Data recovery

[Tempus]

Good career? Difficult training? Anybody/

[andyofne]

Well...

As in off a computer hard drive?

I do it now and then but I don't charge much and never make any sort of guarantee that I'm going to be able to get anything. Most of the time I don't because there's usually a bad controller board.

I think there's a difference between what I do for people and what a true data recover specialist can do. Which is probably why I charge $100 and they charge a few grand.

[Tempus]

My intention would be to learn to pull data from the disk itself, fixing boards if necessary and pulling info from memory cards etc.

[andyofne]

7 bucks can buy you software to do some basic recovery from removable media. Some other programs cost a lot more.

I'll look at the ones I've got at work, some work a lot better than others.

I just bought the $7 to recover photos off my compact flash card. I was trying to copy files off my camera's memory card onto an older winxp notebook using a usb card reader. I got an error and after that the computer said the card was blank and needed a formatting. The camera said simply "sorry, time to buy a new card".

I downloaded the program and it recovered all the photos though it took a long time.

[*XxDADxX*]

Can data be recovered if a partition is blown away?

[andyofne]

Originally Posted by *XxDADxX*

Can data be recovered if a partition is blown away?

I think data can be recovered unless the media is completely destroyed.