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3 Things You Must Know After Data Loss

What To Do Right After A Data Loss Incident

Let's face it! The disaster has already happened and all your important documents, pictures or media collection seem to be gone. With this data loss incident, you are thinking of what to do now. Here are the very basic steps that should be taken right after any data loss scenario:

First of all, don't panic. Professional data recovery companies are out there specifically to help in such problem and your data can be recovered. So stay calm and start thinking about your data recovery options. But before all that, turn off the computer and don't use it anymore, especially if your C: drive contained any useful data (including data resided on Desktop and My Documents by default).

The reason for above is, that the more we use the computer, the more our data has chances of going unrecoverable. As, any data that is overwritten, becomes impossible to recover. Windows itself creates hundreds of temporary files upon each system start, let alone leave the rest of the softwares. And as obvious, those temporary files may overwrite the traces of your "still recoverable" data, rendering it completely un-recoverable.

After turning off the computer, remove your drive from it. It should be fairly easy if the drive in question is an external one. If you have an internal drive, you may need to open the outer cabinet of your computer to unscrew and remove the drive. Then attach this drive to another windows computer in order to Recover Your Data Online.

If it's a physical crash, send it physically to a professional Data Recovery Company for lab operations. Don't try to install any software or perform data recovery by your own, as it may further eliminate the possibilities of data being recovered. This is an industry standard procedure.

Risks Of Do-It-Yourself Recovery Applications

Although, it's quite easy to fall in the trap of giving yourself a try first, it's strongly recommended that you should never try those off-the-shelf data recovery softwares. By doing so, you can easily blow the one and only chance of a successful recovery. As a matter of fact, over 90% of the unsuccessful and unrecoverable jobs in the data recovery industry are solely caused by the destructive things done by users - although unknowingly.

In short, it's just like a doctor and patient case - as it's always the best option to take a patient to a doctor upon an emergency life threatening attack, the same approach should be taken for data failure cases. The sooner you approach to a professional, the better there are chances of your data being safe.

Benefits of Choosing Recovery Services Over D.I.Y.

Apart from the obvious risk factors mentioned above with the DIY approach, there are other factors too that suggests why choosing professional recovery services is always the best option in any data loss incident. First of all, you can never be sure that the software you have chosen for performing a DIY recovery, is as sophisticated as the data recovery firms use by themselves. There are virtually thousands of data recovery softwares/utilities out there - all claiming to be the best.

Unfortunately, the claims are not equally true. There are literally a very few professional grade softwares that are able to perform the industry standard recovery on the media. And when it comes to reliability, they are even fewer. Data recovery companies put large resources in RnD and they have engineers with years of experience. After extensive research and working, they find out what's the best and most safe to perform real recoveries on client's drives. A thing which is very hard to achieve by a novice victim for his single case.

There is yet another factor of time and cost. To say, if you will try a DIY job, it really is going to take a lot more time than any professional company out there. Also, the cost of purchasing the industry-standard software will be at-least 10 times more than the recovery itself (Beware of those freeware or cheap priced softwares - they are more likely to harm your data instead of recovering it safely). And when it comes to Bitlevel's affordable pricing, it's really a deal against purchasing such a software solely for a single recovery without any certainty.