Data Recovery on hard disk drives, when performed at its best, is specialized and time consuming.  Although certain data recovery marketers do business using a "cookie-cutter" approach, this cannot be considered best practice.

Best practice requires high technological and scientific expertise, proper facilities, expensive instrumentation, and other equipment.  And, it requires critical attention to the unique details specific to each unique client's case.  Best practices ensure that potentially recoverable data is never placed in harms way.

Procedures to save hard disk drive data now residing solely upon a failed mechanism should be chosen from a perspective based on a deep understanding of what actions are safest for the preservation and recovery of that data.  The hard drive in a failure mode where the disk platters continue to spin, especially when accompanied by the dreaded "clicking" sound, is often producing ongoing, permanent damage to the magnetic coating on the drive's platters.  Data cannot be recovered from a damaged magnetic recording medium.

Therefore, identifying which actions will create the best chance of precluding further damage, while enabling the safe extraction of the raw magnetic information, will often not be discernible, or certainly not fiscally responsible, from a perspective driven by the profit concerns inherent in a "flat-rate" data recovery business model.  Placing the repository of valuable, but now inaccessible data into the wrong hands can decrease or even eliminate your chances for recovery success.  One wrong move and it's "goodbye" to that Unix Server, or the 10,000 email's and addresses that have been stored in the computer's mailbox over the last several years.

There are several factors driving your choice for selecting a data recovery service provider, and reasons are likely to vary from case to case.  Certainly financial concerns are important to everyone.  Ultimately it comes down to value.  It's about the value you place on your data.  Know this:  if you absolutely, positively have to get your data back, if you must keep risk to a minimum, you have every reason to enlist the data recovery services of seasoned, experienced, highly skilled professionals.  Please choose carefully.

Why entrust your valuable data to Micro Com?

• One of the oldest full-service providers of data recovery service on planet Earth, Micro Com has been in business for 19 years.  They are established, friendly, reliable, well-known, highly regarded, and approved by the disk drive manufacturing companies.
  
  
• Micro Com's chief engineer has been dedicated to performing and advancing the technology of data recovery service for over 21 years.  His tremendous skill is paralleled by very few and is widely respected within the industry.
  
  
• You call the shots during every step of your recovery process.  No surprises.  Your Micro Com case agent will keep you informed every step of the way.  No evaluation, cleanroom or data recovery fees will be charged, unless they have been approved by you.  You never pay a data recovery fee if your data is not retrievable.  You call the shots, period!
  
  
• Micro Com always practices the science of data recovery on a "first, do no harm" basis.  The protection and safety of your data come first.  It is understood that this approach is not always the fastest or the least expensive, but Micro Com recovery engineers know that your data is irreplaceable and may be invaluable, and this is the only assumption they ever begin with.  A course of action or any chance that puts your information at risk of permanent loss is simply not optionable.
  
  
• In the role of rendering second opinions, Micro Com has many times over had the great pleasure of "begging to differ".  Over the years they have recovered data from drives declared unrecoverable by all the major companies in the data recovery industry.  If you would like just such a "second opinion" (or a third), make a call, if the engineers at Micro Com can't get your data back, it's unlikely that anyone can.
  
  
• Data Recovery Software and Tools:  There is inherent danger in using software to recover data yourself, and it can result in permanent, irreversible data loss.  If a hard drive mechanism has begun to fail, suffering damage to the internal recording media, this unfortunate outcome then becomes quite probable.  Micro Com uses complex, sophisticated, proprietary tools with expertise achievable only through daily practice spanning many years and founded upon hard disk drive engineering and manufacturing experience gained prior to the time in the late 1980's when these functions were no longer done within the United States.
  
  
• If for any reason, such as mechanical failure, your drive needs to be dismantled, full-service provider Micro Com has a Class 100 cleanroom on the premises.  Your drive will never be sent to a third party and always remains within the confines of Micro Com's access-controlled facility.  Micro Com is however, trusted by a number of other data recovery firms to provide expert cleanroom procedures on a contract basis.
  
  
• Because all of Micro Com's work is done in-house at a single location, the security and privacy of your information is assured not only through our rigorous procedural safeguards, but also by physical means within our facilities.
  
  
• When you call Micro Com during normal business hours, you actually get a human on the phone, not a recording.  While your recovery job is at Micro Com you get access, communication, and explanation.
  
  
• Micro Com is one of a handful of companies with numerous years of experience in forensic data recovery.  Having expertise and experience in both data recovery and computer forensics (a.k.a. Digital Discovery) enables them to combine the two whenever appropriate, providing forensic service clients with a one stop shop in cases where the evidentiary media has become faulty.
  
  
• Emergency Data Recovery: If you need your data back yesterday, they'll get out of bed at 3am in the morning if you elect to go with Priority One Service.*
  
  
• RAID Data Recovery is very complex and demands an advanced level of expertise.  Micro Com has been recovering data from RAID subsystem arrays, every day for years.  This constant exposure to RAID technology translates into an enormous amount of experience with RAID recovery and all of its nuances!
  
  
• Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Novell, Apple's Macintosh, Microsoft 2003 Server, Windows XP and Vista, Windows 98, are among the many operating systems that Micro Com supports.  In fact, there are few operating systems if any, that Micro Com can't handle.
  
  
• Location: Whether you need data recovery in New York, Florida, Dallas, California, Tahiti or Timbuktu? We're only a day away by FedEx^TM, UPS^TM or your favorite overnight delivery service.
  
  
• Data Recovery by Micro Com...
  
  
  When you absolutely, positively have to get it back!

*This expedited service is provided at a significantly higher cost and prepaid.