Hey guys,
Is DIY data recovery safe? Knowing that data recovery process is complex, sensitive? What If my drive got very important data? Can anyone take that risk?
Is it worth enough of DIY data recovery?
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Re: Is it worth enough of DIY data recovery?
DIY data recovery has a lot of risks. In fact most cases I see that are unrecoverable are due to DIY attempts. That's not saying you shouldn't attempt DIY, but you need to do so with extreme caution and only after you've thoroughly researched it. Perhaps you could describe your case in more detail here and we can offer some suggestions on a course of action to take.
Re: Is it worth enough of DIY data recovery?
Actually, if the disks are in working order, risk is quite minimal. Check disks' SMART status first. And if you have enough storage space, create disk images and recover data from them.
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Re: Is it worth enough of DIY data recovery?
I have to wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. I see a case nearly each week where someone overwrote lost data because they did something stupid like recovering data back to the same drive they are recovering off of. Or they tried to clone a drive but selected the wrong one and cloned the wrong direction. Hardware failure is only one risk factor.Alt wrote:Actually, if the disks are in working order, risk is quite minimal. Check disks' SMART status first. And if you have enough storage space, create disk images and recover data from them.
Re: Is it worth enough of DIY data recovery?
R-Studio will not let its user do that.Data-Medics wrote: like recovering data back to the same drive they are recovering off of.
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