Doing things yourself is a useful concept. Nothing is better than getting the job done. Now with the HG channel, YouTube and some home remodeling sites, even the latest hands can remodel the bathroom. However, this does not apply to all industries, and data recovery is definitely not one of those industries.
When a user encounters a hard drive failure and loses all access to their data, there is usually some panic and loss of rational thinking. In many cases, the entire business may be at risk or there may be 10 years of loss of digital photos. The steps you take after a hard drive crash can be the difference between getting data and permanently losing data.
There are a few, I think you will call it the core data recovery message board. I did not participate, but I often lurk. These are places where ideas and information flow freely between individuals in the industry. The entire industry is heavily fragmented. We don't work together like people do in other industries. There is no real technology or information sharing, so these message boards are the only places where you can do this. What is disturbing is that we are finding more and more posts, people are asking how to implement some very important data recovery practices themselves. People are asking how to make their own headspace on a 500GB Western Digital hard drive... These drives sometimes make me sweat, when I let them recover, so I can't imagine anyone just using it to shoot it. Expected success. On most message boards, the first thing from people who know something about this type of work is "send it to professionals," but more and more people see people who refuse to do so. I believe many people think that this industry is a kind of scam, but one reason is that it takes a lot of money to recover data. When you try to do it yourself or send it to some people saying that he can buy it for $199, you I will find that reason.
Since the Internet provides a wealth of information, plus a video showing the process, it's no wonder that we've seen more drives appearing more complicated than simple head crashes. Now, I will admit that my company is one of the few data recovery providers, and several videos on YouTube actually show a complete recovery of laptop and desktop hard drives. Both videos were taken in our clean room environment and show most of the process. We do this for two reasons, none of which is "how". We just want to share what we do with our customers, because many people are curious and actually have a completely wrong idea about this process. Another reason is to distinguish yourself from other companies that may have a slick website, but actually did not do their own recovery work. We want our customers to be confident in our real deal. Unfortunately, I receive at least 4 or 5 emails a week, and people basically appreciate the video because they feel they can try to recover. What they didn't take into account was that the videos completely edited the process of unloading, associating and adjusting the head, not to mention the fact that a lot of experience was needed. Just follow the content in these videos and it will only make your data completely unrecoverable.
As the trend of "self-service data recovery" grows, so is the situation we are experiencing, and this situation cannot be recovered at all. In these days, we get more and more drives, where the disc is covered by fingerprints, the head is bent, or incompatible electronic devices are fixed on the drive. Even if you don't try to get back to work yourself, you must be careful about the person you originally drove. Just because some of the big retail giants sell computers and there are some people who look annoying behind the counter, white shirts and black ties don't mean they know what they are doing with data recovery. Just because a large retailer or computer service center publishes them for "data recovery," it doesn't mean they do. At best, only some commercial software can do simple recovery work, but even this is easy to do wrong. We recently had four jobs that could not be recovered, because there are technicians who are willing to gamble with customer data. In fact, it makes me angry. I don't care if my company has ever received another drive, as long as these retail store "data recovery professionals" don't lose the key data of another person because of carelessness.
Finally, many users get the results they should get from their own hands-on data recovery, which is the complete loss of data. If today's data recovery is beyond your price range and the data is not time sensitive, simply put the drive on the shelf and save money until you can send it to a reputable company. Most companies don't charge any fees if the data can't be recovered, so whether you either restore the data to a payment or a payment, or you don't take back the data, and you don't have any actual fees. Do some research first. If you take a moment to understand the company that provides such a job, you will save yourself a lot of trouble in the future. Find out if they have their own clean room, or if they are outsourcing their work, and if they have the ability to work in the system area of the drive. These are just the basics that any data recovery company should have.
If you put the cost factor together and focus on the importance of your data, you may make the right decision, and if all goes well, you should quickly reunify your important data.
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