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.

[Skillz]

Don't most data recovery companies/specialists use clean rooms and pull the data off by taking the hard disks apart and pretty much just put them into another hard drive that works, or use some machine that will read the platters?

I know there is software that'll recover data, but what about disks that don't/wont boot and/or are broken but the platters are still in good shape?

[Tempus]

Originally Posted by Skillz

Don't most data recovery companies/specialists use clean rooms and pull the data off by taking the hard disks apart and pretty much just put them into another hard drive that works, or use some machine that will read the platters?

I know there is software that'll recover data, but what about disks that don't/wont boot and/or are broken but the platters are still in good shape?

That's what I'm interested in learning.

[Skillz]

Originally Posted by Tempus

That's what I'm interested in learning.

I read somewhere that someone did it at home. Though it's a long process, they made a homemade clean room in there bathroom, I'll google is here in a bit see if I can find it.

[andyofne]

Originally Posted by Tempus

That's what I'm interested in learning.

Unless you've got a brazillion dollars, I don't know if you're going to be able to build a clean room and get a special machine that will read platters from different drives.