Columbia Disintegrated with the Crew, But Data Recovery Services Infused Life into Data

Columbia disintegrated over Texas, resulting in death of all the crew members, a short while before conclusion of its mission. The heat and the gases together destroyed all the life, with the exception of a few worms, which were part of a study and survived, and the equipments and devices. Not only were precious lives lost in the shuttle disaster, but also a lot of reports and studies. But wait, not all was lost! Amongst the debris, was a videotape and a damaged disk drive. These two items had survived along with the petri-dish worms. Though the videotape and drive had been severely destroyed, data was not lost, as the area that contained data was unharmed. The data was recovered, and the mission was a success from the research perspective. A lot of data had survived. The crew's hard work had survived. And it could be easily recovered using data recovery services.

The 400 MB Seagate hard drive had been reinforced and fitted in Columbia Space Shuttle, and had survived the explosion. Though the outer part of it was severely destroyed, the data area had been intact, owing to which data was recovered. Hard disk data can survive explosions, burning, water and pressure damage, natural calamities, and more, as long as the data area, i.e., the platter, is unharmed. Normally, most of the data is downloaded, while the experiment proceeds, but the data set saved on the disk had been recently recovered using data recovery.

The recovery job is very tricky and needs expert handling and deep knowledge. Not only that, recovery task needs to be transparent, while maintaining confidentiality of the data. Another important thing is documentation of the recovery job. Storage area of the hard drive is very delicate, and if mishandled, can cause irrevocable data loss. That is why, a company with state-of-the-art tools and high-end techniques should be entrusted with the recovery task. And in cases, which require opening of the hard disk drive, a sterilized clean room with controlled environment is a necessity.