Dell Dimension 8500 Data Recovery

A Dell Dimension 8500 desktop computer came in for data recovery this week. The computer had been acting funny so our customer decided to reinstall their operating system. During this process, their entire partition was accidentally wiped out.

The drive had contained family pictures and important documents.

We took it in for a free diagnostic. This also revealed that the hard drive was failing and had bad sectors. This made the recovery process more difficult.

Fortunately, we were able to recover some of their data. Using our tools we were able to bring back to life their “My Documents” folder where they had neatly organized all of their images, documents and more. At least 50% of the data was recovered.

As for the computer, a new 80GB Western Digital drive was installed that comes with a 3 year manufacturer’s warranty. We reinstalled their operating system, drivers, updates, antispyware and antivirus utilities. We put the retrieved data on to a DVD disc and back into the original folders and got it back out the door.

The recovery process can take days. This particular computer was here almost a week, but was well worth the wait.

To learn more about our data recovery services, go here:
http://www.absoluteraleigh.com/services/data_recovery.html