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01net, BFM TV group: Report from inside the cleanroom, at the heart of your data
“We’re not in a hospital operating theatre, but at a company specialising in data recovery. Here, hard drives are treated like sick patients. A diagnosis is made in the technical room to pinpoint the fault. The most serious mechanical cases require treatment in the cleanroom. The engineers are equipped like surgeons, because the smallest speck of dust can damage the drive. For those that can still be saved, the procedure is not unlike an organ transplant…”
01net, BFM TV group, tech report: how to repair a damaged hard drive
“Watch out! This is an emergency here: one of our computer’s hard drives has stopped working… A problem you may have run into yourself, whether because you dropped the computer, or it simply stopped working out of nowhere. What can be done? It turns out that not far from here, there’s a company that specialises in recovering damaged hard drives. Here we are at Chronodisk : all these white coats are reassuring! You describe the drive’s symptoms, and above all the files you want to recover…”
01net, BFM TV group, tech report: after 3 years your drive has a 50% chance of failing
“Hard drives haven’t necessarily become less reliable over time, but how we use them has become far more intensive: with the internet, virtualisation, and constant reading and rewriting. Hard drive wear is an increasingly common problem. It’s estimated that each year, an extra 10 to 12% of drives fail, meaning that after 3 years there is roughly a 50% chance a hard drive will fail — particularly a mechanical failure…”
TF1 8pm News: Chronodisk data recovery
“Every year, millions of us rely on computers. Information we believe is safe inside these marvels of technology — until the day it isn’t… Here, thousands of files saved on hard drives are rescued every day. While old age is the most common cause of failure, another frequent one comes down to clumsy users: dropping the drive. “Our first instinct after a drop is really to plug the drive back in straight away, but it’s during that reconnection that the read head crashes onto the platters, causing irreversible damage.” Time to call in the surgeons…
ADNPC.net: Meeting Chronodisk’s founder
A former editor-in-chief of several multimedia magazines (PC Jeux, CD-Rom Magazine, Amiga Concept, Console News…), I often came across readers of my magazines, or users, who had lost data. I found it unacceptable that you had to pay an average of 3,000 francs just to get a quote from a specialist — a quote that took a week to arrive, with no detailed written report, just a phone call. And if data recovery turned out to be impossible, you’d still lost those 3,000 francs. The data itself cost several hundred francs per megabyte! Drawing on my experience in the computing world, and on the thousands of specialised software and hardware products I’d tested during my career as a journalist, I asked myself what a consumer like me… Read more
L’Ordinateur Individuel: SOS Hard Drives feature
When a hard drive fails, it is generally possible to save all or part of the data it holds. But only a handful of specialists offer this service in France.
Fast and quiet, hard drives tend to go unnoticed, tucked away inside a PC, a portable video player or a camcorder — until the day they crash. What can you do in that case? If regular backups have been made, the simplest option is to replace the drive. Otherwise, there’s data recovery — an operation, or more precisely a sequence of procedures, that can often bring essential files or irreplaceable holiday memories back to life. And hard drive failure doesn’t just happen to other people. According to Imré Antal, whose company Chronodisk specialises in drive recovery… year. Read the article “