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Data
Safeguards
From Our Data Recovery Engineers:
Choose a "DATA RECOVERY" Company
very carefully. Sending your drive to an inexperienced company can
only cause more damage. In fact this is a common cause of "data
loss". Check out the company you are considering very carefully.
Ask if they are local and how long they have been in business. Will
a technician or an engineer speak with you?
- Backup your data frequently.
- Do not remove the cover from the hard drive.
This will only cause further damage.
- Do not attempt to recover data with commonly
available software utility programs.
- Do not continue powering up a drive you believe
has been damaged. It can and will only get worse.
- If you here a clunk, clunk sound when you power
up the drive then the servo pattern has been lost and the drive
can't find track zero. Shut the drive down and do not power up
again. You may break the TRK 00 Stop inside the drive.
- Never shake the hard disk drive.
- Don't trying dropping the drive to get it "unstuck".
- Don't expose the drive to extreme temperatures.
- If a drive has been through a great deal of
force or is visibly damaged do not try to power it up to see if
you can see any data.
- Never power up a drive that may have been exposed
to water, fire, lightening or smoke. The drive must be serviced
or data recovered in an air-and static-controlled Class 100 clean
room by data recovery professionals.
- Use the same type of precautions for any type
of media including floppies, tapes, or CD's when the data is valuable
to you or your company.
- Package the drive properly when you send it
in for data recovery. This is the second major cause of permanent
loss of data. See our Shipping
Info for details on how to package and send your drive to
Advanced Data Recovery.
- Don't assume that data is unrecoverable,
no matter what it has been through.
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