As per LINWEI’s statistics of past 20 more years, almost 70% data of the damaged hard disk drives still can be recovered. Just like patients go to see a doctor, it is very important for them to choose a competitive scale, decent management and reliable hospital. Any mistaken choices might cause more serious damage to the hard disk drive and result permanent data loss.
The HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is a high tech, and precise industry. All HDDs are required to be assembled in Class 100 Clean Room to avoid contamination.
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It is a must for data recovery process to be proceeded in Clean Room, just like the surgical operation needs to be done in a white room. Otherwise, the data will be destroyed forever while the media has been contaminated.
There is almost only one chance to recover the data from damaged HDD.
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Logical Damage is much easier to be overwritten than that of Physical Damage since the HDD of the former still can be read and written.
The most effective and fastest ways to differ the professional data recovery company from the unprofessional one are: Don’t trust the advertisement on internet easily, pay visit to the company personally and know what are the operation scale and facility it equips.
Don't hand in the damaged HDD through special delivery to avoid further crash. It is more save for clients to deliver it to the data recovery company in person.
Remember to make the best choice of data recovery company to avoid further damage made by unprofessional recovery. Also to avoid the disclosure risk of confidential data in bad intention.
Many private working studios would only suggest clients hand in to them the damaged HDD by special delivery, or pick it up in outside places to avoid the chance of office visiting.
Any taboo of personal visiting to the office by data recovery company is an abnormal phenomenon.
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Please make sure to observe the existing and truth of owing Clean Room & other necessary facilities, quality of staff, decent philosophy of the company.
To power on the HDD even if it is under noise condition and that will cause more serious crash to the media.
Disregard high risk of not opening damaged HDD under Clean Room environment to result permanent data loss due to contamination of the media.
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Using common recovery tools such as EZ Recovery, Final Data to rescue data while HDD is workable, but data can't be read (Logical Damage) situation. But the attempt to rewrite back to the damaged HDD thoroughly with unverified data will definitely overwrite the original data and become no more chance for further recovery.
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Without professional knowledge about File System such as FAT32, NTFS, Ext3, etc., but still try to modify its configuration to cause serious internal damage.
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Without professional knowledge about RAID, but still try to rebuild or initialize RAID at random to cause RAID Configuration Fail.
