Data recovery
NO DATA RECOVERED = NO CHARGES.
Scanning a hard drive is a time consuming process that can run into many hours. The time taken is directly related to the data capacity of the drive. Once scanning has finished and the software has found the data it needs to be recovered to another hard drive. Again this can be a slow process taking a number of hours.
I will use a range of software packages to recover data from storage devices including: internal hard drives, external hard drives, usb flash drives, SD cards, mobile phones if they can be connected to a computer via a usb cable. All filesystems can be accessed - Windows, Mac, Linux.
The larger the device the longer it will take to scan . The more data found the longer it will take to extract from the damaged drive to a new drive. The time taken to scan a device can range from 1 hour for a small device to many hours for a large device. Extracting any recovered data can also take many hours - it is not as simple as copying and pasting the data.
If possible please supply the following details:
The type of storage device + data capacity + amount of data on the device + type of data.
Example: 500GB hard drive with approximately 250GB of data on it. Videos, photos, music.
If you know the file names or folder names or the type of files you are looking to recover it may speed up recovery.
You will need to supply a working storage device to copy any recovered data to. It will need to be the same size or larger (in terms of data capacity) than the device we are trying to recover data from. As a temporary measure I can use one of my drives if you need time to buy your own. Or you can buy a portable drive from me.
The amount of usable data recovered will depend on the extent of damage/ corruption to the storage device. We might be able to recover all the files on the device or only a small percentage. Each case will be different. The data recovery software may be able to rescue files in a usable format but the folder and filenames may not be in the original format.