subject: Data Recovery From Earthquake Damaged Computers [print this page] The very thought of an earthquake brings a fear into our minds. This fear is of course about what if the earthquake destroys everything I own? What if the family is safe? It raises a hundred questions in our minds. And naturally when we have all that to think about, why would one think about a computer or any other material item? Life is definitely more precious than anything else in the world!! But what about when you have a lot of your hard work stored on a system that is totally damaged by an earthquake? Natures frenzy spares no-oneneither man nor machine.
This being said there are a number of things that can go wrong if and when your computer hard drive gets damaged due to an earthquake. The biggest risk of course is when it gets totally wrecked. Whatever be the case
The components inside a hard drive are extremely sensitive. Even a slight damage to them could result in serious consequences. So naturally an earthquake would be disastrous!! Even a mild earthquake could result in dire consequences. The read-write head could get damaged or the motor could be damaged etc. These could render to data loss.
Picture a scenario wherein after a massive earthquake you realize that your system has been totally crushed. This would mean that all the data in it becomes inaccessible. Since your hard drive is broken, you presume that nothing can salvage the data on it.
The reason for the above crisis is of course that when the earthquake crushed the system it would obviously break. You cannot use softwares to recover data from a broken hard drive. This means that you are unable to access data on your system.
In such situations, you cannot access data on the system, but experts from data recovery services can. They know the systems technical aspects exceptionally well and are thus able to recover hard drive data. They have Clean rooms where they perform data recovery. They have specially equipped techniques and softwares to help them salvage your data no matter what the reason for the loss.
