Technology is indeed enslaving us. What could prove this better than a holding a corrupted disk containing all your important data or a losing document containing vital information about your business? There is, however, help to find out there…

If you have come across this article it is very likely that you have been unfortunate enough to have lost some important data and be in need of data recovery, first things first you need to pick your recovery company, take time when doing this, make sure they can perform the task you need and that they are a trustworthy reliable company. Next you need to send your drive to them (due to the fact you are sending the drive out to be recovered it is probably already damaged, you do not want the drive to encounter any more damage when sending it out, this could make it unrecoverable).

There are many different ways in which Data Loss can occur, from human error to fire. Depending on how the data loss occurred there are certain Do’s and Don’ts to help make the recovery possible:

The hourly impact that computer downtime has within the business world is extraordinary; it can literally cost companies millions of pounds and can completely cripple some companies. Knowing the problems with data loss and weighing up the cost of downtown doesn’t it make good sense to take extra steps to ensure the best possible safety for your systems and data?

RAID stands for (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), this technology has been around for a lot of years and is being relied on more heavily by business for storing vast amounts of data. Data grows at an alarming rate and needs to be store somewhere, for those of you that do not already know RAID systems are a lot better with read/write speeds then normal drives and offer better protection (tolerance) when the drive fails.

When you are looking for a data recovery provider you may have noticed that there are hundreds to choose from, simply perform a quick web search and you will see what I mean. The choice of company you make really could decide whether you get your data back or not and the time in which you must wait for it.

There are many ways that data loss cans top you no matter if you are a home user, computer technician or a business executive. There are some software programs available that actually allow you to restore data without the need of a technician.

Data recovery is a complicated process the challenge in it is finding the original table of contents, this table of contents will actually tell us where the lost files actually exist. This is not something that can just be done by anybody who has lost data; specialist companies will have a team of skilled engineers that are actually capable of rebuilding the structure of the file system in turn saving all the lost data from being overwritten.

OK so you have just been unfortunate enough to lose some data, what do you do now? You need to have a look and work out if data recovery is required, take everything into consideration, it can be a difficult task to work out if it is required or not.

There have been many improvements over the years related to data and server recovery, unfortunately server failures are still a very common occurrence that can literally cripple a business depending on the seriousness of the failure. A lot of companies rely heavily on their sever to store all of the companies data and whether it is down to hardware, software or human error them amounts of data being lost is on an increase.

Data Recovery is a very specialised field and is not the type of task that anybody could complete, if your system fails and you fear you have lost all your data there is a good chance that this could all be recovered by a trained professional. There are many different parts to data recovery; from simple document recovery to repairing damaged sectors on a hard drive, the type of fault that occurs will determine which method of recovery you require.

An Outlook PST file can get corrupt due to several issues. To fix such corruption problems, Microsoft provides a built-in tool called Scan pst that help repairing them. The tool analyzes the corrupted PST file directory structure and items headers. It can recover all mail folders items if works. It find issues with the damaged file and corrects what it can. But if the corruption is severe, odds are that the tool might not work to repair. You should then apply your last backup to restore the file contents. Sometimes, backup also fails. To deal with such situations and to recover data, third-party tools are available. Such tools are competent to restore PST file using powerful scanning algorithms.