When it comes to looking for a reliable data recovery service, you will find many offers to help out there, with many different people and companies telling you to try their product or service. Most importantly for you is that you do not further corrupt the data you are trying to save. If you are reading this web site from the machine on which you have deleted files, you need to be aware that at any moment your computer may overwrite your data with some or other temporary system file.

If you have a more serious problem and your computer will not boot or recognise one of the hard drives, then before you fiddle with the settings, give us a call. In most cases your valuable data can be recovered by our engineers. Whatever happened to your data - whether files were accidentally deleted, a virus has wiped out the boot record, whether the drive was formatted or fdisk'ed or even is no longer recognised by the operating system, as long as it wasn't physically overwritten, the data which was on the drive is still there. Our Data Recovery Service can help you retrieve your data simply and at a low cost.

If the drive is making strange noises, doesn't spin at all, or is no longer recognized by the BIOS, then you may well have a physical problem with the drive. When a hard drive is physically damaged no software solution is going to bring your data back. We recommend you to not even try to recover your data yourself in these cases, because each time you run a damaged drive could be last time it is running at all. More importantly, included in our data recovery service, is to investigate why there was data loss, an to prevent this from occurring again in the future.

Most often though, the files just aren't accessible anymore the way they should be. This is true for all data loss scenarios due to logical failures like accidental file deletion, format, fdisk, software or power failure, user error, virus attacks. This is due to the fact that the data on the drive is not overwritten immediately you delete the file (Unless you are using specialist programs intended to destroy the data.). Instead a signature byte is set at the start of the file's file name. This signature byte is an indication that the space is free on the drive, and is available to be written to. And that's exactly what happens. The next time you write something to the drive, the new data will be written to the so marked area. But this also means, that as long as nothing new is written to the drive, the data is still there, intact and can therefore be recovered using our data recovery service. As soon as you notice you have lost files STOP working on that drive! Give our consultants a call to discuss our data recovery service and you will be helped before it's too late. Don't attempt anything that could further damage your drive, or corrupt your data.

Don't try to use any repair tools, like "Boot Record Repair" or "Bad Sector Repair". Don't run ScanDisk. These tools are writing to your drive, and in the process are likely to overwrite the very files you intend to recover.

Even in cases which seem the most radical - when you i.e. have formatted your drive and five minutes later realise that you didn't mean to format THAT drive, all of your files are still there. When you format a FAT32 drive, everything is destroyed (the boot record, the FAT, the root directory) except for the partition table and the data. And that's all you need! As long as the data's still there your files can be reconstructed - very often nearly perfectly.

In short - never install or copy anything to the drive you want to recover data from. If you can avoid it, don't even run the drive anymore. Writing anything to the drive you have the data loss on, can doom the whole recovery. Installing a seemingly tiny 1MB program on the drive can mean that you are not only overwriting 1MB of space on the drive, but are corrupting 100MB or more worth of files beyond recovery. Something as mandatory as surfing the internet or downloading mail affects your hard drive. Rather stop what you are doing and take advantage of our data recovery service and prevent further data loss.

Data loss could mean disaster for your company financially! Be prepared and speak to us for the best and most cost effective solution.