Zip Disk Data Recovery Solutions
Zip Disks are pretty rugged and solid making them a wise solution for backing up your data. However, they are also designed to be portable and as soon as you start carrying hardware about from place to place accidents are more likely to happen. Zip disk are usually reliable devices and do not often require a data recovery service, however, here are some potential causes of data loss:
- Accidentally reformatted disks
- Accidentally deleted files
- Lost or forgotten password (on password-protected disks)
- Virus attack
- Damaged caused by extreme heat/cold
- Fire or water damage
- Physical damage to media
- Head crash
- File Allocation Table (FAT) Corruption
- Media contamination (from dust, humidity, or chemicals in the air)
- Power outages, brown-outs, spikes/surges, etc.
- Accidental demagnetization (degaussing)
If you find yourself in need of Zip Disk data recovery solutions there are few options available.
In House Official Iomega Zip Disk Data Recovery
The first option, and possibly the more expensive is to go straight to Iomega who can recover the data from your Zip Disk for you. They have a quotation service available for you to submit your problem and arrange to send your Zip Disk to them. After Iomega have received your Zip Disk their team of highly qualified Data Recovery technicians will perform a free diagnostic evaluation and contact you with a risk-free quote. This quote is usually sent to you pretty quickly; within one business day. The quote carries no obligation and if you are not satisfied with their offer or they are unable to recover your data, they will ship your media back to you (shipping fee may need to be paid for by you however).
The Iomega Data Recovery specialists are stated by Iomega as experts in “difficult removable media recoveries, data retrieval and restoration”. When you have approved the quote for the Zip Disk data recovery process Iomega go ahead with their patented techniques to safely and quickly restore your data. The data recovered from your Zip Disk(s) can be sent back to you on a hard drive, CD/DVD, or any other media of your choice.
Iomega state that you should not run any data recovery software, do-it-yourself file recovery programs or other applications on your Zip Disk(s) especially prior to sending your Zip Disk in for data recovery. Iomega say this is because data recovery software often makes the situation worse and can limit the amount of data that can be successfully recovered. How valid this is I cannot say, but it would be best to take their word for it.
If you are interested in the official Iomega Zip Disk data recovery service you can find out more here.
If the official Iomega Zip Disk data recovery service sounds a bit expensive and your data is less precious you can try this much cheaper alternative:
BadCopy Pro - Iomega ZIP Disk Data Recovery and File Recovery Software
BadCopy Pro is totally automatic and powerful software solution for recovering corrupted, lost, deleted, and formatted data from Iomega Zip Disks, JAZ or MO disks, and many other media types including CDs, digital media, floppy disks, etc. BadCopy Pro supports disaster recovery on a single 100 MB, 250 MB, and 750 MB zip disk.
At time of writing you can get BadCopy Pro on a single user license for US$ 39.50 and a Multi-User and Site License starting at US$ 138.00
There is a free downloadable trial version of BadCopy Pro as well. However the free trial limits you to simply checking your Zip Disk for recoverable files and does not enable you to actually recover the files until you make a purchase of the full version of BadCopy Pro. Still, this at least allows you to see if your Zip Disk files can be recovered before making a purchase of the software. The creators Jufsoft state that if BadCopy Pro does not restore a file as the evaluation version indicated, they will refund your money or help you by providing a FREE manual fix on the file!
Here are some key features of the Zip Disk Data Recovery Tool BadCopy Pro:
- Advanced and intelligent floppy disk and CD recovery.
- Fully automatic data recovery process in just a few clicks!
- Recovery of all types of files like documents, images, applications, and more.
- Support of most kinds of media recovery like floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, and more.
- Rescue and recovery of files and data on floppy disks, CD-ROM, CD-R, and CD-RW.
- Post-processing of recovered files and smart data filling technology.
- Digital media recovery from items such as SmartMedia, CompactFlash (CF) cards.
- UDF CD data recovery that includes most types of packet-writing burner software.
To read more, download your free trial or buy the full version of this leading Zip Disk Data Recovery software click here.
