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Having been experts in the field for two decades, the firm maintains its expertise in data transfer and conversion services. We can transfer data from old media or legacy hardware and convert data from obsolete, archaic and arcane programs and formats to forms you can read and use today.

Data Transfer

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Your computer may be dead, but not your hard disk. Your external tape or cartridge drive may have died, but not its media. Technology changes and we're often left with data formats we can't read any more. We can take your Zip disk, your Jaz cartridge, your tape or Syquest cartridge, your magneto optical or WORM and make your data accessible again. For a low cost, Data Recovery Worldwide can put your data on modern, readable media, such as CD or DVD. One or a hundred pieces, contact us for a quote and a fast turnaround!

Data Conversion

You used to use a Mac, but now you use Windows. You used to use Windows, but now you use a Mac. You used to use DOS — or an Apple II. Data Recovery Worldwide can convert your old data to something you can use today and in the future — and for a very reasonable cost. Contact us for a quote!

We will work on Windows XP, Win2000 (Win2K), WinNT, Windows Millenium (Me), Win98, Win95, and even Windows 3.x! Linux is no problem. We can handle DOS 2.x-6.x. DRDOS, and DOS7. CPM! We can handle Macintosh System 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Apple II, CPM, and Amiga formats. IBM OS/2 and Warp. Novell NetWare 2.x-5.x. Other UNIX, network and proprietary OSes. Let us convert your data so you can use it again.

Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery
Computer forensics is a specialized form of data recovery. It involves additional analysis and uncovering of hidden information and is often followed up with testimony in court.

The process of computer forensics includes electronic imaging. It is of the greatest importance to make identical, bit-for-bit copies of any and all electronic media being investigated. Many off-the-shelf programs do not copy the "hidden areas" of the media, rendering some of the most useful areas for possible discovery unreachable. Any work done on the original and/or improper copying may cause substantial spoliation of evidence, and render evidence unusable, and desired results unattainable.

Computer forensics also involves electronic discovery. Hiding in the hidden or partially used areas of computer and electronic media is a tremendous store of usable information. Files and portions of files that individuals have attempted to delete, erase, shred, sabotage, alter, backdate, or otherwise make inaccessible are not typically lost when an attempt is made to lose them. Using several methods of electronic discovery, the computer can usually be made to give up these secrets.

Forensic Analysis is an investigation to determine the essential features of the information or material at hand. In other words, analyzing the findings produced in the electronic discovery so as to make them usable in a court case.

Also typically involved is preparation of information in a manner useful to the client, such as in oral or written reports, or as files on a CD-ROM as well as presentation of findings to the client or attorney, such as in written, oral and/or electronic reports, and testimony in a court of law, when necessary, by an Expert Witness, including deposition and jury trial.

Some of the processes include:

• Recovering files from damaged operating systems or hardware
• Making copies of originals, either at our offices or on site
• Leaving the original media or computer disk drive in its pristine or as-received condition
• Recovering data on systems for which there's been an attempt to sabotage, hide, delete, overwrite or steal information, including:
  • Emails - deleted, encrypted or in other conditions
  • Databases, including proprietary customer information
  • Documents, even those erased, sometimes shredded, or overwritten
• Showing damage performed on the injured party's computer and files
• Showing the likely innocence of the injured party
• Revealing the validity of a client's claim to their own attorney
• Producing data which is readable by the client
• Advising the client as to the best means of interpreting data
• Explaining clearly, without technical jargon, or doublespeak, what the findings mean
• Giving expert testimony in deposition and trial

We have found :

• Emails that have been deleted - on purpose and accidentally
• Files that had been encrypted, and the key thrown away
• Files that have faked dates
• Files that a series of data recovery houses couldn't find
• Files that well-meaning consultants or technicians have damaged or overwritten
• Databases on computers that have been completely erased, reformatted and with billions of bits of information reinstalled
• Files that were embedded in programs designed by consultants who are long gone
• Evidence of sabotage, even when advanced data destruction programs have been used
• Files from completely scrambled computers
• Files from badly damaged computers
• Files from a computer that has had a sledgehammer taken to it by a jealous spouse
• Files from computers buried in sand, submerged in water, drenched in lattes and martinis!
• Files from computers burned in fires, buried in floods, inundated with extinguishers
• Files from computers mistaken for litter boxes by pets
• Files from more than 15,000 disk drives and media