Although all seems lost, there is a chance that data on a corrupt hard drive can be recovered.
Barely a day goes by without someone accosting me and demanding (with menaces) that I divulge everything I know about the black arts of data recovery.
To save me the hassle of explaining that, as an Aikido instructor, I can probably run much faster than they can, I will instead use this forum to share what I know about the subject.
Joking aside, data recovery is a serious and fast-growing global industry; besides the obvious emotional attachment we have with our data, it raises the age-old riddle of what monetary value we put on it.
In the past, data recovery houses have charged pretty much what they liked because people knew so little about it.
Most of us assume that once a drive dies, our data dies with it, although this is only partly true; those in the know can, with equal amounts of skill, good fortune, theatrics and jiggery-pokery, pull the virtual rabbit out of the hat and recover the seemingly unrecoverable.
To know more about data recovery, we need to know how a computer stores information at a raw level and how binary file collaboration results in sector variations of the allocation tables and subsequent cone and cylinder manipulation and fghtyuijnfdmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Oops! Sorry, I nodded off there; the fact is we don't need to know that stuff to grasp how data recovery works.
To Continue Reading: Click Here
-----------------------------------------------
Source: watoday.com.au
By: Dave Thompson
Monday, June 15, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment