"RECOVERY OF DATA FROM DAMAGED AND DETERIORATED TAPE AND OPTICAL MEDIA "
SpectrumData is one of the pioneers of data recovery from damaged and deteriorated tape and optical media. Since 1985, SpectrumData has been offering data recovery services which have to date successfully recovered hundreds of thousands of deteriorated or damaged tapes for organisations around the world.
Our data recovery methodologies and procedures ensure that your data is protected while the process of recovery is carried out. Our typical data recovery process for tape and optical media is:
- Diagnosis of the type and severity of damage observed
- Specialised heat treatment if required to harden binder and oxide layer of tapes
- Re-spooling, splicing, or cleaning of tape surface
- The "hands on" recovery process of reading the data from the tape to disk in our internal "tape on disk" format which ensures that block structure, file marks and other important features of the tape are preserved
- From this "tape on disk" format, either a new identical tape can be created, or the data can be converted or restored to disk files "on the fly"
These data recovery techniques are incorporated into our standard workflow model.
Our data recovery experience includes the recovery of data from tapes suffering from:
- Peeling of oxide as tape is removed from the reel where portions of the binder oxide layer are removed from one layer of tape and redeposited on the next
- Gouging of the softened binder either by the tape head, cleaning blades and/or other transport components
- Destruction of the tape caused by jamming in the drive
- Head adhesions (the binder melts and adheres the tape to the tape head)
- Stretched or snapped tapes
- Overwritten headers and accidental overwrites
- Submersion in water, mould growth and subjection to extreme temperatures
SpectrumData has the STRENGTH of nearly 20 years of hands on data recovery experience, the production capacity to ensure that your projects are carried out at the SPEED you require, and the processes that ensure your data is treated with the highest degree of SECURITY available.
Data Recovery - Hard Disk Drive