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What is Data Recovery

The word DATA in computing is referred to the digital information that can be stored and used by a computer program. In other words, it means any digitally created text document, picture, video, database, email message, accounting file, tax report, as well as any other useful and meaningful pieces of information or software stored on digital recording devices like a hard disk drive.

Data recovery lab is specialized in very particular branch of computer technology. Retrieving data from failed, damaged, or inaccessible computer memory storage device (such as hard drive, USB flash, or RAID in NAS) requires tremendous expertise in this industry and hi-tech innovations and developing the new digital recovery instruments to handle any complex project.

Your data can become inaccessible due to mechanical or electrical malfunction of the device itself or a software problem, computer virus, or a human error. The damage to the storage media can be categorized into physical damage and logical damage, but at the end of the day the users must get their authentically genuine files - meaning files restored to its original state before the crash happened. In reality, the physical damage at times will result data loss, the logical damage can be even more devastating for file integrity.

It was validated technically and statistically: the success of most data recovery varies from case to case, and it mostly depends on how quickly the hard drive/computer was TURNed OFF after its initial failure occurred. In other words, how quickly the owner of the drive or helping him a computer repairman did recognize the problem and interrupted any access to the malfunctioning disk, because the excessive testing or overusing device after initial crash is always causing even worse data loss disaster. Picking the right professional help is also critical factor that makes difference between life and death for your digital organ, the difference between recoverable before recovery prognosis and unrecoverable after recovery verdict.

It is very important to remember when you have any suspicious hard drive behavior. If it fails – do not postpone by trying to power up the computer for internal drive, or the drive itself if it’s an external kind with the hope that the very next power up will bring your files back and make them accessible – as it’s not likely, but instead get in contact a professional data recovery specialist, while there is still a good chance to salvage your information. Also we would not recommend run any tests on the bad drive itself, as it just can be a cause of the catastrophic possible scenario for the sensitive magnetic data layers, making data permanently unrecoverable.

At DataLab247 Laboratory, we use only non-destructive recovery procedures to read and restore lost data. Each sector of failed/damaged drive has to be scanned and copied to the disk image before any further recovery steps. All researches and file structure restoration will be processed safely on the image, and never on the original failed drive. Regardless of the cause of your data loss, the recovery experts are able to recover the lost data successfully in most of the cases, including the very complex ones. When there is any data yet recoverable at all – you will get it regardless the type of the damage caused to the storage media.

Projects accomplished by Data Lab 24/7

Failed Seagate ST500LT012 drive
There was no warning of failure that is the PC did not crash, nor did I detect any clicking noises. Just found one day that the PC would not boot up. Under closer inspection I found the Drive to be completely dead - the HDD motor does not rotate.
I thought I should let you know of what an amazing job your data recovery team did by working on my hard drive. I got the so-called the clone drive on the new hard drive and it works so good, seems like the failure never occurred. Frankly, I could not expect more, all my thanks to you guys. Kudos! Stuart Tokyo Japan

Lost data recovery from hard drive, Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003
I have another drive that crashed. I took it to my service center and asked that they remove the drive, give it to me and get me a new one from Sager. I told them about how you were able to recover 100% of the data from the other drive you recovered for me under $1500.00 and what a deal that was. When I called them two weeks later to find out what happened, they told me they had recovered my data. I told them they may have destroyed your attempt to recover my data by trying to help me out, and when I did try to look at the data they retrieved, they got all the data I couldn't care less about and all the important files were corrupted or non-existent in the folders. Please, try to recover this data too. I don't need it all, just a few accounting files from quick books and my swim team manager files for the past 3 years.
Do you think they destroyed the data? Can you help me again?
Dear Data Lab Recovery team, God Bless you for the work you do, I received the discs with data and could breathe at last. Thank you SOOO much!!! You did such impeccable job ... again! Best Regards, Ned Cieszko Construction Co. Inc. Havelock, North Carolina USA

WD20EARS Hard disk I/O error
Critical data: Outlook files (.PST) and Profile files for user N.
Failure occurred: Impossible to access drive. Drive is not detected by computer CMOS, but spin with no noise. Not successful recovery attempts with connected to another notebook PC, but drive was not opened.
Dear data recovery team, We have received the external hard drive and restored the user's information in his profile. Thanks a lot for your work! Very impressive! Respectfully, Humberto A. Humberto A., Buenos Aires, Argentina