The most professional data recovery processes on the position of

customer’s perspective

In traditional sense, data recovery processes cover 3 stages, which are drive

restoration, disk imaging and file recovery, and extra stage is head and platter

exchange under the condition that there needing exchanging head and platter, however,

if the data recovery companies stand on the position of customer’s perspective, there

should be more two stages, which are data backup at the beginning of the data

recovery and data wipe at the end of data recovery.

So the most professional data recovery processes will be that:

Stage1: data backup

Stage2: drive restoration

Stage3-4: disk imaging & file recovery

Stage5: head& platter exchange

Stage6: data wipe

And each stage can be explained in details as followings:

Stage1: data backup. In traditional sense, during the data recovery processes, the first

step is to restore the patient drive; however, there are many risks that the valuable data

on the patient drive are possible to be damaged secondarily, due to the rapid spin

during the data recovery operations. Therefore, in order to reduce the risks, the

valuable data on the patient drive must be backuped to a donor one, at this moment;

there are two problems to be fixed, which are speed of data transmission and integrity

of data between patient drive and donor one.

Fortunately, there existing such one-to-one hard drive duplicator in the current market,

such as Supersonix by Logicube and Data Copy King by SalvationDATA, both of the

two are excellent at the speed of data transmission, which are 5.5GB/min and

7GB/min separately, especially the latter, his performance of high-speed data

transmission is fully satisfied with requirement of rapid data backup.

For the integrity of data, there are many such types of equipment for customers to

choose in the current market as well, such as Ninja and Atola Imager and Data Copy

King, all of them are equipped with write protection and provide at less two kinds of

verifications, such as CRC-32 and MD5, and multiple-pass acquisitions methods. In

particular the Data Copy King adopts innovatively the latest bad sector repair and

bypass technology and provides 6 different imaging modes, which are Random LBA/

sector manual setting /forward and backward / DD imaging /absolute imaging, and

CRC32/MD5/SHA-256 are available. What’s more, for some patient drives with

clicking noise, on the condition that the patient drive can be identified, Data Copy

King is also able to clone each byte of data, for it can access to the drive to duplicate

data without accessing to the O/S and BIOS. So a conclusion can be draw that the

Data Copy King is full compliance with the requirement in terns of integrity of data.

Stage2: drive restoration. Comparing with traditional data recovery, there is any

difference. Namely, this stage involves in repairing drives that are undetected, not

responding, and drives that can be accessed but produce null data. For those problems,

there are some equipments for customers to compare, such as PC-3000 by ACE and

Insight by Atola and HDD Doctor Suite by SalvationDATA, and etc. A special note is

that the HDD Doctor Suite by SalvationDATA is special and practical tool, for it

provides exclusively a tool to repair a corresponding drive, for example, there is a

HDD Doctor Suit for Maxtor and HDD Doctor Suit for Seagate, and so on.

Stage3-4: disk imaging & file recovery. Disk imaging stage deals with drives that

have read inability problems because of physical or logical bad sectors on SA and or

user area; and file recovery stage involves rebuilding the file system, retrieving the

user data and verifying the integrity of the files. To fix those problems, there are many

types of equipment for customers to select, such as Disk Imager by ACE and Atola

Imager and Extractor and Data Compass by SalvationDATA, etc. All of them are good

at disk imaging and retrieving file.

Stage5: head& platter exchange. This extra stage involves in drives with physically

damaged hardware components such as head stack and spindle motor, which can’t be

repaired but the only solutions is to replace with a good one. A professional and

famous tool is HD HPE PRO by SalvaitonDATA in the current market.

Stage6: data wipe. In current data recovery flow, there is no such stage of data wipe,

but if data recovery companies stand on the position of customer’s perspective, this

stage is so necessary to carry out to protect privacy of customers, especially there are

more and more distrust from customers in terms of the protection of privacy in current

years.

In order to regain the confidence and trust of customers and reshape the image of data

recovery companies, the best way is to destroy or clear the data. And there are seas of

data eraser in the current market, such as Supersonix by Logicube and Ninja and Data

Copy King by SalvationDATA. All of them are full compliance with the DoD

standard and ensure the data can be wiped out permanently and can’t be retrieved

again by any data recovery tool, guaranteeing the valuable data of customers from

divulging or giving away. And the super speed of data wipe of Data Copy King is

8GB/min, which must be put forward to the data recovery companies, for it saves so

much time for them and customers. You know, Time is money.