Data recovery
Did you somehow just lose an important document from your computer, maybe a report that you’ve spent hours preparing? If so you’re probably now in a state of panic, don’t know what to do, and are about to go into hysterics. Relax! It’s not the end of the world. It can happen and has happened to the best of us. Even if you have actually deleted the document accidentally it is possible to carry out data recovery and get the document back. The fact that you can’t find the document in any of your directories does not mean that you cannot perform a data recovery process. You see, when a file is deleted it is not actually completely removed from your hard drive – its format is slightly altered so that you cant see it through your explorer. There are special programs that can be run to make the file readable again, so unless a complete purge has been carried out, we should be able to recover it for you.
There are a few things that you can do to avoid having to use a data recovery company, and if you are using a program like MS Word, there are a couple of things you can do right now to help future recovery. Go to Tools/Options/Save and put a tick in the “Always create backup copy” box. Then on the same tab where it says “Save auto recovery information every” put a 2 or a 5 in the box to the right. Save your options. This will save the information in the document you have open into a backup file every 2 or 5 minutes. If you open your documents directory in Explorer you will see the backup files there. Data recovery is made so much easier when you take sensible precautions with your data, but if you do find yourself in a panic situation, give us a call – we’re here to help you.
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