Sunday, July 5, 2009

All about data recovery solutions

I am classifying the data recovery into 4 types for the ease of explanation.
  • Deleted data recovery
It is the common thing just to recover deleted files.
  • formatted data recovery
A common data recovery situation is accidentally reformatting a partition. Here tool will allow you to recover files from a partition, which has been accidentally formatted or reinstalled. This type of recovery will ignore the existing file system structures and search for structures associated with the previous file system.
  • Advanced data recovery
This function to recover your damaged system, deleted partitions, misoperation of HD and deletion caused by virus.

  • Raw data recovery
Here tool allows you to scan severely corrupted partitions for files with a file signature search algorithm. This tool will help you recover files from a partition with damaged directory structures.

In market there are a lot of data recover software and services are available



RAID data recovery is an difficult data recovery according to data recovery services.case is not so severe, as the multiple hard drives offer higher protection against accidental damaging the data.So, why would you need RAID data recovery? Well, RAID is said to indeed protect your data when one of the hard drives fails, by increasing system uptime and network availability.RAID data recovery is most definitely the most complicated thing that a data recovery specialist or company can perform on a system. It is their mission to repair the damages that the user has done before taking the hard drives to the technician for recovery. Most of the clients of these data recovery firms attempt to recover the data or even repair the array of hard disks by using the system utilities they can get their hands on. This may be all right for the situation when the lost data is not critical to the company, but if these unprofessional methods fail, someone could loose his or her job! Therefore, in case of a RAID failure, the best thing one can do is take it to a data recovery company and let them do their jobs properly.Even if the process of RAID data recovery can cost a lot of money, it is much better to have a specialists take it through the set procedure that the data recovery companies follow.They start by ensuring that all the hard drives are functional, as this is a major factor in the success of the whole data recovery process. Only then they start making complete sector-by-sector clones of every drive, a process that takes place at a very low level and is not affected by the bad sectors.Your initial hard drive is set to a write protect mode during this process, in order to make sure that your original data is not in danger of being modified in any way.After cloning, your hard drives are no longer needed, as the recovery process is being done on these cloned copies. The clones of your hard drives are then put into a system and all the data scattered among the drives in the array will be put into an unique destination drive.This is the point when a normal recovery process can start, as there is only one drive left!

Hard drive recovery
procedures are delicate, because they involve a high degree of risk to lose your data permanently. This is why it is not recommended that less experienced people try to retrieve their data using data recovery tools such as software or utilities. If undelete is enough to get your files back, then you can safely use it, even if you’ve just started with computers. If not, think twice before running any program you may have downloaded from the web, even if you paid for it. It is much safer for your data to make use of professional hard drive data recovery services, thus extracting data from your crashed hard drive for future use.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting points on extracting data, For simple stuff i use python to get or simplify data, data extraction can be a time consuming process but for larger projects like files, the web, or documents i tried "extracting data from the web" which worked great, they build quick custom screen scrapers, extracting data, and data parsing programs

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  2. @ Atlas245...

    Ya... you gave good points.....Thanks buddy....

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