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Aug 26, 2005
Is Your PC Data/business Important for You ?
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Is Your PC Data/business Important for You ? |
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Industry analysts Says that 50% of businesses that lose their data go out of business almost immediately. And of the other 50%, nine out of ten fail within two years. IT is not just businesses who are at risk from Data loss. Clients requiring data recovery come from all walks of life, including governments, large corporate, smaller businesses, and the self employed to “Joe Public” who, with the introduction and subsequent boom in the use of PC’s and digital cameras etc to record special occasions, holiday videos and photos etc may have lost anything from sentimental data to critical e-mails, and personal account details. Students are often grouped under this heading too. |
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| What is Data Retrieval ? |
| Data Retrieval is the process of accessing the inaccessible or corrupt data from digital media that has become damaged or has been corrupted in some way and is also called a Data Recovery. |
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| It's Need ? |
Data Recovery is needed because of various reasons which could include issues as diverse as
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Hardware failure.
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The tape has been ‘chewed’ up.
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The failure of hard-drive, Memory Cards, Tapes, Mobile Phones, Personal Digital Assistants, Floppy Disk’s, CD’s, DVD’s, Data Cartridges, Xbox’s and many more items.
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It could have suffered fire or flood damage.
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Logical failure.
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There can be corruptions in firmware.
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Semi-conductor failure.
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Accidental failure/deletion.
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A storage device could have been dropped.
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A hard disk drive may have been ‘accidentally’ formatted.
All of these instances will require the services of a professional data recovery company if the data was of such value (be it sentimental or financial) that the cost of the services are less than the perceived value of the data which is no longer accessible. |
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| Its Solution |
| There are numerous ways that Data can be recovered from digital media which can vary greatly, the simplest method can involve the running of basic software on the storage medium in question. This is always a dangerous idea, because the recovery data could overwrite the very data that is being recovered. More complex commercial software tools are available which will do this job more professionally. No software fix should be attempted prior to the original media being imaged, enabling the recovering company to work on a ‘back-up’ of the original software. The most professional companies will also take a second image should there be a problem with the first image that is being worked on for recovery. |
| The data recovery job is generally finished when a list of all the recovered files is sent to the client. Once the client approves this file listing, they are then shipped the data on an appropriate media. This can be a hard disk drive, floppy disk, CD or DVD. Alternatively, if a file is considered critical, it can be encrypted and then emailed to the client. |
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The best advice we can offer the client is this:
As soon as you have lost data you should power off your device and send it to a professional Data Recovery Company to optimise your chances of a successful recovery. |
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| Data Recovery Software & Services |
| Stellar Information System Ltd. |
| www.stellarinfo.com, www.stellar-info.it, www.stellar-info.de |
| links@stellarinfo.com |
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