Data Recovery: Beginners Tips by Jeff Walters
Right now you probably in a lot of mental pain, and all you’re concerned about is recovering your data as quickly as possible - so we’ll refrain from comments on the wisdom of regular back ups. The time for preventative measures has gone - the issue at hand is data recovery. ... If so, then your drive is physically damaged and the only hope that you have is to take it to a data recovery service where experts might be able to get your data off for you. ... These services are expensive and time consuming - so you need to make a judgement call as to the value of data on the disk: If it’s...

Five Steps to Assuring Successful Recovery of Data by Jason Perry
According to the National Archives & Records Administration in Washington, D.C., 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. Whether your business data is in the form of a customer electronic database, office documents... Before you can get your data back, it's vital that you follow these five data recovery tips: STEP ONE: Determine the value of the data. ... Instead of fixing the problem yourself, turn the PC, server or laptop over to a professional data recovery expert to avoid permanent consequences of data...

Sea-Front or Action-gate by Richard Myers
June 25, 2005 Seagate Technologies’ web site now indicates the company offers data recovery services. Further investigation shows the shipping address, the place to send your subject drive for data recovery service, actually belongs to ActionFront Data Recovery. ... Why would Seagate need, or want, to align themselves with any data recovery service company? ... If ActionFront does have an excellent inside connection with Seagate, what technologies or information has Seagate provided to ActionFront that other data recovery shops don’t have access to?

Thieves Want Your Laptop and Your Data by John Beagle
Thieves find laptops easy prey because they are small, light and easy to handle. Anyone who takes their eye off a laptop in public, even briefly, may never see it again. While special theft protection devices are offered for mobile computers, experienced thieves often view this as little more... This includes encrypting data on the hard drive or by only accessing company data via Terminal Services or Citrix remote desktop operating systems," Cipollone says. ... "Security Camera systems are likely at best to scare off the common garden variety thieves," says PC expert Andrew Wendt from the...

Why You Should Back Your Data Up by Jessica Cander
Have you ever lost an important file on your computer? It is a very annoying feeling, which above the emotional factor involved can have far-reaching consequences if it was a valuable file. Every business and individual will most likely experience the loss of some amount of stored data on their... Two main types of data recovery exist; they are what are known as “logical recovery” and “physical recovery”. ... Latching on to the fact that so many people elect not to (or forget to) back up their data, a multitude of data recovery companies and computer experts have turned the act of...

Knowing Your Hard Drive - A Guide to Data Recovery by Tony Roberts
Hard drives are usually reliable devices that store all your important files and data. Today’s Information Age runs on data, making the storage of such worth its weight in gold. However, no matter how evolved this technology has become, these media devices are still prone to serious errors that... But in the case of truly important data, like that of company data and others, you may want to employ the services of a data recovery expert. ... If the data you need is not backed up. ... You can try recovering the data yourself.

Understanding Data Loss and Data Recovery by Bob Janeway
Losing data is the worst thing that can happen to someone who is too attached to computers. It is not a question on "how attached" a person is, it is a question on how much a person earns out of his data. In other words, for beginner computer users, losing files is like losing common documents,... The means of data recovery depends on the diagnostic and troubleshooting on how the functioning of the computer started. ... Do not use it unless the purpose is data recovery and diagnostics. ... Data recovery is the solution to lost files.

Disaster Recovery: Failure to Plan is a Plan to Fail by C Seagrave
Today’s organisation is increasingly dependent on its IT infrastructure and communications network. Remote offices, customers and business partners are all reliant on their ability to access your core systems, Intranet or Extranet – often 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ... Using someone else's requirements, which might turn out to be based on limitations or regulations that your company doesn't have, could spell disaster of another type.” (Gartner, March 2005) You may choose to completely replicate your data centre at an independent location, or opt for a cost-effective multi-subscriber...

What is Electronic Evidence Discovery? by Jason Perry
Electronic Discovery (or E-Discovery) refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. Electronic Discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done... Once a data audit has been completed and a computer forensics or data recovery service implemented, then there are the tasks to process the electronic evidence and produce the electronic evidence in a format which the client and lawyers will accept, such as TIFFs or PDFs.

Turning to a Data Recovery Service as Last Resort by Nic Ricciuti
Every computer owner understands the fact that they eventually crash. The average life of a computer is about 2 years. This is not because a lot of data is stored in the hard drive but because the system is slowly deteriorating. If you decide to take your unit for repairs, you should consider... People who rely on data recovery service will only be able to recover close to 80% of the files in the hard drive. ... The best way to avoid these problems is to defrag your disc frequently so that the hard drive only contains fragmented data, which is easier to recover and manage.