Data Recovery As Fast As Possible

It can be easy to panic over lost data, but fortunately, a number of techniques can recover it in many situations.

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data loss no matter what you do it can
still happen sometimes as it did to us
when our main SSD server spectacularly
went down which you can check out in
this video up here but we were able to
get back up and running thanks to our
friends at we recovered data who worked
with us on this episode which is
sponsored by them so data loss is a
little like the sword of Damocles
constantly hanging over the head of
anyone who stores anything important
electronically but after it happens is
it really gone for good
often the answer isn't clear what if you
delete a file by mistake suffer
corruption due to power loss or have
physical damage like ahead crash where
the read/write head of your hard drive
crashes into the platters that store
your data
fortunately there's a number of
techniques that have been developed over
the years to rescue inaccessible data
before becomes permanently lost
let's say that you've been the victim of
the all-too-common accident where
someone empties your recycling bin and
it turns out that you had a
mission-critical stealthy inside of it
since deleting a file in windows is only
actually marking the data is free space
it just sits on your drive until
something over rights it so sooner is
better if you're using simple recovery
software less yourself you get
overwritten by something completely
irrelevant like a tax return
but what if you can't even access your
dr do some type of serious corruption
with the file system itself in that case
certain utilities like open-source test
disk can attempt to repair the
underlying problem with the drives but
if that works
you could attempt a file technique
called file carving which despite its
name is the process of reassembling
files from fragments by looking at their
headers to try to figure out what kind
of files they were whether they were
mp3's jpegs or whatever else but if you
have a hard drive with a platter that
just won't spin or maybe bad sectors or
a bad PCB or an SSD module that somehow
came loose
you'll probably want to send it off to a
data recovery specialist as they have
the correct hardware to physically
examine the disk if you don't have that
you're putting your hardware at risk
which is putting your files at risk
which is probably not a great idea
in the case of a hard drive will need to
go to a club
in room that might look like something
out of a movie about a killer virus
since any type of dust or particular can
potentially wreck that part of the data
on the hard drive or platter beyond
recovery some drives can be rebuilt with
new components while other drives have
to be examined by special machines that
can read data directly off of platters
pretty cool
of course however even with the most
advanced recovery methods you can't get
all of your stuff back in every case
this can be for reasons ranging from
physical damage that's too expensive to
having proprietary storage medium that
needs to be reverse engineered to the
target data being overwritten before you
can recover it
it's virtually impossible to recover
overwritten data using current methods
which is why it's a great idea to
intentionally overwrite your hard drive
with something like dband also known as
Derek's boonton nuke before you sell
your pc after all who knows what the
next owner might find hiding inside
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