Have you ever deleted something important?

[toypusher]

I have been doing data recovery for friends and a few other folks and have been thinking lately of starting a business.

Just wondering how many of you have deleted something from your PC and regretted it later (I am talking files, pictures, etc. and NOT programs). I am trying to get a feel for how much interest there might be in a data recovery service. I have recovered files from bad HDs, files that have been deleted, and even whole drives from a format!!

What do you think??

[Mary K]

Wow, I knew about the recycle bin, but I did'nt know you could find a file on a HD after it has been reformatted.

Wish I knew that, I had a program uninstall it's self AND the whole directory above it. I lost a lot of pictures.

That sounds like a great idea. You would just have to advertise. let folks know it can be done.



Mk

[mikeschn]

Kerry,

If you can recover complete drives after they have died, that you've got a gold mine in the making. You should pursue it.

Mike...

[TPMcGinty]

Nope not yet but my ex-wife stored her Masters Thesis on a 3 1/2 floppy and it decided to fail. Luckily I knew a little about computers and I was able to recover all but 2 pages of the thesis from the disk.

[mikeschn]

Kerry,

Here's who we use... food for thought...

http://www.drivesavers.com/

Mike...

P.S. Do you do any basic programming?

[toypusher]

Kerry,

Here's who we use... food for thought...

http://www.drivesavers.com/

Mike...

P.S. Do you do any basic programming?

I cannot recover anything from a completely dead drive, it has to spin up!

I have not done any programming in years and not in basic for a long, long time. Used to do a lot of Turbo Pascal. and some C.

[mikeschn]

Drivesavers will pull platters out of a dead hard drive, and recover the data that's on them, and them reassemble the data on a new drive. And you know how stuff gets fragmented. I say that's pretty impressive.

But you know, with the right tools and some computer savy...

And you have the computer savy... so just go and get the tools.

Mike...

P.S. Schucks on the basic programming, I needed some programming done... but that's okay, I'll work on it at lunchtime...

[asianflava]

There is big money to be made in file recovery. I've heard about removing the platters from dead drives and installing them into good drives. The problem is, is that you have to do it in a cleanroom environment. I've seen mirco environments where you could do this type of work. It's basically like a bead blast cabinet with HEPA filters on it.

I should have tried to do this at work since we had drives fail in the cleanroom. Most of our equipment has redundant drives. A master to slave is done at every PM so if we loose a drive, we can switch to the other one with very little data lost.