If you don’t care about the data in your hard disk, according to the articles I wrote earlier (How to Open a Desktop Hard Drive, How to Open a Laptop Hard Drive), we can easily open the laptop and desktop hard drive step by step, but if the data is very important to us, we…
1. The Frequently Reasons of Data Lose a) Logically: Delete; Format;Virus; Be Protected; Partition tab or MBR/DBR Broken; b) Firmware: Management Modules:Hard Disk couldn’t work or work well; Data Modules:Data lose or disordered; c) Physically: PCB Problem(Print circuit board. Donor PCB can be found on HDDZone.com); Bad Sector; Motor Broken; Platter Scratch or out of…
The cost of a data loss event is directly related to the value of the data and the length of time that it is needed, but unavailable. Consider:
Software and Hardware
Environment
The following sections describe types of data recovery and supported formats and manufacturers. RAID data recovery, digital photo recovery, and VMWare workstation data loss are covered in separate articles under “Related Links.”
Laptop Data Recovery
As they are often carried about and exposed to different environmental factors such as heat, water and dust, laptop and notebook computers are far more likely to experience data loss than their office desktop counterparts. Their portability makes these sophisticated and essential in-the-field devices prime candidates for data loss.
Mechanical and electrical failure, software corruption and human error all play a role in data loss. Here are some of the most often noted data loss symptoms and data accessibility problems:
Laptop Disk Drives Supported
You may not know this, but the hard disk drive embedded in your laptop is not necessarily by the same manufacturer as the laptop. Seagate Recovery Services recovers data from all notebook and laptop brands, models and interfaces – that is, from all types of hard disk drives from all manufacturers including Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi and Samsung.
Database Recovery
Mission-critical data is often stored in SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Exchange Server, Access and other databases that are maintained on networked fileservers. Relational and object-oriented database management technologies are fundamental to modern IT systems, often underpinning the lifeblood applications run by the entire corporation.
Individual media in database servers suffer from the same failure points as disk drives in personal computers and workstations. Experienced system administrators and database administrators know that a relational or object-oriented database environment is fragile unless supported by a comprehensive and well-tested backup plan.
Unfortunately, it is all too common for devices to become corrupt beyond the scope of routine recovery methods:
Seagate Recovery Services specializes in making inaccessible data accessible again, recovering data from the most complex database configurations.
Database Types Supported
SRS can also make inaccessible data accessible again for all xbase products such as dBase, FoxPro Productivity Applications Microsoft Office (including all versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint Mail Server and Client Applications), Microsoft Exchange and Outlook Applications, and email systems conforming to the UNIX mbox format, such as Eudora and Netscape.
Server Data Recovery
Fileservers, application servers, mail servers, web servers, NAS devices and custom-built servers form the backbone of corporations’ business records storage systems. Windows servers–the most popular operating systems for servers today–along with Apple OSX, Solaris, HPUX, IAX, and Linux servers, form a significant portion of servers in businesses.
Naturally, the individual media in servers suffer from the same failure points as do drives in personal computers and workstations. However, the increased complexity of many server operating systems results in additional data loss situations:
Because servers are often utilized for mission-critical operations, customers need to get their data back quickly and securely. SRS services includes options for on-site data recovery, critical 24/7 options, as well as remote data recovery and special options.
Operating Systems and Platforms Supported
SRS technicians are trained on platform-specific configurations, enabling us to recover data from server hardware spanning the most popular brands, such as IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sun and others, including:
Tape Data Recovery
Server and personal-computer tape backup systems utilizing mm DAT, Travan, Exabyte 8mm, LTO and the various QIC formats are popular and necessary to safeguard your data. However, when these tapes fail, the situation is normally catastrophic, as these tapes were often the only remaining repository of the data. Quite often customers may no longer posses original tape hardware or software to restore from legacy environments.
Fire, smoke, water and even dropping the tape cartridge may damage the media, resulting in data loss. Internal mechanism failure and exposure to extreme temperatures, as well as logical read/write errors on a tape’s file may also result in data loss. Due to the nature of the tape solution, they are designed to withstand time to store archives. Some media if stored incorrectly or stored longer than the life span of the media may degrade causing data loss.
Here are some typical causes of tape failure:
Formats and Manufacturers Supported
Popular backup software–such as EMC, Networker, CA BrightStore (ArcServe) plus the UNIX tar and cpio utilities (and many more)–all use different internal formats. SRS programmers are expertly trained to understand and extract data any type of tape media, regardless of format. SRS recovers data from these tape media formats and manufacturers, among others:
Tape Backup and File Formats
For more information, please go to Seagate Recovery Services
Data loss is generally characterized by one or more of the following:
Among other causes, data loss can be attributed to system or human error, adverse environmental conditions and device failure:
The growing trend toward bring your own device(BYOD) in the workplace is putting company data at risk, according to a survey by Mozy and Compass Partners. Most (87 percent) small and midsize businesses have no formal policy in place regarding employees’ use of personal devices for work purposes — and 80 percent weren’t even concerned. About 33 percent of companies let employees make their own decisions about how to back up company and client data on their devices, and most companies lack adequate backup or data recovery plans for those devices.
Besides not backing up, employees are engaging in other risky behavior with their personal devices, including not having antivirus protection, leaving laptops alone in coffee shops or other public places, using public computers to access company networks and transferring unencrypted data.
Why it matters to your business: The risk of loss isn’t just theoretical. For example, 11 percent of the survey’s respondents said employee laptops have been stolen in the past, and in 98 percent of those cases, all of the lost data was never recovered. The “bring your own device” trend isn’t going away, but if you allow it, you do need to set some rules to protect your customers’ data, your data — and your business.
About Mozy
Mozy is the world’s most trusted online backup service for consumers and businesses, with more than three million customers, 70,000 business users and 70 petabytes of information stored at its multiple data centers around the globe. Mozy was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2007 and operates as part of Decho Corporation, an EMC company. More information can be found at www.mozy.com
About the Study
The study was executed by Compass Partners LLC, an independent market research firm focused on consumer technology. The study was fielded among 641 business decision makers responsible for the purchase of software and computer related services for small and medium businesses with 1 – 1,000 full-time employees. Field dates were October 24 through November 1, 2011. For each industry vertical sampled (each cell contained a minimum of 100 responses), the margin of error is +/- 9.8% at 95% confidence interval.
Data loss can result from many causes. These can include virus attacks, system malfunction, or human error in the handling or installation of the drive. Fujitsu highly recommends that users take standard measures to protect their data, the most important of which are frequent and regular backups, and diagnostic checks of your drives.
The list of Data Recovery Companies below are recognized by FCPA. If you utilize one of these companies for your data recovery needs, FCPA will not void your products warranty related to this activity. In all other instances, FCPA will void the product’s warranty if, when returned, it exhibits tampering and/or alterations (Please see our warranty exclusions statement).
Any agreement you may reach with one of these companies is a matter between you and the company you have selected. FCPA does not warrant the services provided by these companies and cannot be held liable for any damages or unsatisfactory performance.
DriveSavers
Tel: (800) 440-1904
Fax: (415) 883-0780
Website: www.drivesavers.com
Ontrack Data International, Inc.
Tel: (800) 872-2599
Fax: (952) 937-5815
Website: www.ontrack.com
Fujitsu does not itself perform data recovery services, nor does it recommend or authorize any specific data recovery company or its services.
If you have questions regarding your product’s warranty, you can call 888-664-0672.
“70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months” – DTI
Data recovery and security need to become priorities but there are still significant risks that are largely being ignored.
Writing for Forbes, Kevin West, chief executive officer of Klogix, suggested that data loss is reaching levels so high and costing companies so much that it could start to impact the economy.
While he cites the US as an example, the importance of intellectual property protection and adequate security training are the same for businesses around the world.
Untrustworthy offshore outsourcers, malicious cyber attacks from organisations and governments, a lack of training and the rise of Bring Your Own Policies at work will all make the risk of data loss grow in 2012.
Causes of Data Loss: Hardware Failure,Human Errors,Virus Attack,Software Malfunction, Natural Disaster and Power Crisis…
“There is little formal training offered in the subject of cyber security. As a result we rely on self-taught hackers to fill these jobs, people who choose to use their talents to do good work with corporations, but could just as easily turn to cyber crime,” Mr West added, warning that without investment in training, the issue could get worse.
This view was echoed by Mark Dampster Centre for Cyber Security who warned that the cost of data loss is “vast”.
Is your data asset getting out of sight? Kroll Ontrack has a complete data management solution to ensure your data availability from production to archiving.
Posted by Edward Clark on ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk
Earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and tsunamis. While recent natural disasters may remind business leaders about the importance of continuity plans, most CEOs may not realize that data disasters occur every day, and the repercussions can be devastating.
Data backup is easily one of the most critical elements of a complete disaster recovery plan. For example, a 2009 study by MetaGroup cited that just 6% of businesses survive catastrophic data loss.
A 2007 MetaGroup study found that only 3% of data losses occur due to natural disasters; 97% are due to mechanical failure or human error, both of which are far more common. Fortunately, the preparation for both types of disasters is much the same.
In planning for disaster recovery, CEOs should consider five important questions:
What systems and information are absolutely critical to running your business day-to-day? Emails? Accounting data? Customer records? All of the above?
Understanding what data is mission-critical may just save your business in a disaster. Evaluating the importance of your data will help determine what needs to be quickly accessible and what isn’t as critical, which will help you control data storage costs.
How long could you operate without that data before your business suffered? A few hours? A day? Several days?
Data backed up to tape rather than a cloud-based platform could take several days to be restored. There’s no reason to wait that long today with solutions that allow you to recover data within minutes.
When is your data backed up? Multiple times a day? Every day?
Understand approximately how many hours’ worth of data you risk losing.
Where and how is your backup data stored? On site? Off site? Out of market?
Data should be backed up in multiple locations, including somewhere out of the area. If your city were flooded, tapes stored at your office or even elsewhere in your same city might prove worthless. The best bet for many business owners is a solution that allows you to back up your encrypted data via the cloud, safely, to locations off-site and out of the area.
Who will retrieve your data in the event of a loss?
In a natural disaster, your key personnel may be wearing several hats. Have a specific person designated for data recovery. Even better, choose a company that will manage your data recovery for you, lifting that burden from your shoulders.
Bottom line: Businesses with continuity plans outlining where they will go and what equipment they will use may be ahead of the game, but if they don’t know how they will recover their data, those plans won’t really matter.
Gayle Rose is founder and CEO of Electronic Vaulting Services, a cloud backup and recovery company.
In today’s competitive business environment, data is the life line of any business, small or large corporate or individual. If your laptop suffered a crash, was damaged by impact or water, started making clicking noises, was accidentally formatted, or otherwise failed, you need professional help.
Common Causes of Laptop Data Loss:
How is Laptop Data Recovery Different?
Mobility, the laptop computer’s greatest advantage, is also its biggest threat. One of the leading causes of data loss in laptops is physical damage resulting from dropping or hitting the laptop while moving it around. Water damage is also a big contributor: spilling tea or coffee can break not only the hard drive, but any of the countless electronic components inside the laptop. The tight packing of all the hardware makes the situation even more dangerous.
Recovering data from a laptop demands new tools, new knowledge, and oftentimes, a whole new approach. Our engineers use specialized, custom-built equipment to handle the tiny parts found inside a laptop, and have the in-depth knowledge and experience of laptop architecture that is essential for successful laptop data recovery.
What To Do If You Lose Data On Laptop?
Stop Immediately & shut down your computer, If you detect any problem or hear any clicking grinding scratching noise coming from the disk drive. You need professional help.
These are the five common reasons of data loss(Hardware Failure,Firmware Corruption,Logical Error,Accidental Deletion,Operating System Failure.). You should be aware of these things to avoid your data from loss. If you have experienced data loss due to any of the reason, you need for data recovery to recover your valuable data. There are two options of data recovery you have- one is software method and second is hardware.
If your data is lost due to the software problem like logical error, operating system corruption or accidental deletion, then you should use data recovery software to recover and restore your data. Here is a collection of 22 data recovery softwares for you:
1. Pandora Recovery
Version:2.1.1,Free, www.pandorarecovery.com
2. Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition
Version: 5.5.1,Free, www.easeus.com
3. MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition
Version: 6.5,Free,www.minitool.ca
4. NextBreed Data Recovery
Version: 1.0, Free to try; $64.99 to buy, www.nextbreed.com
5. VirtualLab Data Recovery
Version: 6.0.2.8,Free to try (10MB of recovered data); $39.95 to buy,www.binarybiz.com
6. EasyRecovery Professional
Version: 6.10, $499.00 to buy,www.ontrack.com
7. Recover Files
Version: 3.27,Price: Free to try(Limited functionality); $29.95 to buy.www.UndeleteUnerase.com
8. File Recovery Assist
Version: 3.0.0.38,Price: Free to try(Some features disabled); $29.95 to buy. www.sondle.com
9. Data Recovery
Version: 2.3.1,Free,tokiwa.qee.jp)
10. Recover My Files
Version: 4.6.8.1012,Price: Free to try (Save-disabled); $69.95 to buy,www.getdata.com
11. GetDataBack Data Recovery
Version: 3.3, Free to try (Copy-disabled); $79.00 to buy,www.runtime.org
12. PC Inspector File Recovery
Version: 4,Free,www.convar.com
13. File Scavenger Data Recovery Utility
Version: 3.2,Free to try (64KB file size recovery trial); $49.00 to buy,www.quetek.com
14. Pen Drive Data Recovery Software
Version: 3.0.1.5,$45.00 to buy,www.p-dd.biz
15. Moleskinsoft File Recovery
Version: 2.1.1,Free to try (Restores files with size of up to 100kB); $49.90 to buy,www.moleskinsoft.com
16. Easeus Deleted File Recovery
Version: 3.0.1,Free,www.easeus.com
17. R-Studio Data Recovery
Version: 5.3 build 133533,Free to try (64K-file undelete/recovery trial); $79.99 to buy,www.r-tt.com
17. Easeus Data Recovery Wizard
Version: 5.5.1,Free to try (1-mb size file recovery trial); $69.95 to buy,www.easeus.com
18. GetDataBack for NTFS
Version: 4.21,Free to try (Full file recovery disabled); $79.00 to buy,www.runtime.org
19. Memory Card Pictures Recovery Restore
Version: 3.0.1.5,Free to try (Limited file saving); $69.00 to buy,www.DataDoctor.biz
20. USB Drive Data Recovery
Version: 3.0.1.5,Free to try (File saving feature is disabled); $45.00 to buy,prodatadoctor.com
21. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery – Professional
Version: 4.2,Free to try (Recovery-disabled); $99.00 to buy,www.stellarinfo.com
22. R-Undelete
Version: 4.1 build 133533,Free to try (64KB-file trial); $54.99 to buy,www.r-tt.com
Data recovery cannot always be done on a running system. As a result, a boot disk, Live CD, Live USB, or any other type of Live Distro containing a minimal operating system and a set of repair tools is needed.
Knoppix: The original Linux Live CD. It contains many useful utilities for data recovery. SystemRescueCD: A Gentoo based Live CD, useful for repairing unbootable computer systems and retrieving data after a system crash.
