Laptop data recovery ABKdata http://www.abkdata.com Have you formatted your laptop only to realize that you have lost days of your hard work? Have you accidentally deleted some important files? Is your laptop infected by virus? Does it suffer from any logical, electronic or physical damage? Or is it that your laptop does not recognize the hard drive anymore? If you are faced with any such situations this article will serve as a quick guide of what to do? The need Laptops are highly preferred by business people and corporate these days over workstations because of the ease of carrying them and working anywhere. Since they give easy access to vital company information and personal data, a lot of important and critical data is being stored on these hard drives. The hard drive of a laptop is comparatively smaller in size than that of a desktop. This size difference makes the laptop disk drive very sensitive and more susceptible to hardware failure, physical damage or damage to file structure leading to loss of data. Symptoms If you hear a clicking, grinding or any unusual sound, if the laptop is unable to boot or if you see errors like ”No operating system found”, “Hard drive not found”, “Drive sector not found”, then there is a possibility that your laptop hard drive is damaged. What to do? If you see any such signs you have to take special care at this point. Do not try to reboot your computer repeatedly as this may further damage your hard drive. You may be lucky to get some time to backup your data. If not, you may loose all your data. But do not despair. In case of a boot failure or data loss, data is there on the disk and it will stay there unless it is overwritten by new data. So once you are aware that data is being lost, stop working on the laptop to prevent any permanent data loss. Available options You can either use data recovery software and try to retrieve the data yourself or you can hire a reputed data recovery company to perform this task. Though using a software is easy and economical it may help you recover only damaged, deleted or similar type of files. On the other hand a data recovery company usually charges more but provides a personalized service and helps in recovering all kinds of files including damaged due to rain, fire. Data recovery specialists There are many companies who have the required expertise and specially designed software tools to undertake recovery processes for laptops. Whether it is damaged due to mechanical failures, deleted files and partitions, reformatting, overwriting, software malfunction, viruses, or fire and water damage, they can deal with it. They analyse the hard disk to identify the problem. It can either be a logical problem like Corrupted file system, virus attack, Corrupted File Allocation Tables (FATS), Corrupted Master File Tables or physical problems like Clicking noise due to mechanical failure, Electrical failure, Misalignment of Read/Write Heads, Damaged Heads, Bad Sectors on disk drives platters, Disk Drive not being recognized by bios etc They check the corrupt file or media thoroughly and take every possible action to recover every bit of data from your drive. After the recovery process they completely verify the recovered data and then return it to you in your preferred storage media. Some companies do not charge if they are unable to recover the lost data. All in all, for logical errors you can attempt to fix the problem yourself using software; but for mechanical errors or physical damage it is best to approach a data recovery specialist. Please visit us for more information ABKdata Web: http://www.abkdata.com Email: sales@abkdata.com End of Document