Leverburgh WiFi Network - Data Recovery

Unfortuantely there are times when technology fails us. As computers get older components can fail and, if we are not careful, our computers can become infected with viruses. In most cases the solutions are simple and have little impact on our lives but sadly there are also times when these problems can cause severe disruption. The most annoying is when a hard disk fails or is wiped clean by a nasty virus.

When this happens most people assume that all is lost but that is not always the case.

More often than not a hard disk has developed bad sectors (bad spots on the disk) and the disk becomes unreadable by the computer's operating system. If this occurs we can read the disk using other software and copy the information over to a new hard disk. Unfortunately it is not always possible to recover the information stored on the area that has been damaged but in most cases there is a 99% recovery.

If your hard disk has been wiped clean by a virus the hard disk appears to be empty to the operating system. This is not the case as the information is still there. In fact, when we delete a file this also remains on the hard disk until it is overwritten! Most viruses only wipe what is called the boot sector, this is basically a map to the information on the hard drive (when a file is deleted it is just removed from this map). It is therefore possible, using special software, to rebuild the map and copy the contents over to a new hard drive. The old hard disk is then reformatted and the information transfered back and your hard drive is back to (almost) perfect.

We understand the frustrations suffered when these problems occur so if your hard disk fails contact us