Data Recovery Tips
Here's Some Tips From Our Data Recovery Engineers.
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Choose a "DATA RECOVERY" Company very carefully. Sending your drive to an inexperienced company can only cause more damage. In fact this is the most common cause of "data loss".
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Never power up a drive that may have been exposed to water, fire, lightning or smoke. The drive must be serviced or data recovered in an air-and static-controlled Class 100 clean room by data recovery professionals.
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If you hear a clunk, clunk sound when you power up the drive then the servo pattern has been lost and the drive can't find track zero. Shut the drive down and do not power up again. You may break the TRK 00 Stop inside the drive.
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Use the same type of precautions for any type of media including floppies, tapes, or CD's when the data is valuable to you or your company.
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Do not continue powering up a drive you believe has been damaged. It can and will only get worse.
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If a drive has been through a great deal of force or is visibly damaged do not try to power it up to see if you can see any data..
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Don't t drop or hit the drive to get it "unstuck" or spinning again.
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Do not remove the cover from the hard drive. This will only cause further damage.
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Never shake the hard disk drive.
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Don't expose the drive to extreme temperatures.
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Do not attempt to recover data with commonly available software utility programs.
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Backup your data frequently.
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Package the drive properly when you send it in for data recovery. This is a major cause of permanent loss of data.
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Don't assume that data is unrecoverable, no matter what it has been through.
