Data Recovery Industry

Digital data has to be protected carefully otherwise it can get lost due to various software or hardware reasons, such as mechanical or electrical defects, electric surges, virus attack, physical trauma, software corruption, accidental deletion of files and reformatting of storage media. The consequences of data loss can range from inconvenience to deadly serious, entailing masses financial losses or even closure of a business.

Because of the pressing need to somehow recover crucial data that has got lost, an entire industry has grown up in recent decades that specialises in extracting software files from damaged storage media. Data-recovery industry is currently booming, keeping pace with the growth of information technology industry. It has two main segments