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Eastfield Technical Services
Services
- Commercial - New Installations - Computer
Hard Drive Destruction
Once Eastfiels Technical Services
receive a hard drive, a diagnostic evaluation is performed
to determine the condition of the drive and it's data. The
evaluation process allows the data recovery engineer to
predict what steps will be necessary for recovering the
data.
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Logical failures require that the drive undergo a
rebuilding process. Depending on the condition of
the media, this process can be extremely time-consuming.
In some cases, the file system or a partition may
need to be reconstructed.
If the nature of the failure is a physical one, especially
in the case of a head crash, the problem at hand becomes
more challenging. The first thing a data recovery
engineer must do is move the heads away from the media
to prevent further contact and damage. This type of
procedure should only be conducted in a cleanroom
(class 100 or better) by a highly skilled data recovery
engineer.
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The media can then be scanned and the ones
and zeroes extracted. This raw data is then rebuilt and
copied to stable media. In most cases, a brand new hard
drive is the most cost effective but some people elect to
go with CD's or DVD's.
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