Compared to other computer related services the data recovery services business is relatively new, completely unregulated and not very well understood by most today’s consumers. The purpose of this article is to help the reader make an objective decision as to how to choose a data recovery service provider so as not to fall victim to a new spin on a very old scam (the bait and switch) or worse; trust the data recovery job to a well meaning... read more

“How did this happen?” In the data recovery industry we hear those four words all the time. The fact of the matter is that if you aren’t doing regular backups of whatever data on your computers hard drive is important to you, then you are eventually going to lose it. That much is inevitable. Computer hard drives consist of an aluminum or ceramic and glass composite platter, with a highly polished platinum coating attached to a spindle and... read more

While most of us have heard someone say their ‘hard drive crashed‘ at some time or another, the definition of a hard drive that has ‘crashed’ is not commonly understood by any means. To most people, a hard drive crash simply means that something happened that caused them to lose their data. The term itself has changed over time– originally having been known as a ‘head crash’, where the hard drives read/write head crashed into the surface of ... read more