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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Data Recovery Training & Preparation: An Ounce of Preparation

I stumbled upon a website dedicated to training data recovery technicians and computer repair specialists called “ReclaiMe Data Recovery Training.” The best part is the training is not only very comprehensive, but totally free.

Companies who offer data recovery services would benefit from this free training by learning the latest techniques, tools and tips available. Even for beginners, the content is easy to follow, with short and digestible lessons containing videos and other materials to follow along with. I contend that all businesses with an IT department would benefit from educating their staff in the procedures and challenges covered in ReclaiMe’s training courses. Use it as a way to get your IT department engaged and prepared, as your own reference, or as a refresher course if you’ve ever endured the hassle of having to recover data from a hard drive before.


Understanding Data Recovery Will Save Your Company Money

It will inevitably happen. Your hard drives will fail and you will not be able to access your data, so if you own your own business with multiple computers, you would also benefit from the information you could learn from these free training guides if for no other reason than to avoid being swindled by some unscrupulous IT company that may try to take advantage of your naiveté and over charge you.
After all, sending out your hard drives with your sensitive company data comes with its own risks, but a data recovery company who is aware that you are more technically astute will be less likely to try to pull the wool over your eyes and charge you unfairly. Think of it as free insurance for your company data systems.


ReclaiMe Free Data Recovery Training Courses

As mentioned, besides companies that actually provide data recovery services, any business with a respectable IT department should require at least one person to “train up” with these materials. There are multiple training courses that ReclaiMe offers for free: “NAS – Network Attached Storage”, “RAID Recovery”, and “Partition Recovery”.

Each course provides data recovery videos in an informal training whiteboard/instructor setting, PDF summaries, tips provided by experts, practice exercises to reinforce the material, and even online tests with immediate results. The videos don’t waste anytime getting into the subject matter and are designed and presented as a pyramid of information where they first lay the basic foundation broadly then build upwards with more specific procedures and insights.

The experts at ReclaiMe obviously have a lot of experience and knowledge in data recovery and they present the information in the videos so it’s all easy to follow, akin to an informal TED talk.


Recommendation

Though the ReclaiMe training courses are designed primarily for data recovery technicians and computer repair specialists, many companies that rely on their internal IT departments to set up and take care of their own hardware needs would benefit from this free training. ReclaiMe’s Data Recovery Training website is an extensive and free resource for all types of different hard drive storage setups that provide valuable information and insights about how to restore vital data from failed hard drives.

Many companies never think about this until it happens then data recovery is all they think about until they recover their lost data, projects, and creative masterpieces locked mysteriously inside the corrupt hard drives. Understanding data recovery processes and techniques while picking up useful tips could save your business thousands of dollars in lost revenue or worst, in lost future business. No customer wants to hear that you lost their project and the work they paid for or you missed a critical deadline they were relying on you for because your hard drives crashed at the 11th hour.
Protecting your business and customers means you need to be prepared and be informed. For a free resource, ReclaiMe is providing a lot of information and training basically as a public service.
They obviously are in the business to sell their data recovery software, but they deserve praise for providing such comprehensive training for free. So many companies would really benefit investing some time in studying these materials and staying prepared in case of a data system failure.
It’s good business because protecting your data and understanding how to get it back in case of system failure is itself an insurance policy against potential business interruptions in the future. The only investment required is the time you need to take the courses. An ounce of prevention now could save your company thousands later.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Disk Recovery: Don't Give Up Until You Give R-Tools Technology a Try

These are all unsolicited reviews, I get nothing for them, so know at least I have no incentive either way except to do my part and share my experiences with products and services.  I personally find reviews useful and I hope you will find my truthful, unskewed reviews helpful for you!

When Hard Drive Disaster Strikes, Think R-Studio

A few times in the past 20 years, I've lost a hard drive or two.  Like most, especially when the cost of data storage was prohibitively high and much slower, I was a little behind on the backing up of my data.  One time, it was a power outage while writing to a hard drive, another time I think a client of mine dropped the hard drive, another time, who knows what happened -- Windows could no longer recognize it.

What all of these scenerios had in common was they weren't just inconveniences, but real weeks worth of work were lost, seemingly instantly.... at least I thought.  With client deadlines looming and a bunch of video and web projects locked away in a mysterious maze buried in a pretty reliable external hard drive, crunch time was quickly turning into "panic mode."

Immediately, I played it cool and went online looking for a solution, a FREE software solution first, of course.  There was some albeit questionable freeware, or free trials of data recovery software I found.  I tried three different software packages that couldn't even find the hard drive, so recovery of any data was out of the question with these "solutions", of course.  One trial version made sure I wouldn't forget them anytime soon by sending me a proliferation of unsolicited spam emails.

A little more anxious, I finally stumbled upon R-Tools Technology Inc., http://www.drive-image.com/.  I downloaded their Windows drive recovery solution, "R-Studio", which came with a free trial that would give me a preview of all the files it found, a list of what it thought it could restore, and a limited capability of restoring I think 10 MBs.  I needed to restore NTFS, so there was an option for that particular need.

Please excuse the fact I do not have any screenshots, thankfully, I am using a fairly new computer on Windows 7, so I have not had the need for this product in a few years.  I installed the trial version and gave it a go.  Within 10 minutes, I had R-Studio installed and up on my screen.  The interface looked different than the other trials -- cleaner, intuitive, and easier to follow.  It looked and felt professional.  Still smarting from my previous 3 experiences from other software that made its way through what I thought was a pretty good "crap detector", I clicked a few buttons to recognize any hard drives R-Studio could find to scan and waited, expecting the same, helpless result.

Start the Marching Band -- My Data Was Recovered!

Instead, up popped the drive that none of the other software programs or Windows XP, could even recognize!  I think a parade began a marching song in the background, echoes of a choir could be heard singing "hallelujah!"  I clicked the drive icon and it began to scan its files right away.  Within minutes, I stopped the scan to see if any progress had been made -- sure enough, there were my folders and a list of all my files.  ALL of them!  I restored a few files and anxiously opened them.  One was an Adobe Premiere project file, the other files were video clips and a few Word files.  I loaded the files, opened them, looked them over -- PERFECT!  Not a missing pixel, not a sign of a glitch.

I wasted no time, I went to R-Studio's website, paid for the full version.  The total cost of this software lifesaver was a little less than $50.  They sent me a registration key and I unlocked my trial program to the full version.  I had about 400 GBs of data that needed to be restored and R-Studio recovered all of it to another external hard drive in less than an hour.  I can't say enough about the quality of this product and how much time and trouble it saved me.  Literally weeks of work and it kept me from missing some pretty important customer deadlines.  It even found some deleted files I had thought were lost but I had accidentally deleted.

I would recommend R-Studio and any of there products.  Their program simply stood well above the other solutions I looked into, some much more expensive than R-Studio. 

Best Data Recover Solution for Your Money

I subscribed to their product update emails, which I get no more than once every few months.  Their last email to me let me know of the improvements and updates their awesome software team had been working on:

New features:
+ Support for ReFS (Resilient File System), a new local file system Microsoft introduced in its Windows Server 2012.
+ Support for Windows Server 2012 OS.
+ R-Studio Technician: Integration with DeepSpar Disk Imager, a professional HDD imaging device specifically built for data recovery from hard drives with hardware issues. Such integration provides R-Studio with a low-level fine-tuned access to drives with a certain level of hardware malfunction. Moreover, it allows disk imaging and analyzing be performed simultaneously. That is, any sector R-Studio accesses on the source disk will be immediately copied to a clone disk and any other data recovery operation will be made from that clone disk avoiding further deterioration of the source disk and great reduction in processing time. Read more on our page Integration with Hard Drive Recovery Hardware http://www.r-studio.com/DiskRecoveryHardware.shtml .

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http://www.r-tt.com/cgi-bin/Newsletter

The latest version of R-Studio (v. 6.2) can be downloaded from our Web page at
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Data_Recovery_Download.shtml

R-Drive Image software and more information on website and forum:
Site: http://www.drive-image.com
Forum: http://forum.r-tt.com/r-drive-image-5-1-5101-t8378.html