Disaster Strikes: How Is Data Recovered From A Dead Hard Drive?

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With enough time and use, all drives fail. Some fail at the worse time while holding irreplaceable data. When the unthinkable hits and you're staring at your precious bits trapped in a paperweight, here is how the experts go about retrieving your sanity.

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[jamie_1318]

Wow, really neat article. I had understood most of the general practices but it was interesting to see the facilities at work.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

great article. considering i lost my decade worth of data 3 days back due to a WD HDD failure 🙁

 

[Da_Man]

one of my 2tb drive suddenly detected as RAW in my windows 8.1 machine, Luckily i manage to fix it using TestDisk (free) to repair my ntfs partition, and all its fine. only couple file is broken.

so always backup your drive

 

[ChiefScooter]

I wonder if they can handle encrypted drives...

 

[feidv]

Thanks a lot great article!.. how much did your 28 man hour did cost you in the end?

 

[Vorador2]

Good article. Most people only take backup seriously when it's too late.

Makes me glad i do weekly backups at home.

 

[Divyanshu Sah]

Really helpful article. I appreciate it.

 

[lilcinw]

Wow... your NAS didn't inform you that a drive had failed? I hope that beast is in the trash.

 

[clonazepam]

In the future, can it just be assumed we all want to "see more"? Thanks =)

 

[Quarkzquarkz]

You people should always back up your data, and NEVER cloud data. Yes yes I know backing up data is tedious and takes precious time but you would never have to spend 3000-20k us dollars for recovery.

And besides, in RAID 5 you still lose data? You must have been beyond lazy to not figure out your 1st drive failed before the whole RAID collapsed. Shame on you, and let this be a lesson to the rest of you lazy IT's, TRUST me~ =(

 

[ram1009]

We all learn the backup lesson the hard way. It's in our DNA. Reading between the lines of this article it makes a strong case for SSDs. NO MOVING PARTS. I wish they had quoted some numbers on the average price to recover a single SSD vs a single HDD.

 

[spookyman]

You never know when you might need to recover valuable data for your company.

 

[jecastej]

I do have critical data in 3 different drives, one is isolated and only gets connected for BUs, but I lost a year of information during back ups 2 times, years ago. This year however I am very close to add a second 2 tb to BU my 2 tb drive that is about 3 years old.

 

[lp231]

Glad you got your data back and cool article

 

[Dagstar]

Definitely an interesting read. I wonder what's been the weirdest, most embarassing, etc. data they've come across and recovered...

 

[JOSHSKORN]

How do you click the images to view it in hi res? Everytime I click the image it either navigates forward or back on the slideshow. I'm using Google Chrome, if that makes a difference.

 

[Roger Rogers-1382392]

Lost Terrabytes of treasured data?
Been there; done that. almost got arrested and had my life turned upside down. Frustration can be heard three blocks away.
Thats putting it mildly.
SSD is the way forward; with RAID clone.

 

[uz-spark]

"Especially if you click on this image to view its higher-resolution version"

Uh ... oh ... toms trolling me ?

 

[boliveira]

That's a great article! Thanks for sharing such detailed information, and congratulations for an happy ending.

 

[adamdbz]

William How much did you pay?
And is srs usa only?

 

[g-unit1111]

This is very interesting for mechanical hard drives. I assume that recovering data from a dead SSD would be a similar process or would it be entirely different?

 

[16bit]

Very good article. Always wanted to know how HDD's data is recovered.

 

[inchis]

when I was working for www.inchis.com the server hard drive crashed and I tried so many methods, couldn't get it to work or get the data out. now my question is, does this really work or not

 

[inchis]

when I was working for www.inchis.com the server hard drive crashed, it was hell had to redo all the work from scratch. now when that happens to Zim free adverts I will simply throw the drive away, we got cloud