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Can you believe it?
Courtesy of Kroll Ontrack, here’s a list laptop into the fishing boat, her Thankfully all were recovered via
of the Data Disaster League 2008 Top father’s friend threw the laptop bag Ontrack Data Recovery, a division of
Ten (or should that be Bottom Ten?) – (containing the laptop and backup Kroll Ontrack.
hard to believe data mishaps. Happily, media) overboard. The fully clothed
in all cases the lost data proved far lawyer jumped in after the laptop. 4. Baby Teeth: Kroll Ontrack received
from irretrievable. Enjoy laughing at She was relieved when her valuable an SD card from a camera with lots of
others’ misfortune, but not before business and tax information was teeth marks on it. The customer
you’re comfortable in your own mind retrieved by Ontrack Data Recovery’s indicated a ‘wild animal’ had got hold
that any such incident that might experienced engineers. of it and chewed it. The wild animal he
befall you or your employees would was referring to was his 2-year-old
not even register, so rigorous and 7. That’s a Wrap: An independent son. A full recovery was achieved.
foolproof are your company’s backup filmmaker was putting the final
procedures! touches to his latest Western using his 3. Swept Away: A routine house
MacBook Pro when it started making cleaning went awry when a flash drive
10. Overboard: An around-the-world odd noises and crashed. Without a was sucked-up together with food
sailing trip ended badly when the backup copy, he worried his year of crumbs by a vacuum cleaner. It was
traveller’s boat capsized on the last hard work would go to waste. Using so powerful that tracks from the drive
day of her trip with a laptop on board. Ontrack Data Recovery services, the were pulled from the circuit board and
Thankfully, Ontrack Data Recovery film was recovered, completed and the connector was torn loose.
engineers were able to recover 100 sold. It is now available internationally Nevertheless, the data was retrieved.
per cent of the data, which on DVD.
documented her once-in-a-lifetime 2. It’s a Jungle Out There: A wildlife
experience. 6. Stolen Goods: A laptop was stolen research institute project came to a
from a family house along with a sudden halt when one of the flash
9. All Cooped Up: When Hurricane purse, car keys and the family car. tracking chips from a Florida panther’s
Katrina hit the US in 2005, a The car was found the following day collar was physically damaged in the
newlywed couple caught in the by the riverside, but with no sign of wild. The critical panther preservation
hurricane thought both their the laptop or handbag. Days later, data was successfully recovered.
engagement and wedding photos a Good Samaritan arrived at the
would never be recovered. Their burgled home with a dripping-wet 1. Roast Laptop: A man put his
fears grew worse when a local data laptop bag, and the laptop inside. His laptop into the kitchen oven, prior to
recovery provider deemed the children had found it washed up on going on holiday, in order to protect it
drive “corroded beyond repair.” the beach. How was the Good from burglars if the house was by
Two and half years later, the couple Samaritan able to find the owner? chance broken into. His wife came
dug up the waterlogged drive from The thief had stuffed the handbag into home and used the oven to cook a
their basement and gave Ontrack the laptop bag before throwing it roast chicken before his return. The
Data Recovery a try. The effort into the river. Ontrack Data oven cooked not only the chicken, but
proved worthwhile as all of the Recovery’s engineers recovered the the laptop drive too. Despite this, the
engagement and wedding pictures data. man’s data was recovered using
were recovered. proprietary techniques by Ontrack
5. Dog Gone Wild: A rowdy dog Data Recovery’s engineers.
8. Gone Fishing: A lawyer on holiday knocked a portable USB drive off a A Happy New Year to you all.
thought she could fish with her father coffee table, rendering it unreadable
and do some business at the same by the family’s computer. At stake Philip Alsop
time. Furious that she had brought a were five years of family photos. Editor
Winter 2008
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