Getting in to data recovery

cHk4 · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:46

Hi guys, I've always wanted to get in to data recovery, you know the type of - recover your deleted files, corrupt hard drives and the data retrieval from them...

Does anyone have any tips and advice as to what to look in to for getting started? Any good books? What is the best way to learn this? I do it at work currently at a very basic level and want to further this.

Thanks

cHk4 · 13 Oct 2011 at 11:52

kae2 said:
TBH the software side of data recovery is really straight forward, dozens of guides on various sites/video sharing sites.

The hard part is physical damage. I'm currently working on a drive which was knocked over whilst in use, and has a seized motor, that's a bit more of a pain! You can go on courses, or learn the hard way.

Any sites you would recommend for the software side of things? As I started watching stuff a few weeks ago and kept coming across conflicting info.

I'll take a look at the courses as I should imagine that being a main one actual mechanical failures of hard drives.

Also what is good software for this? Do I need to build a new PC for this? If so what kind of hardware/OS? At work we use XP and 2K - when using XP I couldn't recover someones hard drive, when using 2K I could get it all.

Sorry thought this was in GD -.- Will RTM.

cHk4 · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:10

Any further input at all?

cHk4 · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:21

s0ck said:
Data recovery isn't glamorous. You can run any bit of free software to recover anything that wasn't zeroed out. As mentioned above, it's the hardware side where all the real work is. Plenty of youtube videos on the subject but ultimately you'll need one of those vacuum style work areas if you're doing it alone.

Ok mate thanks, I guess there is going to be a fair bit of an outlay then if going down the hardware route.

cHk4 · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:47

Dr House said:
I always wanted to be a doctor, my friend always wanted to be a police man, someone else I know wanted to be a fireman, another an astronaut.......

cHk4 always wanted to be a data recovery specialist

I know mate my life ambition! Actually from a young age I always wanted to learn to get back data after I deleted a few years of work my dad had done on his book! Woops