Improbable Data Recovery Tales

We all like to believe that we’re good about backing up data and we’ll never need data recovery services to save us from the error of our ways. Ask any data recovery technician, though, and he’ll tell you the truth. He’s also likely to share with you some of the wackiest and oddest tales of data mishaps he’s ever had to deal with. Here are just a few of the improbable data restoration tasks that technicians have had to deal with.

When the Life Link helicopter took off from the hospital roof, no one thought to check to make sure that all the equipment was carefully secured. Somehow in their hurry to get off to an emergency, one of the techs failed to secure a laptop computer on one of the copter’s skids. What goes up must come down and the laptop was no exception. It slid off the skid after the helicopter was airborne, bounced off a garage roof and smashed to pieces on the driveway of a suburban Minnesota home. The family called the hospital, the hospital called a data recovery service and amazingly, the technicians were able to retrieve all the important data from the smashed hard drive.

Here’s a packing tip from one unlucky businessman who desperately needed the information on his laptop computer for a morning meeting. Always pack your shampoo safely away from your laptop. In a rush to make his flight, the businessman shoved his laptop into his carry-on without thinking twice. When he pulled it out to work on something during the flight, he found it soaked with sticky, slick shampoo. Data recovery technicians gave a whole new meaning to the phrase “data washing” when they carefully cleaned all of the laptop components to get the drive up and working – with no data loss!

Academics have a reputation for being book smart but – well, you know the rest. A professor at a prestigious university was frustrated with the squeaky squeal coming from inside his computer, so he opened up the case and sprayed the offending device with WD-40 to stop the squeak. It may work with door hinges, but hard drives, not so much. A data recovery company had to open the drive up and carefully clean away the gunk with a solvent before the techs could recover his important research data – which, he had not backed up to anything, of course.

You don’t have to have an interesting story for the techs at Fields Data Recovery to take your problem seriously. You’ll get the same excellent service whether you dropped your computer off the Grand Canyon or simply knocked it off your desk. The fact is that no one is as good about backing up their devices as they claim, and when it comes to data recovery services, people expect miracles. Luckily, the good folks at companies like Fields Associates frequently manage to deliver those miracles.