The Evaluation Process of Data Recovery

Though hard drives fail normally due to use, it takes a number of years on account of wear and tear. You should therefore know all the options and what you should do in case you’re hard drive fails. Recovering data is the best way to retrieve lost data or the deleted data from the hard drive.

 

Data recovery can restore the files on your hard drive from viruses to crashes, by rebuilding the platters and the structure of the drive. With in a couple of days experienced computer technician can restore your hard drive.

 

Evaluation of the hard drive is needed before it is rebuilt. This gives the evaluation a chance to examine the drive and determine the cause of failure and how to restore the data required. This is a long drawn process involving a series of steps by the technician.

 

First and foremost determine it the problem is logical or physical or mixture of both. Physical failure causes hard drive malfunctions while logical problems create software troubles. Once the problem and its cause are diagnosed the technician can plan his repair method and what he should do to recover the information.

 

By gaining access into, the hard drive the technician creates a mirrored image of the drive and carries on his process. Next come the data structure and the technician determines how much of it can be saved. This set up in evaluation requires a long period of time as the person has to go through each sector step by step and see what data can be retrieved and what cannot be.

 

After the evaluation the results are out. He will explain all the options available to you. It is here they discuss about the price and the time taken for executing the job. They will reveal the cause for the problem and the quantum of data that can be released. If you want you can take a second opinion. Very rarely it happens that you cannot get back the data and the technician throws up his hand, saying that nothing could be done for your hard d rive. But he will contact you first before doing anything to recover your data to know what you want to do.

 

For retrieval of lost data, normally, 48 hours are enough. Evaluation may take few days as it needs planning and consumes more time. If parts are needed as also other technicians for the process, evaluation takes more time, otherwise not. But if the hard drive is full of hardware and mechanical problems it can be easily take a few weeks to know anything about them.