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Data recovery is the term used to describe the process of extracting data from a storage device. By storage device I am referring not just to the obvious devices such as an internal hard drive, external hard drive, memory sticks, discs and other forms of electronic data storage typically associated with computers, but also the not so obvious devices such as the hard drive in your sky box or the hard drive in your camcorder.

Power cut! Your album was half way through its download and you are left with half of a data file. All three of these examples leave you pretty gutted and data recovery becomes your next course of action!

Tech enthusiasts can Google how to recover data from damaged data storage and find lots of info from forums and how-to websites on how to do it. Data Recovery is not easy and if you do try and do it yourself, you may need to become familiar with the phrase “hexadecimal editor” as this allows you to interrogate the file one byte at a time and by comparing the bytes from a “good file”, you could copy and paste them into the “bad” file therefore making it correct – This is a minefield!

Because data recovery is so specialized, average people do not really attempt it themselves, but instead they opt to use a data recovery service (there are loads online) which can be expensive – depends how valuable the lost data is to the individual really.