What Hard Drive Recovery Means For Digital Photography Professionals

When the subject of Data Recovery comes up, it's often in the context of data centers with pools of computers that chew through hard drives like photographers go through batteries. However, data loss is not always an issue of hard drive recovery. How often have you found yourself in the situation where you're in a hurry and accidentally reformat a memory card in your camera, or somehow water gets into your case and damages a card? When you subsequently boot up your computer, shove the card in the reader and hope for the best, whether you realize it or not, you are participating in Data Recovery. Sometimes you get lucky and recover your files - or at least some of them - but other times they're gone. Data Recovery software might work, but it can also permanently eradicate your files. This is never good. Not all photo opportunities can be repeated (especially weddings and other special events) and having to approach a client for a reshoot is both time consuming and embarrassing.

That's where Drive Savers can be an important tool in any professional photographer's utility belt. While the name may conjure immediate images of Hard Drive Data Recovery (and they are an industry leader in that area), Drive Savers has a longstanding relationship with leading digital camera manufacturers and removable storage media companies. Drive Savers was a pioneer in digital camera data recovery (the first to successfully recover data from a digital camera) and was the first such firm chosen for referral by the likes of Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Olympus and Sony.

Today, Drive Savers is authorized to open sealed devices without voiding the manufacturers warranty by most major camera and memory card manufacturers, including: Minolta, Pentax, Panasonic, Nikon, Canon, Lexar Media, SanDisk, Kingston Technologies, Fuji, Simple Technology and Sony. The company is also manufacturer approved by leading computer and hard drive makers like Apple, Dell, IMB, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital.

What Drive Savers offers the professional photographer is peace of mind. If there is any possibility for files to be recovered from a camera, memory card, computer, hard drive or any other media, this is where you should turn before attempting anything yourself. By using proprietary hardware and software tools in an ISO 5 certified Class 100 clean room, highly trained Engineers are able to accomplish Data Recovery from virtually any scenario, whether the cause is a dead battery, a dropped or crushed camera, water damage, a lost password, overwritten files, corruption, virus infection, accidental deletion, a reformatted drive or memory card, even devices damaged in disasters like a fire, earthquake, flood or taken out by a power spike.

Of course, if you're working in Photoshop and something affects your computer, hard drive data recovery is also offered. Drive Savers has the industry's fastest standard turnaround time, at 24 to 48 hours, provides immediate access by telephone to experienced advisors 24/7/365 and stands behind its free estimates (with no hidden fees).