Data Recovery: Think Your Data Disaster Is Unrecoverable? Think Again
Disc Inc. is an expert in the niche field of data recovery and conversion. A state-of-the-art collection of legacy hardware brings old and damaged data back to life. In the Houston company’s vast data conversion center, engineers convert and recover hard drives, floppies, 3480, 9 track tapes, 4mm and 8mm home movies, Super DLT, LTO, VHS, Beta, CD, DVD and Mini DVD. Everything old is new again.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) August 17, 2005 -- Who enjoys untangling inaccessible,
unreadable, crashed, cracked, corrupt, erased, missing, sabotaged, warped, bent,
deleted and virus-damaged documents, drawings, tapes, files, pictures and
videos?
"We do," says Susan Coon, founding owner and president of Disc, Inc., a
conversion and data recovery services firm that has solved
thousands of data dilemmas since it first opened for business in 1982. "Back
then," she laughs, "few people knew how to operate a computer, and most never
dreamed they would." (For a complete list of the variety of media Disc Inc.
converts and recovers, click
here.)
When she established her conversion and data recovery
services firm Coon says, "No one could have predicted the level of data
disasters that sophisticated technology can supply today.
Says Coon: "Our
job is to prevent chaos and catastrophe– such as a whole department having to
shut down because of a hardware failure, or worse – a company forced into
bankruptcy."
It is not only businesses that fall victim to major data
loss, she warns. "It can happen to your neighbor next door – or to you, when you
least expect it."
In the company's vast west Houston data recovery
center, electrical engineers David Carter and Armando Saenz manage a process
some people call magic. Carter joined the company 16 years ago. Saenz came on
board eight years ago. Both men say the adventure never stops in this
business.
"A client came here in a panic last week," says Saenz. "His
digital camera fell off his belt, hit the concrete and broke – with 400 pictures
inside. He was a professional photographer who'd just completed a photo shoot on
a fly-fishing trip in Canada. Those pictures were his living. We recovered the
photographs – but that's not all. When he left our building, he was holding a
fully operable camera in his hand. He wasn't expecting that level of
luck."
In her seven years with Disc Inc., marketing vice-president
Stephanie Robertson has fielded thousands of phone calls from computer users in
trouble. "People are almost never on a relaxed time schedule when they seek our
help. They need it 'now'. We respond."
She says much of Disc Inc.'s
business is international. "Yesterday we did a job for a Russian businessman. He
found us on the Internet."
Attorneys are loyal customers. The company's
24-7 operation fits with many litigators' last-minute schedules. "With lawyers,
this is how it usually comes down," says Robertson.
"On Friday afternoon,
the judge tells the defendant's attorney that he can have access to the
prosecutor's special files. Only problem is, the trial starts on Monday morning
and the files are stored on ten dozen dusty old 8-inch floppies. The attorney
drops off the floppies at 6 PM. Within 15 minutes, David and Armando's tech team
is up to their elbows in data recovery and conversion. By noon Saturday, the
floppies are transformed into CDs, and they're back in the lawyer's hands. On
Monday morning, he's in court winning his case – at least we hope he
is."
Exactly what kind of data does Disc Inc. convert and
recover?
"Almost any format you can think of," Carter says. "We work with
every drive out there, and we've amassed a state-of-the-art collection of legacy
hardware. For instance, we've got ten zip drives – hardware most people threw
out five years ago. I challenge anyone to name the media we can't transfer,
duplicate or restore." Carter ticks off a list:
* 3480
* floppies
* 9 track
* 4mm
*
8mm
* DLT
* Super DLT
* LTO
* VHS and Beta formats.
* CD, DVD,
Mini DV
"We've been doing this for almost 25 years – we've seen it all,"
says Coon. "After this much time, we like to think of ourselves as pioneers in
the data recovery services industry," says Coon. "The new hardware that people
are buying today will be old hat tomorrow – so, before long, we'll be recovering
and converting it to the latest formats."
What is Coon's best advice when
a computer snafu occurs? "Whatever you do, don't panic – and don't give up. If
you think your data is unrecoverable or lost, let us get our hands on it. Some
people say we work magic."
Find Disc Inc. on the Internet at DiscInc.com,
call (713) 864-7845.
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