What Is Data Recovery And How Does It Work?

We’ve all dealt with data loss, whether it was from a hard drive failure, data corruption or accidentally deleting a file. If you’ve ever experienced a major loss of data, you’ve probably wondered about data recovery — how does it work? How effective is it? How much does it cost?

Data Loss and Data Recovery

Data loss can take many forms — accidental deletion, hard drive failure, software bugs, data corruption, hacking, even a simple power failure can cause you to lose data. And, of course, there are more extreme cases, like when a hard drive is recovered from a plane crash; amazingly, some data recovery specialists can retrieve data from storage media that’s been almost completely destroyed.

If a piece of data used to be on your hard drive, USB stick or other storage media, you might be able to hire someone (or purchase some software) to perform data recovery. Data recovery is, simply, the salvaging and repair of data that has been lost.

DLA can recover your data quickly and easily, by combing the experience of two seasoned investigators with both criminal and civil backgrounds with the latest technologies to achieve the results that you require.

Of course, data recovery won’t always be possible; sometimes a system can be too corrupted or damaged to get much of the data back. However, data-recovery technology has become extremely advanced.

How Does Data Recovery Work?

The methods used to recover lost data depend on how the data was lost in the first place; let’s take a look at some of the most common forms here.

- File Deletion

- File Corruption

- File System Format or Damage

- Physical Drive Damage

- Solid State Drive Data Recovery

DLA can do a great job of getting your data back, but the best measure you can take to prevent long-term data loss is the one we’ve been advocating for a long time: make lots of backups!