Data Recovery

Thirteen of the best sites for data recovery services and software. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. Optimum Data Recovery - Offers recovery of data from computer hard drives, RAID drives, tapes and more. Services offered from offices in Houston, New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and London. (www.optimumrecovery.com)

2. Disk Doctors - Computer and server data recovery services, including service for desktop computer hard disks, laptop drives, Mac data recovery, iPod data recovery, CD and DVD data recovery, and other media. Send in your drive or media and they’ll get to work on it from one of their many labs around the United States. (www.diskdoctors.com)

3. Smart Data Recovery - Data recovery software claims to recover data from hard disks, digital cameras and storage media including flash drives, USB drives, memory sticks, and more. Free to download and try, $29.95 to purchase after free trial. (www.smartpctools.com)

4. EASEUS - Offers Data Recovery Wizard software to restore lost files from damaged hard drives, pen drives, digital cards, storage tapes, CDs, DVDs, and more. (www.easeus.com)

5. Ontrack Data Recovery - Data recovery services to restore data from your desktop or laptop computer hard drive, as well as operating system recovery, RAID recovery and other file recovery situations. Also offers data recovery software for those less-challenging times when your computer system is basically functional but data files need to be restored. Offers remote service, on-site service or service in one of their labs in or near New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, and Minneapolis. Also has many international locations. (www.ontrackdatarecovery.com)

6. Step By Step Hard Drive Data Recovery - While not recommended if you really, really need that lost data, this September 5, 2007 blog post offers a step-by-step plan to recover files from your hard drive. (comeau.info)

7. Chicago Data Recovery - Data recovery services in the Chicago area, including resurrecting hard drives, RAID and other storage media. (www.chicago-data-recovery.com)

8. Pro Data Doctor - Data recovery services including Windows data recovery software, USB drive and Pen drive recovery, recovery services for digital cameras, iPods, more. (www.datadoctor.biz)

9. Flobo Recovery - Offers a number of data recovery software utilities for Windows operating systems. (www.floborecovery.biz)

10. Notebook Data Recovery - Texas-based company offers recovery of lost data on laptop and desktop computers, and other disk drives and removable media. (www.notebookdatarecovery.com)

11. Promise Data Recovery - Data recovery from “desktop hard drives, lap top hard drives, RAID’s (more then one drive in a storage media). Tape Drives and all other storage devices such as memory cards, flash cards, floppy drives, CD & DVD drives etc.” (www.promise-data-recovery.com)

12. New York Data Recovery Service - Tape data recovery service “specialized in recovering data from all media types like Tape - 4mm DAT (DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3), Tape - 8mm (112m - 160m Tapes), Tape - DLT III - DLT IV up to 80Gb, Tape - A I T up to 50 GB, Iomega Ditto, Tandberg SLR, ADR, Travan QIC, Cartridges LTO and Super DLT.” (www.new-york-data-recovery.com)

13. Data Recovery Experts - Recover data from desktop hard drives, laptop hard drives, RAID arrays, Flash memory, digital media, MP3 players, magnetic tapes, Zip disks, CDs and DVDs, more. (www.recovery-experts.com)