The offer to trash a hard drive to see whether its data could be retrieved by Kroll Ontrack’s recovery service proved irresistible. Soon a car was being revved up and the experiment was under way . . .
IT’S THAT unmistakeable sound anyone who works with technology dreads hearing. The whirring, clicking sound you know your PC shouldn’t be making, which suggests your hard drive – containing your precious data – has either passed on or is a digital breath away from giving up the ghost.
In an ideal world you would have a recent data backup that would allow you to restore all those files. But as anyone who has been in the situation where a hard drive has failed will know, we don’t live in an ideal world. Disaster invariably strikes when your hard drive or other storage is brim full of precious memories and you only have one copy (see panel).
In these instances both consumers and businesses are increasingly turning to data recovery specialists. Coming to the fore in the early 1990s, these firms were experts in the dark arts of data storage and were able to recover files which non-specialists would tell you were gone forever. The issue was that such specialised services came at a huge cost – sums of €10,000 were not unheard of to recover the contents of a drive. As a result, it was largely law enforcement agencies and businesses who stood to make big losses without the data who were willing to stump up for the service. Read More
Courtesy: Irish Times
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