Data recovery in a nutshell

Everyone that owns a computer will have at least once in their computer life encountered hard drive failure. The causes of it can vary, sometimes it's human error other times it could be a hardware fault, like a corrupted hard drive. Then there are web nasties like Trojans/viruses along with a multitude of factors that can be involved in this nightmarish scenario. Because of this common problem that everyone falls into, data recovery has been for years a very valuable need.

Virtually every type of hard disk can be restored. If the hard disk is making a scratching or ticking noise, it's possible to use specialized software for data recovery. In some cases the aperture arm within the hard disk can wear and cease to operate properly, or the hard disk platter/s become damaged thus corrupting the information contained within them. Recovering the data yourself is not always successful. In which case you may have to send your hard drive off to have it repaired or have the data recovered by a specialist company.

Recovering your data is always an option with cheap hard drives that 2GB to anything over 300GB. In most circumstances, regardless of the size of the hard drive, data should be recoverable. One great feature of data recovery is that you are able to recover data from the operating system's recycling bin. You can also recover a whole partition and even information that seems to be completely lost is quite recoverable also. You might think that a certain piece of data is lost indefinitely but there are technicians out there that can retrieve that data for you.

Whatever operating system you are running, the data can be recovered, whether it be windows, mac or linux. Some of you who are on RAID setups are good except those on RAID 0. The problem with RAID 0 is it only stripes the data for faster read/write but there is no mirroring or data backup. So if one drive fails the whole RAID dies with it. Just a little note for those using RAID 0.

Data recovery is a very useful tool and there are many different types and brands of data recovery software available on the market. And if DIY data recovery fails for you, there is always help at hand with a professional data recovery service. So 99.9% of the time that you ever lose any of your valuable data, you can rest assured that there is always a way to retrieve that lost data back and restore it.