Quick Call Dave is able to offer a variety of data recovery solutions depending on the situation you find yourself. We are pleased to offer this service to anyone using our postal service.
Our recovery service can help you if you:
- formatted a memory card in error
- deleted your camera images by mistake
- installed MS Windows without backing up existing data
- are unable to read your memory card, MS Windows reports an error
- are unable to access data on your USB memory key
How can you recover my data, it's gone after all?
You can be excused for thinking this, after all, MS Windows is showing your device as empty or missing altogether from your list of available drives. But in many cases, your data is just invisible.
Invisible?
Thats right! You see, when you bought your media - you may have formated it to make it ready to accept your data. Formatting simply prepares the memory to accept files in an organised manner.
Your files (images, documents, mp3) can be stored anywhere on the memory - so how does your computer know what files are on your media in normal circumstances?
The index!
It is actually quite simple, your memory device has a small portion of memory allocated for use as a index, a table of contents, a list - where files are located on your device.
It is this 'table of contents' that often is wiped clean. With an empty index, your data still exists, but you can't find it.
When you inadvertantly format your disk, the format often simply wipes this table of contents clean (sometimes called a 'quick format').
How do I recover data?
I have a number of different methods that I use in order to recover and rebuild the index, I also will apply forensic techniques to find and re-assemble your data.
What about camera and phone media cards?
These are pretty similar usually - often they 'quick format' their media cards in order to reduce the formating time and decrease battery life wastage. Again, in these circumstances I can usually recover some of your data! Some cameras securely
A word of caution!
With so many different cameras and media, the recovery process relies on one thing, the data exists on the media, albeit invisible! If it was overwritten by a new operating system or newer images - your data will be unrecoverable. In this case, I will recover anything I can.
Data recovery can take many hours depending on the size of the media being handled. As a result, your media needs to be sent to me directly by post. It will usually be returned within 3-5 days with a report showing what data (if any) was recovered.