Disk data recovery saves lives. Unlike cats that are given "9 lives", our data, our companies, and our livelihood, are not so lucky.

Think of what it would take a major publishing house to recreate a magazine that they are about to release. It's impossible. The complex task of reproducing such a vast amount of articles, pictures, and advertisements in such a short period of time is unrealistic. But disk data recovery can do just that: Revive your data, your corporate image, and your job, in a flash.

How to get fired

Without disk data recovery, the corporation who had lost a lot of their crucial data because the backups had not been validated daily, would have encountered a major business bind. Forget the short-term money to be lost. Think of the long-term business relationships that would have been compromised. That's "mega bucks" forfeited. In this case, because disk data recovery had salvaged the data, only one person was ousted, fired, put on the chopping block to be beheaded, the technician whose job it was to check the back-ups regularly.

This corporation, who remains to be anonymous for obvious reasons, had been informed about do-it-yourself disk data recovery tools and the cheaper cost structure compared to data recovery services. But, because management did not trust the tech department as far as they could throw them at that point, they would not have anything to do with the technicians using disk data recovery software on their only data source. Relationships and millions of dollars were on the line.

Which would you choose?

As an individual or small company, you might not be as lucky to have the monetary resources available to make such a commanding decision on the spot. Disk data recovery software may be something you want to explore, if it can recover your data safely, while costing only a fraction of data recovery service, which is the case.

Disk data recovery tools range in pricing from about seventy-five dollars up to four hundred; services rendered start at about five hundred dollars and range into the thousands, many thousands, depending on the complexity of the problems and when you need the data back. Of course, there are situations where the only solution is disk data recovery service.

Insights you may not have thought about

One vulnerability that is not addressed often, and that is directly related to data loss and disk data recovery, is local back-up. Laptops are becoming more prevalent in the workplace, and so is disk data recovery because of it. Take a laptop away from the company server and now it has become a liability, unless you have taken the proper precautions.

Pre-installing disk data recovery software on a laptop that can automatically record every move you make, and having a convenient USB portable storage device as a quick back-up, ensures the greatest data safety on the road. While the popular operating systems have what I call, 'pseudo file system protection' built in, installing a disk data recovery program that quickly revives lost data - by protecting the property of future folders and files - is certainly the best data recovery method. This means, when you suddenly lose a file, pull out one of your '9 lives', press the Meow-button, and kindly demand that the file return intact, now.

Be prepared

In hindsight, everything is clear; but losing your job, your client, because you forgot to confirm the backups when required, can be prevented. And when the situation is beyond your control, make sure you use disk data recovery software as soon as data loss occurs. Otherwise, you may never see that data again.