According to Wikipedia, the free encylopaedia, "Data Recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, wrecked or inaccessible primary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally."

This damage is usually caused by a failed Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or a power surge, as happens in a brown-out, mainly when the power comes back on. It can also be caused by a storm, especially by lightning or even by a faulty Power Supply Unit (PSU).

HolTech Services endeavours to provide a cheap method of recovering your data. Most other Data Recovery services start at a minimum of $1,000 and may cost as much as $5,000-$10,000 for especially difficult and Enterprise-level HDDs.

Usually at this price level, Data Recovery is only worthwhile to large Corporations. HolTech Services is capable of providing Data Recovery services much, much cheaper than those mentioned above.

At the high prices mentioned above, the use of "Clean Room" facilities may be utilised, where an HDD may be dismantled in total safety, with no threat of contaminants affecting the workings.

Sometimes the HDD platter may be required to be removed and reinserted into an identical make/model of HDD.

Sometimes the electronics circuit board may be required to be removed and replaced by one from an identical make/model of HDD.

Both of these procedures require a Clean-Room facility, especially removing the platter.

HolTech Services does not provide a Clean-Room facility, but focuses on cheap Data Recovery accessible to most Small Businesses, SOHO and Home PC users. This service caters for the majority of Data Recovery situations, where a Clean-Room facility is not required.

If your situation does require a Clean-Room facility, we will notify you immediately and refer you to various Businesses providing these types of facilities.

If the HDD is visible in Windows, then we can recover most, if not all, of the data.

If the HDD is visible in the BIOS, then we can probably recover the data.

The most important point is to access the failed HDD as little as possible once the failure has been discovered.

Each time the PC is Booted into Windows, the HDD is written to and the potential is there for valuable data to be lost.

If the HDD is "clicking", even occasionally, the HDD should cease to be used and the data copied to another source. Other wise it may be lost for ever.

Many people associate Data Recovery and Disaster Recovery as being synonymous, but in reality, Disaster Recovery could be more aptly named "Disaster Prevention".

Once you have required Data Recovery services, you may wish to take advantage of our Disaster Recovery  services to prevent the loss of data in the future.