Just when you think you’ve finally got the hang of how to go about hard drive data recovery, the high tech industry has to go and throw you a curve ball. It’s not enough to back up your hard drive anymore. These days, it seems like almost everything has a hard drive that can lose data. You can lose pictures off your camera, your contact list off your cell phone and a whole semester’s worth of papers – or your thesis– of a flash drive. If you’ve ever gone to boot up a device on which you depend and had it sit there, giving you a blank, dead stare, you know the sinking feeling of desperation it can engender. But before you call in the data recovery pros, there are a few things you can try.
Turn It Off And On
Turn the device off and back on. It’s the same as rebooting your computer. Sometimes a glitch prevents the operating system that controls your media storage device from opening up properly. If it happens once, it could just be a glitch. If it starts to happen more often, take it as a sign that you need to replace the hard drive in your camera, phone or other device. Transfer all the info to a new sim card or flash drive to avoid having to send it out to a data recovery service.
Try Opening The Storage Media in Another Device
If you have the option, try opening the files another way. Pop the storage card out of your camera and see if your computer will open it. If you’ve tried plugging it in on your laptop and it doesn’t open, try the card or flash drive in another card reader or USB port, or on a different computer. You can even try popping your telephone Sim card into a compatible cell phone. The problem may be with the reader and not the media. If that’s the case, you haven’t lost your files – you just need to figure out what’s wrong with your device.
If You Can Read The Drive But Not Open Files…
If you can read the drive, but can’t open or access the files on it, you may be able to get to them with a data recovery software program. Start by copying the entire drive to another drive so that you’re not working on your original media. The more you attempt to recover data, the greater the chances are that you’ll delete something permanently. If you can copy the files onto another drive, you can work on that and not risk deleting the files on your original media.
Download the software program onto your computer, but not onto the affected drive. Follow the program instructions to try to recover your lost files.
Contact Data Recovery Specialists
If you’ve tried those and it’s a no go, your only option may be to contact a professional data recovery service, such as Fields Data Recovery. They have the tools and the experience to recover almost any data from a wide variety of media storage types, including MP3 players, flash drives, cameras and phone SIM cards.
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