Forensic data recovery is the process of recovering data directly from storage devices, which is specialized work that requires detailed knowledge about how the transfer of data happens – from the media through the internal components, and into the controlling computer. S2|DATA has specialized knowledge in many areas of magnetically recorded and solid-state media.  Equally important in the field of forensic data recovery is detailed knowledge of the storage medias recording equipment and even more important may be the ability of software engineers to control these peripheral devices in ways that the originating environment did not intend but are useful when attempting different forensic data recovery techniques. Your particular forensic data recovery requirement is very likely unique and best discussed with one of our experts, but our areas of specialty are:

We have seen all types of recoveries required from tape, many of them simple but sometimes less so. We have seen extremes of temperature take its toll in the Arabian desert, and Hurricane Floyd flooding a data center, but the typical issues are:

• Physical
  • Cartridge casing repair
    • Typically of the cartridge has been dropped
  • Tape leader replacement
    •  Stretched, broken or dislodged
  • Loose debris removal
    • Preventing the read head getting close enough to the tape surface
• Logical
  • Searching for data past end of data marks
    • Such as inadvertently overwritten tapes
  • Skipping Blocks or FMs (Filemarks)
    • When target data is otherwise unreachable because of IO errors earlier in the tape