If it the service required is file recovery, Randburg residents and business owners are lucky enough to be in close range of one of the leading companies in this field. Intratec Data Recovery, situated in Midrand, has the necessary knowledge, experience and state of the art equipment to live up to their commitment to recover and repair lost and damaged data from any known source while setting the highest standards in the South African data recovery industry.

If you provide Intratec Data Recovery with the damaged media, they will diagnose the media, assess the state and evaluate the recoverability. They will then provide you with a free file recovery quote which will include the estimated time-frame and chance of recovery in percentage. You can then decide to go ahead. If no data is recovered, they won’t charge you. If you are in Randburg and require a file recovery company, Intratec Data Recovery is your solution.

In the biological world it can take thousands of years for a species to evolve and climb one rung up the evolutionary ladder. In the technological world, especially the world of computers, evolution seems to occur on a weekly basis. Technology advances at a rapid rate, which allows us to do more with it, which in turn leads to more advanced technology. As we continue to develop, and as data recovery methods evolve, it will soon be possible to reconstruct every move ever made on a computer, no matter how bad the damage. This is bad news for those who use their PCs for nefarious means, but for those of us trying to earn an honest living, it sounds like an outstanding safety net against data loss.

The most common data storage device is the hard drive, and hard drives are usually extremely reliable devices. However, many people tend to take data storage for granted, and only when a serious data loss has occurred do they suddenly become aware of the value of doing backups. If your data is valuable, treat it as such – keep a copy of it somewhere completely distant from where it is usually stored, even if it means hiring storage space on the Internet somewhere as remote as Alaska, keep a backup. If you do happen to have suffered a data loss, there are data recovery specialists to assist you. Intratec currently has branches in Cape Town, where they started up in 2000, Johannesburg and Durban. Data recovery specialists can recover files and data from all of the more common operating systems.

Keep an eye and ear open for possible impending hard drive crashes. If your computer starts making funny groaning sounds, if you start to get disk error messages or if the hard drive doesn’t show up when you boot up – make a backup, straight away. Computers are usually very reliable, but sudden dips or surges in power can play havoc with a hard drive. If a disk suddenly loses power when it is writing it can become completely unreadable – that’s when you need to call in data recovery specialists. If you know your way around a computer, it is possible for you to attempt to recover the lost data yourself – there is plenty of software available on the Internet to assist you. If in doubt though, call in Intratec data recovery specialists.