Categories of Data Recovery

Data loss is an unforeseen situation which every computer user could face at any point of time. There are several factors which could lead to the nightmare of data loss. The most common reasons of data loss are hard drive formatting, user errors, virus attack, system malfunction, hard drive crash, natural calamities and the like.

The data is very important for business as well as general use and nevertheless the cause of the data loss, it is extremely important to perform data recovery to recover the lost data. According to the cause of the data loss, the data recovery can be divided into four different categories. These are:

Category 1: This data recovery is very simple to perform. It does not require any high technical skill and can be performed by user itself. In this category accidental deletion, hard drive formatting, virus attack, file system corruption etc. cases are resolved. This data recovery can be performed by user itself.

Category 2: This data recovery doesn’t involve opening of the hard drive but needs specialized equipments for rewriting firmware, modules and program or recalibrate your hard disk for extracting data from it. In several cases, it is required to perform low level access of hard drive to gain access to your data.

Category 3: This type of data recovery involves Clean Room procedures for accessing your hard drive and recovering data from it. Data recovery may occupy removing stuck head from platter’s surface, cleaning platter surfaces, realigning head, replacing PCB and utilizing imaging equipments for creating sector-by-sector image of hard drive.

Category 4: This is the most critical data recovery process. It demands high standard Clean Room for salvaging your inaccessible data from damaged hard drive. It needs highly qualified data recovery experts to carry out the process. In this data recovery, read/write head is replaced, platter may be transplanted, and internal electronics is replaced.

Sophisticated data recovery service of Stellar is achieved in State Of The Art Class 100 Clean Rooms by experienced and skilled data recovery specialists. Tools and techniques, used by the data recovery experts to end up at absolute data recovery, are of superior quality and distinct.