Here at
Dave’s Computers in New Jersey, we have an excellent success rate for our data
recovery service. We recover the vast majority of files from the majority or
drives and causes of data loss. But we can never guarantee recovery until we
get a good look at the storage in question. Why not?
There are a
couple of answers to that question.
If you
accidentally deleted files and folders and then emptied the trash to save disk
space, recovery is fairly straightforward. As long as you haven’t overwritten
the data, we can use our specialist tools to rebuild the data and make it
accessible again.
If your
data has been lost to a virus or malware, or even ransomware, we may not be
able to recover it at all. Or we may be able to recover everything. Again, it
depends on what happened, what the malware did, whether it just deleted data
like a fast format or overwrote the data to make it irretrievable. There is
malware out there that does both of these so we can never tell.
If you lost
data due to hardware failure, some parts of the hard drive may be permanently
damaged. If the drive failed altogether, we may be able to reanimate it long
enough to take copies of your data but we won’t know until we try.
Hard disk
drives, HDD, use spinning plates called platters to physically write data.
These platters are logically divided into sectors that can store a specific
amount of data. If the surface of those platters become damaged, the data is
physical inaccessible. No matter how good out data recovery team is, they
cannot recover data from damage like that!
If you read
this blog regularly, you will already know that we encourage all our New Jersey
neighbors to be proactive with their computers and tackle any issue they are
confident handling. Data loss is not one of those issues.
Data can
very easily be overwritten during your attempts to retrieve it. You could
damage it further and put it beyond reach. You could further damage any
sensitive drive platters or read/write heads and render the drive inoperable.
Data
recovery is one area of computing we really do ask you to leave to the experts.
We have the knowledge and experience to deal with it and the facilities to copy
your hard drive before making our attempts.
If we tell
you we cannot guarantee we will recover all your data, this is why. It isn’t us
hedging our bets, it is because we genuinely don’t know what we’ll find until
we take a look!