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Desktops and notebooks all fail at the same time - when you need them most.

We have the tools and experience to bring them back to life safely and quickly. We also partner with a company called Drive Savers to assist us in cases where we do not have the highly specialized equipment they possess. Most desktop and laptop workstation data recovery projects do not require a Drive Savers referral.

We understand the critical importance of your data and use a professional process called "disk imaging" to safely make an exact copy of the state of your failed hard disk. Once we have that, we use special software to sift through that image to locate the exact data you require. Full disk recoveries are also frequently possible and we attempt those with a brand new Seagate hard disk that carries a 5 year warranty.

We are frequently brought in to assist the client in the dire time of need when a critical business desktop or laptop fails and there is an immediate productivity loss as well as a potential data loss.

Once we certify a managed group of desktops as a Crashproof Solution(tm), recovering from a routine disk failure becomes a non-emergency event with zero productivity or data loss and without any hourly cost.

The abridged list of certification criteria for a managed desktop Crashproof Solution includes Windows XP Pro SP2 or Windows Vista Business, Small Business Server 2003 R2 or any other Windows Server 2003 family product, and the correct implementation of roaming profiles and self-installing software packages installed with a volume license key.

In other words, we implement industry best practices for protecting desktop and notebook workstations so you don't have to learn what this means.

We eliminate the need to backup your workstation if our processes are fully implemented. It is significantly easier to recover from a disaster when all information is available from one source rather than having to locate the exact backup media from an exact failed workstation.

Though there are other types of failure other than HDD failure, recovery from those tends to be extremely simple.

If your desktop workstation, laptop, notebook, or tablet is dead, call us now at 510-282-1008 24 hours a day and we'll tell you how to start the process of bringing it back to life immediately.

 We have more information on how to turn a typically catastrophical hard disk drive failure in a laptop or a desktop into a non-event in Desktop Management.


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