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Be weary of the $199.00 Hard Drive Recovery

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Be weary of lost cost data recovery specials

I have seen an increasing amount of ads and specials for budget sub-$200 data recovery services. In one case ,I handed a Data Rescue Center business card to a neighboring technical establishment that I was visiting and was shocked by their perception of Data Recovery costs. Basically, the feedback was surprising and paralleled the ads on Google I continually see when searching for “Physical Data Recovery services”. The repetitious feedback, is that data recovery scenarios cost around “$199.00”. $199.00 dollars may be more accurate if your data loss is due to deleted files, formatted drive or an unmountable volume or partition. These types are called logical recoveries.
However, if you have a failing hard drive, do not expect to pay $199.00. These types of data recovery scenarios are what is referred to as physical recoveries. A cleanroom is needed to be able to take these drives apart in a dust free environment by trained professionals. If your data is extremely important and irreplaceable, do not trust a flat rate of $199.00. These types of pricing schemes are designed to get you in the door mainly. Physical data recovery pricing is definitely not low-cost, but the process starts by bringing your drive to a legitimate, professional company like The Data Rescue Center.
If you find yourself with a data loss situation, immediately quit all programs you are using and turn off the computer. Further writing to the hard drive may overwrite data you are trying to recover. This includes creating new documents, browsing the Internet, or running disk repair utilities to attempt to fix the drive.
If you need advice, call the Data Rescue Center @ 1-877-501-4949 or visit the website for more information. http://www.thedatarescuecenter.com/

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BYOD to Work

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Bring Your Own Device to Work?

BYOD is an acronym that stands for Bring Your Own Device. Many workplaces allow employees to bring their own data devices to work and connect to the company’s network. Allegedly, this increases productivity and keeps equipment costs down as well. Unfortunately, unless certain precautions and security measures are employed, BYOD could just as well stand for Bring Your Own Destruction.

Here at The Data Rescue Center, a data recovery lab in Livermore, California, we see damage that is caused by lax BYOD policies. There are several dangers in allowing employees to use their personal devices for work. For example, not every computer user employs adequate antivirus and malware protection. I’ve often worked with folks who didn’t realize that the AV software that came on their new laptop was only a trial version that had to be renewed after three to six months.

Back in the day, computer viruses were often transmitted from machine to machine via a floppy disk. While the floppies are gone, the risk is still prevalent. The old floppy has been replaced by the USB key or flash drive. Their capacity makes it very easy for a complex virus or keylogger program to hide in email attachments saved to the drive.

Smartphones, tablet PCs and media devices are not immune from infection. Allowing a device to connect to a business network without proper security measures is asking for trouble. If a computer or server is infected, HDD data recovery might be necessary to retrieve lost or inaccessible files. This could disrupt business operations, even to the point of financial loss. Add to that the data recovery prices that will need to be paid. You may find that allowing these devices on your system may not worth the perceived benefits.

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The Data Rescue Center, a company you can trust

Monday, February 13th, 2012

State-of-the-art Facility

Storage devices like hard drives, external drives, SSD drives and other flash media have become an integral part of our daily routines and lives. We rely on these drives to store our computer data for our family and work without hesitation. What happens when one of these devices fail and professional services are needed ? You can use applications like Data Rescue 3 an award-winning recovery software that does a great job for logical and minor physical issues with hard drives. However, when your hard drive completely fails and is not recognized by your Mac or PC, who will you trust your data with?

Hitachi, a world leader in storage technology, has named The Data Rescue Center as one of only two data recovery companies listed on their website for physical recoveries. Hitachi provides a wide range of products that includes advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives and innovative external storage solutions and services that store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data.

When one of the top 3 hard drive manufactures (Hitiachi) trusts The Data Rescue Center, it speaks volumes about our personnel expertise and what our facility has to offer. If your hard drive fails and are in the need of a quality data recovery service with industry accredited facility and professionals, contact us for a quote today. We have a technical and friendly staff that will walk you through the process from start to finish. You can read about what our customers are saying about us and get an idea how we deliver everyday of the week.

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Make Sure You Can Trust Who Has Your Data

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Megaupload and Megavideo shut down by the Feds

Cloud computing services, such as online file sharing, file storage and backup, have become very popular over the last few years. These online services give the home computer user the ability to quickly and easily share personal photos and home videos. The business computer user also benefits from the ability to access their files from any computer in the world, enhancing business mobility.

Even so, recent events should warn us all that we need to be careful with whom we trust our data. The FBI seized and shutdown the servers used by Megaupload and Megavideo, two related online file storage and sharing sites. They were allegedly allowing users to upload illegal, copyrighted files. As a result, many innocent site users lost access to their important files. Furthermore, it appeared as if their files were going to be deleted before they could be retrieved. Fortunately, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit legal service, is working to ensure these files can be reclaimed.

Caution should also be exercised when choosing a data recovery company. Emergency data recovery is a complex, exacting process and you need to trust the company that you are contracting for recovery. The Data Rescue Center is a data recovery service in Livermore, California, and we would invite you to check our credentials. We are a BBB accredited business and we take the protection of your data seriously.

We do all recovery in-house, have 24-hour surveillance cameras and protect your equipment in a UL listed Class 2 vault when it is not being repaired. Additionally, the computers used to recover your data are never Internet connected, ensuring that your files are safe from hacker attacks and viruses.

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Do you have a data disaster recovery plan?

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Protect your data from natural disasters

Most businesses and many individuals have an emergency action plan in place for natural disasters. The action plan may include emergency exits and evacuation locations. The action plan may also include a trunk or toolbox that contains the tools needed in an emergency, such as flashlights, rope, radios and batteries. Additionally, emergency food rations may also be stored in a safe location.

However, many people do not have an emergency action plan to facilitate data disaster recovery. A data disaster can strike with little or no warning and the consequences can be devastating. While most large companies are prepared for a data disaster, many small businesses and home offices do not have a plan. Loss of data could devastate the business, possibly causing it to close its doors. It is important that these small-business owners develop a plan for disk file recovery.

For example, you should have an effective backup plan for your computer. Back up your data to an external hard drive regularly. You might want to back up your files to an online service as well. As an extra measure of protection, keep the telephone number for The Data Rescue Center by your computer. It’s 1-877-501-4949.

We are a hard disk data recovery service in Livermore, California. The Data Rescue Center should be an important part of your data disaster plan. Our ISO 100 cleanroom and qualified, expert recovery engineers ensure that your data will be recovered efficiently and affordably. Our engineers are trained on both standard platter-style drives and can perform SSD recovery as well.

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Do You Know Where Your Hard Drive is Tonight?

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Bamboozled: Unknown error on PC repair

A recent news article about a New Jersey woman’s quest for simple data recovery drives home a simple point. It is imperative that the client’s equipment be handled safely and securely when dealing with data recovery.

The lady had taken her high-end computer to a local electronics retailer so that their computer technicians could try to recover some files that had come up missing. After hearing nothing about her computer for several weeks, the lady finally got a call telling her that the motherboard and fan had fried. Amazingly, the call came from a repair center several states away. She had never been informed that her computer had been shipped out of state for repair. After being shipped back and forth between New Jersey and Kentucky several more times, the computer was deemed irreparably damaged and a replacement computer was eventually given to the customer in January. Of course, this replacement computer had none of her files on there, since it was a brand-new computer. Her entire photo collection, personal documents and more were all gone-

Unfortunately, when clients take their hard drives to a data recovery lab, they could suffer the same fate. Many of these so-called labs are merely collection points and the recovery work is actually done at a remote location. The drive stands the chance of being damaged, lost or stolen any time it is shipped to another facility.

When a drive is placed in The Data Rescue Center’s care, all of the work is done in-house. The drive is secured in a UL listed class 2 security vault when it is not being repaired. The client is informed and consulted with at every step of the recovery process. This includes everything from initial quotes on data recovery prices to the results of the HDD data recovery process.

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How to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Protect yourself from identity theft.

The recent successful cyber-attack on online retailer, Zappos, should sound a warning to everyone who uses the Internet for activities that involve sensitive information. Hackers stole important information from approximately 24,000,000 users of the Zappos site. Information that was stolen included names, addresses, telephone numbers and the last four digits of customers’ credit card numbers.

Secure password practice is extremely important when an Internet user is developing their online persona. Unfortunately, many folks use inadequate and even unsafe techniques when they developed their passwords. Here are some do’s and don’ts for password creation and usage.

· Don’t use passwords that are easy to crack. Use a combination of upper and lowercase letters and numbers. Do not use common words or the names of your children or pets.
· Do use a different password for every website log on. This is especially true if you use social networking sites. Use the secure mode on networking sites if it is available.
· Use a password generator to make your passwords. This type of software will generate random passwords and allow you to store them in one place on your computer. The password database is encrypted and requires a password to open, the only one that you will have to remember.
· Only enter password and personal identification information on websites that display the secure website symbol.

The Data Rescue Center recommends that you also use caution when you need emergency data recovery. You need to choose a data recovery company that is trustworthy. Our data recovery service is located in Livermore, California. We hold a Better Business Bureau A+ rating. All of our employees, including our recovery engineers, are given extensive background checks before they are hired as well. We are the only data recovery service in the world with a Class 2 Vault to store your hard drive.

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Forensic Data Recovery

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Oil Blow Out of 2010.

According to a December 9th article on the Allgov.com website, British Petroleum has accused contractor Halliburton of intentionally deleting structural test results that could shed light on the fatal oil well blowout of April 2010. The stability test results, shown in 3D modeling cement tests, could point to ignored potential failure. BP has requested that the computer used in the tests be released to a forensic data recovery company for analysis.

Forensic hard drive recovery is more involved than normal recovery of lost data. The data on this type of drive has not necessarily been accidentally deleted; it may have been an intentional act. Because forensic recovery will be used for legal purposes, extreme care must be taken to ensure that data is not corrupted further. Additionally, the recovery engineer may not be looking for specific files as much as reconstructing fragmented data and looking for specific information. The engineer will need to access areas of the drive that are not normally used in recovery.

The drive may also have been protected by safety measures to prevent recovery for legal investigations. Often the recovery engineer must make copies of the drive, working on them instead of the original drive. This will preserve the original evidence for use in legal proceedings. Forensic data recovery requires expertise and training above that which is used in normal data recovery.

The Data Rescue Center, a California data recovery service company, has provided forensic services for law enforcement agencies and government agencies in legal cases. The founders of its parent company, Prosoft Engineering, have been developing recovery software since 1985. It has been used by law enforcement and all of the major U.S. military branches, as well as major intelligence agencies.

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Who Do You Trust With Your Data?

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Who do you trust with your data?

The Data Rescue Center, based in Livermore, is a California data recovery service business. We would like you to stop for just a minute and take a mental inventory of the information that is stored on your computer. If you are a home user, you’ll probably have many digital photos of family, friends and special events. You might also have some personal financial information and family documents as well. If you are a business user, you obviously will have some sales and inventory records, contracts and other business financial records. Both users will have personally identifiable information that can be used in identity theft.

No one wants to suffer computer data loss; unfortunately, the statistics show that all of us will probably suffer some form of loss eventually. Furthermore, some forms of hard drive recovery require the services of a professional recovery lab. When that happens, all of our important information is suddenly in the hands of someone else. The question is who you will trust to recover your personal files.

You need to find someone who takes the security and safety of your vital information seriously. Here at The Data Rescue Center, we are serious about security. We run an extensive background check on anyone who wants to be employed here. Additionally, all of our employees must wear security badges to gain access to the various areas of our facility. The more critical the area is, the higher the security clearance the employee must have.

Our facility is guarded by a 24/7 security camera system with more than 24 RGB cameras and 24 motion sensors. When your hard drive is not being serviced, it is stored in a UL listed class 2 vault. These security measures are costly; however, they are vital to keeping your personal information safe and secure while it is in our hands for data recovery.

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Are You Prepared for the Impact of Data Loss?

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Prevent data loss

The team at The Data Rescue Center checks trends around the country and around the world, keeping up with the latest information on data loss and data recovery. A recent survey, completed in Europe in 2011, revealed some rather disheartening statistics. Business owners should take this information and review their own business’s data protection and recovery plan.

Here are a few of the statistics, gleaned in a survey of 1,750 European companies. While natural disasters, such as flood, tornados and hurricanes do threaten a business with data loss, they account for only 7% of data loss. The leader in data loss is hardware failure, a staggering 61%. Power failures account for 42%. The third leading cause of data loss, data corruption, accounts for 35%. This is why The Data Rescue Center urges all businesses and consumers to have an effective data backup plan in operation. For Window machines, they recommend Data Backup PC3.

While these statistics are ominous, the resulting productivity loss can be even more damaging. In fact, of those companies surveyed, 74% stated that they were not confident that they could recover from major data loss. Here are the top three measureable impacts of data loss downtime:

· Loss of employees productivity, at 43%
· Loss of revenue, at 29%
· Delay in product development, 27%

Hard drive data recovery services play a major role in getting a business back up and running in the event of data loss. The Data Rescue Center, a data recovery service company in California, is standing by ready to help you keep data loss impact to a minimum. They perform both Windows and Mac data recovery.

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