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| Hard Drive Recovery |
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First Advantage provides
recovery service on a full range of hard drives
and operating systems including:
- IDE, EIDE, SATA and
SCSI hard drive assemblies.
- All makes and models of laptops and notebooks.
- Operating systems include UNIX, Novell, Windows,
DOS, XENIX, Linux, MAC and more.
If the media is inaccessible, we will test the
components and closely examine the drive platters
to determine the extent of physical damage. Hard
drive data recovery involves replacing failed
components such as read/write head assemblies,
logic control components and drive motors in
a clean room environment. In most cases, the
recovery process involves restructuring of the
data by examining the low-level data sectors
and determining what fixes to file system structures
are needed to gain access to the logical data.
Using highly sophisticated techniques and proprietary
equipment and software, our engineers are able
to fix and recover data from raw images of all
operating systems. We use only non-destructive
data recovery processes that use drive sector
cloning. This means we pull data from your drive
on a sector by sector basis, and we work directly
on the clone. This will ensure your drive is
not damaged further and that a second image of
the original structure can be acquired if needed. |
| Microsoft SQL Server Recovery |
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| SQL recovery from drive failure is
often a two-stage process. First, the physical
data (raw sectors) must be recovered in order to
gain access to the logical data. If the database
will not attach to SQL server, then the second
stage is SQL recovery.
In most cases, it is possible to repair the
database to an attachable state. If we are unable
to do so, we will recover as many tables and
records as possible for you. This recovered data
can then be merged back into an empty database
that works with your front-end application.
If the failure mechanism is hardware or file
system corruption, then we would require the
original media. This is because file fragmentation
can scatter pieces of the database and log file
all over the media. These pieces must be collected
and reassembled. If the database was corrupted
by some other means, then a copy on any media
will do.
Third party SQL recovery and utility programs
can cause damage beyond our ability to recover
the files, so please do not try anything on the
original files. For database repair and/or scavenging,
it will save time if you can furnish us with
the database structure (perhaps an empty database
or backup) and a list of prioritized tables. |
| Operating System Recovery |
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| We support:
• All Windows family
operating systems (DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows
9x, Windows 2000,
Windows XP)
• UNIX (Solaris on Sun, Sparc, HP-UX, IRIX on SGI,
AIX on IBM)
• INTEL Platform UNIX (SCO OpenServer, Xenix, UnixWare,
SCO, Solaris, Linux, BSDI, FreeBSD, QNX)
• Apple Macintosh (All versions)
• Novell (All versions)
If the media is inaccessible, we will test the
components and closely examine drive platters
to determine the extent of physical damage. Successful
recovery of crashed hard drives often involves
replacing failed or damaged components in a clean
room environment. Some of the components that
can fail are electronics, read/write heads, head
assemblies, magnets and drive motors.
Use of the raw images allows technicians to
do a logical recovery of the drive's media by
examining the low-level data sectors. Technicians
must first determine damage to file system structures
to access your data. |
| RAID Data Recovery |
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| Even the best-configured
system can fail. First Advantage has
extensive experience
in recovery from failed RAID's, including parity-distributed
and basic spanned or striped volumes. We only require
the active members of the array in order to recover
lost data – no controllers, cables or enclosures. Our disk recovery process, coupled with our
ability to produce a safe sector-to sector dump
of the complete volume, allows us to process
an array as a collection of image files. Recovery
of crashed members of the array is similar to
hard drive recovery procedures.
All further procedures to recover data from
array members are done on the raw images, leaving
original drives intact. Our advanced software
tools will extract the data from the images.
When a drive image is not available, the tools
can reconstruct the data 'on-the-fly' in the
same way that the RAID rebuild process would
have done on the original system. |
| Tape Recovery |
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| First Advantage has recovered
tapes that have become corrupt due to many situations.
Out technicians are trained in recovery from many
tape formats, including:
• 4mm
• DAT, DDS, DDS2, DDS3, DDS4
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8mm (including Exobyte), Super DLT & DLT
tapes
• Seagate AIT, OnStream, ADR
• Travan tapes
• QIC mini cartridge tapes
• Reel-to-reel data tapes
• 9-track tape recovery and conversion
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½" tape reels
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¼" Cartridge
• LTO1
Our first concern is to secure a copy of your
data to the fullest extent possible; this can
be achieved by performing a low-level read of
your tape. We will then work from a secure copy
of your data to identify the format and determine
what utility will be needed to complete the recovery. |
| Other Media Recovery |
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| With the changing technology in today's
world, First Advantage stays on the cutting
edge to ensure we are able to work with all the
newest forms of media on the market. Through techniques
and software developed in our research and development
lab, we are also able to recover data from:
• Micro Mini Disks
• Digital Videodisk
• Smart Media
• Cell Phones
• PDA's
• Compact Flash Disk
• Blackberries |
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First Advantage
8650 Freeport Parkway South, Suite 150
Irving, TX 75063
Charles Walker,
T: 877.304.7189
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