Why You Might Need A Good Hard Drive Recovery Service

14/07/2014 By

A Good Hard Drive Recovery ServiceYour hard drive is one of those items that you just tend to take for granted until it stops working. Only when your hard drive crashes do you realize just how important it is. Your whole life can seem as if it is stored on your PC, and when it stops working, you may worry that your irreplaceable data is gone forever.

Fortunately, even the worst hard drive crash is unlikely to completely destroy your files. By taking your PC to an experienced hard drive recovery service, you can often recover virtually all of your files. Even if there are a few files that cannot be completely restored, the service can often retrieve at least a portion of their contents.

Hard drives are very delicate and complex devices, and it is remarkable that they fail so infrequently. A hard drive has to spin at a very high rate of speed, and the drive head hovers just a fraction of an inch above the data surface. If anything goes wrong, the two parts can collide, causing a lot of damage.

However, not all problems with your hard drive are the result of a physical failure. Do not assume that just because your hard drive has crashed that it must have been physically damaged. In many cases, the problem is simply that some data has been corrupted so your PC can no longer access the files stored on the drive.

These crashes are the easiest to fix, since all the recovery service has to do is remove the corrupted data and replace it with the correct information. Once this has been done, your files will once again be easily accessible. In many cases, this task can be completed within a few hours.

Before you call a hard drive recovery firm, there are a few things you can try on your own. For example, you may be able to boot up your computer using a boot disk, and then run a basic recovery program. If the problem is not too complex, this may be all you need to do to get your PC working again. Making a boot disk that has these programs on it can be a sensible precaution to take.

However, even if you are able to use these programs to get your PC running again, it can still be a good idea to take it into the recovery service. There may still be problems that the program was unable to detect or repair that could cause your hard drive to fail again. By having the recovery service give your PC a thorough inspection, you can make sure that no hidden problems remain that could cause difficulties for you in the future.

Hard drives fail all the time, and you should assume that yours will do so at some point. By taking your computer to a good recovery service, you can make sure that your important files are not lost forever after a crash.

With industry-leading data recovery rates and a fast professional service available at very competitive prices, your data really couldn’t be in safer hands if you choose the Data Recovery Hospital Team. We offer most of our services on a no recovery no fee basis and our policy is to maximise the chances of recovery for all clients regardless of service level.

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The Importance Of Choosing A Good Data Recovery Company

11/07/2014 By

With so much business taking place online and on computers, having a good data recovery company on call is a must. Digital data can vanish in an instant, and if you do not take the proper precautions, irreplaceable data can be lost forever. Fortunately, a good data recovery firm can often resurrect your data without a great deal of effort.

Of course, it is important that you back up your data on a regular basis so that you will always have extra copies of your most important files on hand. This way, if the hard disk on your PC crashes or your tablet is damaged, you can simply use these backup files to recover your data. However, there are times when more work may need to be done to recover a lost file.

For example, many businesses do not have the resources to run daily, or even weekly, backups. They may also only back up certain files that are judged to be most important. If your PC goes down in between backups, or if you lose a file that has not been backed up, this is where the data recovery firm can be of great help.

Many people assume that once a hard disk crashes, the information on it is gone forever. In fact, a skilled technician can recover an enormous amount of data, even from a hard disk that is badly damaged. With the right tools and techniques, they will be able to restore your files so that you can have access to your data again.

As soon as you discover that your PC or other device is having a problem, you should get in touch with the data recovery company. The sooner they get started, the sooner you will have access to your files again. In many cases, restoring your data is a job that can be done quite quickly, so you may have your PC up and running again within a few hours.

If you have experienced a more serious problem, it may take the company longer to get things working again. Try to be patient. Remember, this is a difficult job that has to be done properly if you are going to recover your data. If you try to rush the job, you may end up just making things worse.

Choosing The Best Data Recovery Company

When you are looking for a good data recovery company, make sure that they have a lot of experience in the field. It is also important to choose a company that specializes in your particular type of device. A company that focuses on Macs, for example, might not be the best choice for recovering data from an Android tablet.

Digital data may seem ephemeral, but it is actually stored physically on your PC or tablet. Because of this, a skilled data recovery technician can often restore the files from even a badly-damaged drive. When you need help getting your data back, be sure to choose the right firm for the job.

Whatever the problem is, regardless of what caused it or what type of storage system is involved, DataRecoveryHospital is ready 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond and restore your vital data to you so that you can get back to business as normal. Get in contact now using the contact information on the right.

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Emergency Weekend Recovery Service of Fried SSD

21/05/2014 By

Depending on the situation and application there are many reasons to use SSD (Solid Stata ) drives, but only if you have a robust data backup plan. Although we as a data recovery company are leaders in NAND flash and SSD recovery success rates we don’t actually use many SSD except for research purposes and in things like .

The chances of recovering a normal hard drive after a power surge is much greater than that of an SSD. One way around the problems with SSD failing more readily because of power spikes is to use a pair of SSD’s in RAID 1 configuration (mirrored pair). But as previously stated what happens if both the drives suffer an over voltage and the controller and components are left fried ?

In a recent situation an aerial survey mission overseas left a client with two SSD’s in theory with two identical sets of critical production data but both SSD damaged and inaccessible. After a long haul flight into the UK of one of the drives into the secure R3 labs for emergency data recovery it was found that a power surge had fried a number of components. All data recovered and the security and protection of the data ensured at all times.

The review was very kindly left.

R3 Data Recovery were unbelievably fast in their response to our query and even faster when it came to actual work being completed. They came with quotation within minutes from sending an email and assured us that all the effort will be taken to meet our needs and deadline. They have recovered all sensitive survey data from an encrypted SSD disk over the weekend and have communicated thoroughly
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Source: http://www.r3datarecovery.com/news/entry/emergency_weekend_recover

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2014 The busiest year for the R3 Data Recovery team due to New Year storms

08/05/2014 By

For all data recovery labs there is a general level of workload throughout the year. Storage devices are not designed to fail but for most drives that come in for recovery they have been affected by outside interference.

As such the data recovery team operates much like a hospital with a general ward and an accident and emergency service. In a previous post we described how 2013 had been very busy due to lightening / thunderstorms, resulting in R3 increasing its spare capacity to ensure production levels could be maintained at the fastest turnaround times, whilst still supporting those with severely degraded drives needing long term imaging.

The data recovery hospitals main lab in Sheffield is one of the highest capacity labs in Europe and possibly the largest in the UK but even with additional capacity last Summer the new year of 2014 resulted in hundreds of hard drives and dozens of servers being affected and we have had the busiest 4 months period on record.

With servers for business and schools, SSD and hard drives and memory sticks for home users and students all affected by power outages we have seen a constant flow of new work.

Many times there are backups but even the back up servers were affected and its not until a failure is it realised that critical data needs recovering.

Despite planning to have spare capacity it has meant we have been unable to even spare time for articles like this for the website or even to ask for reviews of our services but we have made plans to change this.

The redevelopment of Security House is planned over the summer months but in the meantime we are looking to add to our capacity and will be recruiting another technician to join the R3 Team. Get in touch if you have at least 5 years experience in data recovery and would like to be part of what is building into the UK’s most productive data recovery operation. Call 0333 123 3282 or 0800 999 3282 and talk to Andy Butler

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Busy New Year in The Office

12/01/2014 By

Thursday 2nd January 2014 it had been the first full day back of all the R3 Data Recovery team after a partial shutdown over the Christmas period, and it turned out to be the busiest of the year so far! In reality the New Year is always busy, holiday and shutdown periods always result in additional workload but combined with storms and floods around the UK, this particular day turned into one where within 24 hours A Server, 2 flood damaged drives, several laptops including a Macbook Pro with a shorted SSD Drive were collected in by our couriers and by our own staff and recovered within the time frames and budgets quoted.

After a busy day recovering drives, sending out recovered data file lists and booking in new work, it came down to R3 staff to help in the return of some very sensitive business critical data during the evening.

Whilst en route Andy and Martin were notified of an out of hours call and possible emergency. The potential client like many in his situation found he could not access important files needed to manage his servers and was in distress and understandably frustrated in his online search to find a reputable hard drive repair specialist within London in his hour of need.

The client had all but resigned himself that the data was unrecoverable because not only was the drive failing but he had encrypted the data and had no access to email and his online searches and research had him unsure who he could entrust his critical data with.

Despite R3’s main lab being in Sheffield and only receiving the call mid evening Andy as passenger was able to manage the clients enquiry by text and mobile phone, and make arrangements to collect the drive at 00:45 am in London and by 04.25am the drive was already on an emergency recovery system in their main Sheffield lab, and despite being very badly degraded and impossible to recover every sector, the drive image produced enabled the truecrypt password to be entered and the data accessed.

Martin despite being a relatively new driver was able to complete the round trip within 7 hours despite Andy’s co driving mistake close to Brent Cross adding 15 minutes to the journey and delay collection to 1am.

Martin and Andy were back in the lab for 4am, drive diagnosed and the recovery commenced before getting a few hours sleep, they we back at their desks for 9am and another day of managing the new year disaster recovery needs of dozens of businesses and individuals around the UK.

A very relieved client was kind enough to write his own experience: http://www.thinlinedata.com/data-recovery-company-data-recovers/

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R3 Data Recovery Ltd – The most Successful and Productive Data Recovery Company in the UK

25/09/2013 By

R3 Data RecoveryAndy Butler announces increased imaging capacity to enable more drives to be recovered every month.

This new round of investment helps R3  to improve throughput and efficiency at both it Northern and Southern labs. The addition of a further 10 state of the art imaging units and a further 6 data validation systems along with increased recovery server storage capacity has added a further 30% production capability and is designed to restore the flexibility a data recovery lab needs to provide all service levels and client needs at a price to fit their budget.

After a summer of running at full capacity after regional power outages and adverse weather used up spare capacity normally set aside for emergency and budget services this significant additional investment is designed to ensure R3 remains the first choice for data recovery in the UK.

Andy explains how his data recovery labs maintain their class leading success rates whilst helping keep costs down.

“Tthe problem with data recovery is some situations may require a data recovery engineers time for a matter of minutes or a few hours restoring a failed drive to an operational state, but what sets our complete service apart is the quality of the recovery and our willingness to go that extra mile for our clients even on budget services , overnight or at weekends.

By automating the bad sector recovery and imaging / cloning aspect of the data recovery process we maximise the efficiency  of the technicians and maintain true low cost, industry leading success rates.”

R3 offer upfront data recovery fees which are often undercut but never undersold. “around 10% of our monthly throughput are drives which were sent to other companies which quote a sub £150 price for work which cannot be done properly on a regular basis for less than £250 ”

The problem with cheap data recovery is RISK – software only operations fail to protect the clients drives and in doing so put the data at risk and reduce the chance of a full recovery or the quality especially for drives with unreadable sectors.

“By adding extra imaging capacity we bring back the spare production required for emergencies to ensure our 6,12,24 and 48 hr turnaround options are met even on weekends and that we chase every bad sector and in doing so get data back that has been declared unrecoverable or corrupted.”

During early September  there were 6 emergencies carried out over a Friday lunchtime to Sunday morning including a failed RAID5  server brought in from Paris which was won on a recommendation from another company R3 had saved from a data disaster during early 2013.

“We coordinated collection from Paris at lunchtime, it was in our lab for 9pm that night and enabled our duty technician to image 4 drives, solve the corruption caused by bad sectors and then copy the  recovered data back to a drive  for uploading from the clients UK data center, then restored on newly provisioned servers ready for business opening in Paris  8am the following Monday.

“This additional capacity ensures our corporate, larger organisation SME’s with business/production critical data is restored quickly, cost effectively  and enabled R3 to use this spare capacity when not needed for emergencies to offer budget services and staged payment terms for those who need our success rates but are willing to wait longer for their data.

Andy Butler has helped many thousands of business and consumers and acts as operations manager to the R3 data recovery engineers. He is passionate about data recovery and helps keep production on target out of hours and at weekends as well as offering free consultations 7 days per week.

R3 Data Recovery is retained as preferred supplier to Universities, Governmental departments, broadcasting and film production companies, legal firms, architects, car manufacturers, steel producers, banking and foreign exchange providers as well as to hundreds of small to medium businesses through IT Support companies throughout the UK recovering data from all kind of media types: from hard drives to memory sticks, servers, smart phones and VM’s / VHD’s.

R3 also help home users, students and the self employed – Give Andy and the team call on 0800 999 3282 or 0333 123 3282.

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RAID Data Recovery Process

05/05/2013 By

RAID Data Recovery Process

If your RAID has failed and time is critical  Call 0800 999 3282 or use the contact form. Emergency and priority services call 079 3282 4264, Data Recovery Hospital treats all RAID recoveries as extremely high priority, collection of your server or failed disks can be within 60 minutes of your call –  day or night 365 days of the year.

The first step is to establish whether or not the storage device needs to come to our market-leading laboratory facilities. If so, we will look to create an image of the accessible data onto new media, so that we can perform a logical analysis to understand the exact nature of the data loss problem.  We can repair, recover and restore data 7 days a week and routinely restore failed RAID arrays and servers within 24-48 hours if required.

If any files are inaccessible, our lab will exhaustively test each of the components to determine whether or not there has been any physical damage. Typical components that can cause mechanical failure include read / write heads, electronics, drive motors, head assemblies and magnets.

In the event that any of the components have failed, or been damaged, we will replace them in our ISO 3 clean room . We will then use specialist hardware and software to create a raw image of the data to be recovered.

If data has been lost due to a logical problem, our data recovery engineers will examine the low-level data sectors to establish the layout of volumes which are striped over more than one drive. They will also work out the fixes that are needed to the filesystem structures, to enable access to the missing data.

We will ‘de-stripe’ multiple drive servers to enable filesystems to be repaired, so that the lost data files can be restored. In the event that the filesystem structures are missing or damaged to the point of being useless, we will look to extract the data directly from the destriped image.

Over time, our data recovery programmers have built a suite of bespoke tools that allow our engineers to analyse, de-stripe, fix, and recover data from, raw images from pretty much any operating system.

When the data has been successfully recovered, we will provide a complete file list so that you are able to establish that we have been successful in restoring all lost files.

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