As a specialist in the field of Information Technology, I often hear this common advice: do backups regularly to avoid data loss. Is this widely practiced? I do not think so. In our office setting, where most computer users are personnel holding various positions ranging from the top management to the staff level, many of these computer users find it time-consuming to do backups and eventually skip this practice anymore. Data backup is performed in situations when there is a computer breakdown, and oftentimes, it is the person performing the repair who would take the time to backup all of the data.

I have encountered several instances when I have to scratch my head several times to try to recover very important data from hard disk drives. Some of these hard drives can still be recovered using software; other hard drives are physically damaged and cannot be recovered. A few from these physically damaged hard drives contains very vital information that needs to be recovered, and for each instances there was no data backup that was done.

It was a relief for me to find out that DTI Data website offers services such as hard drive data recovery: one would find that there are a variety of data recovery services that are offered for different types of disks – SCSI, RAID, even notebook hard disks. Moreover, there is also a link provided that also suggests a choice of software solutions to several types of hard disk data loss from accidental deletion, FDISK, format and even from destructive virus attacks.

The primary spotlight among all of the services listed in the site is the hard drive repair . This service caters to those hard drives that are physically damaged or “crashed”. I believe that this is the most important and effective service that the site has to offer: it offers “a last resort” to recover lost data as much as possible from a hard disk crash. This is exactly the service that I have used to recover the vital data from the crashed hard disks that I have mentioned above.

Another section of the site that offers useful technical information related to data recovery is the data recovery resources blog. There are several tips and tricks, along with helpful articles on hard disk maintenance and new hard disk technologies. Through these pages that I got myself acquainted on the technicalities of hard disk data recovery; and apply this knowledge in diagnosing hard disk problems that I have encountered.