Disk Drive Data Recovery and Data Loss

Defined: disk drive data recovery is the process of retrieving or salvaging data from failed, damaged, corrupted or an otherwise inaccessible hard disk drive.

Disk drive data recovery problems can rear their ugly heads when you least expect it. You're hard at work on your computer one morning and suddenly - seemingly out of nowhere - you start hearing a strange, dull grinding sound coming from your hard drive; or you just lost a file and are wishing for its return from the abyss, and can't seem to find it.

What should you do?

If you do what most people do, disk drive data recovery first means looking in your desktop icon trash can for the file; then rebooting in frustration, thinking your file may return in working order. Then there are people who ignore the recovery hard disk warnings and keep working. As a result, if quick action is not taken, the problem only worsens until it reaches the point when using a real disk drive data recovery option becomes the only option left.

The question is, which one do you use?

Well - to know that, you should better at least understand the basic causes of data loss and hard drive data recovery; and what needs to be done to recover that file - you know the one I'm talking about. I've been there, too.

There are two primary causes that initiate a need for disk drive data recovery. These are physical damage to the computers storage device or logical damage to the file system. Physical damage can occur to a moving hard drive - for example, when a laptop is dropped to the ground. Logical damage occurs when the file system is prevented from mounting on the host operating system itself. In more simple terms, the data is not communicating with the OS (Mac/Windows/Linux/etc.) for whatever reason and you can't access your data.

Here's your answer...

Disk drive data recovery only offers you one option when the situation is caused by damage. You have to use a professional data recovery expert, without exception. This specialist will have the knowledge as well as the disk drive data recovery equipment necessary to perform the service. Also, in many cases, they will have to do all the work within the confines of a clean-room so that the computer's data storage media can be opened safely.

On the other hand, if you are experiencing logical problems - as discussed a moment ago - there are some disk drive data recovery software that you can probably use by yourself to do the job. However, you need to keep in mind that even these disk drive data recovery programs may not be enough to solve your situation.

If or when you need help

OK - you need help, but you're not sure where to start with locating a reliable disk drive data recovery company. With so many them seeming to be professional - with nice looking websites of some pictures they downloaded of the web - it's difficult to know who's the real deal. My research says that if they offer software and services and they have a toll-free telephone number, you are on the right track. Anything less, more times than not, means you're not dealing with a professional disk drive data recovery service.