Open drive recoveries become necessary when there is a physical problem with a hard drive rather than a data problem. If, for example, the read/write heads fail, or the drive motor fails, or there is a problem on one of the printed circuit boards en

closed in the hard drive, it then becomes necessary to carry out an open drive recovery. This means that the hard drive has to be opened up, and this can only take place in a clean room. This is because the smallest speck of dust settling on a platter will cause data to be lost through corruption. A clean room is pressurized through fine filters so that when someone enters through an air lock, air will only flow out and not in.

• Never physically open up your drive. Exposure to unfiltered air, and the contaminants that it carries, can permanently ruin the platters.
• Treat your drive with care. Do not drop it or toss it around after you have removed it from your computer, as it is very delicate.
• Be especially careful with laptop drives. Although these drives are designed to be jostled and moved around, they are thinner and smaller than desktop drives. If their cases are bent or broken, it may become impossible to remount the drive.
• Do not format a disk unless you are absolutely sure that the drive works and contains no data that you want or need. Formatting will completely wipe the drive of all its contents.
• If you back up data to CDs or DVDs during the recovery process, check that the burning process was successful or you may lose the files forever when you reformat your drive.

Almost every time that you suffer from some sort of data loss on your computer you’re going to have to get in touch with a data recovery company such as Intratec.

There can be hundreds of reasons for data loss. Some of them will have a simple solution, but others, inevitably may be difficult to resolve, and the amount and type of work involved will determine the eventual cost to you. When you suffer a loss such as this Intratec will be happy to give you a free quotation of the estimated cost.

Simply fill in the diagnosis form on these web pages and submit it to us for evaluation. Contact us on 083 415 5154 for a more information.

The time that it takes for data recovery and its cost to you will depend on several factors. To give an easy example, the recovery of a single file that you have accidentally deleted yourself can be so simple that it could probably be recovered by you, yourself, if you knew just a little about computers.

At the other extreme, if some physical element inside a hard drive has been damaged or broken, or if the surface of the magnetic media has been damaged, this would mean dismantling it in our clean room and this is usually a very involved and lengthy process.

The cost to you would be proportional to the amount of work carried out, whom it was carried out by, and the cost of any replacement parts. If you need a quotation or need further information regarding data loss, contact us on 083 415 5154

When the hard drive in a file server breaks down, data recovery has to be established without delay in order to get everyone back on line. In many cases the failure of a file server can mean the loss of many thousands of Rands for every minute of do

wn time. Server data recovery is one of our specialties.

Whether data loss is as a result of corruption, accidental deletion of a file or files, or data access is denied because of mechanical failure, we are always ready to help in its recovery.

At whatever time you have a data loss problem, you should get in touch with one of our technicians asap so that we can find out what caused it and make a decision as to the best means for its recovery. We are fully aware of the importance of getting you up and running in as short a time as possible.

Biological evolution can take many thousands of years, but technical evolution, especially in the world of computers, is extremely rapid. It is confidently suggested that it will soon be possible to reconstruct every single move that has ever been made on a computer.

Linux data recovery has already become an everyday occurrence. Microsoft’s apparent monopoly of the PC operating system world is slowly being eaten into by other operating systems, meaning that recovery experts such as Intratec have to keep on our toes and up to date with the latest recovery software.

If you have a problem that calls for Linux data recovery, don’t ever try to carry out data recovery yourself – you could lose everything. You should talk with one of our technicians who will evaluate the situation for you.

There are several reasons why you may need to appoint the services of South Africa’s leading data recovery specialists. Data can be lost for several reasons, many of which are completely beyond our control. A thunderstorm miles away can trigger a pulse of extra high voltage that can cause your computer to crash.

It can corrupt files, damage the partition of your hard drive or physically damage your computer and its components. The damage may be caused maliciously by a virus or by other malware. Damage can be minimized if you do regular backups, but you may be forced to call in data recovery specialists. One look at the testimonials on this website is all you need to make up your mind whom to call.

Intratec is a South African company specialising in Data Recovery. We are dedicated to recovering and repairing lost and damaged data from any known source. This includes personal computers or file servers, individual hard drives, data CDs, Apple Mac computers, notebooks, laptops, RAID systems, external drives and even USB memory sticks – in fact any type of data storage. Also, if you have accidentally deleted a file by mistake, or have lost data in a database, Intratec will be able to assist you.

We are just at the other end of a telephone line, so if you would like further information or are at the end of your tether with worry, just call us at 086 727 7269.

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and was originally a technology that allowed computer users to achieve mainframe-class storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components by means of a technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy. RAID is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives.

When multiple physical disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array. This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is seen by the computer user and operating system as one single disk. Intratec Date Recovery is able to use the proper recovery protocols that are essential to prevent data loss or damage to file system structures.