Can you answer esweetie01’s question about Data Recovery?:

I have a hp desktop and when I turn on the computer, it doesn’t boot to the windows XP desktop. It just keeps restarting itself. I took it to a computer repair shop and was told that my computer has a virus. I want to know what type of equipment and/or tools does one need to recover data on my cpu before removing the virus.

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What do data recovery technicians do? Do they simply plug the drive into some wonderful piece of kit that automatically recovers the data? Do they wave a magic wand and have the data moved directly from your drive to a new one? Is it a con?

The answer is no. Data recovery is a black art, being able to recover data from drives that have failed requires skill, precision and patience. Data recovery technicians have to be able to manipulate drives, open them up and repair small components to enable the safe recovery of data.

A clean room is needed to carry out data recovery effectively, if this is not available and the process takes place without this critical clean air environment you can wave bye bye to your data. As any particle of dust or hair that lands on the platter surface will damage the data way beyond repair.

Some customers feel that they are paying way over the odds for data recovery, and many compare it to the amount they originally paid for the entire computer system. However customers fail to understand the amount of skill and work that goes in the data recovery process and also the number of hours they spend in the lab and the amount of legwork needed to be done to ensure that the customer is happy data they have retrieved .

Hard drives fail for a number of reasons. The main reason being that they have been dropped which has a dramatic effect on the hard drive and its ability to read the data. Data recovery specialists typically see this type of drive failure on a daily basis and work hard to recover that data by using specialist recovery techniques known only to the data recovery industry.



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Can you answer ZC’s question about Data Recovery?:

Hi,
My Acer Aspire 5020 notebook has lost power and won’t switch on.

Any ideas how to recover the data?

Much of it is backed up but I have some recent emails and photos that i’d like to recover.

Can I remove the hard drives and put them into (or connect them to) another PC or notebook?
Would I lose anything else if I did this?

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Can you answer Roni’s question about Data Recovery?:

Or how do I recover data off a hd with a bad virus? Isn’t there a program techs use, because every time I take a hd to a tech, he is able to recover my data, but I don’t know how.

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You need to know an awful lot when it comes to computers and computer systems, one of the most important is the matter of data backup and recovery.

You need data backup and recovery processes in case something happens to your computer, in case it shuts itself off suddenly or in case it becomes corrupted. You need to know that your files and information are safe and are not going to be deleted, but rather put into a data backup and recovery partition so that you can retrieve them later if you ever need to.

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Just make sure you save your data as many times as you can, just in case the files you are working on do get deleted and you can’t go back to them, and in case the data recovery files that work on your computer can’t save them. Make sure that you take as many precautions as you can, to be safe, but try to be aware that if you do have proper data recovery processes on your computer, then you can stop worrying.

Also, try to make sure that you upgrade your data backup services in your computer whenever you need to and whenever you can. If you aren’t sure if you’ve got any data recovery software on your computer, or if you know that you have and want to know if it can be upgraded, the best thing for you to do is to take your computer into a professional so that they can tell you whether or not you can or need to upgrade.

Or, the alternative would be to get someone in to your place of work to say if you can be upgraded or not. Once you have determined if you need to or not, you can then work out what type of system you should upgrade to. Ask the right people so that you can learn what you need to before making any decisions, try with the guy who told you to upgrade. The type of data backup software will totally depend on what you are trying to backup, and how quickly you will need to recover the data, just make sure that you are buying what you need and don’t end up pruchasing things that you don’t need to.

Do your own research, this way you will truly learn as much as possible, because you want the make sure that you are as knowledgeable as possible in order that you get the best results possible from your purchase.



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