in the final stages and wants to beat the deadline for submission and the notebook computer "decides to drop itself down" and fails to boot up.
The technical user or the support engineer will at that particular moment try to fix the situation as quickly as possible without the knowledge of the concerned department. The technical guy whose only experience with data recovery is through previous success in using recovery software will apply the same stunt then followed with a series of other self-taught data recovery techniques and the data that would have taken a few hours to recover through professional means becomes totally irrecoverable.
There are two types of recovery professionals; the ones who claim to be data recovery professionals (AKA software professionals) and there are trained engineers who know the exact procedures involved in different data loss scenarios from a simple partition problem to a Multi-Raid server crash environment. A typical case like the one I've used as an example above would've required the recovery engineer to diagnose hardware problems first. Judging from the situation, the notebook was probably dropped when it was in operation. This means the platters (small rotating discs in the hard drive) were doing about 10,000 rotations per min. The shock arising from the drop is enough to cause what we call head-crash. A recovery professional would check the physical health of the hard drive first before anything else. Continuous powering of that drive in that condition is just like helping someone from a car wreck by pulling that persons injured limb.
My bottom line here is that everything requires professional approach for good results. If you are lucky to be reading this article and you've just experienced a fatal data loss situation, don't take chances, look for a professional and ask all the questions including their track record before trusting your media (data) with him/her. Remember, the reason why you are pursuing data recovery is because you really want it back.
About the Author
David Njoroge is a data service director and a recovery engineer for Compfix Data Ltd. Since 2003, he has helped many individuals and organizations in Kenya and within East Africa region recover from data loss disasters. find out more about Compfix Data Recovery services by visiting http://www.compfixdata.com/
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