WeRecoverData.com specializes in high-end IT system data recovery. The company's clients include the NASA Space Shuttle program, financial services providers and other such enterprises. Dyan Parker, the company's chief performance officer, told eWEEK that she's used to seeing horribly burned-up or water-soaked hard disk drives. Even so, "if it's technically possible, we will recover [lost data]. What sets us apart is that we will do special research and development on particular kinds of problems and create our own proprietary utilities to get the job done; most other companies don't have the capability to do that."
Parker cited a recent case in which a major bank lost all of its backup data. "It would have been unrecoverable, except that we went in and retrieved the data by reverse-engineering," Parker said. WeRecoverData.com now has specialized expertise in virtualized storage systems. This was developed through the company's recent successful retrieval of Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format data from a Hyper-V virtualized server.
Parker offered a list of WeRecoverData.com's 13 most common ways hard drives become trashed and how likely it is that the data can be recovered. Do you see yourself in any of the following scenarios?
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13 Common Data Storage Failures and How Likely the Files Can Be Recovered
by Chris Preimesberger
Human error (file deletion, formatting a hard drive etc., The the most common way files are lost):
Good probability of recovery.
Computer viruses:
Good probability of recovery.
Software files corruption (database file gets corrupt because of a software glitch):
Good probability of recovery.
Media logical problem (file system corruption, etc.):
Good probability of recovery.
Media physical problem with bad electronics (circuitry of the media goes bad):
Good probability of recovery.
Media Physical problem with internal damage (bad head stack) [Magnetic Hard Drives only];
Fair probability of recovery.
Media Physical problem with bad motor (drive doesn't spin, etc:) [Magnetic hard drives only];
Fair probability of recovery.
Natural disasters (flood, fire etc.):
fair probability of recovery.
Dropped storage meeting in a laptop got dropped or an external drive:
fair probability of recovery.
Flash media write/overwrite limit exceeded (excessive usage will eventually cause flash memory to fail): fair probability of recovery.
Degraded tape media:
fair probability of recovery.
Bad quality or aging CD/DVD storage media (over time the film on a CD/DVD will degrade):
poor to fair probability of recovery.
Known manufacturing defects causing loss of access to data:
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WeRecoverData.com specializes in high-end IT system data recovery. The company's clients include the NASA Space Shuttle program, financial services providers and other such enterprises. Dyan Parker, the company's chief performance officer, told eWEEK that she's used to seeing horribly burned-up or water-soaked hard disk drives. Even so, "if it's technically possible, we will recover [lost data]. What sets us apart is that we will do special research and development on particular kinds of problems and create our own proprietary utilities to get the job done; most other companies don't have the capability to do that."
Parker cited a recent case in which a major bank lost all of its backup data. "It would have been unrecoverable, except that we went in and retrieved the data by reverse-engineering," Parker said. WeRecoverData.com now has specialized expertise in virtualized storage systems. This was developed through the company's recent successful retrieval of Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format data from a Hyper-V virtualized server.
Parker offered a list of WeRecoverData.com's 13 most common ways hard drives become trashed and how likely it is that the data can be recovered. Do you see yourself in any of the following scenarios?